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When you are aligned you instinctively know what to do. You’re equipped to close the gap between the leader you are and the leader you want to be. When your professional and personal values are aligned, you lead with authenticity and everything becomes possible.

Executive Leadership Coach Hortense le Gentil believes we have to align our personal values with our professional activities if we are to become authentic leaders. Being aligned means becoming more of yourself, and transcending the limits that once held you back.

About

Hortense le Gentil is an Executive Leadership Coach, #13 World’s Management Guru and Marshall Goldsmith MG100 Coach.

Hortense le Gentil is a top global executive leadership coach and author. She helps decision-makers around the world reach greater professional and personal success by aligning their personal values and professional activities to lead with authenticity.  She is dedicated to helping CEOs, senior executives, and entrepreneurs become more aligned personally and professionally, leading to better workplace environments and better employee wellbeing—and, consequently, increased productivity and satisfaction. Her custom-made, in-depth coaching method explores her clients’ unique personal identity and helps them align their professional activity with their working environment.

Hortense’s coaching is informed by her 30 years of business experience working across a number of industries—including media consulting, advertising, technological innovation and entrepreneurship—as well as her experience in competitive show-jumping. She is the author of Aligned: Connecting Your True Self with the Leader You’re Meant to Be. She is a regular contributor on Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global platform and has featured in Forbes, Fortune, Business Insider, Inc., Fast Company, HR.com and Ladders, as well as multiple podcasts.

Hortense was ranked #13 in the World’s Top 30 Management Professionals in 2020 by Global Gurus Top 30, a research organization that recognizes thought leaders who support knowledge as well as personal and organizational development in their fields through speaking, training, and writing. She also received a Top Coaches in the World Award from Thinkers50, a global ranking of management thinkers, in 2019. Hortense is part of the MG100 Coaches, an initiative spearheaded by world renowned executive coach Marshall Goldsmith, which brings together the world’s leading executive coaches, consultants, speakers, authors, iconic leaders, entrepreneurs and non-profit leaders. She is a certified Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered™ Coach. 

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Hortense helps her clients lead with authenticity by finding and closing the gaps between the leader they are and the leader they want to be.
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“Hortense shows us how to let go of our restrictions and old beliefs, so we can learn to behave and think differently, align our values with our actions, and learn from past experiences.”

Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 – #1 Executive Coach and the only two-time #1 Leadership Thinker in the World
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“If you want to unleash your full potential as a leader, read Aligned and learn how to focus on the highest value beliefs and actions that will both play to your unique strengths and help you shed the limiting distractions that may be holding you back.” JAMES M. CITRIN

Leader, Spencer Stuart CEO Practice and Author, The Career Playbook

“In Aligned, Hortense le Gentil leverages her experience as one of the world’s foremost executive coaches to take us on a journey to explore who we are, who we want to be, and how to get there. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to become a better leader.” DR. TASHA EURICH

New York Times best-selling author of Insight and Bankable Leadership

“This is a beautiful and insightful book. Hortense offers healthy doses of clarity in a form that’s easy to swallow. She helps each of us find and hold onto our truths, even when chaos swirls around us.” FIONA M. MACAULAY

Founder-CEO, WILD Network, Women Innovators & Leaders Development

Marshall Goldsmith

In Aligned, Hortense Le Gentil shares with us the incredibly important concept of alignment as it relates to life and leadership, from her perspective as a leadership coach whose work is based on the human dimension of leadership. Hortense shows us how to let go of our restrictions and old beliefs, so we can learn to behave and think differently, align our values with our actions, and learn from past experiences.

Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers 50 – #1 Executive Coach and the only two-time #1 Leadership Thinker in the World

James M. Citrin

If you want to unleash your full potential as a leader, read Aligned and learn how to focus on the highest value beliefs and actions that will both play to your unique strengths and help you shed the limiting distractions that may be holding you back. Hortense le Gentil is one of the most effective executive coaches in the world. Aligned, which is beautifully written and illustrated with memorable stories, puts her exclusive practice into a digestible form that will benefit any motivated professional aspiring to reach their highest potential as a leader.

James M. Citrin, Leader, Spencer Stuart CEO Practice and Author, The Career Playbook

Dr. Tasha Eurich

In Aligned, Hortense le Gentil leverages her experience as one of the world’s foremost executive coaches to take us on a journey to explore who we are, who we want to be, and how to get there. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to become a better leader.

Dr. Tasha Eurich, New York Times best-selling author of Insight and Bankable Leadership

Fiona M. Macaulay

This is a beautiful and insightful book. Hortense offers healthy doses of clarity in a form that’s easy to swallow. She helps each of us find and hold onto our truths, even when chaos swirls around us.

Fiona M. Macaulay, Founder-CEO, WILD Network, Women Innovators & Leaders Development

Hubert Joly

Aligned is one of the best leadership books I have ever read. The book combines powerful concepts and tools with great real life stories. It has the potential to help us leaders become more aligned and therefore more effective and to foster greater alignment within the organization we lead through the concept and practice of alignment of alignments.

Hubert joly, Executive Chairman and former CEO, Best Buy

Bill George

In her brilliant new book, Aligned, Hortense Le Gentil shows how to perform at your peak as a leader in today’s volatile world: align your authentic self in mind, body and spirit with your ‘why’ and then align your team with their ‘why’ around a common mission and values. With challenging reflections, Le Gentil provides a roadmap to your sustained success as an authentic and aligned leader.”

Bill George, Senior Fellow, Harvard Business School; former Chair & CEO, Medtronic and author of Discover Your True North

Arnold Donald

Hortense le Gentil provides an invaluable set of practical approaches for anyone, including experienced and aspiring leaders, who desires to unleash their full potential

Arnold Donald, CEO of Carnival Corp and PLC

Gregory Renard

Why can I do what I’m doing today? Because I’m aligned! Realizing the connection between who you truly are and your core strategy, is what you need to achieve everything you want and realize your true potential!

Aligned is THE book to find your perfect recipe to connect your true self and the right path to your success! I’m honored to write an endorsement for the amazing work of Hortense and I cannot wait to see who you’ll become after reading. Enjoy!

Gregory Renard, Head of Artificial Intelligence at xBrain, Head of Applied AI & SDS at NASA FDL

Frances Hesselbein

The new Hortense Le Gentil book, Aligned, opens new doors for anyone wanting to lead with ease, joy and impact.

Frances Hesselbein, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, Editor-in-Chief, Leader to Leader Journal, Former CEO, Girl Scouts of the USA

Thomas S. Schreier, Jr.

For those of us committed to helping people discern and live truly inspired lives  Hortense’s book provides a masterful combination of example and exercise to guide actual and aspiring leaders to find and align their inner self with their vocation.  This book is a gift for those looking to lead more authentically and effectively at any stage in life.

Thomas S. Schreier, Jr., Founding Director of the Inspired Leadership Initiative at the University of Notre Dame

Geraldine Vial

Game and Life Changer

Hortense gives us simple and powerful tools that really help us rewiring our brain in a joyful and obvious way. No step back, no way back : this book is a game and life changer.

Geraldine Vial, Head of Consumer Strategy and Financial Éducation Department, French Insurance Federation

Have you ever felt like you were on a roll? Everything seems to be going your way. Time slows, and you see everything clearly. You instinctively know what to do, and you have the profound feeling that you are on the right path.

This is what leadership coach Hortense le Gentil’s calls alignment: the congruence of who you are and what you think, feel, and love on a deep and fundamental level with what you do, say, and envision for your future. It’s about becoming more of yourself—and in so doing, transcending the limits you once thought were holding you back.

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Coaching

Hortense le Gentil offers individual, personalized coaching for CEOs, Senior Executives and other business leaders.

Her coaching method helps you explore your values, aspirations, and personal identity, as well as the blind spots that may be holding you back. She works with you to develop your goals and objectives and help you to align your inner self, your professional activity and your working environment. Hortense aims to increase your self-awareness, empowering you to develop your strengths and overcome obstacles, so you can achieve your goals and fulfill your responsibilities.

“My clients’ sense of alignment facilitates the agility, speed, and foresight that are essential to navigating increasingly complex environments, rapid change, and uncertainty,” says Hortense le Gentil. “By becoming the leaders they are meant to be, my clients are more influential and broaden their reach as well as their impact, leaping from successful to extraordinary.”

Hortense is based in New York and works in either English or French.

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