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When you are aligned, you instinctively know what to do, and you know, deep down, that you are on the right path. Everything is 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 and Marshall Goldsmith #MG100.
Hortense is an Executive Leadership Coach and the President and Founder of JAY Consulting. She works with decision makers in the business world, including many C-suite executives from Fortune 500 companies, supporting them in their development and leadership by working with them on the alignment between their personal values and their professional activities.
Prior to coaching full time, le Gentil spent over 30 years in business in various industries, working for leading multinational companies in the areas of media consulting, marketing, and advertising. She then founded and spent 10 years as CEO of an entrepreneurial start-up (in metals recycling).
Hortense is part of the MG100 Coaches, Marshall Goldsmith’s Pay It Forward project, and is a certified Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered™ Coach. She has been selected to receive a Thinkers 50 coaching award for excellence in her field.She has contributed to and is featured in leading publications such as Business Insider, Forbes, Fast Company, Les Echos on topics of leadership, coaching and alignment.
Photo by Stephane de Bourgies ©
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.
Photo by Stephane de Bourgies ©
Book
“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
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.
What new connections and behaviors can replace the old beliefs that no longer serve you?
Which positive associations would you like to create?
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Alignment does not happen by itself, however. In Aligned, Hortense uses real-life examples to show you how to connect with who you truly are, do the work to become who you want to be, and project your aligned self from your inner world onto the outside one.
Told through the personal and professional victories of her clients, revealing case studies, and Hortense’s own journey towards alignment, Aligned is an inspiring and intuitive approach to a concept as enduring as it is momentous.
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Hortense first experienced alignment as a competitive show-jumper, realized its wider application in her marketing and entrepreneurial career, and fine-tuned its message for others as a sought-after leadership executive coach. Now, in Aligned: Connecting Your True Self With the Leader You’re Meant to Be, she delivers an essential three-part guide for anyone wanting to lead with more ease, joy, and impact—and to become even more successful. Alignment helps organizations reach their full potential, and people can use it to better realize their personal goals. Both can even become role models who guide their own followers. This is the ultimate alignment: alignment of alignments.
Coaching
Hortense le Gentil offers individual, personalized coaching for CEOs, C-Suite 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 both New York and Paris, and works in either English or French.
Contact Hortense le Gentil to explore options and develop a personalized coaching plan.
Survey: How aligned are you?
Alignment is a practice. With time, we refine the skill of sensing when we drift away from it, and become better at finding it again.
For each question, give yourself a score as follows, then add up for your total:
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Your Positive Score
1. Do you experience joy with your family, friends, or coworkers?
2. Do you laugh?
3. Do you feel happy?
4. Do you feel free?
5. Do you sleep well?
6. Are you the decision-maker of your life?
7. Are you positive?
8. Does your life give you energy?
Your Positive Score Total =
For each question, give yourself a score as follows, then add up for your total:
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Step 2
Your Negative Score
1. Do you overreact to situations?
2. Do you feel chronic pain?
3. Are you always in a hurry?
4. Do you wake up in a bad mood?
5. Are you aggressive?
6. Do you feel sad?
7. Do you blame others?
8. Do you feel drained?
Your Negative Score Total =
For each question, give yourself a score as follows, then add up for your total:
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Conclusion
Are you aligned with your true self? Is there a gap between who you are and who you want to be? If you want to improve read further.
Aligned: Connecting Your True Self With the Leader You’re Meant to Be will be available October 2019 wherever books are sold.