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Law school is an empowering experience that gives you a strong foundation and skills that help you in your career path.
You learn how to master on critical and independent thinking and analytical skills. You cultivate communication skills and become able to articulate complex thoughts and theories.
Law School teaches you how to become a problem solver with strong persuasion skills.
All these skills and excellent professors allowed me to succeed in my professional life.
Working in TV production teaches you to be highly flexible.
From planning show content, coordinating schedules, prepping guests, organizing on-screen staff, managing the post-production, you become a quick learner and a multi-tasking juggler.
Organization skills and collaboration with team members are vital to this role as well as planning, prioritizing, time management and working in fast-paced environment.
To survive and to succeed in TV production, you need bags of energy, drive, perseverance, as well as the ability to get on with anyone.
After a few years of hard work in television, you can be sure that you are ready for any career you want.
I realized at an early age that I had the ability to remain calm under pressure, and to be solution-oriented in all circumstances.
The demanding situations and crises you face over the course of your career are likely to be the moments that define who you are as a leader and as a person.
It’s crucial to recognize the reality of a situation and acknowledge your limitations during a crisis.
If you can have a clear picture of the circumstances, then you are ready to make a plan and prioritize your next steps.
Over the course of my career, I helped companies to deal with workplace accidents, financial losses, war, fire, riots, whistleblowers, and scandals.
My extended experience of crisis management allows me to identify the priorities in times of crisis and to apply with success project management techniques to crisis situations.
After having toured different paths of the communication field, from radio-tv production, newsrooms, newspapers, public relations, communication strategies, I wanted to share my experience about the importance of communication in the workplace.
I worked with extraordinary trainers for months and began to give workshops in global companies.
Very quickly, I became a popular trainer for communication and presentation skills, media training, persuasion skills, professional style, personal image, project management and team building workshops.
After more than 15 years of training, I still love sharing knowledge, experience and watching the metamorphosis of the participants in my workshops and conferences.
After working a couple of years as a management consultant, I felt like I needed more tools to help the C-level and mid-level managers for lasting results in their leadership styles.
I decided to go to a coaching school and chose Erickson Coaching International in 2009.
Every experienced coach build up their own way of coaching.
My clients say that I am a very good listener, that they feel comfortable with me and that I make them want to improve their leadership skills.
Having worked for years with expat managers as an intercultural coach, I help them to be aware of the cultural challenges they have in every new country.
I was a very shy and silent child.
I had to learn to use my voice and overcome any speaking challenge.
Then I became an anchorwoman and worked on my public speaking skills and on increasing my impact by engaging with my audience.
I was lucky to have mentors from the British Radio Television, BBC.
I learned by first hand that great public speakers are not born, they are made.
I began to give media trainings to top managers for their tv appearance and public speaking trainings to doctors for international summits and congresses.
I worked with clients who wanted to create their own tv show, and with business people who were making multiple presentations per month.
It is a great pleasure to see the amazing results of my tailored sessions and my clients speaking with more confidence, clarity and power.
Throughout my professional life, women in the corporate world were not really helpful with each other and I became as aggressive as them when I started to climb the ladder of success. I even persuaded myself that I did not have time to cultivate relationships with junior women.
I was not aware of reproducing the "Queen Bee Syndrome", when women behave in ways more typical of men to display toughness and fit in.
After years of "Tough leadership", I realized that I had to uplift women and decided to support more and more women in their professional life as a mentor and coach. Today I truly believe that it is my duty to help other professional women.