Context

Sheila worked as the International Marketing Director of a leading group. She is wandering if running her own business as Marketing consultant would suit her.

Moreover, she is passing through a difficult period ot time personally: separation, divorce, geographical move from one country to another. Above all, she has to take care of three children.

Challenge

Two questions:
• "Was I born to run my own business ?"
• "What are my main drivers ?"

Methodology

Two steps:
• Analysis on her personality: her values, her brakes, her drivers, her restraints, her skills, what I want, what I don't want any more, my teenager dreams, etc
• 'Setting in motion' her professional project: my real motivation to create a company, my competences to run my own business, my financial autonomy, my network, what can I offer, etc

“Confidential positive confrontation” was used. The objective is to make emerge features of character or truths, sometimes painful to hear, but creating a sensation of freedom.

Result

• Sheila realized something essential
Her dad was not only a father but also he run his own business as well. Was she trying to reproduce a diagram which did not belong to her? With a little time, courage and in all awareness, Sheila took her history over and expressed as an adult:
“I will start my own company.”
She realized that her drivers was not the act to create, as it was probably the case for her dad, but to develop projects, to drive them, to manage a team, to see them to succeed.
• Sheila is now running her own business
She is successful. Moreover, a partnership with an other company is in process now.
• Sheila faces life difficulties with dignity and courage
She allows her some sunny, cultural and colourful holidays, and she takes care of her children the best she could.

-> Sheila's courage is exemplary. Sheila is a serious, sensitive, professional and skilled person, and her story has just began…