| Testimonials  Odile Carru has been coaching me on a regular basis during most of last year. It is a great pleasure for me to recommend her considering the good results obtained. I hired Odile for professional reasons in order to improve in one major area: be more efficient in my oral communication towards both employees and outside world considering the large number of presentations I am giving and working on improving the balance between private/professional life.
The work I did with Odile helped me rethink my focus and I have now an extremely different objective when giving a presentation. Before, I was focusing too much on the way I was giving the presentations rather than content, and also on how the attendees will judge me. Today I am more focusing on how to communicate my message so that attendees can remember the 2 or 3 key points. This shift of focus enabled me to increase my confidence dramatically, I would say from a 3/10 on a 8/10. I am most of the time far more relax when giving a presentation, also try to be closer to the attendees. Her approach was very pragmatic: her techniques and tools were adapted to my personal situation. For instance she made me evaluate myself on several criteria from a recorded broadcast interview. I was reluctant to do that but this work helped me discover that the perception of the attendees were simply not what I was thinking! The methodology used was very appropriate and I liked the fact that I could actually "see" myself improving. During the live presentations that I was giving, I was able to experiment and apply what I learned in session. This was very valuable because our sessions were each time more productive and more focus on my real needs.
Odile has been very professional. Working with her has been a great and very pleasant experience and I will continue to use her services not only for my communication but also when I will need it in other aspects of my job.
AM, President EMEA - IT company, 4000 people
| CEO and founder of my company since many years, those past months my level of motivation was low and I was feeling disengaged. My company had been severely touched by the 2009 economic crisis after many profitable years. Odile Carru’s help has been precious in only few sessions. I realized that I have done a lot of things, succeeded in many of them, and that was the result of my hard work and of my sense of duty, all those things that I progressively integrated as part of my “values”. Now and thanks to the support of Odile I am ready to do things not only because I “have to” but because I want to, I mean more aligned with my personality and the “who” I really am, and what I really want. More conscious about that through our discussions, I feel that my day to day duties are more manageable, and that my level of motivation, which was the reason why I contacted her, raise up. I realized that the motivation was in fact more a symptom than the heart of the problem that I now understand; accept, with the feeling of being relieved of a burden. Thanks again Odile I will not hesitate to contact you for further needs
MB, CEO wholesale - Miami
| If I could afford it, I would work with Odile Carru as much as I can. As a CEO, it is extremely important to constantly remember who we really are. We work non stop, and sometimes we are so focus on our business that we forget what our real priorities are. For me my top priorities are my family and my couple life. Thanks to Odile, in a few sessions, I gave them back the real place they hold in my life. Thank you Odile for your precious support.
JLR, CEO, Miami
| I remember that at this time I was not really sure that I wanted to hire a coach. I was confused about my life, personally and professionally, with the feeling of having failed everywhere. Psychotherapy was not something I wanted to try neither. I felt alone , and in fact I was looking for someone who could help me improve my self-confidence, help me understand and move forward a global situation that I was seeing as desperate. This is exactly what I felt after my 3rd session with Odile Carru. The first discussion was not totally clear for me because she was asking me a lot of questions. After that, through helpful questions she helped me see clearly in myself where I was and what my true desires were. She showed me that what I was calling “failures” were not negative.
She brought me a lot, and even if everything did not change in one day, the important is that I rebuilt faith in myself. I don’t think that I am weak, but what I really needed at this time was an objective exterior help to help me see my reality differently. This is exactly what Odile brought me through coaching, and I am grateful for that, because she is not only a great professional, but she is also very human.
DT, entrepreneur - Miami
| I feel it is time for me to think about my future. 2 years ago we moved with my husband from Paris to Miami and my life changed radically. Although exciting and busy, the first year was tough because everything was new for us. The second year, I decided to think about myself since my family was “settled”. My main question was: what can I do in this country without speaking English? I went to see Odile Carru as a coach. I trusted her as soon as I started to work with her. I felt that she was totally committed to help me, and that she was very professional in the approach of my situation. I first talked with her about my life in general, focusing on the negative aspects which were literally haunting me, and very quickly the negative turned positive. Then we started to work on my real goal: go back to a professional life. I was afraid and I had lost all my self confidence. We worked together on these 2 points, and after several sessions I started to have concrete results: I felt more confident and I started to take action step by step, take English lessons, and thing led to another. Today I have my own company with one of my friend.
MT, employee - France
| I sought out Odile Carru last fall to help me with my job performance. I worked in the chronically understaffed, under appreciated marketing department of a national physician group. Needless to say, this was a high-pressure job and I needed someone to help me work smarter and faster, since working harder wasn’t helping me meet my goals and personal performance standards – as well as those of my director. Simply put, I had allowed the pressure to overwhelm me, and found myself in a downward spiral that I could not climb out of no matter how hard I tried or how many hours I worked.
My sessions with Odile were very trans formative. Her survey made me dig deep into my background and acknowledge my feelings on a variety of things. The tools she suggested (e.g. a timeline to see where my time was really going, ways to identify true priorities, etc.) were helpful. The real payoff though, came through Odile challenging my personal goals, values and ways of thinking. She probed and probed and probed under the superficial issues until we exposed my real beliefs and wants. Hesitantly, I came to realize that I had tied my identity (and measure of career success) to my job.
The day before our third session, my director proposed an idea that I could not accept; my subsequent meeting with Odile was an absolute lifesaver. I was able to return to work with my head held high, and have a frank discussion with my director – one that was professional, to the point and free of emotion. By our last session I had resigned; Odile gave me tips to survive the last few weeks of work and offered to review my resume. Again, she challenged me – this time, to make sure I took adequate time to decompress and really evaluate what I wanted to do next.
Looking back, one may think that the coaching was not successful, due to the fact that I ended up resigning from my job; while I did not accomplish what I originally set out to do, I ended up gaining so much more: increased self esteem, increased respect from my coworkers (for the courage to choose what was right for me), and an exciting new chapter in my life. As I write this, I’m forming my own marketing company to provide income while I go back to school to train as an acupuncture physician. As I told Odile, we had agreed in our belief that everything happens for a reason – and who would have thought last fall when I was crying in her office that I would be embarking on the adventure I’m undertaking now! I’m grateful to have found and worked with Odile, and hope to do so again in the future should an opportunity arise.
BS, Marketing Assistant, National Physician Group
| I would like to recommend Odile Carru for the following reasons. I have hired Odile Carru for professional reasons in order be more efficient with my team and to create a team spirit within our Finance Team (eg. be more supportive, accountable, ...).
Odile helped me tremendously. She helped build the content of my team building, she brings creative ideas that really make the difference during our team building, she was able to have everyone communicating about the areas on which we need to improve, to refocus, ... Our sessions were very efficient and professional. I also enjoyed the process of being able to exchange on a regular basis to be given tips that I had to experience since the team building, give feedback and to be pushed to improve the level of communication within my team. I will continue to work with Odile each time that I will identify some areas of improvement I need to work on and that I feel it is necessary to dig on a few points we have been working on together.
Overall, It has been an excellent experience as I could see immediate progress to be directly applicable to my job and at the same time a pleasure.
PR, Chief Financial Officer North America - Large French Company - Travel Industry
| Odile Carru was my coach for a period of six months. As a result of her intelligence, she’s able to understand complex situations, simplify them and shed light as needed. She’s also respectful of one’s needs, whether they are professional, personal, religious, or political. She never imposes her point of view. She guided me gently and wisely so I could come to the conclusions and action items I needed to reach. She helped me change my professional and personal outlook in a very difficult time in my life. I owe her a new balance!
AF, independent consultant, Miami
| When it dawned on me that the environment I was in at work was not conducive to my strenghts and personality, I decided to seek the guidance of a coach to help me with the transition to an entrepreneurial endeavor. I had already worked with a coach a couple of years ago and knew what I was looking for. Odile's long-time experience in a corporate environment and her personal reinvention as a business owner were really appealing to me and made me think that she would able to relate to my trajectory. I have not been disappointed and have really enjoyed working with her 6 months now. Throught my sessions with her, I learn to become a better manager by communicating more effectively in a target-driven manner with my ex-boss. By voicing my concerns, frustrations and ideas to Odile, and hearing her very healthy perspective, I was not only able to gain confidence in the new direction I was taking but also to manage a successful exit from my previous job in the best possible manner. Her counsel with my negociation of my severance package was also invaluable. Last but not least I really like the way she lets you come to your own conclusions and does not try to impose her perspective. This is what makes her subtle guidance most successful. I am looking forward to continue working with her on my new project.
FD, Investment Manager
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