About Joanna Le Metais

Joanna Le Métais is an experienced professional coach and academic consultant with a distinguished background in teaching, senior management and international consultancy.

She has mentored and coached people ranging from children to business executives throughout her career taking satisfaction in enabling individuals to grow and develop.  It was a natural progression for Joanna to expand from the world of academia into business management and later coaching. Each step involved helping people along a path according to an agenda – but in very different ways. As a teacher, she set the agenda for young people who needed direction. In business, there is a company agenda to work to.

However, coaching individuals offers the most powerful scenario of all – because she helps people to set and follow their own agenda as she explains: “It is not up to me to answer questions, but to help my clients to answer them. I don’t have any answers - right or wrong – because I am not the expert on ‘you’. In the same way, I won’t tell you what you want to hear. When I start to work with you as a client, I ask for certain permissions – and one of them is that it’s OK to challenge you when you use self-destructive language or negative behaviour.”

Joanna coaches because she likes to help people and gets tremendous satisfaction from seeing her clients be who they want to be, do what they want to do, and achieve what they want to achieve. She helps them to see that they are in control if they decide to be – and is delighted to see the ripple effect that happens in the rest of their life as a result.  Seeing their delight in their own success reflected back is her motivation.

Joanna Le Métais was born in the Netherlands and has lived and worked in over 20 countries worldwide. Her extensive coaching experience is backed by formal qualifications as a personal/corporate coach, a Master Practitioner of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and a performance consultant with advanced diplomas in neurological repatterning and hypnosis. In addition, she is a qualified teacher and holds the degrees of Bachelor of Education, Master of Arts in Public and Social Administration and Doctor of Philosophy. In 2000, she was awarded the Degree of Doctor of Education honoris causa by Brunel University.

Joanna can also coach in French and Dutch and is a Fellow of the Institute of Linguists.