Bring Your Authentic Self to Your Leadership
Breakthrough Executive Coaching with MAP
Practitioner Denise Schneps
I help managers and leaders reduce stress, strengthen confidence, and lead high-performing teams with clarity and trust.
Location: Paris, France
Languages: English, French
Best fit if you're dealing with:
- Leadership stress and overwhelm
- Imposter syndrome at work
- Managing difficult relationships and stakeholders
- Team performance and collaboration challenges
- Change management and high-pressure transitions
- Intercultural communication and effectiveness
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Meet Denise
If you’re curious about working together, this video gives a brief introduction to Denise's approach.
Short 2-minute introduction
Areas I Can Support You With
These are some of the most common themes clients bring to our work together. If you’re unsure,
feel free to reach out. I’ll help you figure out whether we’re a good fit.
Executive Confidence & Mindset
Identify the inner patterns that drive stress and self-doubt so you can lead with steadiness, clarity, and self-trust.
- Imposter syndrome and inner critic
- Self-doubt and negative thinking loops
- Trigger identification and emotional resilience
- Confidence under pressure
- Sustaining long-term change
Leadership, Communication & Boundaries
Build practical skills to manage stakeholders, boundaries, and workload so your leadership feels effective and sustainable.
- Managing up and stakeholder dynamics
- Overwhelm, prioritization, and workload
- Boundary setting and assertive communication
- Interpersonal conflict and repair
- People and performance management
High-Performing Teams & Cultural Collaboration
Strengthen trust and collaboration across personalities and cultures to unlock healthier team dynamics and stronger results.
- Building high-performance teams
- Collaboration and trust-building
- Intercultural effectiveness
- Change management support
- Leadership style adaptation
Not sure if your situation fits?
Send a message with a short description of what you’re navigating, and I’ll tell you whether I can help — or point you in a better direction.
About Denise
A little context to help you feel the person behind the work.
Denise Schneps is a bilingual executive and team coach based in Paris, with over 30 years of business experience and extensive work in leadership and managerial development, high-performance teams, change management, and intercultural collaboration.
She has coached hundreds of executives and teams across Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, and Asia — supporting leaders in creating sustainable performance through stronger communication, trust, and human-centered leadership.
As a Certified Executive Coach and Certified MAP Coach, Denise offers a safe, nonjudgmental space to explore what’s essential for you to create a rewarding professional experience and a more satisfying personal life. Her approach blends experiential development with practical strategy — helping you shift mindsets, build resilience, and translate insight into real-world results.
Denise’s philosophy is simple: creating value in organizations begins with human collaboration and trust — across personalities, leadership styles, and cultures.
Get Started TodayExperience Snapshot
- Certified MAP Practitioner – MAP Coaching Institute (Aug 2022)
- Accredited Executive & Team Coach – LKB Coaching
- BSFS International Relations – Georgetown University
- ORSC Organizational & Relationship Systems Coaching
- CRM (Comprehensive Resource Model)
- Insights Discovery (Personality Evaluator)
- Country Navigator Cultural Profiler (TMA World)
- TIP (The International Profiler)
Client Companies
HP, OECD, CARE International, Veolia, Alstom, L’Oréal, Pfizer, Verizon, GE, Euroclear, Royal Bank of Scotland, EDF, AXA, France Telecom, CGG, Amadeus, Lanvin, Christian Dior, Société Générale, TBWA, Agilent Technologies, Danske Bank, Moody’s, Hermes, Veolia, Vivendi and others.
What Clients Love About Denise
A few words from people who've experienced their work. (Individual results vary)
“Denise is an amazing expert coach. I am grateful to have her as my coach. It was an amazing and enjoyable coaching program with real issues solving throughout the program. Denise has helped me to develop leadership skills that are important to build the right team in order to achieve the strategic objectives. If you are looking for a coach that are truly genuine and engaged, I highly recommend Denise! You won't regret it! The best coach so far. :)”
Group Communications Director for an international water services corporation
“Working with Denise is a transformative experience. She has a talent for uncovering underlying dynamics, giving clarity to what's often unseen, while keeping the bigger picture in focus. The MAP process is incredibly gentle and effective and has helped me to shift my internal landscape in support of my desires and goals. I'm not only a more impactful leader, I can see and feel my own personal growth as well. I highly recommend Denise to anyone ready to unlock their full potential."
Director, Organization Change & Transformation
"I followed my first coaching, accompanied by Denise, for over 9 months, which were challenging but so interesting. Denise is a very empathetic person, very attentive, with great experience and maturity, which is valuable. She offers different tools and methods to accompany our sessions. She knows how to put people at ease and I loved talking to her…she’s a real morale booster!"
General Counsel for a global tech company
"Denise is an empathetic and professional coach. Very attentive, she supported me during a very difficult period of my life following a sad family event. We developed a relationship of trust, and thanks to our exchanges, I was able not only to overcome this period, but also to keep my goals in sight and achieve them. THANK YOU for your coaching and support Denise. You will always be one of the people who have brought a big plus to my life."
Senior Environmental Expert, of an international intergovernmental organization
"Denise's EQ combined with her vast experience is certainly a benefit to anyone who she comes into contact with, she makes you feel completely at ease and gently guides you to a conclusion instead of forcing her opinion on you. She is also very positive-minded, seeking to address a problem through discussion and helping you to find a conclusion. Her wisdom was enlightening for me, many times!"
Regional Director of a global NGO
"Denise is personable, professional & a pleasure to work with. She has listened well & offered solutions to challenges I am facing. She has supported me both professionally & personally throughout this journey & I will miss her guidance. I would definitely recommend Denise to future “Women in Leadership Program” participants."
Business Development Executive, for a global environmental services corporation
"Denise offers emotional support as well as diving deep into leadership theories and managing different personality types. I would definitely recommend Denise to anyone that feels like they have lost their purpose."
HR Digital Transformation Director of a major cosmetics distributor
"Denise is an open, very likeable person. She creates a relationship of trust very quickly through her friendly manner. She is also very experienced and was able to give me good advice in every situation. She also supported the sessions with lots of documents, which she shared wth me, as well as tips for literature. Denise encouraged me to understand the problem situations and find solutions with her support and guidance."
"Denise is a wonderful and gentle coach. These methods, based on internal feelings, help to overcome blocks and obstacles to development and fulfillment and to better understand how to communicate and collaborate with complex personalities and profiles."
"I was at the bottom of a curve after purposefully putting my career on the back burner to focus on my family. When I felt ready to engage in the world of work again the prospect of building myself up was really daunting, I didn’t really know where to start and had very little confidence. Denise helped me realise I was capable of achieving more and walked me through defining my goals and how to set about achieving them. I found the MAP method particularly useful; it’s a gentle method that enabled me to overcome the thoughts and feelings that knocked my confidence. My limiting beliefs originated from something I had been accidentally taught through parenting or schooling or influences from the echo chamber in society in general. Mapping disentangled the memories from the feelings that were holding me back. My memory remains, but the lens through which I viewed my situation was positively altered and the feeling of my limiting beliefs were dissolved. The Map process gave me the ability to master that small voice inside that was saying ‘I can’t’ and altered it to a big voice that says ‘I can’. I’m now entering a new chapter in my life which is empowering and exciting. I'm progressing in my career again, and don’t plan on stopping. I'm proud of myself and know I will be an inspiration for my family."
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