Find Your Way Back to Yourself — and Forward Into What Comes Next
Personal Coaching with MAP for Clarity, Confidence & Meaningful Change
Practitioner Denise Schneps
I support people who feel stuck, overwhelmed or disconnected from themselves to move beyond the patterns holding them back and reconnect with their clarity, confidence and capacity for change.
Location: Paris, France
Languages: English, French
Best fit if you're dealing with:
- Life and career transitions
- Confidence, self-doubt and loss of direction
- Stress, overwhelm and emotional triggers
- Repeating patterns and limiting beliefs
- Relationships, boundaries and difficult interpersonal situations
- Leadership and professional challenges
- Rediscovering purpose and possibility
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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.
When You’ve Lost Your Sense of Yourself
For people whose confidence, inner stability or sense of direction has been shaken by life circumstances, stress or a difficult period. Our work focuses on reconnecting you with your strengths, inner resources and sense of possibility.
When Life Is Asking You to Change
For people navigating a career or life transition, relationship change, return to work, important decision, ending or new beginning. I provide a grounded space to process what is happening, clarify what matters and move forward with greater trust in yourself.
When You Know What You Want — But Something Keeps Getting in the Way
For people who understand intellectually what they want to change but continue to encounter the same reactions, fears or limiting beliefs. Coaching and MAP can help us work with the deeper emotional and learned patterns that may be maintaining the cycle.
Leaders and Professionals Under Pressure
For executives, managers, entrepreneurs and professionals dealing with confidence, difficult relationships, boundaries, change, leadership transitions or sustained pressure. I bring 25 years of executive coaching and international business experience to the human realities behind professional challenges.
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.
I didn’t begin my career as a coach or therapist. I began in business.
I worked in advertising in the United States before moving to France, where I became increasingly drawn to the human side of organizations: how people communicate, what enables them to thrive, and why capable people sometimes struggle to access their best under pressure.
That curiosity led me into international management consulting, therapeutic training in Biodynamic Psychology, and eventually executive coaching. For the past 25 years, I have worked with people from many different cultures and walks of life, always fascinated by one question:
Why can we understand what we want to change — and still find ourselves repeating the same patterns?
My connection with MAP became deeply personal as well as professional. I experienced firsthand how MAP could support someone very close to me through an extremely difficult period, helping reduce the emotional intensity of what she was experiencing and enabling her to access more of her own inner resources.
That experience touched me profoundly and contributed to my involvement in Emergence, a project exploring how MAP might support people experiencing significant emotional distress. It also deepened my understanding of both the potential and the appropriate boundaries of coaching.
Today, I bring these different worlds together.
Sometimes I work with a senior leader under enormous pressure. Sometimes with someone navigating loss, transition, diminished confidence or a difficult period in life. And sometimes with someone who simply knows that something needs to change but cannot seem to move forward.
What drives me is not telling people who they should become. It is creating a warm, confidential and non-judgmental space in which they can move beyond what is holding them back, reconnect with their own resources, and discover what becomes possible from there.
Experience Snapshot
- 25 years’ experience as an Executive Coach, International Management Consultant & Trainer
- MAP Certified Practitioner — MAP Coaching Institute
- Biodynamic Therapist — body-mind-emotion approach
- Accredited Executive & Team Coach — LKB Coaching
- ORSC — Organizational & Relationship Systems Coaching
- CRM — Comprehensive Resource Model
- BSFS International Relations — Georgetown University
- Former business school professor — leadership, management, communication and intercultural effectiveness
- International experience — coaching and consulting with leaders and organizations across Europe, North & South America, the Middle East and Asia
- Additional certifications include Insights Discovery, Country Navigator Cultural Profiler and 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)
"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."
Naomi
“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."
Services & Packages
Free Discovery Call
A complimentary introductory conversation to explore what you’re currently navigating, what you would like to change, and whether working together feels like the right fit.
There is no obligation to continue. It is simply an opportunity for us to meet, talk about what you need, and decide together whether coaching and MAP could be useful for you.
Format: Online
Cost: Complimentary
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