Leadership & culture Consulting
Happy people
build better things.
When people feel happy and flourish at work, organisations tend to thrive too.
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Through coaching, consulting and leadership development, we help leaders build high-performance cultures where people work safely, collaborate well and bring their best to the work. Our work sits in the space where strategy meets daily experience, in organisations working through complex, whole system evolution
What we do.
We coach, consult, and develop leaders. We work with what's happening between people, the relationships, the culture, and the conditions people are happiest in, the same conditions organisations perform in.
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We start every engagement by listening to what’s happening, where the energy is, where it’s stuck. We co-design the work with you from there.
How alive are the circles in your organisation?
What matters is the health of your circles. The quality of the relationships, the conversations, the trust between people, and the conditions people do their best work in, together.
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Our free diagnostic works differently to a survey. It walks you through a few situations drawn from real organisational life, the meeting where a tension keeps surfacing and stays unresolved, the moment after someone speaks up and what happens next, two sides of the same story that never quite meet. You respond in your own words, noting what feels familiar.
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We generate a reflection from what you share, a mirror of the patterns at play in your organisation right now. It's a starting point for a conversation about how things are, and how you want them to be.
There is something that happens when people come together in a circle.
Something ancient that cultures around the world have known, in their own ways, for thousands of years.
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The circle creates an immediate sense of: you are seen. You belong here. Bring everything you have.
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We have watched this happen for people from boardrooms to construction sites, refineries and mines, on six continents. The context might change but people’s experience of gathering in a circle remains.
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We already think this way about our own lives. A circle of friends or an inner circle of colleagues, the few people you’d call first. Zoom out, and teams, departments and whole organisations share the same shape: circles within circles and intersecting, some close and strong, others fraying.
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When people feel safe, connected, and part of something worth showing up for, they do things they didn’t think were possible. Happy, here, means fully alive and flourishing: safe enough to speak honestly, connected enough to be fully yourself, growing enough to use your skills in a meaningful way, purposeful enough to bring your whole self to the work.
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It’s about wholeness, not just a mood. That’s what it means to EnCircle.
Who we are, a snapshot.
We came to this work via different paths. What we share: a commitment to applying everything we teach to our own lives first.
Isabelle Courtney-Guy
Over 25 years of leadership experience. 14 years coaching, consulting and developing leaders across six continents, in some of the world's most complex environments. She creates safety, playfulness and challenge, often all at once.
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Hendrik Oheim
Engineer, coach, consultant and NVC trainer with nearly three decades of experience. Calm and grounded, he creates spaces where people feel safe to open up, explore what matters to them and find their own way forward.
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Ines Courtney-Guy
ICF trained coach, consultant and leadership development facilitator. More than a decade of transformational practice. Depth, freshness, and trilingual capability in every engagement.
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Our team's
Experience.
Our consultants bring years of work in some of the most demanding environments, long before EnCircle existed.
Our team's
Experience.
Our consultants bring years of work in some of the most demanding environments, long before EnCircle existed.
North Africa, Major Capital Project
Oil & gas · 4,000–10,000 people · 7 subcontractors · 4 years
An audacious vision: one team, one culture, zero harm, on time, across thousands of people from dozens of nationalities. Few thought it was possible. The project was delivered on time. No LTIs over 6 million man hours. Leaders described it as the first project that ever felt like a family.
"This is such a special project. It is the first time I walk to the site and see people smiling while working."
— Senior Leader, North Africa project
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"What I am seeing isn't an improvement on last year. It's a whole different picture."
— Senior Leader
Safety Culture Transformation, Complex Operating Environment
Safety culture · Turnaround & shutdown · 2,000+ people · 15+ partner organisations · 11 languages
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A safety culture working towards real, sustained change. The turnaround delivered zero Lost Time Injuries, and the one that followed matched it
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"What I am seeing isn't an improvement on last year. It's a whole different picture."
— Senior Leader
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In Their Own Words
What People Have Said About Our Consultants.
"Isabelle was outstanding in supporting the development of One Team and Safety culture within our major capital project in Africa. She also provided mentoring to key team members and led High Performance workshops to build alignment and improve collaborations across teams and our business partners. She supported us throughout execution building and nurturing strong relationships across the project and business partners."
— Project Director, Major Capital Project, Africa
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"Having Ines partner with us made a real difference to our understanding of where I could develop next in leading conversations and put that into immediate practice."
— Project Lead, European Major Capital Project
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"Time after time, Isabelle helped us turn ambitious goals into concrete, sustainable outcomes."
— Global Project Leader
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What does it look like
when people bring
everything they have?
We have watched this happen in boardrooms and on construction sites, in leadership teams on six continents. In a boardroom in Kazakhstan, where a leader stopped performing and started leading. On a construction site in North Africa, where six million hours passed without a single lost-time injury, because people cared for each other.
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When people feel safe, connected, and part of something worth showing up for, they do things they didn't think were possible. It happens through the quality of the conversations, the courage of the leaders, and the conditions that let people bring their whole selves to work.
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That is what EnCircle is for.
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