There is something that happens when people come together in a circle.
Something ancient. Something that every culture on earth has known, in its own way, for thousands of years. The circle says: you are seen. You belong here. Bring everything you have.
We have watched this happen in boardrooms and on construction sites, in refineries and in leadership teams on four continents. The context changes. The human truth doesn't.
We already think this way about our own lives, whether we name it or not. A circle of friends. An inner circle of colleagues, the few people you'd call first. Zoom out, and every team you're part of, every department, every organisation, is the same shape: circles within circles, some close and strong, others quietly fraying.
When people feel safe, connected, and part of something worth showing up for, they do things they didn't think were possible.
When we say happy, we don't mean the plastered-on kind. Not everyone smiling because the survey says to. We mean something closer to alive: 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. That's the happy we're talking about here. Closer to wholeness than to mood.
That is what Encircle is for.
What we do.
We coach, consult, and develop leaders. We work with what's actually happening between people, the relationships, the culture, and the conditions that have people feeling happy and let organisations perform.
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Every engagement starts with listening, to what's really happening, where the energy is, where it's stuck. From that honest starting point, we co-design exactly what's needed.
How healthy are the circles in your organisation?
The question is how healthy your circles are. The quality of the relationships, the conversations, the trust between people, and the conditions that let great work happen 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 but never gets resolved, 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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From what you share, we generate a reflection, a mirror on the patterns at play in your organisation right now. Not a tick-box exercise. Not a score to feel anxious about. A starting point for a conversation about how things really are, and how you want them to be.
Who we are, a snapshot.
Our circle came to this work via different paths. What they share: a commitment to applying everything they teach to their own lives first.
Isabelle Courtney-Guy
Over 25 years of leadership experience. 14 years coaching, consulting and developing leaders across four 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 Courney-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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What we've done.
We could tell you what we believe. But we'd rather show you what we've done.
North Africa, Major Capital Project
Oil & gas · 4,000–10,000 people · 7 subcontractors · 12 months
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. Nobody was hurt. 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
Major European Refinery, Safety Culture Transformation
Safety culture · Turnaround & shutdown · 2,000+ people · 15+ partner organisations · 11 languages
A safety culture that needed to change, fundamentally. Zero Lost Time Injuries across approximately 96,000 exposure hours. And the most powerful proof: the turnaround that followed, led entirely by the client without us, was also completed with zero Lost Time Injuries.
A safety culture that needed to change, fundamentally. Zero Lost Time Injuries across approximately 96,000 exposure hours. And the most powerful proof: the turnaround that followed, led entirely by the client without us, was also completed with zero Lost Time Injuries.
"What I am seeing isn't an improvement on last year. It's a whole different picture."
— Senior Leader, Major European Refinery
In Their Own Words
What our clients have to say about us
"Isabelle has been described by the senior leadership team as the bridge without which the project would have failed."
— Chevron, Angola
"He's not a coach who enjoys the sound of his own voice. He's focused on the person he's working with."
— Linda, coaching client of Hendrik
"Time after time, she has turned ambitious goals into concrete, sustainable outcomes."
— Abidemi Apaokagi, Global Project Leader
Not a programme.
A living system.
Each of our 13 programmes works as a standalone module or as part of a broader journey — always tailored, always starting from what's real.
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The Art of Really Listening.
Deep listening is the most underrated leadership skill there is. This is how you develop it.
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The Leader as the Coach.
Learn to ask better questions than you give answers — and watch your team transform.
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Where Great Work Really Happens.
Psychological safety isn't a nice-to-have. It's the condition for everything else.
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Audacious Visions Made Real.
Align your team around a future worth working for — and build the path to get there.
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The Conversations that Change Everything.
Conflict avoided is energy wasted. Learn to have the hard conversations with skill.
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Leading from the Inside Out.
Resilience isn't about toughening up. It's about knowing yourself well enough to stay steady.
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 — not because of better rules, but because people genuinely cared for each other.
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The context changes. The human truth doesn’t. When people feel safe, connected, and part of something worth showing up for — they become capable of things they didn’t know were possible. It doesn’t happen by accident. It happens through the quality of the conversations, the courage of the leaders, and the conditions that make it possible for people to bring their whole selves to work.
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That is what EnCircle is for.
EnCircle.
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