LDS & CO: Certified coach
Professional and experienced coach
Laurence Duchamp
Professional coach
As a certified coach and business professional for 17 years, Laurence Duchamp drives the firm’s growth with great determination and a deep understanding of professional realities. Her adaptability enables her to accurately identify client needs for successful coaching.
Thus, LDS & CO supports the development of leaders, managers, and their teams across relational, managerial, and strategic domains.
Trained in various coaching approaches, she helps coachees explore new perspectives and provides the keys to unlock their full potential for success, fueled by their will, dynamism, and determination.
Certified Coach: Our Mission
A certified coach is a person who, through an interactive process, supports the development of soft skills for an individual (in individual coaching) or a group of people (in team coaching).
LDS & CO facilitates the personal development of the coachee while serving the company’s interests. We support you to “develop your business differently“: perceive situations, events, individuals, and teams from another perspective and find your own solutions that you had not considered. Our coaching is highly practical, and results are quickly apparent.
The greatest athletes work with a coach. So why shouldn’t executives, managers, directors, or business teams as well?
Laurence Duchamp
Freedom comes at a price
doubtless of disorder,
but one dies less from it
than from servitude.
Jacques Folch-Ribas
How can your LDS & CO coach help you?
10 essential, non-exhaustive points:
1. Listening to leaders and teams
2. Supporting professional change
3. Strengthening team dynamics
4. Resolving communication problems
5. Achieving professional and/or personal goals in one’s role
6. Helping a manager overcome a crisis situation
7. Improving employee performance
8. Supporting high growth
9. Implementing teams in “project” performance mode
10. Developing individual and collective potential
Bilingual Coach: French and English
LDS & CO provides services in French and English for individual and collective coaching, working with executive and operational teams, to foster business development in both national and international contexts.
With 17 years of international professional experience, Laurence Duchamp possesses a strong intercultural, managerial, and strategic background. During these experiences, she encountered the complexity of markets and the cultural clashes among individuals within companies. Her rich professional background imbues her business coaching with an intercultural dimension and a drive for openness to other cultures. This applies even within local or national companies, where individuals and teams already experience interculturality through their differences.
Business Coach: Our Values
TRUST AND COOPERATION
Trust and cooperation are critical for the success of our engagements. Our engagements stem from a collaborative approach with our clients: mutual trust ensures project success.
PRAGMATISM
Our interventions are focused on achieving concrete results. Objectives are defined with our clients as a prerequisite for each engagement and guide our approach.
PROXIMITY
Being close to our clients is a key success factor. Our responsiveness is demonstrated by our excellent listening skills, our ability to work alongside our clients, and our availability and reactivity to meet their needs.
AUTONOMY
We aim to develop your autonomy and that of your teams. Our success is measured by the sustainable and rapid strengthening of your autonomy through the sharing of our know-how and soft skills.
CREATIVITY
Your creativity is a tremendous asset when you are faced with choices or dead ends, and the same is true for us!
We aim to help you better tap into your creativity, an infinite source of development, along with your autonomy.
Respecting these values in each of our coaching engagements contributes to our clients’ satisfaction. Discover their testimonials.
Our Code of Ethics
LDS & CO’s specific approach adheres to the same ethical principles as coaching federations (ICF, EMCC, SF Coach).
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The coach-coachee relationship is based on an equal footing and mutual respect.
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The coach does not impose a project on their client; instead, they help the beneficiaries of the coaching gain perspective on their profession and provide them with relevant insights.
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The sponsor ultimately makes the decisions they deem most appropriate based on the context presented.
- Coaching beneficiaries may be required to share confidential information essential for understanding their professional context; this information remains confidential.
- Confidentiality is one of the key principles of LDS & CO’s code of ethics: it is upheld from the initial exchange phase with the client and throughout the service delivery, even if the contract is not signed, and indefinitely thereafter.
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The business coaching process must be independent.
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The coach’s client is the coachee, even when coaching is performed at the request of a third party (e.g., a direct manager or HR Director). The coachee and the coaching sponsor maintain an independent relationship within their session agreement, which is linked to the company’s contract. LDS & Co offers “check-in” meetings on the ongoing coaching to inform the sponsor of the coaching’s progress or any roadblocks, without revealing details or confidential information about the coachee.
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The coach selected for the engagement must be impartial and objective: any conflict of interest, for example, related to capital involvement in the company, is avoided.
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The coach takes as much distance as possible from the person being coached in order to maintain an objective attitude and avoid the phenomenon of transference. To this end, the coach is themselves challenged by another coach during monthly supervision sessions required by LDS & CO’s code of ethics (supported by invoicing).
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The coach-coachee relationship is governed by various levels of contracts.
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A written agreement tailored to the client’s needs is established and provided to them, along with the reference LDS & Co code of ethics charter as an appendix.