About Helene
What I do and stand for:
1. Helping people find out who they really are including their life purpose, then designing their personal and professional lives around it,
This allows entrepreneurs and professionals to conduct business profitably while staying true to their values,
And have a much more meaningful and rich life
2. Getting better results by doing something different: mixing facts and intuition, analysis and creativity, and using both standard and cutting edge tools.
3. Embracing our uniqueness as the key to our success
“Excellent as evidenced by Helene’s comfort with her own style and ability to work with someone that is very intense and driven. She helped me to identify some of my core values and come to peace with some of those standards that I was struggling to meet.”
D.S., Executive coach and former hospital administrator
My Story
If I could turn back time knowing what I know now, I would live life very differently.
I know for a fact that:
- success would come more easily
- work would be less stressful
- and more enjoyable
- I would spend more time with friends and family
- have more confidence
- and life would have felt more meaningful all those years
- I’d even look better
- with more fun memories
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve done rather well for myself. But for the first half of my adult life, I was spending just about all my time working hard at the wrong work in the wrong environment. Wrong for me, that is.
As a result, I was successful, but probably not as much as I could have been. Because I was working against my nature (which I didn’t realize at the time), I was stressed and tired at the end of the day.
I medicated myself with food then spent a good chunk of my “free” time working it off at the gym instead of cultivating friendships. Life consisted of working, working out, and taking care of other people.
I knew my life wasn’t what I wanted but I didn’t know how to change it.
“I never felt pushed into something, yet you enabled me to explore very deep issues. Lots of empathy, understanding and deep knowledge of human issues. Useful and efficient tools and techniques. The acknowledgment, reminders and encouragements through the e-mail messages was very appreciated and a very nice touch.”
T. B, graphic artist
For example, I knew I was out-of-synch with the prevalent culture in the multi-national bank where I worked, but I didn’t quit. After all, I was at the time one of the few women in the upper management levels, well paid, respected and liked by staff and clients.
But the real reason I didn’t leave was because I didn’t really know what else I wanted to do. I eventually did quit and went through all of the usual career transition assessments (including Meyers Briggs), but I still didn’t get the revelation I was hoping for.
So the next 10 years were spent training in and researching the mind-body-soul interaction in human beings, and experimenting to find out “what I should be doing when I grew up”. And I gathered up most of the puzzle pieces (I’m a fabulous trainer, life and business coach). But how they all fit together was revealed in a surprising way.
I got my aha moment when I went to a conference for entrepreneurs where we did business planning in a novel way, by using Hand Analysis to help us find our life purpose.
In a very short time, I found out more about myself than I had in decades of experimentation, self analysis, traditional career counseling, and personal growth workshops.
My career and life decisions would have been very different had I been armed with this information. I would have saved tons of money and loads of time.
“I found the coaching sessions very effective in helping me to feel supported and cared about. They also helped me to gain greater clarity around what I need to do to reach my goals and challenged me to be accountable to put my passion into action.
The experience of having a Life Coach has shown me how powerful having someone to guide and mentor can be. …someone who you know is for you, and who will call you on your stuff, and gently but firmly ask about changes and actions you had committed to. Helene was a Natural! And her clients are truly blessed to have her calm, wise, and patient attention. It was a great pleasure to have her as a Coach.”
K. T., addictions counselor
And life would have been less stressful. Sure I would have still faced challenges; we all do. But they’re easier to handle when you are where you belong, doing what suits your essence.
Not only that, you have a lot more life spark in you, which in turn makes you more attractive to others.
Needless to say, I am now incorporating Hand Analysis in my programs. It’s my tool of choice to get things started, but I’m trained in and use many other tools in my coaching programs.
Background and credentials (an ultra brief version of the formal stuff)
In addition to being a trained and certified Life Coach and Hand Analyst, Helene Desruisseaux (pronounced: “Derusso”) has a wealth of experience that allows her to know what her executive, business and life coaching clients are experiencing.
In the many years spent in senior corporate management and as an educator, she has had the opportunity to see how business and professional people deal with success: how they achieve it, and whether they truly enjoy it.
In addition, she comes from a family of successful entrepreneurs, so she knows what that does to their lives, the pluses and the minuses.
Her career evolved from a fairly conventional post-MBA path in management, finance, and business education, to years of research in the fields of performance psychology, mind-body-soul health, and bio-energetics (obtaining a Doctorate in Natural Medicine).
“The most powerful things personally for me in the sessions were:
- Reflecting on and answering the questions she asked me
- The feedback and insights I gained from Helene’s comments
- Gaining tools that she taught me that could help me deal with my challenges.”
N.T, investment banker
She now combines her eclectic training and background into a comprehensive program to help professionals and entrepreneurs have both financial success and a meaningful life.
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