From Tutoring to Coaching, My Journey with Dear Alex
Our relationship began with me tutoring Alex in English, but over time, she became much more than just a student. She has coached me in various areas, including intercultural competence, self-coaching, and communication.
Alex’s coaching style is highly professional yet personable, making it easy to connect and engage with her. She has a remarkable ability to break down complex concepts and tailor her advice to fit the situation. Her deep understanding of intercultural competence has been particularly valuable, helping me navigate different cultural perspectives with confidence and ease.
What I appreciate most about Alex is her ability to ask thought-provoking questions that encourage self-reflection and personal growth. She doesn’t simply offer solutions but empowers me to find them on my own, fostering a sense of self-coaching that I’ve found incredibly effective.
Her guidance on communication has also been invaluable, particularly in adapting my approach to various contexts and audiences. Alex’s insights have significantly improved how I communicate both professionally and personally.
Overall, working with Alex has been an enriching experience, and I’m grateful for the knowledge and skills I’ve gained through her coaching. I’m grateful for her.
İlkim Yurt
English Tutor
Dear Coach Alexandra,
I wanted to take a moment to express my deep gratitude for the incredible support, guidance, and friendship you extended to us during our time in Germany.
Your kindness and warmth made us feel right at home in a foreign country, and even after returning to Rwanda, the connection we share remains strong. Your advice and continued friendship have been invaluable to us, and we cherish the bond we've built.
Looking back on our time in Germany, we are filled with appreciation for the wonderful experiences and memories we created together. The knowledge and insights you shared with us have had a lasting impact on our lives.
As we navigate our respective journeys, we hold onto the hope that our paths will cross again. The prospect of reuniting with you brings joy to our hearts, and we eagerly anticipate the day we can share more laughter, stories, and adventures together.
Once again, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for being not just a coach but a true friend. Your presence in our lives has been a blessing, and we are grateful beyond words.
Wishing you all the best in everything you do, and looking forward to the day we can meet again.
With warmest regards,
Kabagamba Yves Bernard
CEO and Managing director of Kabagamba Winery
Dear Coach Alexandra,
I wanted to take a moment to express my deep gratitude for the incredible support, guidance, and friendship you extended to us during our time in Germany.
Your kindness and warmth made us feel right at home in a foreign country, and even after returning to Rwanda, the connection we share remains strong. Your advice and continued friendship have been invaluable to us, and we cherish the bond we've built.
Looking back on our time in Germany, we are filled with appreciation for the wonderful experiences and memories we created together. The knowledge and insights you shared with us have had a lasting impact on our lives.
As we navigate our respective journeys, we hold onto the hope that our paths will cross again. The prospect of reuniting with you brings joy to our hearts, and we eagerly anticipate the day we can share more laughter, stories, and adventures together.
Once again, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for being not just a coach but a true friend. Your presence in our lives has been a blessing, and we are grateful beyond words.
Wishing you all the best in everything you do, and looking forward to the day we can meet again.
My professional training in Germany has been awesome and unforgettable because of your priceless involvement.
You brought out the best that was in each of us. Your optimism, encouragement and focusing on the bright side of things are incomparable qualities , and besides I want to name you a global citizen, since you can interact with people of various background.
I wish you to keep traveling so that you can keep experiencing different cultures around the world.
If i was to choose being coached again, i would choose you.
Best of luck for adventures awaiting you, you are amazing!!
One word to describe her sessions: Interactive, Engaging.
A very fluid, personel-oriented yet goal-oriented approach to her coaching.
Its interesting that all the intended content is delivered through interpersonal conversations rather than a rigid system. That is what we call modern coaching at its best.
Thouroughly enjoyed learning with Frau Alex
Pacis Ndahiro
Musician, Beer brewer and Podcaster
Dear Alexandra ,
On behalf of the Kwaaba Foundation team, I want to thank you for your insightful presentation on your career experiences and how to navigate life in today’s professional setting. We are grateful for the time and effort you took to share your thoughts and experiences with the team.
As we are continuously advancing in our careers and personal lives, your comments were very timely. I believe we will all benefit from the wisdom imparted to improve our lives. Your enthusiasm is contagious, and we hope to keep in touch. Thank you once again for a truly memorable session.
Sincerely,
Maame Esi Parker, Lebene Gbedawo, Moussa Yanni, Catherine Delight
Project Assistant Interns
Kwaaba Foundation, Ghana
Whether through her Coaching business, the free classes she has generously given on Linkedin or the tireless work she does with the Mama Christa Foundation, it is clear that Alexandra is passionate about coaching and truly lives to motivate and empower others. Alexandra really listens when you talk, this combined with her natural empathy and positivity allows her to truly understand and meet the needs of everyone she coaches and delivers an exceptional coaching experience.
K. Davies
Global HR Tech Manager - Conversations & Optimisations at Harman International
Alexandra is a highly qualified and hard-working coach. I had the honor to frequently cooperate with her on different projects and enjoyed her team-working and empathic spirit.
Despite this, I supported her non-profit endeavors since she dedicates a vast part of her free time to the Kenyan child-welfare NGO Mama Christa Foundation for years. In this context, I especially learned to appreciate her inter-cultural competencies and facilitation expertise.
She knows to motivate others like nobody else and successfully helped teams from different backgrounds in the most challenging times.
I can only recommend any clients or customers to work with her and consider her work, they will not regret it.
Tobias Volz (PhD)
International Development Practitioner, Academic, and Lecturer
Dear Alexandra
Please accept our sincere appreciation for the outstanding presentation you made to the Digital Women’s Network about mindfulness. It was very interesting, energizing and helped us remind how mindfulness is important to mental and physical health as well for our personal and professional lives. Not only had the topic of mindfulness, but your background also inspired us as well – IT to HR to Self-help coach to Kenya Orphanage Support.. Impressive!!
Thank you so much for sharing your time and experiences with us. We all agreed that your lecture was the most interesting we have had this year in the DWN meetings. Everyone I spoke to wants me to express appreciation for your inspiring presentation last week.
Best Wishes!!
Mary Joseph on behalf of the Digital Women’s Network, Harman
Dear Alexandra
A couples of weeks ago we had the pleasure to participate in your training about communication without stress.
We want to take the possibility and give you a short feedback of the benefits for our daily life.
As you experienced in the training the motivation within the team was very low.
A lot of issues were caused by unclear work packages, mislead communication flows and the feeling that the management does not understand the problem which come up at the daily work.
As a direct result of our workshop the team got a feeling that everybody is in the same boat. In the training everybody was encouraged to express his needs and worries.
And it showed up that all of us more or less had the same obstacle to deal with.
After the training it has been agreed with us that the outcome of our training would be presented by you to our management.
As a result pf that we had a long meeting with our team leads where we discussed the result in a constructive and positive atmosphere. Every single point was discussed and the team leads already presented solutions on some topics.
For instance, now everybody is informed when a new SW will be released.
So in our daily work these solutions are already noticeable and improve either the daily work as well the motivation within the team.
In summary we want to thank you in the name of the whole team for your training.
It had a big positive effect on our daily work and we believe that the whole company is benefiting of it. The development has not reached its end yet.
We are still developing more ideas how to improve everybody`s daily business.
Thanks a lot!
Gregor Tondera, Head of Software Development, Entertainment - EU, Harman Connected Car Division
Alex is one of the best soft-skill trainers I have worked with. She was instrumental in setting up a strong relationship with offshore Development center in Romania. Her practical recipes are very easy to experiment and implement. Totally recommend Alex as a business coach regardless of start-up or an established organisation.
K. Manjunatha, Senior Consultant at Amazon Web Services
Dear Alexandra,
I want to start by thanking you for the great coaching session we had.
After two days of coaching I just realized that we can really change and improve ourselves and the others with the proper attitude, reactions and the right words.
For me this was not just a traning. Not even close. It was a life experience given only by the kind and powerful example you stated. I cannot explain not even to myself what triggered this change of perspective, but this is what makes you an amazing person and coach.
Aura, Engineer
Dear Alex,
let me express my gratitude for the tremendous experience you helped me and my colleagues at Harman to create.
Being part of a team requires consciousness and focus, and you provided us with tools to be aware of both.
Also, you gave them to us with a touch of lightness, that made them easy to be accepted and kept in our minds and souls.
I was genuinely inspired, and I'll do my best to keep on nurturing the ideas I've learnt during the three days we spent together.
In fact, I know I share them with my colleagues now and so I will in the future.
Many thanks and the best of luck!
Ludovico Ausiello PhD
As a trainer, I witnessed a very high level of skill, knowledge and content delivery made with professionalism. During the "Knowing ME" session for youth aged 19 years and above hosted by The Rebuilders International , I co-facilitated with Alexandra and ended up learning a lot from her. She was well able to manage and control the group despite the cultural differences and in the end the participants were requesting for another session! She is effective and an excellent time manager during training. Working with her was a pleasure and I look forward to many more such events!
Josephine Wathika, Counsellor and Life Coach, Kenya