Leadership Coaching

Lead with purpose. Lead with connection.

Coaching and development for leaders in transition and teams ready to grow; rooted in courage, care and clarity.

TrusteD by purpose-driven professionals from

Care International

Save the children

UNICEF

IFRC

WFP

Corporate partners

how can I help?

Choose your path

Whether you're navigating your own transition or developing your
team, there's a space for you here.

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I'm a Leader in Transition

You're navigating a career crossroads, stepping into a new role, or seeking more purpose and alignment in your work. You want clarity, confidence, and your next steps.

Explore 1:1 coaching programmes

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I'm Building a Stronger Team

Your organisation needs leadership development, team coaching, or outplacement support that puts people in the strongest position to launch into what's next.

Explore team & B2B programmes

programmes & Services

Everything you need to lead with clarity

From one-to-one coaching to organisation-wide programmes, each
offering is designed to create real, lasting change.

Individual

1:1 Leadership Coaching

Personalised coaching for leaders navigating transition, career crossroads, or the question of what comes next. Six sessions over three months, designed to create real clarity.

women

Women's Retreat

A few days to remember who you are beneath it all. Rest, reset, connection, and coaching woven in naturally. Set in beautiful European countryside.

membership

Purposeful Futures

A private membership community for purpose-driven professionals, co-founded with A-Purpose. Monthly deep dives, office hours, and a platform away from algorithms.

Teams & orgs

Talent bridge

Coach-led, cohort-based transition support for organisations going through restructuring. Help your people leave well and step into what's next.

Teams & orgs

Bespoke for Your team

Team resets, resilience workshops, and custom facilitation designed around your specific challenges. Every engagement starts with a conversation.

FOR ORGANISATIONS

Talent Bridge
for Organisations

When your organisation is restructuring or transitioning, the people leaving carry your reputation with them.
Talent Bridge is coach-led, cohort-based transition support that helps your staff find their language, rebuild their confidence, and step into what’s next, so they leave feeling supported, not abandoned.

Three structured phases take participants from processessing endings through skills mapping using the SCOPE Framework, to stepping forward with clarity and confidence.

Duty of Care

Show your people and those who stay that you invest in transitions, not just exits

Cohort-Based

Small groups with peer support, real-time practice, and a community that continues after

Sector-Specific

Designed for humanitarian and purpose-driven professionals, not generic outplaceme

Proven Framework

3 structured sessions using SCOPE: find your words practice your story, step forward

client stories

What leaders are saying

Real transformations from real people navigating career crossroads,
team challenges, and personal growth.

"Before Talent Bridge, I had internal blocks telling me I couldn't possibly apply to a commercial organisation. I didn't know how to communicate the value of what I'd done. The programme gave me the confidence to even approach that world, and when I walked into the interview, something had changed. It wasn't just what I said, it was the confidence I felt saying it. That shift would have been hard to achieve without Linda and the group."

INGO Senior Professional

"I was shocked at how such a wonderful group of women has lost their confidence due to difficult change processes. The workshop gave direction and a support group."

Elizabeth Berryman
INGO Senior Professional

"The workshop opened my eyes to how I can better express my skills and experiences in ways that reach new audiences beyond my usual circle."

Aslı Silahdaroğlu
Humanitarian Professional

LISTEN & CONNECT

Purposeful Futures

A podcast and comunity co-founded by Touching Distance and A-Purpose exploring what it means to lead with purpose in a changing world. The community is a space for the conversations your workplace can't hold.

Monthly deep dives, office hours with the founders, bi-annual events, and a private platform away from algorithms. From 22 CHF/month.

Spotify

Apple Podcasts

NEWSLETTER

Within Reach

Reflections on leadership, transition, and what it means to lead with
purpose, from the weekly Touching Distance newsletter.

The recruitment process that revealed everything

Five interviews. Two tests. A promise. Then silence — while the job was reposted publicly. What recruitment processes reveal about culture, and what you can do when you're on the inside. ...more

Values ,Culture

February 18, 20264 min read

The recruitment process that revealed everything

A launching pad for what matters most to you

We're more connected than ever, and lonelier than ever. That's why we built Purposeful Futures. ...more

Values ,Purpose &Resilience

February 11, 20263 min read

A launching pad for what matters most to you

The one thing AI can't touch

In a world of rapid change and AI-driven disruption, personal fulfillment and human capacities like empathy, creativity, and leadership remain irreplaceable. This post explores how reconnecting with y... ...more

Purpose

February 06, 20263 min read

The one thing AI can't touch

retreat

Freedom and space to unfurl and learn

A retreat for women who are ready to step away from the noise,
reconnect with themselves, and come home feeling genuinely restore

A few days to remember who you are beneath it all.

We're creating a 3-night retreat set in beautiful European countryside, designed with intention by three coaches who've been where you are: running on empty, putting everyone else first, and wondering when it became so hard to just stop.

REST

Permission to slow down.

Space to breathe and recover.

RESET

Step away from the daily pace. Return with fresh clarity.

CONNECTION

Real conversation with women who understand the juggle.

COACHING

Gentle personal development woven in naturally.

Co-created by: Paula Brennan, Charlotte Balfour-Poole and Linda Steinbock

50+ years combined experience in leadership, coaching & facilitation

Meet linda

From typhoons to transitions

There's a moment in every crisis where the plan falls apart and all you have left is the people around you. I've been in that moment more times than I can count, leading humanitarian teams across earthquakes, conflict zones, and the challenges of organisational restructures. What I took away from all of it is simple: connection is everything.

Now I coach leaders who are navigating their own version of that moment. The career crossroads, the identity shift, the real question of what actually matters to me? I bring curiosity, warmth, and a belief that our differences are where the richest growth happens.

When COVID hit, I found myself in quarantine two weeks before my wedding, working on research where children told us they were afraid of their parents going back to work. That finding stayed with me and became Lockdown Hair, a children's book about resilience and agency. Half-Swedish, half-Singaporean, based in Switzerland, married during a pandemic. I've never done things the conventional way.

EMCC Senior Practitioner

Published Author

10+ Years Humanitarian Leadership

From typhoons to transitions

A children's picture book exploring how connection and resilience help us through uncertain times. Featured in TimeOut Singapore and born from real experience working with children in crisis.

Resilience

Agency

Connection

Children

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Lead with connection

Coaching and development for purpose-driven
professionals and teams navigating transition,
growth, and meaningful change.