ICCI trainers:
Founder, Courses Manager and Expert Trainer
Noa Brume
Noa is our manager and main trainer for the International Coaching Diploma course.
She has been training coaching courses since 2013 and is a liked and highly respected trainer who brings real results to her students. It’s her positive and dynamic approach that makes her teaching interesting and engaging.
Noa is a highly qualified and greatly experienced trainer, she has been teaching adults since 1993. For many years she taught at the Rothberg International School at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and later on at the Oriental Institute at Oxford University in England.
Having lived in Israel (where she’s originally from), Paris, London, and now The Hague, Noa is well-traveled and well-experienced in being an expat. Since moving to The Netherlands, Noa has been highly involved in the International community in The Hague.
This experience has given her an insightful understanding of the diversity in culture and needs of people who come from different backgrounds, which translates into her work as a trainer on the courses.
Noa’s private client work combines both coaching and counselling, which brings depth to her work with her clients.
Although strongly believing in our way of working with the humanistic and Person-centered approach to coaching, Noa has been interested in many other methods of the profession and is constantly expanding and broadening her professional knowledge.
She’ll be sharing all that with you, the students.
Noa is a popular trainer and lecturer with international companies and organisations based in The Netherlands. She’s often invited to give training and talks on various topics related to personal and professional development, coaching, and leadership. In 2015 she gave her first inspirational TEDx talk.
She does that through her company NBmove.
Find more about her on her website:
Co-Trainer Sharon Perets
Sharon has a multicultural background and is a Medical Doctor with more than 10 years of work experience. As a doctor, she feels that the best part of her job is to help and support her patients through health-related challenges in their lives.
In her work Sharon was intuitively drawn to coaching techniques and developed herself in this direction, becoming a leader and a teacher for medical doctors focusing on how to better communicate, support, and promote change while providing medical care.
Sharon has worked and lived in the Amsterdam area since 2010. Moving abroad with her family exposed her to the challenges of cultural and midlife career change.
Feeling she wanted to further develop and support her patients, Sharon enrolled and completed Noa’s coaching and counselling course in 2018.
The course gave her the confidence to start her own practice offering her expertise in the area of medical coaching while working and volunteering for short periods as a medical doctor abroad.
Her approach is eclectic as she combines medical knowledge and coaching techniques to cater to her client’s needs. She sees a bright future as her practice expands and hopes to develop and make this her main line of work in the near future.
Assistant – Gillian McDonnell
Gillian hails from the UK, but moved to the Netherlands back in 1999. Her initial move to Holland was taken as a chance to broaden her horizons and experience a different culture, an idea, and a passion that Gillian has continued to pursue throughout her life. Now married with two young boys, Gillian truly enjoys her life in the Netherlands and is keen to pass on her love of people and culture to others.
In her working life, Gillian held numerous office-based positions, choosing roles initially to simply ‘make a living.’ Like many others when young, her focus was on life outside of work but as time wore on, she felt a yearning to find something more meaningful in her career. But what to choose?
Her interest in human behaviour and how the mind works led her to study Psychology in her spare time, which she found very rewarding. Also, after working closely with a mentor in one of her most recent positions, Gillian was able to determine the common thread that repeated throughout her career. The connecting tissue between all of the working roles she had enjoyed, from Legal Assistant to Customer Service and more, had been a desire to help and support people, in one way or another.
It was this realization that spurred Gillian to want to develop herself as a coach and mentor for other people who are experiencing similar confusion and struggling to find meaning and value in their professional lives.
Gillian sees a light and a flame in everyone and believes firmly that, with the help of a dedicated coach, taking the time to connect with and understand your inner self can be an important first step. Understanding not only the decisions you have made in the past, but the reasons for why you chose to act in a certain way, can help a person gain insight into what truly drives them. Once that passion and drive are understood, then you can begin to harness it and work towards the career and satisfaction you’ve always craved.