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By Signe Hansen

Inspiring leaders, ambitious teams, and trusting partnerships: that is what Quiver Management is all about. The ambitious new coaching firm has just a month on its back, but its two founders, Dane Jan Bowen-Nielsen and his British wife Karen, have years of experience in both coaching and senior management on the international stage.

“Before this, we started up a successful management consultancy, helping senior executives lead transformation programmes. Here we were on the forefront in using coaching as a way to help the leaders be successful,” says Jan, who sits on the Advisory Board of EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council). “However, we developed a passion for the coaching side and decided to focus solely on this.”

Asking the right questions
Quiver Management focuses on three areas within executive coaching: senior executives, leadership teams and organisational partnerships. Senior leaders are coached in one-to-one sessions in which the key is, says Jan, to ask the right questions. “We both come from very senior roles and we understand their dilemmas and the complex, high-pressure environment they operate in. We use insightful questions to challenge them to look at how they can lift performance and reach their goals.” Among other senior roles Jan has worked as the CEO of Rockwool in the USA, while Karen has held senior management roles in a number of international organisations. Clients typically call Quiver Management when CEOs or senior managers are new to their roles or need to make big changes in their organisation.

Helping the major players
“Our clients are very large organisations,” says Karen. “One of our current team coaching assignments is to help Tesco build a high-performing leadership team for the IT division in its new bank.” When coaching organisational partnerships – for example in outsourcing situations – Quiver Management coaches the leadership in both organisations to help create trust and effective working relationships at all levels.
For Karen and Jan coaching is also a passion, Karen explains. “Large organisations are all about creating business results through people, and effective leadership is key to this. To see people grow from being good managers to being leaders that other people look up to and want to follow. That is inspiring!”

For more information visit: www.quivermanagement.com