You don't need motivational advice, and you don't need a guru
You need someone who can think it through with you
🧭 Take 3 minutes to discover your decision-making style7-question free quiz · When you're done, you'll have a clearer sense of exactly where you're getting stuck
👇 Ready to think it through — book a free 20-minute discovery callIf it's not the right fit I'll tell you directly · No "closing" tactics
Dayu, 42, mid-level manager at a multinational.
He's been "ready to leave" for two years. Every time he has drinks with friends and says "I need a different life," he clocks in the next morning just the same.
It's not that he lacks courage — it's that he doesn't know what he'd be leaving for. "I'll figure it out before I go" is what he's been telling himself for 700-odd days.
If someone could sit with you and dig all the way down to the "why,"
what would day 701 look like?
Jianing, 36, out of big tech and ready to start something.
She's rewritten her business plan nine times. She's done MBTI, the Enneagram, astrology. She's consulted three startup advisors.
But she knows: she's not stuck on the business model — she's stuck on her identity. "Am I still allowed to be the person with a stable middle-class income?" Until that gate opens, no amount of analysis gets her moving.
If someone knew how to ask the "identity-level" questions,
how might that gate start to loosen?
Zhiyuan, 38, five years back in China after studying abroad.
He has two options in front of him: stay in China as a senior executive, or accept the partnership invitation from Europe.
His friends in China say "stay," his friends abroad say "come back." He himself doesn't know — is he someone who decides by the "international framework" or by "domestic reality"?
If your coach had personally navigated two worlds (18 years in China + French roots),
how might that cross-cultural decision get opened up differently?
Strategic Decision Coaching is a 1-on-1 coaching service designed for people facing an important life decision (career transition · entrepreneurship · relocation · relationships · identity shift). A 3-phase model — Decode → Strategy → Action — advances one session at a time. Nicolas Laurent is an ICF PCC certified coach with cross-cultural experience and 18 years in China.
Coach: Nicolas Laurent (ICF PCC International Coach · Robbins-Madanes Strategic Intervention certified coach · French · 18 years in China · Chinese / English / French)
Each complete cycle is 3 sessions. One decision cycle can take you from "stuck" to "in motion."
They're not alternatives to each other — but the situations they fit are completely different.
| Dimension | Psychotherapy / Counseling | Strategic Decision Coaching |
|---|---|---|
| Primary use | Processing pain / symptoms / trauma | Navigating decisions / transitions / action |
| Time orientation | Looking back at the past | Moving toward the future |
| How it works | Analysis + diagnosis | Questioning + co-creating strategy |
| Duration | Usually long-term · open-ended | Structured by decision cycle (3 / 6 / 9 sessions) |
| What success looks like | Symptom relief · trauma healing | Decision reached · action initiated · clarity gained |
| Their relationship | They don't replace each other. Clients already in counseling use coaching to advance specific decisions; if a topic turns out to be trauma-level, coaching will guide you back to a therapist. | |
I do 1-on-1 coaching because I've seen too many people —
with no shortage of information, no shortage of willingness, no shortage of effort.
What they were missing was someone who could genuinely think it through with them.
I don't give you the answer.
I sit with you and draw out the answer you already have inside.
— Nicolas Laurent
ICF PCC International Coach (2023) · Robbins-Madanes Strategic Intervention Coach (2016)
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology · Psychological Counseling Foundation Training (2022) · Taiji Zen Certified Coach (2014) · French IMTC Tuina Therapist (2007)
800+ hours of 1-on-1 coaching · 900+ hours of teaching · 1v1 client satisfaction 9.5/10
18 years in China · Chinese / English / French
Tell me about the decision you're facing
I'll assess whether 1-on-1 coaching is right for you
If it's not the right fit, I'll tell you directly · and give you a practical next step
🧭 Take 3 minutes — see if we're a fit →If any of the above touched something in you —
20 minutes · no pressure · no sales
let's find out whether this journey is the right one for you.
Strategic Decision Coaching · First-session satisfaction guarantee · Flexible pauses
