I had the pleasure of working with Bernard during my time in the Women Leadership Program cohort 2 (WLP '22) of EIC. Bernard was always honest and open with us, which made it easy to talk through our challenges and work together to find solutions. He was a skilled pilot, constantly challenging us to reveal critical assumptions and points that needed attention. This iterative process allowed us to make significant progress in a relatively short amount of time, and I am confident that we wouldn't be where we are today without Bernard's support and approach. We leveraged his central coaching platform and worked with his well-structured coaching framework that kept us on track and focused on our goals. Overall, I highly recommend Bernard to anyone looking for a skilled and supportive business coach who can provide tailored guidance directly relevant to their needs.

I had the chance to be coached by Bernard during a 2-year executive leadership coaching programme (2020-2021). Bernard guided me through the different development tools he offers. The "Immunity to Change" tool was particularly impactful for me as it allowed me to resolve some of my own limitations and beliefs. The AQAL model "All Quadrants All Lines" also helped me a lot to see the big picture. Bernard has helped me to grow in my leadership role, to better understand how I function and to put into words who I am and what I value as a human being. Through this programme, I have grown in my self-awareness and my leadership skills; and I have also fully realized how important it is to make time for my own development and for organizational reflections. I warmly recommend Bernard to anyone willing to advance in his/her own development and leadership skills.

Bernard was the coach of Pharmacelera’s top management for the SME Instrument EU program. He showed a lot of energy during all sessions and he was very good at observing us as a team and providing insights and propose exercises to improve our work as such. Although we agreed on an initial agenda, Bernard was very sharp and flexible to perceive our needs after our first face-to-face conversations and adapt it. We were very happy with the outcome of the coaching sessions and his proposed follow-up actions.

It is easier to work now as we are much better aware of our strengths and weaknesses and it helps us to plan how our future team members will fill the existing gaps. In the meantime we are mitigating our weakness through collaboration internally and also with external co-workers. All of these was possible with a two day team facilitation meeting with Bernard. Thus, our responsiveness to the customer need has improved as well as team communication, planning and execution.

When I was a basketball coach our young players were constantly asking for solutions to specific game situations. Instead, I always focused on providing principles to read any aspect of the game autonomously, on the ground. Well, this is what Bernard does for your leadership development. For me it was a mind-opening experience. Thank you Bernard!

We worked with Bernard when our company was rapidly growing which alone is a huge strain but for us it was particularly difficult because we were mostly scientists with no previous business experience. We were a set of effective individuals working together but we were not a proper team. Bernard helped us see our strengths but also identified our weaknesses so we could overcome them effectively. I can only say thank you, Bernard, for the support and all the learnings.

I had the great opportunity to be coached by Bernard Chanliau during the past 10 months. He was open minded, honest, challenging, developing meaningful conversation. He shared his talented coaching abilities and tools to help me develop my leadership and communication skills. He coached me how to navigate in my challenging environment and I learnt more about the power of Influence. It was a great experience and I'm looking forward to applying all of this in my daily work. Thank you again Bernard for all these hours. I highly recommend Bernard to anyone willing to advance in his/her development and leadership skills.

I completed an executive coaching assignment with Bernard in 2008-9. I found Bernard to be excellent in his field with a wealth of background material and techniques to hand and a very in-depth knowledge of the subject matter.

Bernard worked closely with me over an 8 month period on an Executive Coaching assignment. I found Bernard's approach to be insightful, thought-provoking and to the point. Bernard is direct which personally I liked, he set the tone of the coaching engagement in our first meeting making it abundantly clear coaching only works if the person been coached is both accepting and willing to put in the effort. Bernard quickly understood what was required and over the 8 month period found ways to enlighten me, positively challenge my leadership style and general self-awareness. I am very grateful for the guidance he has provided!

Bernard has a great way of helping individuals and organizations to see their weaknesses and gaps, and to come up with practical solutions through greater self-awareness and/or through taking specific actions. Bernard worked with our company over the course of a year and we benefited as individuals and as an organization from his coaching. I'd recommend him to any company looking for a strategically-minded coach.

We just had a two-day session with Bernard. The first day on devising a marketing plan and the second on sales coaching. There are 2 things I liked about Bernard's approach. One is that he coached us to be accountable and measurable and secondly his approach is action-oriented. Its early days on the results but he has set us off energised and directed.

Bernard is a world-class executive coach with a direct approach. While Bernard is very skilled and has many tools, processes to lead any coaching program, he invests time in his clients by getting to know their needs and requirements.
It is no surprise to me that Bernard is ICF Ireland Coach of the year. I look forward to working with him again and I would highly recommend his work.

My executive coaching engagement experience with Bernard was both inspiring and thought-provoking. He helped me examine my working practices and ultimately led to me greatly improving areas of weakness and fine tuning my strengths.

Bernard managed to get out of our team the best and worst. He made us understand ourselves and each other better and pushed us to talk less about the non-important stuff and talk more about the important stuff we were pushing aside. Bernard is a great person and coach I like working with.

We in the management team of Nox Medical have enjoyed coaching of Bernard Chanliau over the last few months. He has proven to be resourceful and analytically thinking, reading the skills, strengths, and weaknesses of the team members correctly along with the dynamic of the team. He is direct and straight to the point and provided us with feedback that triggered both organizational and structural improvements that has made our management team stronger and the company better.

As Bernard's coach, from our very first conversation, it was clear that Bernard brings wholehearted dedication to his personal and professional development — and to the coaching profession as a whole.

Bernard’s willingness to walk his talk stood out. As a Master Certified Coach and accomplished leadership advisor, he understands that great coaching starts from within. He brought purposeful, meaningful topics to each session and engaged with them courageously and reflectively — not just to explore ideas, but to embody insights.

Our coaching partnership was a powerful reminder that coaching isn’t something we simply offer others — it’s something we live. Bernard’s commitment to deepening his awareness and expanding his impact, even as a seasoned practitioner, was inspiring.

Our coaching partnership evolved over time, and as it did, so too did the quality of our conversations. That mutual trust and curiosity created space for bold reflection, honest dialogue, and expansive thinking.

Bernard models what it means to lead with presence, purpose, and humility — and to invest in the kind of learning that sustains not only businesses, but people. It was a joy to work with him, and I have no doubt he brings this same richness to every leader and organisation he serves.

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Keith was Bernard’s client
After spending just over a year of 121 coaching with Bernard, I can truly feel a difference in my focus, delivery and delegation of projects and interaction with direct reports. In our initial sessions, we laid out a series of goals and metrics to determine success. Then by providing me with the tools, literature and guidance, he assisted me in diagnosing and tackling areas that which were acting as a barrier to change. As a result, this has generated a positive change within myself, direct reports and department. I would highly recommend Bernard as a coach & mentor.

Bernard has an incredible talent for understanding the different roles of team members and the dynamics that occur between them. In just two days of coaching, not only he was able to show us our strength and weaknesses, but he also increased dialog and structure between us and let us understand what kind of profile are we missing to increase our team effectiveness. I strongly recommend Bernard's coaching for any company that wants to better understand and improve their leadership dynamics, and for startup that wants to scale up effectively.

Bernard was a really insightful coach and mentor who challenged in such a way to get the most out of the individual. It was a great learning experience and opened doors to deep rooted beliefs, values and sometimes barriers to success.I would have no hesitation in recommending Bernard in either a professional or a personal capacity.

Bernard worked with me some years back as an Executive Coach facilitating greater insight across 21st Century Management tools and techniques. His style is inspirational and sincere- challenging and authentic-patient, yet persistent where appropriate. Bernard draws on his own international management experience as well as those global business leaders who continue to set alight the Harvard Business Review with progressive wisdom which helps us all on our individual journeys to become not just better Managers but, more importantly, people!

I would like to recommend Bernard because of his level of indepth knowledge in the area of Belbin and MBTI and how he translates this into business success. Secondly on his coaching style and the level of challenge and support he brings during the coaching process. Bernard can add great value as a coach or work directly with teams to help increase organisational performance and effectiveness.

Bernard displayed an excellent understanding of organizational behavior and executive development techniques. He was particularly interested in and innovative in his approaches to coaching and developing leaders.

In this program, I had the pleasure of being coached by Bernard at least twice. Both experiences were enlightening and often led to continued discussions outside the classroom. At the end of the program, I voted Bernard as one of the top coaches of our class of over 100 (we could select 5). I would recommend him as a coach.

Bernard was my professional coach on an Emotional Intelligence development programme in 2007. Bernard is very professional and adopts a personable approach: he delivers what he says he is going to deliver. Overall I was quite pleased with the outcome of our programme together and I'd recommend Bernard as a professional coach.

Bernard excells "where the rubber hits the road". When it comes to getting tangible results from coaching, asking searching questions, assuming accountability and creating measurable outcomes, Bernard knows how to challenge and create an environment for extraordinary growth. He is also excellent at helping those who need tangibility, logic and facts in order to learn to their best ability.

Furthermore, Bernard's rich experience of international business, as a Frenchman who has lived in 9 different countries and sold in many more, from Singapore to Eastern Europe to North Africa to Ireland to the USA ... to name but a few, he is truly a most engaging and interesting individual to have on your team!