Based in Belgium · Working globally
Leadership is a heavy, quiet weight.
The struggles are real, complex, and the solutions are rarely given. Asking for help carries a weight of its own.
I partner with leaders and organisations through critical turning points: transitions, succession, and the high-stakes decisions that shape what comes next.
About
Rebecca Niu
Executive Leadership Coach • EMCC Accredited
I work with senior leaders and organisations on succession readiness: from succession planning through transition and onboarding, during the window when the gaps aren’t yet visible. Before small fractures become expensive ones.
I’ve led teams across continents, inside complex matrix structures, across industries, in multiple languages. I understand what it costs to lead in environments full of uncertainty, and what it costs organisations when that goes wrong.
Most don’t pay close attention to the numbers. Senior leader transitions fail at a rate of 30 to 60% within the first 18 months. FranklinCovey estimates $2.7 million per failed transition. The financial and cultural drag is staggering and almost entirely preventable.
My clients don’t need another framework, another training programme, or a perfectly formatted consulting deck. They need the right questions at the right moment. Not the first obvious ones. The right ones.
EMCC Accredited • 15+ years senior leadership • EMEA & APAC • Healthcare • Logistics • Commercial • Finance
How I Support Clients
I work with leaders, business owners, and individuals at moments of transition
My coaching combines clarity, Leadership skills, and mindset work to help you move forward with confidence; without noise or pressure.
Corporate Leaders & Executives
Leading bigger roles with Clarity and Calm
Leadership succession, transition, and onboarding before the hidden costs become visible.
Career & Life Clarity
Redefining success on your own terms
Promotion, Pivot or Peace.
Support for individuals navigating change, transition, or the question of “what’s next.”
Business Owners & Entrepreneurs
Growing a business without losing yourself
Leadership, team dynamics, and succession, built for the reality of running your own business.
For Leaders & Executives
Most leadership selections are managed. The gaps are there long before they become visible.
Most organisations invest heavily in senior leadership selection, assuming a strong track record will be enough. Most new leaders carry the same assumption about themselves.
Succession planning is often a list of names on a talent grid. Reviewed once a year. Rarely stress-tested. When a critical leadership transition actually happens, the reality hits. The internal pipeline isn’t as ready as the spreadsheet promised. The inherited team is fragile. Stakeholders are watching closely, and the budget cycles wait for no one.
Whether preparing a high-potential successor for a significant leap in scope, or onboarding an executive into a complex new matrix, the first 6 to 18 months are the most demanding period any senior leader will face. The situations are new. The complexity and dynamics are unfamiliar. Asking for help carries a different psychological weight. Many new leaders choose to suffer in silence.
Meanwhile the organisation is watching different numbers. Turnover in senior roles. Executive search budgets that keep climbing. The internal succession pipeline that never quite seems ready when the moment arrives.
The gap between these two realities is where the damage happens. Quietly, predictably, and almost entirely preventably. These are rarely performance issues. They are transition issues. And they are solvable when someone asks the right questions at the right moment.
For Life & Career Clarity
Successful on paper. Self-doubt building quietly.
The track record is real. The ambition is clear. And something is still not moving. Some dreams are still just dreams.
Some are circling a bigger question: promotion, pivot, or a path that finally feels right. Others know exactly where they want to go but can’t seem to get there. Not being seen as strategic. Initiatives that stall before they start. Good ideas that go nowhere without follow-through or a clear next step.
Both are clarity problems. One is about direction. The other is about unlocking what’s already there. Either way, it is solvable when you identify what is actually in the way.
For Entrepreneurs & Business Owners
The business grew.
The leadership challenge grew with it.
Building a business takes one kind of leadership. Leading the people inside it through growth, change, and what comes next takes another.
The problems that surface at this stage feel personal because they often are. The way you led when the team was small doesn’t work the same way when it grows. The person who was with you from the start is now in a role they’ve outgrown. Delegation feels like risk. Succession feels abstract until it isn’t.
These aren’t operational problems. They are leadership problems that show up as operational ones. And they are solvable when you name them correctly.
What Clients Say
“A rare space to think clearly, be challenged in a safe space, and move forward with confidence.”
Regional Director • Global organisation
“Rebecca helped me see what I was actually dealing with, not what I thought I was dealing with.”
VP Sales • Healthcare
“She helped me translate vision into an actionable plan, and communicate it with confidence across different audiences.”
SVP & Chairman
The right question changes everything.
If something isn’t moving — for you or your organisation — let’s find out what it actually is.