Testimonials
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Sara Eliasi-Swahn, Senior Specialist, the Folke Bernadotte Academy
Working with Huria has been a privilege. She brings an exceptional ability to quickly navigate complex environments, understand the dynamics at play, and offer support that is both strategically relevant and deeply human.
Whether the task has been to design and facilitate organizational change, support leadership development, or guide a team through challenging processes, her approach is always thoughtful, tailored, and grounded in genuine curiosity.
What stands out most is her capacity to listen – not only to what is said, but to what needs to be understood. This enables her to create the kind of safe and reflective spaces where leaders and teams can engage in difficult but necessary conversations. Her versatility and flexibility make her an asset, able to meet partners exactly where they are and accompany them in moving forward with clarity and confidence.
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Mathias Steinebach, Programme Director at Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (giz)
Huria supported my team and me over a period of two years while we were building up a complex collaboration network of six organizations involved in implementing a 25 million Euro development project across 15 countries.
As a process facilitator, she was critical in creating a space where partner entities could build trusting relationships, tackle difficult conversations and set clear priorities for the way ahead.
As a team coach, she helped my team strengthen its leadership competence among a highly diverse network of entities.
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Carla Maria de Souza, Founder & Managing Director Project Tres, gUG
Huria has been an absolutely eye-opening coach for both me and my co-lead on Project Tres, Amanda.
Huria has a unique gift for seeing what others miss. Her insights were remarkably subtle, yet they always landed completely on a blind spot for us. Following our sessions, we made some of the largest, most crucial decisions regarding our organizational path and strategy.
What made her coaching so effective was the balance between deep strategy and practical direction. Each session concluded with clear, actionable next steps that easily broke down our priorities.
As a small organization that can't afford to have a long list of to-dos, we appreciated that every session felt like a complete, high-impact activity.
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Veena Prasad, Program Director at Spark Northwest
Huria's coaching style demands active engagement and digging deep.
If you want to make progress as a leader, I highly highly recommend working with Huria. Personally, I also really appreciated working with a powerful woman who has had significant personal and professional global experience.
I engaged Huria as a coach twice for a few sessions each time. Huria was a trusted guide on an exciting journey, the kind that encourages following your heart instead of a map, the kind that doesn't flinch when the unexpected happens disrupting carefully laid plans, the kind that confronts you with love when needed.
Working with Huria enabled me to gain clarity on what I wanted. I also became aware of and started to confront some of my deepest fears.
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Volker Jacoby, former Director of the European Centre of Excellence for Civilian Crisis Management (CoE)
I engaged Huria as my coach during the first year in my role as Founding Director of the European Centre of Excellence to help me take stock of my new leadership journey. She guided me through the Leadership Circle process— a data-driven 360° leadership assessment.
The Leadership Circle is an excellent tool on its own, but her mastery of this complex method, coupled with her empathy and skill in motivating thoughtful feedback made the process transformative and elevated it into a truly invaluable experience—one that continues to shape both my professional and personal life.
I can recommend Huria without hesitation. Her remarkable talent for understanding people, offering support and challenge in equal measure, and leveraging her professional tools at the highest level is extraordinary.
Partnering with Huria as a coach is money very well invested.