Confidential executive advisory
Executive Career &
Leadership Advisory
for Senior Professionals
At Executive Career Coaching, we empower individuals to elevate their careers through personalized coaching and strategic recruitment services. Our unique blend of expertise in executive coaching and recruitment sets us apart in the industry.
Who we work with
We support senior professionals across financial services and Private Banking
Fund Management & Private Banking
Securities Trading & Sales
Credit Research
Asset Management Sales
The Real Challenges Senior Professionals Face
Senior careers rarely follow a straight line. Many experienced professionals face periods of pressure, uncertainty and transition.
We provide a confidential sounding board and practical guidance to help you navigate these moments with clarity and confidence.
- Career uncertainty and transition
- Difficult bosses and stakeholders
- Stress, pressure and leadership fatigue
- Team and performance challenges
- Organisational politics
- Loss of confidence or direction
- Redundancy and restructuring
- Whether to stay, leave or change course
- Career uncertainty and transition
Executive Insight Backed by Real Recruitment Experience
Our advisory is grounded in decades of executive recruitment and financial services expertise.
We combine commercial realism with practical career strategy to help you make better decisions and achieve your goals.
- How executive recruiters assess and shortlist
- What boards and hiring leaders really look for
- How to strengthen your leadership positioning
- How to navigate hidden opportunities
- How to manage transitions strategically
Our Advisory Services
Specialist advisory services designed to help you position, navigate and progress
Executive Career Strategy
Strategic career advisory to define direction, evaluate options and navigate complex transitions.
CV & Linkedin Positioning
Executive CV writing and LinkedIn optimisation aligned to executive search and leadership expectations
Interview & Stakeholder Strategy
Preparation for executive interviews, board meetings and senior stakeholder discussions
Career & Leadership Navigation
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Empowering Your Career Journey
Transforming Ambitions into Achievements
My approach combines executive coaching with recruitment services to ensure you not only achieve your career goals but also find the right opportunities aligned with your skills and aspirations.
I am still involved in Recruitment work on a daily basis.
As a result I can help clients with a fresh and up-to-date perspective that most career coaches cannot provide.
I have an extensive hands-on experience working across diverse cultures and geographies,
from Continental Europe to the USA and the United Kingdom.
In Banking, Fund Management and the Securities Industry.
Personalized Career Coaching
Receive tailored coaching sessions designed to meet your specific career objectives and challenges.
All professionals are sometimes in a situation where an experienced Thought Partner could help them finding a solution to a difficult problem they are faced with at work.
This applies even more to Senior Executives who can find themselves in quite a lonely position as they climb up the career ladder.
This may be due to the internal situation in the organisation they are working for, it can be that they find a new role challenging after being promoted.
Younger professionals may speed up their learning process by talking to a seasoned market veteran.
Some examples of where a Thought Partner may help you
Have an experienced sounding board
Separate the noise out of difficult decisions
Definition of career goals
Thinking about a career change
Navigating internal politics
Planning the next move: stay or leave?
Getting started in a new role
Performance reviews
Compensation negotiations
Avoid blockages in thinking and action
Make decisions faster and more securely
How to handle work stress, avoid burn-out
Avoid difficult situations with colleagues
Have a better work-life balance
Heinz Geyer
Your Career Coach
Heinz was a Co-founder of Temple Associates in 1996 and continues as its Managing Director.
He graduated in Economics and Banking at the Universities of Vienna and Zurich.
Heinz lived through - and survived - not one but multiple market cycles, recessions and market crashes.
He got bitten by the 'Stock Market Bug' early on when still a teenager in High School and experienced the heady days of the Conglomerate craze, the crash of IOS and the Nifty Fifty boom first hand.
His experience includes Sales, Trading, Research as well as Capital-Markets Origination in Bond and Equity Markets.
Heinz has worked in various positions in Vienna, Zurich, New York and London with Goldman Sachs, Smith Barney, Bank Austria and the Royal Bank of Scotland.
He is fluent in German, English and (rusty) French. He can follow Swiss German and is working hard on his Italian.
During his years with Goldman Sachs he was the sole author of a widely-read market letter on fixed-interest markets.
Global Perspective
Benefit from my long-standing experience working in various cultures and regions, giving you a competitive edge.
In recent years the trend towards more international exposure has accelerated.
Compared to 20 or 30 years ago we now have a multitude on Nationalities working side by side.
Companies have headquarters in all corners of the World and bring their distinctive management cultures to all their international ourposts.
This creates challenges for professionals that can add to what is always a competitive and stressful work enviroment.