Career Coaching for Expats in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Are you an international professional in the Netherlands who wants to make clear, realistic and well-grounded career decisions?
InnerMove provides career coaching for expats in Amsterdam and supports you in navigating the Dutch and international work environment.
Coaching is available in English, both in Amsterdam and online.
Career coaching focused on clarity and alignment
Do you have strong experience and solid skills, yet feel that your work no longer fits?
This feeling is often not caused by a lack of opportunities, but by uncertainty about direction — especially in Dutch organizations, where expectations around communication, autonomy and decision-making are often implicit.
In coaching conversations, this often becomes visible when similar questions return across different roles or organizations.
Addressing these recurring patterns early helps prevent reactive career moves that do not hold up over time.
Career coaching helps you first understand what is really going on, before you take your next step.
When career coaching is useful
Career coaching can be relevant for you if you recognize yourself in one or more of the following situations:
Career coaching can be relevant for you if you:
- feel underutilized or disconnected from your current role
- are facing redundancy or outplacement
- are considering a career change or self-employment
- want to strengthen your professional positioning in the Netherlands
- want to improve your CV, interviews, LinkedIn profile or networking
In many situations, the core question is not which job to choose, but how you want to function and be seen in your work.
How career coaching works
Career coaching starts with gaining insight into your behavioural patterns, values and the work contexts in which you function best.
From there, the focus lies on:
- clarifying realistic career directions
- making informed decisions instead of reactive ones
- strengthening professional self-presentation
- supporting sustainable career choices
Depending on your situation, career coaching can be combined with executive coaching, stress coaching, mental coaching or personal coaching.
Professional background
Who is behind InnerMove?
InnerMove was founded in 2004 by Annejos Wafelbakker, a work and organizational psychologist and business consultant.
From this background, career questions are placed in a broader psychological and organizational context. Patterns related to authority, responsibility, autonomy and recognition often play a decisive role in how your career develops over time.
What InnerMove does not do
InnerMove is not a recruitment agency.
Vacancies are not searched for and applications are not submitted on your behalf. Career coaching is valuable when you have space to reflect on direction, patterns and long-term choices.
FAQ — Career Coaching for Expats in Amsterdam
Q: What is career coaching for expats in Amsterdam?
A: Career coaching helps expats gain clarity, make informed career decisions and understand how their experience fits the Dutch work environment.
Q: Who benefits most from career coaching as an expat?
A: Expats who feel underutilized, face redundancy, consider a career change or want to strengthen their positioning in the Netherlands.
Q: How is career coaching different from recruitment?
A: Career coaching focuses on clarity and decision-making. InnerMove does not search for vacancies or apply for jobs.
Q: Is career coaching useful if I don’t want to change jobs?
A: Yes. Coaching can improve alignment and effectiveness in a current role.
Q: Does InnerMove offer online coaching?
A: Yes. Coaching is available both in person and online, in English.
Practical information
- Introductory meeting
- 5-10 sessions
- Sessions last 1.5 hours
- Suitable for private and business clients
- Evening sessions available
- Five minutes from De Pijp metro station
