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Dr Akjemal Magtymova

From external authority to internal authority

The transition is external. The shift is internal.

Executive Coaching & Leadership Advisory for leaders and experienced professionals carrying greater responsibility, navigating consequential decisions, organizational change or questions about what comes next.

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When people come to me

Situations clients bring

Not only crisis. Growth, adaptation, greater responsibility and transition are all reasons to begin.

  1. I am stepping into a greater role and the way I have always worked is no longer enough.

  2. I am carrying a difficult decision with real consequences for people and the organization.

  3. The professional environment around me has changed and I need to rethink how I lead within it.

  4. I can still continue this way, but I am no longer sure I want to pay the same price for success.

  5. I am beginning to ask what comes next and want the decision to be genuinely mine.

The human being behind the leader

Leadership can be a lonely job. We talk a great deal about how to become better leaders. What we talk about much less is what leadership does to the person who leads.

I am interested in that person — the human being behind the leader. The person who carries responsibility, makes difficult and consequential decisions, and often shields others.

I am interested in the weight they carry. What it takes from them. What it costs them. And how they navigate from their own strength to live and lead better.

Ways to work with me

Two distinct practices

A · Leadership Practice

Coaching & advisory for leaders

Executive Coaching

For growth, adaptation and transition. Develops your capacity to lead, choose and act at a new level of responsibility. Usually a 3- or 6-month engagement.

Leadership Advisory

A confidential, independent thinking partnership for consequential decisions and organizational complexity. A single intensive or an ongoing engagement.

Coaching develops the leader. Advisory brings an independent perspective to the decisions the leader faces, informed by relevant leadership experience.

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B · Psychological Practice

Psychological work in a psy­cho­ana­lytic approach

For people who sense that something in their life keeps repeating, causes pain or no longer works as it used to — and want to understand what is happening.

Separate from coaching and advisory, with its own frame and agreement. Work begins with 3–5 initial sessions of 50 minutes, online, under regular clinical supervision.

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Why me

Lived leadership

My understanding of leadership comes from firsthand experience. I have spent more than 25 years in senior roles across WHO and the UN system, navigating complex emergencies, fragile systems and organizational transitions.

I know what it means to be surrounded by people and still feel alone with the responsibility you carry. Today I bring that lived experience together with executive coaching, leadership advisory and psychological work in a psychoanalytic approach.

  • 25+ yearsSenior leadership, WHO & UN system
  • MD, MSc, MAPhysician by education
  • ICF PCC · CPCCCoaching credentials
  • In trainingMaster’s in Psychology, psychoanalytic approach
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How we begin

Start with a conversation

Step 01

A conversation

A 30-minute confidential introductory conversation to understand your situation and whether there is a fit.

Step 02

A format

Coaching over 3 or 6 months, a single Executive Reflection Intensive, or an ongoing advisory engagement. Investment is agreed here.

Step 03

We begin

Confidentiality, cadence and cancellation terms are agreed in writing before the work starts. Most work is online.

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Testimonials

In their own words

She is a skilled miner, working to bring out the gold within you, sometimes hidden in the darkest places, and making you shine.

UN Official

Leadership can often feel like a lonely journey, and having Akjemal by my side has been invaluable.

Gyuzel Tuktarova, Business Owner & Executive Coaching Client

The way Dr Akjemal guided me through the journey allowed me to unlock a completely new perspective, one that I didn’t even realize I needed.

Christine A., Office Manager, Canada

She can adeptly navigate the health sector and political realms consistently charting an ethical course through extreme complexity to reach public health goals.

Chris Houston, Executive Director, Canadian Peace Museum

As a leader she focused not only on the deliverables, which she ensured were timely and of a high quality, but also took the time to mentor me as a human being.

Dr Sora Al Rowas, Co-Founder of Al Sorat Consulting, Oman

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Podcast & newsletter

Beyond the Turning Point

Conversations and reflections about leadership, identity, responsibility, change and the human experience behind the decisions that shape our lives.

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Frequent questions

Before we begin

Is this therapy?

No. Executive Coaching and Leadership Advisory are separate from psychological work. My psychological practice in a psychoanalytic approach is contracted separately.

Do I need to be in transition?

No. Clients may be growing into greater responsibility, adapting to a changed environment, carrying a consequential decision, or considering a transition.

Will you tell me what to do?

No. In advisory I may offer perspective and challenge more directly, but responsibility for the decision remains with you.

Can an organization sponsor the work?

Yes. Sponsored coaching or advisory can be contracted with clear objectives and confidentiality boundaries.

How do we start?

With a confidential introductory conversation to understand the situation and decide whether there is a fit. Psychological work has a different frame: it begins with 3–5 initial sessions, arranged through the form on its own page.

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Wherever you are in the process, we can start with a conversation

If you are carrying greater responsibility, navigating a changed professional landscape or facing a consequential decision, we can begin with a confidential 30-minute conversation.

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