Our Team

Françoise Carbonnel

With 20 years’ experience in career and executive coaching, Françoise Carbonnel is committed to helping agile people 'take the leap', find their own place and love their job as much as she loves hers.

Her passion for human and professional development has always influenced her career, from working for Sénanque, a recruitment and career consulting firm in France, to setting up Harmony & Mobility Consulting, her own consulting companies in Asia and the UK.

This has enabled her to build recognised expertise in outplacement, coaching and career coaching to facilitate career mobility and support people who have to find a job or embrace a new position, or who want to change their career path.

While living in Beijing in 2008, she set up Harmony & Mobility Consulting with a dedicated team to manage career transitions and challenges of expatriates.

Since then, the team has grown and she has developed Harmony & Mobility Consulting in London, engaged herself as a volunteer at Shaw Trust UK and become part of 3TimeProject and Beyond Performance.

In all of these commitments, she is proud to serve a tribe of happy mobile professionals who she empowers to not be 'lost in transition’.
Happily nomadic by nature, she is fortunate to have been living a rich expatriate life for 20 years in South America, Europe and Asia. She has, herself, been ‘lost in transition’ many times! So when it comes to mobility and professional change, she truly knows what it takes.

Françoise holds a master's degree in Management specialising in Human Resources from the French University Paris-Assas. In 2008, she decided to focus on coaching and participated in different individual and group programmes in Paris and Singapore, accredited by the EMCC and ICF . She is a Mediat-Coaching Coach and certified in two personality inventory tests: SOSIE and Hogan.

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Catherine Laz Bounatirou

is a HR Consultant and an Executive Coach. She supports professional mobility and change through career and executive coaching. She also leads professional co-development workshops. 

Catherine has a proven track record in helping people to manage change, allowing them to reach their potential and their talents.

Gifted with a particular awareness of cultural differences due to her childhood expatriate background in Canada, Finland and Switzerland, Catherine takes great interest in multicultural and environmental issues and their impact. She works regularly with AMJ Consulting, a partner firm specialising in multicultural matters.

In 2009, with two partners, she set up Harmony & Mobility Consulting in China – a Human Resources company specialising in expatriate professional career mobility.

In 2012 she arrived in Brussels, where she developed the business of Harmony & Mobility Consulting.

For the last 2 years, she has led a Business Club for French partners.

Catherine relocated to Paris in January 2017.

Catherine is a graduate of Paris II Assas with a master’s in International Law. Her career began in an advertising agency, Young and Rubicam, as an in-house lawyer. She soon realised that she had a real interest in human behaviour and decided to orientate her career towards Human Resources. Consequently, she took the opportunity to join a new recruitment agency specialising in law. There she developed her experience in Human Resources and worked on recruitment, headhunting and career assessment.

She later diversified her experience, working in the commercial department for Editions Bayard Jeunesse for 4 years.

Catherine is a professional practitioner certified by Mediat Coaching, with more than 300 hours of training courses and 4 years of experience as Executive Coach.

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Séverine Charzat

is a coach and consultant specialised in supporting individuals and organisations with transition, career, expatriation and performance development.

She works as a consultant for career management, outplacement, entrepreneurship and job search programmes and as coach on various topics: induction programme, management skills development, and repatriation. Séverine creates and delivers training programmes tailored to each client’s needs in order to develop high-performing teams in cross-cultural environments.

In 2014, she joined Harmony & Mobility Consulting in Singapore as Executive Coach and Career Counsellor.

Since 2016, she has been located in Manila to deploy the services in the Philippines and Asia. She became partner of Harmony & Mobility Consulting in 2017.

She began her career in Sales and Marketing for global companies in the FMCG and Luxury industries – DIM & SARA LEE/ST. DUPONT. During these 15 years of projects and team management, she developed a passion for talent development. Convinced about human capital’s key role in companies’ performance and competitiveness, Séverine decided to progress her career to Human Resources.

She trained and joined Altedia – Lee Hecht Harrison (ADDECCO) in Paris in 2008.

At the end of 2009, she moved to Amsterdam where she created Nextstep - a consultancy firm in career management - and, in parallel, she invested her energy and experience in the creation and animation of the Foundation Avenir-Emploi Pays-Bas to help French-speaking people in their job search in the Netherlands.

Thanks to her significant experience in the corporate world, her natural empathy, her own experience of mobility challenges and her huge interest in personal and professional development, Séverine supports her clients with passion and effectiveness towards the realisation of their projects and their performance development.

Séverine graduated from the European Business School (Paris/Munich/London) and holds a master’s degree in 'Skills Assessment and Human Resources Consultancy' (Paris 8 University). She is a certified coach with the Haute Ecole de Coaching and MBTI. 

You can contact Séverine at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or via LinkedIn.

Sarah Colson

is a career and career transition coach with international experience in the corporate world.

Although she studied in France, she spent most of her professional life abroad, working in Switzerland and the United Kingdom. She began her career as a financial auditor and later joined a privately-owned hospitality-focused startup company in London, whose portfolio was soon to be sold to a private equity firm.

In 2022 the need to reconnect with her values and provide a different perspective to her career led her to start a career coaching. That was a game changer: as she experimented the power of the coaching process and tools, her new journey as a professional coach started.

Sarah enjoys engaging in deep meaningful conversations and supporting professionals in their quest for their dream job. Confident that all human beings are all extremely resourceful, she is committed to assisting her clients in exploring, defining, and achieving their professional goals. 

Sarah holds two Master degrees, in Business Law and Financial Engineering as well as in Modern and Contemporary Art. She is also a Swiss Chartered Certified Accountant. More recently, she completed a Certificate in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with Cambridge Judge Business School.

Furthermore, Sarah successfully finished her Coach Training Program with the Co-Active Training Institute, an organization accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF).