Axelle Nourrain

Program Director, Senior Executive Coach

Paris, France

French

Axelle’s driving force is helping managers and leaders become aware of the real impact of how they show up and of everything they carry within them. She speaks with care and directness about what others leave unsaid, drawing on her deep understanding of organizational realities and the challenges of senior leadership.

One cannot not communicate.

Paul Watzlawick

Career history

Axelle began her career as a product manager in a large industrial group, where she developed strong analytical, project management and communication skills. She then moved to South Africa, taking on management roles in operations and business development at the country’s leading tour operator. This exeprience strengthened her conviction that the quality of relationships lies at the heart of performance, while deepening her appreciation for complex, multicultural environments.

Back in Paris, driven by a growing interest in leadership development, she joined Turningpoint. Starting as a project manager, she progressively took on broader strategic responsibilities: steering client programmes, managing key accounts, leading the coaches community, and driving CSR and workplace wellbeing initiatives. It was through this immersive experience, working alongside leaders facing real leadership challenges, that she trained as a coach and earned her HEC coaching certification.

Coach expertise

A certified HEC coach since 2023, Axelle works with managers and senior leaders at key moments of transition and leadership growth: stepping into a new leadership stance, strengthening impact, finding one’s place in an executive committee, building collective leadership.

She draws on a range of complementary frameworks: Will Schutz’s Human Element, Berne’s Transactional Analysis, Systems Theory and Appreciative Inquiry. These foundations allow her to approach each engagement holistically — the person within their relationships and within the wider system they are part of. Convinced that self-awareness is the most powerful lever for transformation, she works with each person with rigour and humanity to reveal and amplify what they carry within them.

What people are saying about Axelle Nourrain at Turningpoint

Full of energy and enthusiasm, Axelle is known for her sharp eye, her determination and her ability to bring people on board with conviction. She combines depth and lightness, and delivers the most challenging feedback with a precision that makes people want to go further and work on themselves.

Senior Executive Coach

Certified Coach, (HEC, 2023)
Talents© (MBTI), 360° profile, CNV, Appreciative Inquiry, Systems-based approach

Career history

Head of Development, project management and team leadership, design and delivery of leadership development programs, Turningpoint
Director of Operations and Commercial Development, Johannesburg, South Africa
Marketing and Commercial Product Manager, Electrolux Motoculture, Paris