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North Star Talent
Helping companies keep their best people, by helping those people find clarity, ownership, and direction.
The Problem Nobody Is Talking About
Disengagement rarely happens overnight. Your best people don't wake up one day and decide to leave. They drift — slowly, quietly — when they lose clarity about where they're headed, when their environment stops fitting who they are, or when nobody helps them see a path forward inside the company. By the time it shows up in an exit interview, it's already too late.
The Hidden Cost
  • Replacing one employee costs 1.5–2× their annual salary
  • Most disengagement is invisible until someone resigns
  • High performers rarely leave for money — they leave because the fit is gone
"People don't leave roles. They leave environments that stopped fitting them."
What Most Companies Miss
Organisations invest heavily in skills training. Few invest in what actually drives retention: clarity, ownership, and alignment. The professionals most at risk aren't underperformers — they're your mid-level high achievers, the ones who look fine on paper but are quietly asking themselves: Is this still the right place for me? When no one helps them answer that question internally, they start looking externally.
What Companies Invest In
Skills training, technical upskilling, and compliance programmes dominate L&D budgets — all valuable, but none addressing the root cause of attrition.
What's Actually Happening
High performers are quietly drifting. Without clarity about their future inside the organisation, the most talented people are the first to explore their options elsewhere.
What They Actually Need
Real conversations about direction, alignment, and growth. The kind of support that makes people feel seen — and gives them a reason to stay and build their future internally.
What North Star Talent Does
North Star Talent partners with organisations to intervene before drift becomes attrition. We help employees — especially high performers, managers, and professionals navigating change — reconnect with their direction, take ownership of their growth, and build momentum from where they are now. The result: people who stay not because they have to, but because they've chosen to.
Higher Engagement
Employees reconnect with purpose and energy inside the organisation.
Stronger Retention
Key talent stays — by choice, not by default.
Confident Managers
Leaders who guide their teams with clarity and intention.
Healthier Career Conversations
Internal dialogue replaces silent disengagement.
Positive Employee Experience
Especially during periods of organisational change and uncertainty.
Our Approach
All North Star Talent programmes are built on a proven methodology developed through hundreds of individual coaching journeys. Our work moves people through three consistent shifts that transform how they show up inside your organisation. The tools and frameworks employees gain don't disappear when the programme ends — they become a career compass they carry with them for years.
Clarity
From noise and confusion to a clear sense of who they are and what they want
Direction
From feeling stuck to knowing their options and which path fits them best
Motion
From intention to real momentum, through practical experiments and accountability
Programme Portfolio
Our Programmes
North Star Talent offers a suite of carefully designed programmes for the moments that matter most — from a professional's first days in a new role, to navigating growth, leading teams, and managing transitions with dignity. Each programme is tailored to your organisation's people and context.
1
North Star Launch
Start Strong in Your First 90 Days
2
Career Ownership & Growth
Keep High Performers Engaged and Growing
3
Team Coaching
Grow Together as a High-Performing Unit
4
Career Transition & Outplacement
Support People Through Change with Dignity
Programme 1
North Star Launch — Start Strong in Your First 90 Days
Who It's For
New managers, professionals stepping into a promotion, lateral move, or a new challenging role where the first impression sets the trajectory for everything that follows.
The Challenge
Most onboarding focuses on systems and introductions. Very few programmes help people build influence, deliver early impact, and position themselves intentionally from day one — leaving talented professionals taking far longer than necessary to find their footing.
The RIPL Framework
Relationships
Build trust and influence with key stakeholders, peers, and managers early
Impact
Identify priorities, align with your manager, and create visible early wins
Positioning
Shape your professional narrative and personal brand within the organisation
Learning
Accelerate understanding of team dynamics, culture, and role expectations
Outcomes for the Organisation
✔ Faster time-to-productivity for new hires and promoted managers
✔ Stronger stakeholder relationships from day one
✔ Reduced uncertainty and confidence loss in critical first weeks
✔ Employees who are intentional about their impact — not just reactive
Formats: 1:1 coaching journey (6 sessions) · New manager cohort programme · Onboarding complement
Programme 2
Career Ownership & Growth
Top talent rarely leaves for compensation alone. They leave when growth feels invisible, when their strengths aren't being used, or when nobody is having a real conversation with them about their future inside the company. Managers face the same challenge from the other side — promoted for performance, but never given the tools to lead with confidence and clarity.
Track A — Managers & Team Leads
  • Building a clear leadership identity grounded in values and strengths
  • Moving from operational executor to intentional people leader
  • Coaching conversations, feedback, and psychological safety
  • Strategic visibility and authentic influence
Track B — High Performers & Key Talent
  • Career alignment: are they in the right role and environment for who they are now?
  • Strengths mapping: reconnecting people with what energises them
  • Internal opportunity exploration and career path design
  • Rebuilding motivation and sense of direction
87%
Of Managers
Feel underprepared for their leadership role when first promoted
2×
More Likely
High performers are twice as likely to leave without structured career development
34%
Engagement Lift
Average engagement increase when employees have clear career development conversations
Formats: Cohort programme (4–8 sessions) · 1:1 coaching journeys · Leadership offsite · Manager toolkit for career conversations
Programme 3
Team Coaching — Grow Together
High-performing individuals don't automatically make a high-performing team. When communication breaks down, trust is fragile, or people pull in different directions, the whole team underperforms — regardless of individual talent. Often the issue isn't skill. It's dynamics. North Star Talent works with the team as a living system, creating both individual insight and collective alignment.
Working Styles & Strengths
Understanding individual working styles, strengths, and blind spots within the team to reduce friction and maximise collective performance.
Shared Language
Building a common vocabulary for communication and feedback so that difficult conversations become productive, not destructive.
Psychological Safety
Strengthening trust and creating an environment where people feel safe to contribute, challenge, and be honest about what's getting in the way.
Team Identity & Purpose
Clarifying team values, ways of working, and collective goals so that everyone is pulling in the same direction with a shared sense of purpose.

How it works: We start with a discovery session to understand the team's specific dynamics and challenges. From there, we design a tailored programme — combining individual reflection with group sessions to create both personal insight and collective alignment.
Formats: Team workshop series · Half-day or full-day offsite · Combined individual + group sessions
Programme 4
Career Transition & Outplacement
How a company treats people on the way out defines how the remaining employees feel about staying. Outplacement done badly damages morale, employer brand, and trust. Done well, it becomes a genuine act of care — and a competitive advantage. North Star Talent treats transitions not as a logistics exercise, but as a moment of genuine human support. Employees leave with clarity, confidence, and a real plan — not just a polished CV.Each stage of the programme is designed to help departing employees move forward with dignity — making sense of what happened, rediscovering what they genuinely want, and leaving with a clear, actionable plan for what comes next.
✔ Positive, dignified exit experience for departing employees
✔ Protected employer brand and reputation
✔ Stronger morale among remaining team members
✔ Demonstrated investment in people — even in difficult moments
Formats: Individual 1:1 coaching packages · Small group cohorts · Hybrid programmes
Entry Point: Workshops & Keynotes
Not ready for a full programme? Start here. Our workshops are a low-risk, high-impact way to introduce North Star Talent to your organisation — and a natural starting point for longer engagements. Each session is designed to deliver immediate, actionable value that employees can apply the very next day.
Own Your Career Direction
Help employees shift from passive to proactive. Values, strengths, vision, and first steps. Immediately actionable and deeply relevant for anyone feeling stuck or uncertain about their next move.
Start Strong: Your First 90 Days
A practical session for new hires or promoted managers on how to build influence and deliver impact early — turning the critical first weeks from anxious to intentional.
Building a Network That Works For You
A human approach to professional relationships. Not transactional, not forced. This session opens unexpected doors and helps employees build genuine connections that support their career long-term.
Sustainable Performance & Career Resilience
For teams navigating change or burnout risk. Energy, motivation, and how to manage today while building tomorrow — without sacrificing either.
Formats: 60–180 min sessions · Half-day programmes · Team offsites · Company all-hands
Social Proof
What People Say
North Star Talent's impact is best measured in the words of those who have experienced it firsthand — from business school MBA programmes to global tech companies and professional communities across Europe.
Testimonial
Erica Isotta Surace — D2 Collective founder
"Enrique brings high quality, human stories and turns them into practical, actionable insights. His ability to combine clarity, warmth, and real life relevance resonated strongly with our community. I would confidently recommend him to any organisation looking for an engaging panelist or keynote speaker on careers, storytelling, and professional growth."
Collaborated with Enrique across D2 initiatives including The Art of Career Storytelling and How to Build a Network That Works for You.
Testimonial
Nick Burrows —
Manchester Business School
Senior Careers Consultant | MBA Programme
"Enrique captivated the room of nearly 100 students with his authenticity, energy and humour. Blending personal experience with practical insights, his ability to read the audience and create an atmosphere of openness made the session both inspiring and highly relevant. Students left motivated to shape their own career stories and with a clear strategy for their professional journeys. We can't recommend Enrique highly enough."
Alliance Manchester Business School — Sessions for the MBA class of 2027.
Client Story
Adevinta — Outplacement Programme
Global marketplace | Amsterdam
North Star Talent delivered the outplacement coaching programme for Adevinta employees navigating redundancy during a period of organisational restructuring — supporting them with clarity, confidence, and a genuine plan for what came next.
Rather than a transactional process, this engagement was built on the belief that how an organisation treats people on the way out defines the experience of those who remain. Every participant left the programme having worked through their transition with integrity — understanding what happened, rediscovering what they truly wanted, and moving forward with a real plan.
The result was a dignified, human exit experience that protected Adevinta's employer brand and demonstrated genuine investment in people — even in one of the most difficult moments an organisation can navigate.
Programme Highlights
  • 1:1 coaching for employees affected by restructuring
  • Full career clarity and positioning support
  • CV, LinkedIn, and personal narrative development
  • Job search strategy and outreach planning
  • Dignified, human-centred exit experience
Why North Star Talent
This is not off-the-shelf training. Every programme is built on real conversations with real professionals navigating real career moments. The methodology comes from hundreds of individual coaching journeys — and from a founder who has lived multiple career transitions across countries, industries, and roles. When participants engage with North Star Talent, they are not receiving a generic framework adapted to fit them. They are receiving a process built around who they are and what they actually need.
Generic Training
Teaches frameworks
One-size-fits-all
Focuses on skills
Motivates in the moment
Fixes weaknesses
North Star Talent
Changes behaviour
Built around the individual
Focuses on clarity and ownership
Creates lasting tools
Builds from strengths
Trusted By
North Star Talent works with professionals and teams from some of the world's most recognised organisations — from individual coaching journeys to team programmes and outplacement support, across tech, consulting, and global consumer brands.

From Amsterdam to London and beyond — North Star Talent works with organisations across Europe, wherever their people need support at the moments that matter most.
About Enrique Gaya
Founder, North Star Talent
Enrique is a career coach and mentor with 15+ years of experience across Big4 consulting, eBay, and the tech industry — and across Spain, the UK, and the Netherlands. He holds an MBA from the University of Manchester. He has been recognised as one of the Top 15 Career Coaches in Amsterdam (2025) and received the Best Growth Mentor Award by the D2 Collective (2024).
He has lived every phase of the North Star methodology himself: the confusion, the wrong turns, the pivotal decision to start over, and the clarity that comes from choosing direction over destination. That personal experience — combined with coaching methodology and deep corporate knowledge from Big4 and global tech environments — is what makes his work both practical and human.
He works with individuals, teams, and organisations that believe people perform best when they feel aligned, seen, and in motion.
Based in Amsterdam. Working with organisations across Europe.
Credentials & Recognition
Top 15 Career Coaches in Amsterdam — 2025
Best Growth Mentor Award — D2 Collective 2024
MBA — University of Manchester
15+ years in Big4, eBay & global tech
Spain · UK · Netherlands
How We Work Together
Every engagement starts with a short discovery conversation to understand your context, your people, and your goals. From there, we design a programme that fits — not a template pulled off a shelf. There is no standard package that gets sent before a conversation has taken place. The right solution emerges from understanding what your organisation is actually navigating.
Typical Starting Points
Single Workshop
A low-commitment, high-impact way to test the approach with your team and see the value firsthand before investing further.
Cohort Programme
A structured programme for a specific group — managers, high potentials, or teams navigating a particular transition or growth challenge.
Team Coaching Journey
A tailored engagement for a team that wants to collaborate more effectively, communicate better, and grow as a genuine unit.
Outplacement Package
Support for employees and organisations navigating restructuring, redundancy, or role elimination — with dignity at the centre.
1:1 Coaching Journey
A focused, individual engagement for a key employee at a critical career moment — whether they're stepping up, feeling stuck, or navigating a transition.
Let's Talk
The best time to support your people is before they start looking elsewhere. Whether you're managing a high-stakes restructuring, trying to retain a key layer of management talent, or simply noticing that something in your team's energy has shifted — this is the conversation worth having now, not after the exit interview.
Every engagement begins with a straightforward, no-pressure discovery conversation. We'll talk about your organisation, the people you're trying to support, and the outcomes that matter most to you. From there, we'll explore together what a programme could look like — tailored to your context, not borrowed from a shelf.
There is no minimum commitment required to start the conversation. Organisations that have worked with North Star Talent have typically begun with a single workshop or a short discovery call — and built from there as the value became clear.
Get in Touch
North Star Talent
Enrique Gaya, Founder
📩 enriquegaya@northstarcoach.nl
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Working with organisations across Europe
Book a 30 min Discovery call