CROSS CULTURAL LEADERSHIP, GROUP AND LEADERSHIP COACHING IN DENMARK
SIGNE BIERING – EXECUTIVE COACH | TEAM COACH | SPEAKER ON CROSS-CULTURAL LEADERSHIP
With over two decades of international leadership experience, Signe Biering supports executives, leadership teams, and organizations in navigating complexity, conflict, and change. She draws on a unique background that includes diplomatic service and academic research, having worked in Africa, India, China, and Israel. Now based in Denmark, she brings her global insights into leadership work across cultures and continents. Known for her intellectual curiosity, cultural insight, and candid conversations, Signe brings depth, warmth, and clarity to even the most challenging leadership questions.
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​ As an executive coach, group coach, and team coach, Signe helps clients strengthen performance, navigate conflict, foster psychological safety, and reflect deeply on their leadership identity and impact. Whether you're facing strategic decisions, cultural clashes, or interpersonal tensions in diverse teams - or if you're privately grappling with deeper, existential questions - Signe creates space for honest reflection and practical transformation. She is a trained coach and psychotherapist, and welcomes whatever challenges you bring to the conversation.
​ As a speaker and facilitator, Signe is known for engaging and thought-provoking sessions on cross-cultural collaboration, leadership in diverse teams, and the hidden impact of national culture - especially Danish culture - on global organizations. Her workshops invite dialogue, spark insight, and are tailored to your organizational context.
​ Whatever the format - coaching, workshop, or keynote - Signe adapts her approach to meet your specific needs and goals.
ABOUT SIGNE
Signe brings practical expertise gained through working in some of the world's most demanding work settings, including Africa, the Middle East, India, and China.
Her focus lies in coaching top leadership as well as guiding individuals and teams who need to cooperate and take decisions in a hyper complex and uncertain world.
BACKGROUND
2018-present
Signe works with international and Danish top leaders and teams as an executive coach with tools from both coaching and psychotherapy. She holds talks and workshops on cross cultural cooperation, on internationals in Danish companies, and on diversity and inclusion.
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From 2021-2023 Signe was a partner in Project Onboard Denmark, an applied research project focusing on practical solutions for good onboarding of internationals in Danish workplaces. See www.OnboardDenmark.dk. Other partners included the Confederation of Danish Industries, Copenhagen Capacity and The University of Copenhagen.
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Signe is externally supervised by authorized supervisors. She is currently writing a book together with Professor Claire Maxwell, with the working title: "How to lead internationals".
2014-2018
Signe was a diplomat for over 20 years with the Danish Foreign Service, her last posting being deputy Ambassador to Israel 2014-18. She has an academic background in law and politics. ​​Previous jobs included postings in New Delhi and Beijing as well as special advisor to the head of the Danish Intelligence Service.
2013-2014 /
2018-2022
Signe has been certified systemic coach with Mannaz, and certified leadership psychotherapist at ID Academy, Copenhagen. She has trained as team coach with Team Coaching Studio.
