{"id":52564,"date":"2021-01-13T15:10:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T15:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/?p=52564"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:33:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:33:36","slug":"from-dancer-to-personal-development-coach-matz-skoog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/from-dancer-to-personal-development-coach-matz-skoog\/","title":{"rendered":"From dancer to personal development coach: MATZ SKOOG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>The interview was taken by Deborah Weiss in Summer 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Coaching is about taking a functioning person to excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>He had a successful career as a principal dancer in English National Ballet, then as artistic director of Royal New Zealand Ballet, artistic director of English National Ballet, as well as a teacher, internationally in demand &#8211; <strong>Matz Skoog<\/strong> explains why he has become a personal development coach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell me what a life coach is.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I tend to use the term personal or professional development coach because life coach has taken on rather lightweight connotations.\u00a0 It\u2019s a saturated market out there, so you need to define yourself, exactly what sort of coach you are and what kind of people you work with, in order to attract the clientele. I\u2019m still working on it &#8211; defining my message. People don\u2019t come to buy coaching, they come to solve a problem. No one <em>needs<\/em> coaching, it\u2019s something you <em>want <\/em>because you have an issue or a vision. If someone asks me what I do, I say I work with successful, ambitious people who want to move ahead faster in an area of their life that really matters to them. 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