The Method unpacked
Daring isn't the absence of fear
The first movement of the method is often misunderstood. Daring isn't waiting for fear to disappear — it's moving forward with it.
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Coaching & mentoring — Brussels & online
Dare.
Dare.
Know Yourself.
Navigate.
Support to move through a turning point — a life crossroads, a career shift, a big decision — and set off in the right direction.
What sets me apart
I don't choose between coaching and mentoring. I do both — because you deserve real listening as much as real direction.
A rare, hybrid stance
Non-directive coaching helps you find your own answers. Mentoring brings concrete experience — drawn as much from twenty years in management and finance as from my own life and its turning points.
Most support does one or the other. I hold both. That's where the breakthrough happens.
The DKN Method
Three movements to find your direction
A path in three movements — not a recipe, a framework. It shapes every engagement, from our first conversation to your action plan.
1
Dare
Naming what's blocking you, what you truly want, what you don't yet dare say to yourself. We start there — without judgment, but without detours.
2
Know Yourself
Understanding your drivers, your patterns, your real strengths. This is the deep work: you can only move forward for good from who you truly are.
3
Navigate
Turning clarity into concrete decisions and actions. A plan that holds up in real life — and the momentum to fully commit to it.
The offerings
Three ways to work together
From a first meeting to the full journey, choose the format that fits where you are.
To begin
Session Déclic
A single, intensive session to lay out your situation and leave with a breakthrough and a first clear direction.
€180one-to-one session
Book
The heart of the work
The DKN Method Programme
The full journey through the three movements, one-to-one: a framework, a rhythm and close support all the way to your action plan.
€1,500one-to-one programme · 8 weeks
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Bespoke
Premium Support
Close, personalised support over three months, for the major turning points that call for depth and consistency.
Bespokefrom €2,500
Talk with me
Who I am
Bané Dioukhane
Twenty years in capital markets and leading international teams. Today, a coach and mentor.
I spent two decades leading, deciding and supporting teams in demanding environments — and my own life has had its turning points too. I founded DKN to put all of that experience at the service of those going through a turning point, who deserve more than simple advice or simple listening.
20+
years in finance & leadership
3
movements in The DKN Method
2
stances combined: coaching & mentoring
Testimonials
What people say
A first testimonial, with more to come.
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A caring space for reflection, without judgment, where you feel heard and understood. Through a natural conversation and the right questions, Bané helps bring to light what really lies behind our concerns. Rather than handing out ready-made answers, she guides you so the realisations emerge on their own. I left with confidence in the possibility of building a path that looks like me.
SoniaCareer reflection · Brussels
Rated 9/10 · recommends without hesitation
The newsletter · L'Élan
Find your momentum, every week
A short weekly note to leave you with a little more clarity, momentum and courage: one principle from the method, a glimpse behind the scenes of coaching, and a concrete pointer on management or career. In French and English.
The DKN Method
Dare · Know Yourself · Navigate
Oser · Se connaître · S'élancer
A method born of twenty years of experience and dozens of conversations that change a trajectory. Not a magic formula — a path, held by a clear framework and a rare stance.
The principle
Clarity isn't given. It's built — movement after movement.
Coaching + mentoring
Each movement combines two gestures: open questions that lead you to your own answers, and the perspective of experience — professional and personal — that lights up what you can't yet see. The conclusions stay yours: I don't hand down a verdict, I help you see more clearly.
1
Dare
It all starts with the courage to name things. What weighs on you, what you truly want, what you avoid looking at. We create a confidential space where you can finally lay things out as they are — that's the condition for everything else.
2
Know Yourself
We go a level deeper. Your deep drivers, your recurring patterns, the strengths you underestimate. This movement turns a one-off difficulty into lasting understanding: you're not fixing a problem, you're getting to know yourself.
3
Navigate
Clarity becomes momentum. Together — not for you — we build a concrete, realistic action plan, rooted in your real life. With the very first steps, the obstacles anticipated, and the energy to commit.
Who it's for
A life crossroads, a career shift, a decisive moment
The method adapts to your situation. It's for all those who feel it's time to move — often without ever having had a role model who looked like them, and who are becoming that model themselves.
Life coaching
A personal crossroads
At a crossroads, a new chapter to open from who you truly are.
Professional
A professional turning point
A new role, a career shift, a new position to step into without betraying yourself.
Mental preparation · soon
A high-stakes moment
A competition, an exam, a talk, a big decision: preparing mentally to give your best.
The offerings
Let's work together
From life coaching to in-depth journeys — one-to-one, in a lighter format, in a group or self-paced. Every format exists online or in person. To book, just write to me — we'll set it up together.
One-to-one
The heart of the work
A true one-to-one, from the first breakthrough to the full journey — online or in person, whichever suits you.
The starting point
Session Déclic
A single session to lay out your situation, surface the real issue and leave with a clear direction. Perfect for a first step — no commitment.
€180one-to-one session
Book my session
The full journey
The DKN Method Programme
Eight weeks through the three movements, one-to-one: a framework, a rhythm, tools and close support all the way to your action plan.
€1,500one-to-one programme
Book a chat
Bespoke
Premium Support
Close, fully personalised support for major turning points. Depth, consistency and availability, over three months.
Bespokefrom €2,500
Talk with me
Flexible & asynchronous
When life moves fast
Lighter formats, designed to fit into your daily life — by video or entirely in writing.
À la carte
Online coaching
One-hour video sessions, one-off or in a pack of 5, to make progress without committing to a full programme.
€120 / sessionpack of 5: €540
Details — 1 session = 1h · Zoom or Google Meet · pack of 5 valid for 3 months · book & pay online.
Book a session
100% in writing
Email coaching
You write whenever you want, I reply in depth. Ideal for thinking at your own pace and putting things down in black and white, with no schedule to juggle.
€150 / monthmonthly plan
Details — up to 2 in-depth exchanges per week · one thread = one topic · reply within 48h (business days) · one-month commitment, renewable.
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In a group & self-paced
Learn together, or at your own pace
The strength of a group for a workshop, or the freedom of a course you take whenever you want.
In a group
DKN Workshop
Experience The DKN Method as a group, for one immersive workshop. Explore where you are, surrounded by others moving forward too.
From €60upcoming dates soon
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Self-paced · soon
Leadership — First-Time Manager
The manual for your first year as a manager: setting your stance, launching your team, delegating, giving feedback — and managing with care while protecting mental health, your team's and your own. With ready-to-use take-aways.
€197launch price: €147
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Who I am
Bané Dioukhane
I deeply believe we already carry within us what we need to move forward. Sometimes you just need someone to help you see it — that's my whole job.
For more than twenty years, I worked in capital markets, in positions of responsibility, leading international teams in demanding environments. I learned what it means to decide under pressure, to grow people, and to hold a course when everything is shifting. And like everyone, I've been through my own turning points — that's part of what I draw on too.
Why coaching
What I loved most in all those years wasn't the markets. It was the people.
Guiding someone toward their own breakthrough — seeing a person dare, understand themselves, then set off — is what drives me most. So I founded DKN to make it my work, bringing together the two things I know how to do: listening like a coach, and guiding like a mentor — with what both my career and my own life have taught me.
My practice is now well established, online and in person, with a method of my own: The DKN Method.
Beyond coaching
A runner, too
Running is part of who I am — an ASICS ambassador, I run regularly and share that side of me on @bankirun. A discipline that has taught me a lot about consistency, the right effort, and carrying on even when it's hard.
The Journal
Field, method & expertise
My reflections, in French and English. Three threads: The DKN Method unpacked, behind the scenes of coaching, and pointers on management and finance.
Coaching field notes
What my first sessions taught me
An honest look at what I observed supporting my first clients — and how it changed the way I work.
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Management & finance
First-time management: the early pitfalls
Becoming a manager for the first time is a change of profession. Here's what twenty years on the ground taught me about those first months.
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The first articles arrive with the newsletter launch. Subscribe so you don't miss a thing.
Contact
Let's talk about your turning point
A question, a wish to begin, an invitation to request? Write to me — I reply personally.
Reach me
Email
bane@dkn-coachingconsulting.comInstagram
@dkn.coaching.consulting
Where
Brussels & onlineBook a Session Déclic
Reply within 48 business hours.
DKN Racines
From your roots
From your roots
to your lineage
Becoming the role model you wish you'd had.
A space for women who didn't always have, right in front of them, someone who looked like them — and who are becoming that person. Reconnecting with your roots to dare your own path.
What it is
Some move forward with no map and no role model ahead of them. Racines exists for that.
A circle, not a classroom
Racines extends The DKN Method into a space designed to feel like home. You move through the same three movements — Dare · Know Yourself · Navigate — but surrounded, in a circle where you have nothing to explain before you begin.
The path
From where you come from, to who you become
01
Racines
Where you come from. Your story, your lineage, what you carry — as a strength, not a weight. We always start there.
02
Lignée
Who you become. The woman others, after you, will look to and think it's possible. Becoming the role model we didn't always have.
Racines · Edition #1 — by invitation
A first time, in a circle
An intimate, in-person workshop to experience Racines together — by direct invitation, in a small group.
26
Sep 2026
Brussels · The Hoxton
Saturday 26 September · 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM · 8 women, by invitation. A morning to explore where you are and leave with a first burst of momentum.
What you leave with
- Clarity on where you are and the direction to take
- Reconnecting with your roots and strengths — as a foundation, not a brake
- A first concrete step, and the momentum to take it
- The powerful feeling of not being alone
The programme
- 9:30 Welcome & circle
- 10:00 Dare — naming where I am
- 10:45 Know Yourself — my roots, my strengths
- 11:30 Navigate — my first step
- 12:15 Closing & celebration
DKN · For organisations
Grow your managers and your talent
Workshops, talks and coaching to help your teams move through a step change: first-time management, growing into leadership, transitions. A hybrid approach, drawn from twenty years in finance and leading international teams.
What I offer
Three formats, one goal: solid leaders
Every engagement is built bespoke, online or at your offices, in French or English.
Workshop
First-Time Manager
A workshop to equip your new managers: setting their authority without betraying themselves, framing, delegating, growing a team. Based on a structured 5-module programme.
Talk
Speaking & leadership
An inspiring talk for your internal events: dare, know yourself, navigate — leadership seen from the field, with an openly inclusive angle.
Coaching
Coaching & mentoring for talent
One-to-one or small-group support for your managers and high potentials — non-directive coaching and concrete mentoring combined.
Why DKN
A facilitator who led before she coached.
Lived experience, not theory
Twenty years in capital markets, leading international teams and high-stakes decisions. Your managers aren't facing someone who has read about it — but someone who has lived it, and who combines coaching and mentoring in a rare stance.
20+
years in finance & team leadership
FR/EN
bilingual sessions
Bespoke
every format tailored to your challenges
Let's talk
Have a need in mind?
Describe your context and objectives — I'll come back to you with a bespoke proposal.
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