What does leadership ask of us?
I work with leaders, teams and organisations when familiar approaches no longer work and the next step is not yet clear.
As an executive and team coach and sparring partner, I help bring different perspectives together and create direction and momentum, together. Through The Other Perspective, I work with international businesses, municipalities and public-sector organisations.
Executive & team coaching
For leaders looking for room to examine their choices, patterns, relationships and responsibilities.
My professional practice: The Other Perspective
Sparring & strategic facilitation
For teams and organisations that are stuck, or need to look at an issue from different stakeholder perspectives. With a shared purpose, we help put the knowledge and energy of the system to work so you can move forward together.
My professional practice: The Other Perspective
Speaking & moderation
For events on intercultural leadership, vulnerability, psychological safety and leading in complexity.
"Sonja was able to create the conditions for difficult, edgy conversations to happen without it feeling personal or threatening. These are valuable qualities which set Sonja apart from many other team coaches in my experience."
"Open, sincere and critical is how I experienced Sonja. By sharing her own experiences, asking critical questions and looking at a question from another perspective, I have been forced to shift my thinking several times."
Differences in background, communication, expectations and unwritten rules shape how we lead and work together.
I contributed the chapter on intercultural leadership to the co-authored book 7 Perspectives on Leadership.
Leader
vulnerability.
Doctoral research on leader vulnerability, and its relationship with psychological safety in teams and organisations.
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TOP Talks is the podcast of The Other Perspective, which I make together with Lenneke Abelman. Conversations in Dutch and English on leadership, culture and human impact.
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