On leadership,
honestly.
I'm Sonja Wekema: executive coach, team coach and sparring partner, speaker, author and PhD researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I work with executives, boards and teams on complex questions and difficult conversations, across industry, finance, government and healthcare. I work from Stories in The Hague and online.
- The Other Perspective is my professional practice for work with leaders, teams and organisations.
- The Board Whisperers is a collaboration with Daphne Laan, focused on boards and executive teams.
- The Academy of the Future is the learning platform of The Board Whisperers: an academy without walls where leaders, researchers, coaches, technologists and creative thinkers learn together on real challenges.
That leads to the questions I work with. How do you bring different perspectives together when reality is plural and intercultural? And where does responsibility sit when the system itself is part of the problem? These are the questions behind the writing, the research, the podcast, and almost every conversation I find worth having.
"Complex questions call for more than one perspective."
Beyond work, I live in The Hague with my family. I ski, run, read and take photographs. See my photography ↗
"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."
"Sonja has an honest and authentic style, is curious about the reasons for things, courageous to tackle issues. Always looking to increase the impact she can make!"
"Sonja is a high quality HR Manager who develops trust with people she interacts with. She balances new talent development vs deepening expertise, empathy vs delivery, vision vs reflection very well."
I work from Stories in The Hague, and online.
Let's
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For coaching and facilitation, speaking, research and media enquiries, you can contact me directly.
I provide coaching and facilitation through The Other Perspective.
I work from Stories in The Hague and online. More on executive coaching in The Hague at executivecoachingdenhaag.com.