
For leadership teams ready to grow trust, alignment, and collective impact.
Is your leadership team truly leading together?
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Even strong leadership teams drift apart. In high-pressure, constantly shifting environments, it happens quickly. ​
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Trust slips into hesitation
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Silos reappear
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Decisions stall or don't really stick
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The team becomes a group of individuals doing their best, but not their best work together
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You feel the disconnect. Everyone else does too.
Lead Better Together is a transformational team coaching journey that helps leadership teams (re)discover their shared power and use it to lead more consciously, cohesively, and effectively.
The opportunity
The program helps leadership teams work on what matters most:
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Clarify shared purpose and stakeholder value
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Strengthen trust and psychological safety
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Build alignment on roles, goals and decision-making
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Surface and resolve hidden tensions or breakdowns
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Navigate resistance and complexity with more ease
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Develop powerful habits for communication and collaboration
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Lead more systemically, future-back and outside-in
At the heart of the program is my Team Operating System.
A practical, powerful framework for navigating the full range of team influence.
From inner clarity to systemic influence. That is leadership in full range!
Introducing the Team Operating System
Upgrade how your leadership team leads, delivers and connects
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Every team has an operating system. It runs in the background. It is shaping how team members communicate, make decisions, manage pressure, and deliver results together.
The Team Operating System makes this system visible, testable, and upgradeable. It maps the five essential zones that drive how teams function and influence the world around them.​​

Inner Zone
Lead from within
This is the emotional engine of the team. Awareness, presence and responsibility start here.
Relational Zone
Build real connection
The team's human layer. Trust, candor and collaboration fuel everything else.
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Delivery Zone
Align around shared purpose and execution
This is the team's workflow core. It's about roles, focus and follow-through.
Stakeholder Zone
Expand your lens
Interfaces with the world around the team. Internal and external stakeholders, sponsors, and politics.
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Systemic Zone
Shape the environment you lead in
It's about how work really happens, how meetings run, how inclusion feels, and how decisions stick. Great leadership teams own this operating context and are able to positively influence the system they are part of.
How the journey works
​I tailor each engagement to your leadership team's context and needs. This requires a thorough exploration at the start. The program follows three core phases where the content is fully adaptable: ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

What the research shows
When leadership teams perform well, the ripple effects are exponential. It has a direct and measurable effect on business outcomes:
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McKinsey found that teams with above-average trust are 3.3â€¯× more efficient and 5.1â€¯× more likely to hit their targets compared to low-trust teams.
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According to the Harvard Business Review, organizations with high trust experience 50% higher productivity and 75% more engagement.
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A meta-analysis across 1,250 executive teams revealed a strong correlation between high-performing leadership teams and superior revenue growth, profitability, and shareholder returns.
In short: when leadership teams invest in trust, alignment, and team dynamics, the ROI is both rapid and lasting for people, performance, and profit.
What your team will gain from this program
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Increased self-awareness and ownership of impact
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​Stronger trust and psychological safety
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Greater alignment on purpose, strategy and priorities
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More effective decision-making and accountability
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Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder leadership
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Confidence to navigate tension, resistance, and uncertainty
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Lasting behavioral shifts. Not just insights, but integration
Who is the program for
Lead Better Together is my flagship team coaching program built from the ground up to cater to the unique demands of leadership teams who:
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Are facing growth, transformation, or complexity
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Are newly formed, newly stuck, or quietly misaligned
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Want to strengthen trust, ownership, and cross-boundary leadership
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Are ready to invest in the system that shapes how they lead
For the past 25+ years, I’ve worked with large, multinational organizations and have been a senior leader myself. I've been in your shoes.
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Are you a team but not necessarily at a leadership level? Please explore Collaborate Better Together.
Why it works
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I coach how leadership shows up in real decisions, dynamics, and impact
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I treat team leadership as a shared, dynamic process shaped by relationships, habits, and context. Not just the sum of individual traits
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I bring in emotional intelligence and structure
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​I work across the five zones of the Team Operating System
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I blend diagnostics, real work and reflection
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I help teams move from knowing to doing to being
What leaders say about working with me
Senior leaders from international organisations and businesses work with me to strengthen how they lead and the results they deliver.
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Here is what some of them say about the coaching experience.
"Tjessica had a significant impact on me as a leader. She understands the art of deep listening and never settles for anything less than uncovering the root cause. Her courage, authenticity and caring approach made the experience both powerful and transformative."
Anneke Seesing, SVP People and Culture, SAP
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"For me personally, working with Tjessica has been an exceptional coaching experience. I discuss things with her that I discuss with no one else. Her dedication to my development is remarkable and her intuition as a coach is spot on. She helped me see patterns and perspectives I could not see myself, and supported me in becoming a more grounded and effective leader. I highly recommend her for any executive coaching journey."
Frank Coetzee, CHRO, Siemens Gamesa
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"Our conversations were some of the most valuable leadership work I have done. Tjessica challenged my thinking and helped me reframe key leadership challenges. Now I lead with greater purpose and confidence, especially in complex organisational situations."
C-Level Executive, European Technology Company
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"I had the pleasure of working with Tjessica over a six-month executive coaching journey. I appreciated her flexibility, deep listening, and ability to get to the root of a challenge. She skillfully challenged my assumptions and helped me gain clarity and focus on what truly mattered. I saw real results and would highly recommend her. Not only as an expert coach, but as someone who genuinely cares about helping leaders succeed."
Onyeche Tifase, Senior Executive, Siemens
"I learned how to show up with more presence and influence in complex situations. The coaching helped me see what was holding me back and how to lead with greater clarity and confidence."
Managing Director, Global Industrial Company
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"Working with Tjessica was the answer when I wanted to approach leadership differently. Her coaching style is calming, open and grounded in real leadership experience. She speaks with authenticity and brings practical insight that truly supports personal growth."
Owen Jarman, Commercial Director, EKFB
"Working with Tjessica exceeded my expectations. In my individual coaching session, I experienced how polarities play out, even in the body, which was a profound and eye-opening experience. It felt like being given new glasses to look at myself and others. Tjessica brings energy, wisdom and deep experience. I would highly recommend her for any leadership coaching journey."
Manja van Steijn, HR Director, Saint-Gobain
"Tjessica has a unique ability to blend deep insight with practical leadership guidance. Our work together strengthened both my resilience and my ability to influence others. I have taken many of her insights into my daily leadership practice."
CFO, Global Consumer Goods Group
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"Tjessica brings an authentic and human approach to leadership development. She guided me through deep self-awareness work and helped me translate it into how I lead others. With her calm, empathic style, she creates trust and has the courage to go deep. It was a truly transformative experience."
Anja Meyer-Gotthardt, Head of People Strategy and Governance, Innomotics
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What does life look like after this program
As a leadership team, you’ll move from managing your functions to truly leading the organization together. After Lead Better Together, you’ll operate with greater cohesion, clarity, and systemic awareness.
Strategic conversations will go deeper. Decisions will stick. Conflict will become constructive.
You’ll align faster, act more decisively, and model the culture you want others to follow. Instead of reacting to complexity, you’ll co-create stability, direction, and trust across the business.
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The impact will be felt throughout the organization: people will feel more connected and empowered, the business will move with greater focus and speed, and customers will experience a team that delivers with purpose and consistency.
About me
I am an internationally experienced leadership expert, executive coach and change consultant.
I bring more than 25 years of experience helping leaders and teams thrive in complex and rapidly changing environments.
As a former corporate leader and managing director of a global communications agency, I understand first-hand the pressures leaders face today.
My coaching combines deep leadership insight, advanced research in neuroscience and stress, and a practical understanding of how influence is built and sustained.
I am known for my authentic and grounded style, helping leaders develop both the mindset and the competencies to lead with greater clarity, resilience and impact.
