For entrepreneurs, leaders, managers and elite athletes
This is where the person behind the role transforms.
Not your company.Not your leadership style.Not your technique.
You are not here for advice or a method. Not even for a solution. You are here because something runs deeper, and unmistakably asks for attention.
30 minutes · free of charge · online
You carry influence.That is why you feel what you feel.
What rarely gets said out loud
The inner dialogue that wants to be heard.
Things are going well. That is not the same as things being well.
The numbers add up, the calendar runs
But something has to change. From the outside it meets expectations; what it costs you to keep that up appears in no report.
The pressure to perform keeps rising
But the energy is gone. It shows less in your work than in your tone: shorter, done with people sooner, less present than you want to be.
Your team says yes
But does no. You can see that something is holding it back, just not whát — and so not what you would do about it either.
Whoever carries influence also carries what goes unsaid.
The core
What happens inside you happens moments later in the room around you.
Not through what you say. Unease that no one names is taken over; so is calm that is merely performed. A team attunes itself to the state, not to the text.
Under pressure, little changes in what you are capable of. What changes is what you still notice — and with that, what you can still decide about.
Presence is not a soft skill. It is the most fundamental leadership competency there is.
Three ways in
It is with you, between you, or you would rather read first.
With you
Two-hour sessions at the practice on the Oorsprongpark in Utrecht. There you will read when this work is not a fit, and what it costs.
Individual coaching →Between you
Three half-days of systemic constellations and connection work. What a team carries is rarely on the agenda.
Team coaching →Read first
My first book: The Sense and Nonsense of Being, on presence, perception and connection. Alan Seale’s foreword is free to read.
The book →
I pulled the cart for twenty-five years before I started doing this.
Leadership roles at Randstad, Manpower and Adecco. My own company, founded in 2012 and sold in 2021. What came after is on the next page; what it taught me is that forcing does not help.
Integrative coach in Utrecht, member of the NOBCO. Author of The Sense and Nonsense of Being.
Responses
He lets you tell your story calmly, without interrupting or forming a judgement — and then asks exactly the question that gets to you.
Steven helped me return to the core. That helped me first as a person, and in the end as an entrepreneur, to take real steps.
His calm and his focus on the entrepreneur produce a razor-sharp analysis.
Introductory call
One conversation is enough to know whether this fits.
Thirty minutes, free of charge, online. We explore what is going on and whether this way of working suits it. If something else would serve you better, I will say so.