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We show Senior Executives how to step up from operations and transcend systemic complexity so they can move into the flow with a calm, clear mind and confidently guide and engage others to build a collaborative culture, generate high performance and co-create a sustainable, healthy and equitable business ecosystem.
We also offer Executive Coaches the proven knowhow to help their clients.
We're Experts in Advanced Accelerated Vertical Leadership Development
StageSHIFT specializes in accelerating the latent opportunity for Senior Leaders and Executive Coaches to develop the Open Synergist Mindset and Heartspace that enables executives to flourish in a CXO or Divisional Executive Leadership role. With a Synergist Mindset we can lean into VUCA, transcend intersystemic complexity, trust the flow of emergence despite uncertainty, and treasure diversity to realize inclusion. In this way, we become capable of leading ecosystemic transformative change in complex senior roles and cocreate conscious evolution.
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Antoinette has helped me remodel how I write, talk and feel about myself and my skills, enhancing my strategic expression and guiding me through a career transformation!
I found her to be an inspirational, knowledgeable and captivating Executive Coach and I would highly recommend her to anyone seeking clarity, new direction and heightened courage!
- Director R&D
I enjoy my coaching with Antoinette because she challenges my normalized way of thinking. It’s emergent, disruptive and even disconcerting - that’s where the magic is.
Antoinette considers things from a deeper dynamic perspective. Her focus on embracing our uniqueness is inspiring and amazingly effective.
- Executive General Manager Transport Systems
Antoinette was exactly what I needed - someone who had the vision and clarity to challenge, encourage and support my planning and preparation for the next step in my career.
It was great to have someone with honesty, integrity as well as exceptional emotional intelligence and useful practical tools to help me on the journey.
- Program Director Transport Sector
Are You an Executive Leader or Executive Coach?
You have the experience, expertise and the potential to make a significant impact through your work, and you want your work to be meaningful and valuable. You'd like to flourish!
But …
- How do you get out of operations when you have such a big workload?
- How do you ensure high business performance without being directive?
- How do you find time to do strategic work when working 10-hour days?
- How do you reshape yourself with everyone watching your every move?
- How do you forge ahead when the Senior Executive Team is so messy?
- How do you implement new ideas when the culture frowns on this?
- How do you lead your team when they’re not taking accountability?
- How do you speak up confidently when your position’s under threat?
- How do you collaborate with colleagues when you view some as fools?
Antoinette's profound and rare capacity to simultaneously inspire developmental movement in individuals, teams and the wider community is remarkable. She is part of a class of brilliant, humble human beings, who invite you to fully meet yourself, both your shadows and unfolding potential, simply by their presence and capacity to hold that space.
Through her unique, well-researched body of work, she enables leaders to integrate business, spirituality, and human development in a way that we all win: our planet, our communities, and our businesses. I feel privileged and honoured to be part of her community.
- Jacqueline van Paassen, Transformative Coach
Being both gentle and direct, intuitive and clear, Antoinette generously and courageously shares her wisdom and insights. It's a truly amazing experience, being guided by you, in the spiritually connected space where we meet.
The StageSHIFT Coaching Certification Program is an incredibly rich program, bringing together frameworks and research that enables us to see vertical evolution in a new and holistic way. The Discovery Dialogues with Antoinette are a wonderful opportunity to deepen the understanding, making this program not just another certification, but an essential part of your soul evolution. It’s such a beautiful journey!
- Karin Hamrin, Leadership & Organization Transformation
Without her firm, generous, friendly, thought-provoking, heart-opening and soul-freeing guidance throughout the program I wouldn’t be where I am today: on purpose with a big mind, open heart, and free soul for the greater good.
I was preparing myself to be the solid holding space for CEOs and strategic leaders and knew I needed to do that specialised inner work with someone who is very established at a mature stage of consciousness.
I notice that I bring more courage and crystal-clear integrity to my coaching practice. I highly recommend StageSHIFT if you aspire to evolve.
- Sharifah Raudhah AlQudsy, Executive Leadership Coach
Our PROVEN PATHWAY to Becoming a Visionary Inspiring Purposeful Leader with a Synergist Mindset
By ELEVATING THE SYSTEM in your part of the organization, we remove the ceiling that inhibits Vertical Development and provide the traction for advanced accelerated leadership growth.
In CULTIVATING THE SELF we facilitate a deep dive into conscious awareness to resolve complex psychodynamics and encourage a steep rise in authentic adaptive leadership presence.
By GENERATING THE SHIFT in Creative Productivity, People Engagement, Leadership Culture and Business Performance, you will greatly expand your influence and impact.
STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP
Inspire Strategic Direction to articulate and activate visionary, purposeful, evolutionary aspirations.
AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP
Foster Authentic Presence to illuminate inner resonance and powerful congruence.
ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP
Transform Holistic Identity to uplift self-esteem and build adaptive courageous self-confidence.
SYSTEMIC LEADERSHIP
Design an Outer Operating System to move into the flow of emergence with effortless ease.
CONSCIOUS LEADERSHIP
Resolve Shadow Dynamics to eliminate emotional triggers and develop a calm clear discerning mind.
ETHICAL LEADERSHIP
Uphold Ethical Principles to build an innovative collaborative respectful empowered culture.
When I first met Antoinette, I was fatigued, stressed at work and not enjoying life. In the very first meeting, the underlying issues were exposed. She shed light on my life and revealed things that I simply had not seen or understood. Her positive, forward-looking approach made me feel optimistic.
Antoinette helped me work through changes in my organizational structure to enable me to focus on the higher strategic issues I enjoy. And most importantly, she addressed my whole-of-life progression, not just my work-life.
- CIO Emergency Services & Transport Sector
I took up coaching with Antoinette to become more strategic and confident. Her fast-paced approach mixing theory and practical advice was extremely helpful. She is a challenging and energetic coach who held me to account in the nicest possible way.
I always looked forward to our meetings because I knew that I would learn something new and useful. I now have a framework to approach strategic issues and many tools and techniques to draw on so I can hold my own in a senior executive environment. I would not have thought this possible a few years ago.
- Group Executive Director HSE
I was dealing with a very complex personal and commercial situation which Antoinette was very quick in understanding the holistic picture.
Her commercial experience together with insight into situational dynamics and personality traits greatly assisted me in breaking the complexity down into manageable pieces to find positive forward moving paths.
Most importantly, she gave me the confidence and courage to implement what I considered prior to our sessions an almost insurmountable challenge.
- CEO. Manufacturing Sector
TAKE INSPIRED TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION TO BE BOLD, BRAVE & FREE ... TO BECOME MORE.
StageSHIFT ONLINE PROGRAMS
Become a more Visionary Inspiring Purposeful Executive Leader
This 12-month+ continuing Program takes you on the proven 6-step evolutionary journey integrating your holistic self and systemic context to lead evolutionary transformation. You'll accelerate the development of your latent Synergist Mindset and the Visionary Inspiring Purposeful leadership capacity to transform your business model and generate culture change. The My World View AI Sentence Completion objective Vertical Assessment and the capability-based Vertical Holistic Leadership Profile Self-Assessment to raise your awareness and create your Evolutionary Leadership Journey Map, are included in the Program. You may wish to move onto Phase II of the Leadership Program to further evolve systemic team dynamics, the organization, and your business ecosystem based on the 6 steps set out below.
Transformative Coaching Certification in Vertical Development
This 12-month Program combines the above four 12-week Programs. It takes you on an evolutionary journey with our proven 8-step sequence that accelerates your vertical development integrating your holistic self and systemic context. You'll learn to generate organizational culture change and renewf your business model with an expanded leadership presence. The Introduction to Vertical Holistic Leadership Development is a prerequisite that you can register for simultaneously. The My World View AI Sentence Completion Assessment is part of the Program.
The StageSHIFT Program is unique in that it takes a holistic approach to transformation. Antoinette is a collaborative intuitive whose depth of knowledge in leadership development is unsurpassed. Very quickly, she has galvanized the organization in a way that is remarkable.
She has clear insight into what drives workplace behaviours and how to make momentous changes in perspective. Her strong strategic focus, business acumen and gracious understanding of people mean you will gain far more than you expect! Did I say there was a whiff of culture change in the air? There is a gale force wind blowing and the organization and people are the ultimate winners!
- Anne Cosgrove, Executive Director People & Culture
Antoinette was an engaging, skilful, challenging and enthusiastic person to work with. She integrated many new initiatives to transform our culture creating momentum from which results soon flowed.
The terrific speed of success was due to her great ability to engage with the leaders and ensure that the adopted strategies were well understood and effectively implemented to drive toward the desired outcomes.
She was a vital source of energy and inspiration in setting our new course and getting us going!
- Pat Richards, CEO Shared Business Services Company
Antoinette instigated a terrific collaboration with us by leading an invigorating 2-day Offsite for our new Executive Team to set our Strategic Direction and Leadership Culture.
She then designed and led a CONFIDENT Leaders Program that enabled the Top 75 leaders become more self-aware and develop the courageous authenticity and team accountability to lift our performance.
Her broad strategic perspective and deep insights into mindfulness, emotional intelligence and personal power stimulated a significant shift in our ability to collaborate with our business partners and build a thriving sustainable agricultural sector.
- Michael Bullen, Deputy Director General, Agriculture NSW
What is Vertical Leadership Development?
Vertical Holistic Leadership Development (VHLD) involves progressing in adult psychological maturity following our physical growth from child into adult. As adults, we can amplify our leadership effectiveness by expanding our inner mindset to embrace increasing complexity. VHLD is mapped by a spiral of 6 progressive Perspectives, each one building on the one before.
The critical StageSHIFT for Senior Executives today is from the high performing Achievist Mindset at 3rd Perspective, to the wiser transforming Synergist Mindset at 4th Perspective. This is the shift from 'me' to 'we', from individual to collective, self to system, competition to collaboration, profits to purpose, and from struggling and striving to thriving and flourishing.
On an organizational level we shift from a blend of co-dependent bureaucracy and independent democracy, to combining the latter with an interdependent humanocracy. This StageSHIFT is designed into the architecture of the organization to empower teams and liberate latent talent.
I feel and believe strongly that this is “the real deal” in executive leadership development. As a humble attempt, I would say that it is unrivalled in its blend of science and applied wisdom, and in the inner more conscious self that evolves in embodied leadership presence, leading directly into culture change.
- Paul Smith, Transformative Executive Coach Ireland
Through her collaborative, uplifting and deeply thought provoking approach, Antoinette challenged me to enquire deeply into my own development, and articulate concepts and ideas that were just beyond my reach. It lifted my consciousness to another level. If you aspire to transformative change, Antoinette's work is brilliant - and the world needs more of it!
- Heather Monro, Transformative Executive Coach England
I will be forever grateful to Antoinette for enabling me to fully grasp the vastness, importance and grandness of vertical development, yet making it easy to start infusing and transforming my own work with clients. Catch her program if you can - it might be the most uplifting decision in your life.
- Jessica Lowenhielm, Transformative Executive Coach Sweden
VERTICAL ASSESSMENT & DEVELOPMENT
Discover Vertical Holistic Leadership Development (VHLD)
This is a short introductory program for you to discover the foundations and latest findings in the Psychology, Structure, and Nature of VHLD. Undertake the VHLD Assessment to receive a 40p Report and a 1:1 Discovery Debrief to map out your own unique 12-month Evolutionary Journey. (4-weeks)
VHLD Profile Certification for Executive Leadership Coaches
Become certified in our capability-based Assessment incorporating 6 levels from Specialist to Alchemist, 5 leads, 4 lines and 3 limits in VHLD. It supplements the Sentence Completion Assessment by focusing on leadership capabilities demonstrated in the workplace. (12-months/ongoing)
Global Vertical Management Assessment & Customized Leadership Development Programs
Start the ball rolling with a set of Vertical Assessments for you and your Executive Team, and/or the top 10% of Leaders in your organization. Keep things simple with the AI-based My World View Sentence Completion Exercise for an objective assessment and the capability-based Vertical Holistic Leadership Profile to uplift self-awareness and identity each executive's top 7 Strengths, Stressors, Blind Spots, and Stretches across the 6 Stages of Leadership Development from Specialist to Alchemist. No need for time-consuming 360s. As a global community of StageSHIFT Coaches with a Synergist+ Mindset, we can run a Global Management Assessment & Leadership Development Program for you.
It has been a true privilege to have Antoinette as my guide, coach and teacher along this journey. She is one of the most extraordinary human beings I have met. An inspiring person with a remarkably sharp intellect, lots of love, tons of professional experience combined with an even more remarkable wisdom and consciousness.
I guess that's how words become poetic, and experiences become magical. I am honoured to be part of her community.
- Thomas Bjerkhede, Transformative StageSHIFT Leadership Coach & Consultant
Antoinette is one of only three Thought Leaders I know who credibly and passionately integrates business and spirituality. It’s rare, it’s profound, and it’s much needed in the world today.
Her brilliant intellect, fearless consulting, coaching and OD skills, have generated a great suite of offerings for coaches, OD consultants, and the senior-most leaders in organizations, who want to be a part of creating a healthy future with regenerative business practices.
- Emma Pearson, Transformative StageSHIFT Leadership Coach & Consultant
Antoinette has a unique style and approach, and I'd emphasize her discernment and the ability to beautifully conceptualize complex ideas and get to the very core of things.
I am fascinated with the methodology that she created and her constantly inquiring mind and lightness. Another unique thing is the community of late stage coaches and the depth of conversation that I rarely experience elsewhere.
- Ekaterina Surkova, Transformative StageSHIFT Leadership Coach & Consultant
Our PROVEN PATHWAY to Becoming a Visionary Inspiring Purposeful Organization integrating Orange, Green & Teal
By ELEVATING THE SYSTEM in the wider business ecosystem, we span boundaries and scale cliffs to provide the traction for advanced accelerated community and planetary leadership growth.
In CULTIVATING THE SELF we facilitate a deep dive into ancestral awareness to heal cultural psychodynamics and nurture an evolving transformative leadership presence.
By GENERATING THE SHIFT in Innovative Collaboration, Community Healing, Political Leadership and Economic Prosperity, you will greatly expand your influence and impact.
GENERATIVE LEADERSHIP
Create a Compelling Living Signature Presentation to amplify your bold voice in the world.
INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP
Explore Diversity, Complexity and Uncertainty to consciously grow, openly know and willingly flow.
TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP
Collaborate across stakeholders and communities to lead vital transformative evolution.
SYNERGIST LEADERSHIP
Synergize with All Stakeholders to co-create Systemic Scalable Sustainable Solutions
QUANTUM LEADERSHIP
Inquire into Paradigms, Polarities and Paradoxes to appreciate recurring human patterns.
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP
Articulate your stories and insights, understanding and revelations, to regenerate our civilisation.
Working with Antoinette was an enriching learning experience, and the outcomes were fantastic! She impressed as an expert in leadership and the development of personal power. Her style is thought provoking and challenging, yet informal, adaptable, encouraging and fun!
Whilst I thought some of her ideas were outside the box, Antoinette's guiding questions and insights helped me find my "voice". The fluidity of our conversations sparked off many new ideas and paths to follow. It was a truly fulfilling experienceI
- Executive Director, Global Investment Bank
I had the privilege of Antoinette supporting me recently in my goals to advance my career and was extremely impressed. Her ability to provide constructive feedback was invaluable and insightful from the first meeting.
Our interactions allowed me to reflect on my purpose and consider a more holistic appreciation of the impact of my body and verbal language in the C-suite environment. She really invested in my success and I recommend her to others focused on extending themselves to realize their career aspirations.
- EGM Strategy & Innovation Energy Sector
My time with Antoinette will forever have a positive impact on my approach to leadership. I found her perspectives to be thoughtful and insightful, and her connection with mind, body, spirit revolutionised my thinking and, most importantly, my actions.
Antoinette has a unique ability to recognize, understand, and explain complex leadership issues. Attuning my inner self and harnessing my authenticity to be more innovative and strategic awoke the inner warrior in me as the leader of my organization.
- CEO, Social Services Sector
The StageSHIFT Transformative Program is for ...
SENIOR EXECUTIVES who ...
- find themselves bound up in operations and want to be freed to do more impactful strategic work.
- feel they are out of synch with their organization and want to foster their own leadership growth.
- wish to rise above corporate politics by developing a calm and clear, inspiring leadership presence.
SENIOR LEADERS who ...
- are keen to step up into Senior Executive Leadership.
- are leading strategic innovation or cross-boundary initiatives.
- have a spiritual bent and are intent on conscious business.
- wish to quickly realize their latent leadership potential.
EXECUTIVE COACHES who:
- wish to integrate the pragmatic knowhow of Vertical Holistic Systemic Leadership Development into their coaching practice.
- realize they are on the verge of expanding their self-identity as a vital instrument to coaching clients to later stages of development.
- are committed to making a more significant impact with a transformative 3rd generation coaching approach.
Wow! Antoinette is not only one of the more knowledgeable people I have come across in this field, but she's also one of the most practical in sharing that knowledge with executives and delivering the most relevant business benefits in a meaningful and holistic way.
Her attention to the shadow side of coaching makes a huge difference.
I cannot recommend this program highly enough to leaders who know and feel they can develop themselves and their organizations to take the lead in the volatile, chaotic and uncertain world we have today and deliver long term sustainable results.
- Ian Sellick, Transformative StageSHIFT Executive Coach
Embarking on the 8-Step transformative StageSHIFT journey with Antoinette has been nothing short of phenomenal! Her mastery in coaching shines through as she seamlessly blends deep wisdom, compassion, and unwavering support.
Weaving this with her extensive organizational knowledge and tried-and-tested suite of personal leadership development tools, the impact is immense.
Her ability to delve into shadows at individual and organizational levels, sculpting a unique path for each person has been a game-changer for personal, professional leadership growth.
- Karen Dobben, CEO & StageSHIFT Executive Coach
The models that Antoinette has developed are filled with wisdom and depth. The Stage Shift programs are rich in content that integrates multiple theories of the latest and most recent knowledge in adult development.
It is beautifully crafted into a well thought through curriculum, which stretches your thinking and challenges you to do the inner work that requires deep introspection. It is a must for any leader who wants more from their job, who wants a more purposeful life.
This program was unlike any other I've experienced. It awakened my understanding on another level of consciousness.
- Sandra Aveleira Viljoen, StageSHIFT Leadership Coach
OUR MASTER COACH & FACILITATOR!
Dr Antoinette J Braks
Founder of StageSHIFT
Dr Antoinette Braks is an Award-winning Master Executive Coach (EMCC), Consultant, and Thought Leader in Vertical Leadership Development. She holds a PhD in Leadership Coaching Psychology, an MBA from London Business School, and the Advanced Diploma in Coaching Supervision from Oxford Brookes University.
Dr Braks is the author of Executive Coaching in Strategic Holistic Leadership (McGraw Hill 2020). Her research findings have also been published in the Integral Review and the International Journal of Evidence-based Coaching and Mentoring.
She has more than 8,000 hours’ experience coaching hundreds of Senior Executives, designing and facilitating Strategic and Shadow Team Workshops and Leadership Programs for Senior Leaders, and leading Certification Programs for Executive Coaches. She has also undertaken over 500 Management Assessments of Executive Leaders.
Clients include organizations from across the business services, energy, engineering, financial, legal, and telecom sectors e.g., Brookfields, Businesslink, HSBC, KL Telecoms, RPS, Shell, Siemens, Toyota, United KG, and Westpac. The StageSHIFT approach has proven to be equally effective across the spectrum of the NSW public sector: Aboriginal Affairs, Agriculture, Education, Environment, Community Services, Fire & Rescue, Health, Justice, Police, Premier & Cabinet, Science, & Transport.
In her corporate career, she co-founded HUDSON's Coaching Division, led Leadership Solutions for KORN FERRY Asia Pacific, Strategic HR Policy for SHELL Latin America and Africa, and People & Culture for innovative energy infrastructure company VECTOR.
On a personal note, Antoinette is a perpetual student, global traveler, parent of three and grandparent! She loves living beside the ocean and spending her time working, reading, writing, and walking. Antoinette is purposefully committed to generating executive, enterprise, and ecosystemic evolution with the StageSHIFT coaching community.
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Antoinette Braks' brilliant work, supported by her research, has focused on a pivotal arc in the developmental spectrum - the capacity of our leaders and coaches to take a mature, 4th Perspective.
She has accessed the most salient aspects of different developmental models to create an effective, practical and grounded approach for guiding those who are ready, opening their eyes to the next generation of coaching and leading.
This is much needed in a world that is hungry for new eyes that will see what is not yet seen, and heal hidden dilemmas that have not yet been identified.
- Terri O'Fallon, STAGES Global Thought Leader
In these trying times of an unprecedented global health crisis, the smooth day-to-day running of civic affairs is disrupted. Thus, it is more urgent than ever before that mature leaders are at the helm of societies and corporations.
As the speed and reach of global change and challenge in all areas of life is increasing, it becomes vital that more people develop the ability to take multiple perspectives, think systemically, consider the long-term effects of decisions and base them on the best available scientific evidence.
This book offers a path to help leaders acquire these later stage characteristics.
- Susanne Cook-Greuter, STAGES Pioneer
If executive coaching supports the transformation from Achievist to Synergist, it will become much more than the support towards achieving the next goal on the career ladder. It will instead become a transformational dialogue: a holistic path that can humanize our world.
- Reinhard Stelter, Psychology Prof. Copenhagen University. Author 3rd Gen Coaching
This is a much-needed research-based book that shares crucial tools and techniques for coaches that are proven to move clients through the levels of developmental maturity.