StageSHIFT COACH CERTIFICATION

We liberate the latent potential of Senior Executive Leaders by guiding them on their evolutionary journeys to become Visionary Inspiring Purposeful - VIP - Leaders with a Transforming Synergist Mindset. They develop the capacity to reinvent the business, build a Team-based Empowering Accountable Learning culture to realize scalable Sustainable, Healthy, Equitable outcomes, and generate a Brighter Flourishing Future for all.

Elevate and Deepen Your Coaching Capacity

We offer Group Coach Certification Programs for C-suite and Senior Executive Coaches to enable you to unlock their power to confidently shape the future, evolve talent, and transform culture so they can make a bigger difference through their careers.

In Vertical Leadership speak, we guide Senior Executives aged 40+ in a cross-boundary, divisional or organizational role to upgrade their Inner Operating System. They can then transcend complexity and disruption to lead systemic business transformation.

This level of Synergist leadership capacity is held by less than 10% of Executive Leaders today yet is essential to pierce through complexity and rise above the growing chaos to generate scalable sustainable systemic business solutions.

A surge in this leadership capacity is imminent. Forward thinking Executives who want to be leaders in their field will invest in developing this breakthrough leadership capacity, especially if they want to advance their careers or renew their business model.

Our proven evidence-based 3-Step StageSHIFT approach enables this transformative development 3 times faster than usual, in 1-2-years instead of 5-6. We've worked with hundreds of Executives who are delighted with their new ability to lead transformation, and with many Coaches who have elevated their own consciousness and coaching practice to an entirely new level.

StageSHIFTs to Master Role Complexity

Expanded Human Consciousness enables us to perceive, pierce through, and process increasing complexity to take collective steps forward in emergence. I recommend that the top 30% of Executives hold an integrated embodied Synergist Perspective to lead scalable sustainable transformation in the chaotic world we find ourselves in today.

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Take Your Unique Evolutionary Hero's Journey

The StageSHIFT to Synergist Leadership capacity with a Transforming Mindset involves multiple heroic adventures into the unknown yet extraordinary world of our nature as holistic human beings.

We are your Guide as you embark on your journey. We lead the way and help you navigate challenges and opportunities as they emerge so you can develop greater confidence, influence and wholeness.

All life experiences are custom-designed for growth. By setting out on your adventure with us, we'll accelerate your growth curve while diving deep and providing frameworks to support your growing self-mastery.

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Simultaneous Systemic and Holistic Leadership Development

To embody a mature 4th Perspective Mindset at Synergist, we need to operate on the System and not just navigate within it. The 4th Perspective switches to the Collective. As we grow through this Perspective, we identify with the systemic whole.

Through our leadership presence, our words and actions, decisions and initiatives, we're able to generate a team-based empowered accountable learning culture inclusive of Yellow, Orange, Green and Teal vertical evolutions at related role levels.

This generates a scalable sustainable business creating a brighter flourishing future for all.

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The StageSHIFT to Synergist

We StageSHIFT from Dependence to Independence through the Stage of Specialist to land at Achievist in 3rd Perspective. Then we shift to becoming Interdependent at 4th Perspective through Catalyst to Synergist. Our trailing edge is at Achievist as we also lean into Constructivist. The next StageSHIFT to Alchemist at 5th invites Inter-Independence.

The 3-Step StageSHIFT Model

The 3 Steps are:

Elevate the System with Systemic Strategic Scaffolding to Shape the Future and Ignite Empowered Workspaces This creates the space for growth with everyone headed in the same direction.
Cultivate the Self with Holistic Vertical Development to Evolve Talent and Invite Networked Leadership. This enhances shadow resolution, team coherence, and a collective identity.
Generate the Shift with Scalable Sustainable Growth to Transform Culture and Inspire Flourishing Ecosystems. This builds a leader's Voice to uphold values and influence multiple stakeholders.

It's an evidence-based process distilled from experience and research. We've seen Leadership Effectiveness, People Engagement, and Business Revenues double in swift time frames between 6-24-months.

The StageSHIFT 3-Step System cascades into 3 sets of 3 dimensions that offer proven frameworks and strategies from mature 4th Perspective. The content covers everything from the structure of time and scorecards to the nature of mind and stories.

By uplifting the systemic context, liberating talent, cultivating self and transforming culture, Synergist leaders generate scalable sustainable systemic growth that includes and benefits all stakeholders.

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Transformative StageSHIFT Coaching

Transformative StageSHIFT Coaching is a collaborative dialogical inquiry where the self-awareness and life experience of the Coach is an extensive resource and expansive reservoir of consciousness for the executive leader. We offer profound insight into human dynamics beyond the capacity of most.

Transformative Coaching is a type of 3rd Generation Coaching (Stelter), an octave beyond Developmental Coaching. It transcends and includes Carl Rogers' philosophy that we each have the resources within to heal ourselves. When we steep ourselves in the more expansive consciousness held by our StageSHIFT Coach, our access to personal insight deepens.

The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervener. ~ Bill O'Brien, late CEO of Hanover Insurance

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About the StageSHIFT Vertical Coach Certification

WHO IS IT DESIGNED FOR?

The people who have most enjoyed and gained significant value from the StageSHIFT Coach Certification are experienced Executive Coaches working with Senior Executive Leaders and Senior Executives keen to optimize their careers and perhaps become Executive Coaches in the future, or making that transition now.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?

Develop a Transforming Mind and embodied mature Synergist Leadership capacity.
Gain access to multiple simple yet powerful techniques and systemic frameworks distilled from transformative leadership-in-action to evolve the self and the systemic context.
Know with confidence that by applying the StageSHIFT 3-Step Model, you and your clients will organically unlock their latent leadership capacity and become significantly more effective.
Join the ongoing deep insightful conversations with peers in the StageSHIFT Coaching Community.
Become a member of our StageSHIFT Coaching Panels for client organizations. This is a new initiative for us in 2025.

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3 STEPS - 9 MODULES - 20 WEBINARS

The 3-Step StageSHIFT Executive Leadership Program & Coach Certification are evidence-based and proven to liberate Synergist Leadership Capacity within 1-2-years, 3 times faster than usual. They offer rich content and applied practice.

The StageSHIFT Coach Certification also involves submitting all 9 Assignments showing a level of mastery of the materials. You will receive individualized written feedback to deepen your understanding further. These are optional for Executive Leaders.

THE SCHEDULE

You can begin the Program in August or February each year and chart your course over the following 12-months. Many participants continue to participate in our live Discovery Dialogues and online Community for many years.

Our Live Discovery Dialogues on Zoom take place every 2 weeks on Thursdays at

8am EST (2pm CET) from 12 Feburary 2026
8am CET (6pm AEST) from 12 February 2026
8am EST (2pm CET) from 6 August 2026
8am CET (6pm AEST) from 6 August 2026

You will need to take account of your own location's switch to daylight saving relative to 8am EST and 8am CET.

YOUR TIME INVESTMENT

One 2-hour session a week of focused learning is ideal. This way you cover 1 or 2 of the 45 Online Learning Modules one week and attend the live Coaching Session the next week. The balance of your time is invested in the application and integration of the work, including the Assignment. We work through your Assignments during our Discovery Dialogues.

You can gain Continuing Education Learning Hours by application to the EMCC or ICF. This will be automated once we complete our submissions to them.

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PROGRAM FEES

You can either make a single payment to cover the ensuing 12-month period or an initial payment and the first month of 12 monthly payments.

After the first year, you can continue with a monthly subscription to continue to participate in the live Discovery Dialogues, or upgrade to another layer of content e.g., Systemic Shadow Team Dynamics or 5th Perspective Soul Voyage, with a second installment and/or ongoing monthly payments.

The My World View and Vertical Holistic Leadesrhip Profile Assessments are included in the Program so you can set your own unique leadership aspirations and 12-month evolutionary map to gauge your progress.

We offer savings for Executives who work in the Non-Profit Sector or in Developing Economies, and Scholarships for Executives going through a transition. Email us to share your situation and wishes: [email protected]

There is an Earlybird Rate through to the end of May and November each year until the Program is full. There is a maximum of 8 people in each Program to ensure lots of individual attention during our Discovery Dialogues.

DEEP SYSTEMIC SPEED

Leadership Development to a mature Synergist Mindset 3 times faster than usual in just 1-2 years instead of 5-6.

SWIFT OUTCOMES

Double Leadership Effectiveness, People Engagement, and Creative Productivity in short time frames.

BUSINESS GROWTH

Uplift Performance, win Industry Awards, accolades for Presentations, and realize rapid Career Advances.

Jacqueline van Paassen, Transformative Coach

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.

Karin Hamrin, Leadership & Organization Transformation

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!

Sharifah Raudhah AlQudsy, Executive Leadership Coach

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.

Paul Smith, Transformative Executive StageSHIFT Coach Ireland

When I first met Antoinette, I was immediately absorbed by her practical material and philosophy on vertical leadership development.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.

Heather Monro, Transformative Executive Coach England

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!

Jessica Lowenhielm, Transformative Executive Coach Sweden

I am blown away and mesmerized by the devotion and amount of knowledge, research, techniques and tools that Antoinette has put together in her StageSHIFT Coach Certification Program!

Not only has Antoinette helped me to take my own coaching practice and our leadership development programs to a totally new level of impact when it comes to expediting transformative vertical development of leaders, she has also elevated my own consciousness and strongly contributed to the development of my soul journey.

The program has taken me on an explorative, emergent and transformational highway of deepening the learning, elevating the aspirations and forwarding the action on a personal, professional and organizational level; stimulating, uplifting and freeing the mind, heart and soul.

It is a blessing that our roads inevitably crossed so that we could co-create, co-emerge and evolve together in our common purpose and mission for igniting leadership and accelerating the shift to a more loving world.

I will be forever grateful for Antoinette being the one who finally helped me put the puzzle together when it comes to fully understanding and grasping the vastness, importance and grandness of vertical development, yet making it easy to start implementing, infusing and transforming my own work and its impact on my clients. Catch her and her program if you can - it might be the most uplifting and expediting decision of your life time.

Thomas Bjerkhede, Transformative StageSHIFT Leadership Coach & Consultant

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.

Emma Pearson, 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. I am honoured to be part of her community.

Ekaterina Surkova, 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.

Ian Sellick, Transformative StageSHIFT Executive Coach

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.

Karen Dobbyn, CEO & 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.

Jennifer Hoffman, StageSHIFT Leadership Coach & Consultant

The StageSHIFT Coaching Certification program developed by Dr Antoinette Braks is a beautifully designed journey map illuminating the path for your own vertical evolution supported by powerful coaching from Antoinette. There are absolutely loads of frameworks and models that Antoinette elegantly weaves together to accelerate learning, growth and development.

If you have a passion for individual and organizational evolution including how to achieve this, then I highly recommend this program. It has accelerated both my own evolution and also my understanding of the practical application of this to organizational evolution.

Thanks Antoinette! Your years of commitment to the growing field of vertical leadership development is benefitting all those who share your passion.

Marianne Borg Hyökki ScD

I met Antoinette the first time in the EMCC conference in June 2020. I chose her webinar and was absolutely energized and inspired by it. She offered a free consultation and I jumped on that.

This is not only a coach training, it is most of all a developmental program for myself, while I simultaneously learn about vertical development and how to support my coaching clients to grow and mature. I have learnt so much in this extremely generous program. The whole concept is firmly based in scientific research.

Antoinette offers support in a loving and peaceful way and challenges me to go deeper. For me to support clients on this journey, I need to walk the path myself first, as executives have to in their organizations. This opens a new window for me as a coach and I can integrate my work with Gestalt Psychotherapy, as a Mentor Coach helping coaches grow, as a Coaching Supervisor and even from my past as a Scientist in Vertical transformation.

Niklas Lindhardt

Antoinette,
What a blessing that the fabric of life weaved your thread into my weave. The StageSHIFT program is the most comprehensive program I've ever seen, making the links between the most relevant frameworks within organization, human development, psychology and life as a whole.

As always when delivered by the universe, your wonderful StageSHIFT program came to us when we needed it. Refining our transforming leader programs in large industry, for even better results.

Thank you for openheartedly sharing both your personal experience as well as the nuances of your soul with me.
Two souls on a journey with the same purpose. For the benefit of ALL. Thank you!

Corinna Kingston, Transformative StageSHIFT Executive Coach

I first heard Antoinette speak at an EMCC conference and was immediately captured by her insights on vertical leadership development and her own StageSHIFT model.

Her valuable process offers both an introspective approach whilst simultaneously developing our intervention skills, through a mixture of transformative coaching, organizational development techniques and so much more.

Antoinette's deep knowledge, practical expertise and utter passion for her subject is awe-inspiring. I feel privileged to be a small part of her journey. From the perspective of a business leader and/or an Executive I would have no hesitation in recommending Antoinette's exemplary work.

Valerie Gleeson, Transformative StageSHIFT Coach & Consultant

The StageSHIFT Vertical Development Coach Certification under the leadership and guidance of Antoinette has been one of the most rewarding programs I have undertaken. Antoinette has developed a truly amazing program which takes Coaching Certification to another level - Transformative Coaching.

I've developed a level of awareness and consciousness that is hugely complimentary to my previous areas of study. This Program is exactly what the world needs right now, a focus on developing Purposeful Leaders to a level which will thrive in the VUCA world we find ourselves in.

Having worked in Industry for over 30 years, I have rich and varied experience, but can say this program has expanded my capacity at an accelerated pace to deliver on my own purpose in the world: to Enable and Inspire Strategic Leaders and their organizations to flourish and grow, and in doing so lead more joyful lives in a Sustainable world.

Sandra Aveleira Viljoen

The models that Antoinette has developed are filled with wisdom and depth. The StageSHIFT Programs are rich in content integrating 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. These are the kinds of leaders that will throughly enjoy and benefit from this transformational journey.

As a Systemic Development Practitioner, learning new tools, techniques and methodologies are my passion. I have been coaching, training and delivering leadership development programs for over 20 years. Yet, this program was unlike any other I've experienced. It awakened my understanding on another level of consciousness.