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.

Expand Your Coaching Capacity

Transformative StageSHIFT Coaching in Vertical Holistic Systemic Leadership Development is an active receptive collaborative dialogical inquiry where the self-awareness and life experience of the Coach is an extensive resource and expansive reservoir of consciousness for the client executive. It's a journey of mutual awakening that invites deep insights, illuminates reactive patterns and power dynamics, and forges a holistic integrated identity.

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 understand and heal ourselves. When we steep ourselves in the more expansive consciousness held by our Coach, our access to personal insight grows.

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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Transformative Coaching

Coaching has been evolving. Skills-based Coaching invites us to practice and rehearse to enhance our presentation and communication skills.

Performance Coaching focuses on goals to be achieved e.g., using one of the most well-known coaching methods: GROW - Goal, Reality, Options, Way forward. They offer development in the 3rd Perspective to Achievist.

Developmental Coaching takes us to the inner self to increase self-awareness and self-regulation. The value of the coaching depends on the nature of the coaching relationship in addition to explicit coaching goals.

Developmental Coaching enables emergence to Catalyst. With the addition of systemic dynamics, shadow resolution and transformative leadership. StageSHIFT Transformative Coaching empowers growth to mature Synergist.

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The 3-Step StageSHIFT Model

The 3 Steps are:

Elevate the System to Shape the Future and Ignite Purposeful Strategic Alignment. This creates the space for growth with everyone headed in the same direction.
Cultivate the Self to Evolve Talent and Invite Networked Leadership. This generates personal insight, conscious growth and facilitates a collective interconnected identity.
Generate the Shift to Transform Tomorrow and Inspire a Brighter Flourishing Future for all. This describes the impact of conscious purposeful business leadership.

It's an evidence-based process distilled from the experience of leading effective organizational transformation where Vertical Development, Leadership Effectiveness, People Engagement, and Business Revenues doubled in much shorter timeframes than usual.

The StageSHIFT 3-Step System cascades into 9 dimensions, each with 5 modules that deepen and expand awareness and integration to enable an embodied Synergist Mindset, Heartspace, and Soulsense at mature 4th Perspective.

The proven StageSHIFT frameworks and techniques, strategies and processes, are designed for Senior Executives to implement and will also facilitate a strategic shift in your coaching business, your inner self identity, and the power of your voice to influence others.

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Your Own Evolutionary Hero's Journey

While <10% of participants: Executives, Consultants and Coaches are assessed with a Transforming Mind at Synergist, even less have embodied this Mindset. While a cognitive Perspective is one line of development, leadership-in-action involves embodied Synergist leadership capacity including action orientation, emotional awareness and spiritual congruence.

To guide Executives on their evolutionary journeys, it's essential to embrace your own. Join the StageSHIFT Leadership Program to stimulate and expedite your evolutionary journey in life.

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About the StageSHIFT 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.

WHAT DOES IT INVOLVE?

The online content draws on several fields of research and practical application related to organizational development (System), personal development (Self), and leadership development (Shift), all explicitly designed to anchor and ground mature 4th Perspective at Synergist. It's drip-fed over 12-months as the sequence is important and we've found it's not possible to integrate the content any faster.

Participants have often commented on the richness of the materials. The Online Learning Resources are provided in the form of videos and notes for your Review and Reflection to stimulate your Awareness and Attention to the topic. Below is an outline of our cyclical RADAR Learning Architecture.

The 90-min Discovery Dialogues held every 2-weeks by Dr Antoinette Braks are designed for Group Coaching. You share your draft frameworks, personal experiences and relationship dynamics for input and insight. Everyone learns a lot from each others' masterpieces-in-progress, challenges and dilemmas. They're very popular and rarely missed by participants.

RADAR LEARNING ARCHITECTURE

Assignments are submitted for each of the 9 Sets of Modules to give you the opportunity to articulate and calibrate your journey and gain feedback and potentially further discernment on the value arising from your experiences.

The completion of the 9 Assignments showing a sound conceptual understanding and application of the concepts enables you to gain your StageSHIFT Coach Certification.

You're also invited to share the Results and Revelations you encounter on your journeys with each other during our live Discovery Dialogues.

All Discovery Dialogues are recorded and accessible to view for a period of 3-months. We're also curating a series of video topic soundbites to provide you with a searchable menu in the spirit of JIT. The Online Resources are accessible while you continue your monthly subscription.

THE SCHEDULE

You can begin the Program any time 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 on Tuesdays at 8am EST (2pm CET) from 26 August 2025 every 2-weeks to 5 December, and from the beginning of February every 2-weeks to late June. You will need to take account of your own location's switch to daylight saving.

YOUR TIME INVESTMENT

Two 2-hour sessions a week of focused learning is ideal. This way you cover one of the 45 Online Learning Modules each week and attend a live Coaching Session every other week. The balance of your time investment is invested in application, integration and the assignment. The total amount of time/module depends on your level of personal or business interest in the topic.

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.

TUITION FEES

You can make a single payment to cover the ensuing 12-month period or an initial payment followed by monthly payments. The initial payment covers the Online Learning Resources and the monthly payment covers the Live Discovery Dialogues.

After the first year, you can continue with a monthly subscription 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 ongoing monthly payments.

You can add on Assessments, the Vertical Holistic Leadership Profile and My World View, including a 1:1 Discovery Debrief at any time. If you include both Assessments covered by one 2-hr Discovery Debrief while registering for this Program, you'll receive a 30% saving. This option is highly recommended so you can gauge your progress and set your own unique leadership aspirations.

We offer savings for Coaches who invest >80% coaching time in the Non-Profit Sector or in Developing Economies, and Scholarships for Coaches in transitional situations. Email us to share your situation: [email protected]

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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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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 20% of Senior Executives hold an integrated embodied Synergist Perspective to lead scalable sustainable transformation in the chaotic world we find ourselves in today.

StageSHIFT to Synergist

We StageSHIFT from Dependence to Independence at 3rd Perspective through the Stage of Specialist to land at Achievist. The next StageSHIFT is to Interdependence at 4th Perspective through the Stage of Catalyst to land at Synergist. At 5th Perspective we StageSHIFT through Constructivist to become newly grounded at Alchemist, a level of Interindependence.

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.