Thomas Bjerkhede, Management Consultant & Executive Coach with Prové, Sweden

This StageSHIFT Coaching Certification has been one of the most rewarding programs I have ever undertaken. It´s a masterpiece! It has expanded my capacity to enable and inspire strategic leaders and their organizations to prosper in a more sustainable, equitable and joyful world.

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 spiritual 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 Coach in Vertical Leadership Development, France

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. We need business. AND we need a healthy planet. Relevant, purposeful leadership for me is about bringing conscious leadership and evolutionary organisation development to serve not only employees and customers, but also our planet as a whole, and future generations.

Antoinette’s brilliant intellect, her fearless consulting, her coaching and Organisation Development skills, have generated a suite of offerings suitable for coaches, OD consultants, and of course the senior-most leaders in organisations, who want to be a part of creating a healthy future with regenerative business practices. I am honoured to be part of her community.

Karin Hamrin, Vertical Transformation of Leaders and Organizations

Antoinette is one of the most brilliant coaches I have ever experienced. Being both gentle and direct, intuitive and clear she generously and courageously shares her wisdom and insights. -Antoinette, it's a truly amazing experience, being guided and coached by you, in the spiritually connected space where you and I 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 is a wonderful opportunity to deepen the understanding and making this program not just another certification program, but an essential part of your soul evolution.

Thank you, Antoinette, for sharing this with us and the world! It’s such a beautiful journey!

Susanne Cook-Greuter

Strategic Research Director Vertical Development Academy 

It is more vital than ever before that leaders develop the ability to think systemically and consider the long-term effects of decisions. Braks offers a path to help leaders acquire these later stage characteristics.

Terri O’Fallon

Founder and Partner of STAGES International

Antoinette’s brilliant work creates an effective, practical and grounded approach to guide coaches and leaders in a pivotal arc in the developmental spectrum.

Reinhard Stelter

Author of 3rd Generation Coaching and Professor of Coaching Psychology University of Copenhagen

Braks shows us how executive coaching can become a transformational dialogue; a holistic path that can humanise our world.

Greg Ellis EGM Opal Transport for NSW 

I enjoy my coaching meetings with Antoinette principally because I find myself uncomfortable. She continually challenges my normalized way of thinking.

The coaching is not a linear process. 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.

Jane Simmons

Executive Director of Public Schools NSW 

I would like to give you a big thank you. Your creative and spiritual thinking has impacted so positively on my life this year.  I reflect back and think about how far I have come with your assistance along the way. 

Antoinette is a sensitive, creative and highly gifted coach. Her ability to coach senior leaders through the strategic maze of government while they balance their personal development is her strength. She is an Executive Coach of the highest calibre.

Richard Boggon

Director Transport Infrastructure Services Parsons Brinckerhoff

Occasionally we meet folks who bring a unique perspective to strategic conversations, creating new thoughts, ideas and innovative thinking.

Antoinette is one such person, drawing on a wonderful knowledge and understanding in so many aspects of life and business. 

Elisa Recchi, Head of Risk Business Management HSBC Australia

I was very fortunate to have been given the opportunity to work with Antoinette Braks over the last year and I feel privileged to have her as a coach.  Antoinette’s style and approach allowed us both flexibility and to be able to focus on what was top of mind.  She asks the right questions that lead to very thought provoking and at times, confronting decisions, however this is what really helped me both personally and professionally.

Antoinette also provided me with tips and ideas on how to manage and lead more effectively and strategically, which has been so important to ensure I remained focused on my leadership capability and impact.  A big thank you to Antoinette for your unwavering support, advice and mentorship; you are a real treasure and I can’t thank you enough!

Gary Groves, Regional Executive Director FACS

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 helped me strengthen my ability to deliver a consistent vision personally and professionally; drive growth and development through people; encourage risk taking and accountability, and nurture self-awareness and reflective practice.

Antoinette has a unique ability to recognise, understand and explain complex leadership issues and, along the way, there have been some surprising personal realisations. Her mentoring makes me a better person every day, both at work and at home. 

Attuning my inner self and harnessing my authenticity to be more innovative and strategic brought me unique opportunities as an Executive Director working in government and awoke the inner warrior in me to lead my organisation to success.

Annie Tucker, HSE Manager Sydney Trains

Antoinette is a master of motivation and spiritual wizardry!  After each and every session with Antoinette, I leave feeling inspired and motivated with a sense of awe and wonder of the unlimited possibility of my own potential, the seed that is yet to be sewn.

Her exuberant energy and zest for life is contagious yet she provides an architectural framework providing structure and support. I have been able to apply her teaching within my leadership role in the corporate world in addition to the future exploration of my spiritual development.

How refreshing to have been blessed to have her as my executive coach and to share our life experience in the transformation of the soul.

Jessica Löwenhielm

I am blown away and mesmerised by the devotion and amount of knowledge, research, techniques and tools that Antoinette has put together!

Not only has she helped me to take my own coaching practice and our leadership development programs to a totally new level of impact,  she has also elevated my own consciousness stimulating, uplifting and freeing the mind, heart and soul. 

I will be forever grateful for Antoinette helping me to fully understand and grasp 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. 

Without her firm, generous, friendly, thought-provoking, heart-opening and soul-freeing guidance, I wouldn’t be where I am today. Antoinette is the most aspirational, knowledgeable and loving leader I have come across. She is the go-to thought leader, mentor and guide in the field of vertical development. 

Marianne Borg Hyökki

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. During the Summer I moved the call a few times, and even thought that I cancel it. Luckily I did not!

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.

Now with six modules behind me, I have learnt so much in this extremely generous program. The whole concept is firmly based in scientific research.

The videos, written material and the webinars are full of interesting stuff, which helps me think about myself, my thoughts, reactions and behaviour at the core of myself.

Antoinette supports in a loving and peaceful way and challenges me to go deeper.

Paul Smith

I first met Antoinette an EMCC national conference in 2019 and was immediately absorbed by her practical material and philosophy on vertical leadership development. This led to a two day workshop and ultimately, enrolment in Antoinette's Stageshift Coaching Programme.

I feel and believe strongly that this is “the real deal” in executive leadership development.

Not only is its peer-reviewed research platform impeccable, but in the degree of integrity and integration that pervades the whole approach. This is hard to convey without shared direct experience, as so many aspects are brought together here.

At a humble attempt, I would say that it is unrivalled in its blend of science and applied wisdom, inner work and outer application and in the extent of the inner more conscious self that evolves, expressed both in embodied leadership presence and its effects on others, and leading, directly, into organisational culture and behavioural change.