Human depth. The ability to be truly present, sense what is not being said and lead from what you know deep within.
"Smart leaders lead from their head.
Wise leaders lead from their heart."
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AI makes information cheaper. Human depth becomes more valuable.
Not less rational intelligence, but more of what makes us human. Presence. Heart intelligence. Intuition. The ability to sense what is not being said and remain clear when situations become complex.
Heart Leadership brings together the intelligence of head, heart and body. It is an integrated way of living, leading and coaching that I have developed, tested and refined over the years.
I guide highly capable leaders towards the inner authority from which they choose more clearly and lead more powerfully. And I teach coaches, leaders, trainers and facilitators to work with my Heart Leadership Coaching™ methodology: transformational coaching that goes beyond insight and creates real change in what people feel, choose and do.
“You can only facilitate what you embody yourself. That is not a nice phrase. It is the foundation of everything.”
Heart Leadership is for those who are at a turning point themselves and for those who professionally guide others towards deeper breakthroughs.
From good coaching to transformational coaching.
For experienced coaches and professionals who work with people and want to deepen their craft. Learn to work at the layer beneath the story, so a breakthrough does not stop at insight but becomes visible in what someone feels, chooses and does.
Deepen your presence, perception and precision. Learn to work with head, heart and body as one intelligent system and develop the craft to truly facilitate transformational coaching. Become a Certified Heart Leadership Coach™.
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Explore the certificationYou are at your most powerful when you lead from what you know deep within.
Four months of private transformational executive & leadership coaching for CEOs, directors, executives, founders and entrepreneurs who carry significant responsibility and are at a personal or professional turning point.
Tess stands beside you as a transformational executive coach, trusted companion, incisive mirror and thought partner. In a completely confidential space where nothing has to be held up, you go two layers deeper: to the place from which you choose more clearly, lead more powerfully and trust again what you know deep within.
A limited number of private engagements each year
Explore The Inner Authority™Trusted when it matters
Tess works and has worked with HR directors in major international organisations, a Head of Learning within an international retail organisation, a law-firm partner, a technical director, medical specialists and successful entrepreneurs.
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Leadership begins from within. Not in a strategy, a framework or a new technique, but in the courage to lead from who you truly are.
In this book, I share the insights, scientific foundations and stories that form the basis of Heart Leadership. For leaders who sense there is more than rationality, control and constant pressure.
Named a must-read by Dutch Vogue.
Tess Keijzer is a certified coach, transformational executive & leadership coach, Founder of Heart Leadership™ and creator of the Heart Leadership Coaching™ methodology. Her mission, bring more heart into this world, is the foundation of everything she creates and facilitates.
With a background in psychology and more than 15 years of experience as a coach, facilitator and entrepreneur, she has coached more than 1,000 leaders. She works with highly capable leaders at the layer where identity, inner authority and leadership converge. Her book “Moedig Leiden vanuit je Hart” was named a must-read by Dutch Vogue.
From Dubai, she is building Heart Leadership as an international methodology for leadership and transformational coaching that integrates head, heart and body.
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“The future does not ask for less rationality. It asks for a deeper form of intelligence.”Tess Keijzer