What is present when life is most alive for you?

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.” - Eckhart Tolle

What would you do if you had no fear?

"Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.” - Lao Tzu

What cultivates harmony in your family business?

“A family in harmony will prosper in everything” - Confucius

What is possible?

“The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.” - Arthur C. Clarke

What does leadership mean to you?

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” - John Q. Adams


What actions can unite our strength?

"Great things in business are never done by one person; they're done by a team of people." – Steve Jobs

Coaching with perspective


Our perspective determines the way we look at life.

Our mental framework shapes the perceptions, assumptions, and narratives we hold about ourselves, others, society, and the world at large. We cannot navigate through our world’s complex environment without having cognitive “mental maps,” and all of these mental maps, by definition, contain imperfections and inaccuracies.

Is your glass half-full or half-empty?

Altering your perspective on life and its context can be transformative. Coaches don’t change circumstances; they create impact by reframing perspective, offering new lenses for viewing life. Coaching with perspective empowers you to effectively manage thoughts and behaviors, regain control and take action. It is designed to get you into action to address immediate issues in a way that makes you regain control over your life.
By helping clients dismantle self-imposed limitations, coaching with perspective enables clients to make life-affirming choices, unlocking newfound freedom and potential. 

About René

Leadership permeates various aspects of life. Corporate executives, entrepreneurs, family-office heads, teachers, parents, team coaches, or athletes all encounter roadblocks to success and fulfillment. They face constant pressure and mental, emotional, physical, and financial challenges. Leading publicly quoted companies and family businesses and interviewing leaders worldwide has taught René that embarking on a leadership journey is challenging, maintaining leadership is demanding, and evolving as a leader is a continuous learning process.

René is dedicated to applying his experience and knowledge, combined with structured coaching techniques, to support standout individuals and high-potential leaders in enhancing their performance and overcoming obstacles in their professional and personal lives. He works with business leaders, exceptional individuals, family systems, cross-cultural teams, and athletes, taking great pleasure in nurturing young talent.

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What is coaching?

Coaching is a process that aims to enhance stamina to overcome the relationship challenges you face, aligning your personal life, career, and purpose by comprehending values, beliefs, behaviors, strengths, passions, and development areas. It accelerates growth and learning, fostering clarity, self-awareness, and focus. Coaching is about you, the leader, empowering yourself to be who you can be, further honing your skills, and achieving your aspirations.

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Leadership Coaching

Leadership coaching empowers individuals to unlock their full potential, enabling them to navigate complex challenges and drive organizational success. Leadership coaching facilitates growth, self-awareness, and resilience through personalized guidance, skill development, and goal-setting, fostering effective and confident decision-makers who inspire and motivate teams to excel.

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Family Business Coaching

Family business coaching is a specialized approach that helps family-owned enterprises navigate unique challenges, such as succession planning, conflict resolution, and governance. Coaches work with individual family members and the collective business to foster communication, strengthen relationships, and develop leadership skills, ensuring the company's longevity and success.

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Team Coaching

Team coaching is a collaborative process aimed at improving group performance, communication, and cohesion. Coaches work with teams to identify strengths and weaknesses, develop shared goals, and foster trust and accountability. By addressing interpersonal dynamics and aligning objectives, team coaching supports teams in achieving their full potential.

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Mental performance coaching

Mental performance coaching focuses on strengthening an individual's mental resilience, focus, and confidence to optimize performance. By addressing mindset, stress management, and mental barriers, coaches help clients develop mental strategies and routines to enhance their decision-making, motivation, and overall well-being, leading to success in their chosen endeavors.

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Testimonials

Many of you have already experienced Rene’s coaching style and insight, and you might agree with me that he is a fantastic leadership development coach and provides interesting perspectives and insights. His mind works in a very wise way, and his life and career experience are fascinating. I hope everyone who wants to will be able to find a time to meet with him while he’s here.
Kelly
Kelly O'Brien, Global Career and Leadership Development
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
"René is both a superb listener and a great synthesizer of ideas. He's a coach who takes in all the fine details of a person's story, then picks out patterns and themes that give a valuable explanatory perspective that the client can't easily see for her/himself, and from there delivers insightful suggestions that lead the client to a more lucid self-understanding with positive action points - which is the true value-add of a great coach."
Anthony
Anthony Nahas, PARIS - France
René is a highly sensitive and empathetic person.  Sharing with him is very nice because you sense a deep relationship and feel accompanied by him. With his breadth of knowledge and experience, he has always something of value to contribute. He has helped me to ask myself questions that I might not have asked if I had not had this space.  As a result, I could develop tools that allowed me to be better prepared to face certain situations in the future. I can highly recommend working with him!
Alex
Alex Komaromi, Montevideo - Uruguay
World Series Poker Champion
"I know René as a man with empathy and a deep tangible interest in the people around him. You can see in his eyes that he senses your emotional state. I know that I can always approach him when I need someone to listen and help me find my way. As everyone, René has had his share of darkness and personal crisis to deal with. During these times, he has sustained himself admirably and continued to passionately care for those closest to him while he was not in a good place. For full disclosure, he has been a friend for many years, since business school in fact."
Markus
Markus Stadlmann, Vaduz - Liechtenstein
"René, thanks for asking questions leading to answers so close to my eyes. Sometimes, you need a guide to find the things you've been staring at for years".
Piotr
Piotr Robak, Warsow - POLAND
"René Sonneveld has saved me at least 6 months of erratic thinking aimed at shaping my academic career to fit it into the biopharmaceutical sector. He's uncovered values that I had never identified, and he has smartly pinpointed the right questions. Astonishing how René can dissect your needs and provide shortcuts towards accurate answers. No matter what market you are in, seek his coaching. He'll get your money's worth."”
Fernando
Fernando de Mora, Professor of Pharmacology
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
"After being a project manager for building hotels in Russia and managing a family-owned training institute in Vienna, I started to think about what to do next at the age of fifty-five. It seemed like a perfect time for hiring a coach to see what I wanted to do for the next ten years of my life. I had numerous ideas, and coaching with René helped me put them in the right perspective; to understand the interconnection of these ideas. I probably could not have figured this out by just pondering my brain. Therefore, I can highly recommend his coaching to take a step back and get an objective and refreshing view of things."
Peter
Peter Kutschera, Vienna - AUSTRIA
"Rene coaching sessions have been extremely thoughtful, motivational, and to say the least, life changing. His approach of patience combined with encouragements allowed me to tap into aspects of myself and especially to improve the organization of my days. Rene created a natural environment where I could express myself and explore my potential. With each session I could see tangible results and growth. "
Christophe
Christophe Beaud, CEO peoplefone Group
Zurich, Switzerland

"Rene has a wealth of experience in advising senior teams and company boards that transpire and becomes evident when he is coaching you. When he coaches, he combines a rational side, based on his long experience, with an acute observation of details, emotions and empathy of the person. This holistic combination of "head and guts" makes the coaching doubly effective, uncovering solutions that a simple approach would not have achieved. In summary, it is a very effective pleasure having him as a coach."
Salvador
Salvador Barrio, DHL Supply Chain, Madrid - Spain
Paradigm Shift
Every session that I had with Rene had a realization leading to a perspective change and a short term goal to achieve tangible results.

Impact
Rene is highly imaginative and has fantastic skills in picking the right detail in a dialogue, and is always positive. He loves coaching, and it is visible in every minute of my discussions with him. Within a few sessions, my emotional construct shifted from extreme stress to highly optimistic and forward-looking.

Connection
Rene forms connections at an emotional level. No matter how my emotional state was before a session, I always come out of it highly energetic and with a positive outlook.

Once you get to know him, you connect with him for life.
Aravind
Aravind Kona, Commodities Research, Hyderabad, India
“René is a highly qualified businessman, but also a very good coach. He combines his broad experience in different aspects of business and management with his advanced knowledge of coaching using “state of the art” approaches. Being coached by René has been a great experience for me and an invaluable help in different situations.”
Raul
Raul Echeberria, Executive Director at Asociación LatinoamericanA de Internet
Montevideo, Uruguay