lEADERSHIP PRESENCE
You already
know how
to lead
The question is: what becomes possible when you lead from your full capacity?
Some leaders carry their role with
a steadiness others can borrow
They think clearly under pressure
They make hard conversations possible
They bring out what is best in the room
not by managing
but by being genuinely present
These are not personality traits
This isn't seniority
It's a state
Your ventral state
And it's something you can learn to return to
ABOUT - OUR APPROACH
Leadership
at its roots
We work with leaders who sense their impact could be bigger and who are willing to solve challenges by being different.
Most leadership development works on what you do. We work on the state you are in when you do it.
That distinction matters more than it might first appear. Under pressure, the clearest thinkers aren't the ones with the best frameworks. They're the ones who can stay present, to themselves, to the room, to what the moment actually requires.
That capacity doesn't come from knowing more. It comes from somewhere deeper.
Your nervous system is the instrument through which you lead.
When it is regulated, you think with greater clarity, connect with greater depth, and act with greater courage. When it is not, even your best skills can fall short.
We work at this level, below behaviour, below strategy, because this is where leadership capacity actually lives.
ABOUT - How we work
Our work is experiential
not instructional
co-REGULATION
Sessions combine physical awareness, focused attention, breathing and purposeful movement, not as techniques to learn, but as ways of making regulation something you feel in your body rather than understand in your head.
LIVE topics
We always work with what is live in your leadership role. What you bring to each session: the decision that won't settle, the conversation you're avoiding, the pressure that's sitting just below the surface, is where we work together.
new neural pathways
Working with the whole body on real issues is how insight becomes embodied rather than theoretical, and how shifts in a leadership coaching session stay shifted in the boardroom, the team meeting, the 1:1 and everywhere else you lead.
leadership presence
What clients find is not a new way of doing leadership. They find a deeper, steadier place from which to lead one that was always available to them.
ABOUT - TEAM
Kim van Niekerk
Kim has spent over twenty years asking the same question: what becomes possible in an organisation when leaders can access their fullest capabilities?
That curiosity has taken her into boardrooms, social enterprises, universities, non-profits and global institutions, including the European Investment Bank, Bristol University, GSK, the Institute of Fundraising, and Católica Lisbon.
Her specialism is leadership coaching rooted in nervous system intelligence. Not as a concept, but as something a leader can feel, work with, and return to.
As a somatic coach, she works with the whole body as a source of data, not just the mind. This allows the complexity of leadership to be safely held rather than survived. And when that safety is real, felt in the body rather than performed, it unlocks something: clearer thinking, sharper intuition, a systemic awareness that managing alone never quite reaches.
Kim is drawn to leaders who sense their impact could be bigger, and who are willing to look inward to find out how. She works with people who care not just about results, but about the human beings producing them and about what kind of world their leadership is quietly building.
Ann de Passos
Ann has spent fifteen years working across corporate, charity, and social enterprise sectors. In that time she has returned to the same observation: the most exceptional leaders have a particular relationship with themselves. They lead from something real. They can sit with difficulty without offloading it onto others. They bring out what is best in the people around them.
That quality, she came to understand, isn't character. It's state.
Ann's specialism is helping leaders discover the internal state they lead from, and what becomes possible when that state is no longer something that happens to them, but something they can work with.
She draws on nervous system awareness, somatic practice, and systems thinking to help leaders develop a more honest relationship with themselves. One that makes clear thinking available under pressure. That makes presence possible in the moments that most require it.
She also knows what it costs to override that. A long pattern of ignoring her own signals, pushing through rather than listening, eventually showed up in her energy, her confidence, and her effectiveness. That experience gave her work its clarity.
Ann doesn't offer a framework for who her clients should become. She creates the conditions, safe, rigorous, and genuinely curious, in which they can find that out for themselves.
