Self-Leadership
Lead from alignment -
in your role, relationships and inner life.
Step into aligned Self-Leadership
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The Shift
During my time as a Client Executive at Gartner, I sat with many C-level leaders navigating pressure and constant change. One observation repeated itself:
Many leaders reach a level of Self-Awareness where their achievements no longer feel fully aligned with their deeper sense of direction - and they lack a practical path forward.
They know how to perform, but no longer feel aligned while doing it.
My work with executives and individuals on their personal wellbeing journeys has shown me that this is a pivotal point in your life or career. The turning point where that inner voice can no longer be ignored and aligned Self-Leadership becomes essential.
At Essentience, I help leaders tune this Self-Awareness into a practical path, bridging personal wellbeing with business performance.
Sebastiaan Kerckhof
Does this feel familiar to you?
The System is Overloaded
Executive Burnout: 70% of executives are seriously considering leaving their roles to find work that better supports personal wellbeing.
Loss of Meaning and Purpose
Leadership-purpose gap: when people don’t live their purpose in their job, performance, health and overall engagement suffers significantly.
Living as the Role not as Myself
Role and Identity Fragmentation: more people start to become aware of the sense that their real self is buried under roles and expectations.
Executive Coaching
Strategic Advisory
Essentience Self-Leadership functions like any other consulting or executive coaching engagement with a defined scope of work, clear objectives and a structured process.
We begin by identifying the core areas where alignment matters most: your role, key decisions, leadership responsibilities or the next chapter you are moving into.
From there, we work with 60-minute strategic advisory sessions on a set cadence, addressing alignment in both personal and professional wellbeing.
We help to build the foundations that allow for aligned Self-Leadership through The Four Pillars Framework, aligning Body, Heart, Mind and Soul.
You will regain a clear sense of self, direction and a grounded leadership energy with presence that comes from a regulated internal state.
You don’t become a different person.
You become a more aligned and coherent version of who you already are. You will leave with a framework for ongoing, grounded self-development. One that you can carry forward independently, equipped with tools, insights and a renewed sense of agency in your life.
What makes Essentience different?
Inside Out
Inner coherence and alignment
We believe growth is about becoming more fully yourself and recognizing that it needs to be supported by The Four Pillars that make up you: Body, Heart, Mind and Soul.
Essentience blends practices of the Body (physical training, breathing), with the Heart (awareness, meditation), the Mind (journaling, mindfulness) and the Soul (purpose-vision alignment, inner voice).
In this way, we help to translate insights into action and build sustainable habits leaving measurable change and an aligned sense of Self.
Ready to bridge Self-Awareness into aligned Self-Leadership?
If you recognise yourself in these themes and feel ready to explore aligned Self-Leadership, we invite you to book an introduction call.
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