Strong and Gentle
Systemic Enneagram Coaching for Conscious Leadership
Notice what’s
running you
Act with intent
Sharpen your thinking
HR and Leaders call me when:
leaders are overwhelmed,
a leader’s style is too dominant or too hesitant,
teams are not stepping up,
Leaders and teams need to grow their leadership capability.
Strong and gentle
My coaching approach is strong and gentle.
I hold my client with empathy and deep understanding.
With nearly 20 years of coaching experience I steer the course towards facing reality and reaching the goal.
My biggest strength is seeing your qualities, drivers and patterns . The enneagram gives us great clarity. And you can free yourself from overwhelm, friction, confusion and overwork.
Common unwelcome patterns are:
stress spirals,
conflict conundrums,
not-again experiences,
control frustrations,
the drama triangle trap,
the blind spot surprise,
the trust gap.
I use the tools that give us gentle support with unfailingly strong results. That is why I use mainly the systems approach and the Ennegram in all my work.
Partner with a seasoned expert
I’ve got you. Since 2008, I have worked as a professional coach in my own practice. I have assisted many clients in diverse industries, in SA and internationally. My coaching log shows many thousands of coaching hours. I am one of the most experienced coaches on the market. I started building my coaching skills more than a decade before coaching became a leadership development tool.
I am accredited with the International Coach Federation as a professional coach, with CRR as an Organisational Relationship Systems Coach, with Integrative Enneagram Solutions as an Enneagram Practitioner and with mBIT as a neuro-science based coach.
What is conscious leadership?
Dealing with my own mental health challenges, I became deeply interested in why we think, feel, and act the way we do. Much of it is shaped early in life. We form a worldview—our internal “programming” to keep us safe.
For example, we may have learned to avoid conflict to maintain connection. It now steers our actions. It works—it even makes us successful. Until it doesn’t.
In leadership, this shows up when we hold back instead of being clear, avoid critical feedback, and shy away from difficult conversations. We work hard, feel undervalued, and our team is ‘just good enough’ because we hesitate to stretch them.
Conscious leadership begins when we see what’s running us—and recognise our part in what frustrates us. From there, we become truly powerful. Now we can change what is happening. It is in our power. We can question and replace the beliefs that no longer work. In this example: Clarity brings alignment. Now, our actions will be different, our leadership stronger.
My coaching helps you identify and shift these patterns. Your possibilities and influence increase from a more aware inner self— you become more true to yourself, with a clearer understanding of your impact, more accurate thinking …. and the personal presence to truly show the way.
My coaching offering
for conscious leadership:
LEADERSHIP COACHING
Supporting leaders to
Notice what drives their reactions
Untangle habitual thinking
Step out of overthinking, second-guessing, or autopilot
Make better decisions
Holding difficult conversations
Lead with calm, grounded authority—even in complexity
See their impact on others more clearly
Break patterns that hold them—and their teams—back
TEAM COACHINGSupporting teams to:
See the hidden dynamics - ‘good’ or ‘bad’
Surface unspoken assumptions
Move into real, critical thinking
Reduce friction, misalignment, and unproductive tension
Build trust for honest, grounded conversations
Take shared responsibility for how the team functions
Think more clearly together under pressure
Work with greater alignment, focus, and effectiveness
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
I offer the Brilliant Leaders’ Leadership Development Program:
Growing middle management teams into leadership teams,
Equiping them with the awareness and tools to grow into brilliant leaders
In collaboration with Totally Morpheus I offer Leadership Pathways:
Leadership Assessments
Team Assessments
Modular Leadership Development programs
Self-paced learning with 5-minutes micro-learning online videos
Measurable coaching outcomes
Needed and included:
Tried and Tested
Leadership Tools
I offer you the best tools and concepts for leadership so you can do your best work. Like everywhere else, practial, thought-through tools make life so much easier.
What others say.
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Your coachees express a very high level of trust and satisfaction. They see you as a deeply empathetic, insightful, and effective coach who combines emotional intelligence with practical support.
Feedback from CoachHub for coaching 59 clients acrouss 525 sessions.
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Claudia Brandt is an exceptional coach and I have found her assistance extremely valuable both in my professional and personal development.
Dr Stefan Smuts, Chief Clinical Officer, MEDICLINIC SOUTHERN AFRICA
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Claudia has been instrumental for the changes in me, my staff and our company. She has had huge impact in a short time.
Elluria Breytenbach, MD of Kabloom, UK
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Claudia is a phenomenal team coach and facilitator.
Lina Mariani , Head of J-Pal, Southeast Asia
Why invest in coach
for conscious leadership?
You are not funding a pleasant conversation.
You are investing in your business’ capacity to think clearly, relate maturely and act effectively - especially under pressure.
If your organisation cannnot think clearly, it is at an unfair disadvantage, one that you can correct.
If your business cannot think through problems in a timely fashion, it cannot adapt. It is hobbled. And it is missing opportunities - and most importantly - bleeding money.
It you cannot adapt but are stuck in ego drama, your organisation and colleagues cannot thrive. Your best people leave or they cannot do their best work and you lose experience, time and …. money.
If my approach resonates…
… let’s start a conversation
to explore expert leadership coaching,
or
to bring this work to your team, or to develop ermerging leaders, let’s discuss a tailored coaching process.
Conscious leadership in organisations.
At work we like to see ourselves as people with informed thinking and skillful action. That’s what makes us successful. And that is true - but only partially. We overlook where our thinking gets muddled and our actions get warped. This is where frustration sits.
The Adaptive Thinking Cycle shows us how conscious leadership in organisations works, leading to success in the way we imagine.
It also shows us all the hidden places where the gremlins creep in, where unobserved patterns and unquestioned beliefs trip us up. That is where the thinking cycle breaks down.
The Adaptive Thinking Cycle
Adaptive Thinking Cycle, copyright of Claudia Brandt 2026
Clear thinking in leaders and teams is not an individual skill. It emerges from the interaction between framework, leader and team.
The Thinking Framework gives direction. It offers goals, strategy, values, culture. It is consciously chosen and adapted.
Leader Thinking shapes how the framework is lived. The more self-awareness the clearer the framework is translanted into action.
Team Thinking determines how reality is faced. Its accuracy is determinded by awareness.
Team Thinking in turn updates the framework — so it can adapt to what is actually happening and needed. The whole system adapts to shifting reality.
Where gremlins creep in:
Each element of the Thinking System needs to fulfil certain requirements to do its best thinking for best results. The more consciously the organisation is led the clearer the thinking. Here is where conscious leadership matters:
Thinking Framework
requires:
clear goals
clear strategy, priorities,
clear roles / responsibility.
Leaader Thinking
requires
self-awareness,
emotional regulation.
requires
trust,
difficult conversations,
holding complexity, ambiguity, uncertainty.
