Strong and Gentle

Systemic Enneagram Coaching for Conscious Leadership

See your blind spots

Stand free and strong

Interrups self-sabotage

Even good leaders get in their own way.

You work hard, but still feel stretched, reactive, or unseen.
Clarity is needed, but difficult conversations are avoided.
Your team relies on you too much instead of stepping up.
The same (people) challenges keep repeating despite your best efforts.

Conscious Leadership changes everything.

We lead badly when we lead on autopilot.

Under pressure, old habits take over: avoiding conflict, overworking, controlling, pleasing, or hesitating.

These patterns may have served us once—but in leadership, they often create the very problems we are trying to solve.

We suffer under the strain. And so do the people around us. Clarity drops. Tension rises. Productivity falls. Teams become dependent, disengaged, or stuck.

Conscious leadership changes this.

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The Enneagram:
Your map to conscious leadership

Leadership does not just reveal your strengths. It reveals your patterns.

The Enneagram of Personality helps you uncover the unconscious habits, fears, and beliefs that shape how you lead—especially under pressure.

It shows you what drives you, where you get in your own way, and what growth asks of you.

When you can see your patterns, you can change them. That is where your true power lies.

It is the beginning of conscious leadership.

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Start with your Enneagram Map

The first step towards conscious leadership is understanding yourself.

Your Enneagram Map gives you a practical, honest inner map: your drivers, your strengths, your blindspots, your stress dynamics, your repeating patterns and your growth path.

It helps you make sense of what has shaped your leadership—and what may be limiting it now. It shows you the paths you know and new, exciting ones.

Choose the Enneagram Map that fits where you are, and begin the work of leading with greater awareness, freedom, and strength.

I will show you your map. It will change everything.

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My 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

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TEAM COACHING

Supporting 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.

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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 others say.

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.
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
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
Claudia is a phenomenal team coach and facilitator.

Lina Mariani , Head of J-Pal, Southeast Asia

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.

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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.

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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

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.