Coach Lonneke

Medior

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I work with people – leaders, professionals, and individuals – who want to keep growing, stand more firmly, or get more out of their work and life. Together, we explore what drives you and the thing that hold you back: beliefs, patterns, and emotions that once helped you belong or compensate for something but that don’t longer serve you. I help you embrace your whole self, including the parts you may have hidden away. We dive deep and work with the wisdom of head, heart, and body, where creativity, intuition, and clear perception meet. From that place, new insights, direction, and practical steps emerge – that will enable you to achieve your goals and live and work in a way that feels synced with who you really are.

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8 location(s) Affiliated with GORT since 2025

Coach Lonneke

8 location(s) Affiliated with GORT since 2025

Medior

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Identity & Personal Leadership

You keep repeating patterns (within yourself or in work relationships) that drain your energy
You long to live and work from what truly belongs to you, not from expectations or fixed frameworks
You feel out of sync with yourself: showing a version of you that doesn’t always feel authentic

Leadership Coaching

You want to lead with more steadiness and authenticity, without losing yourself
You notice that you sometimes carry too much responsibility, or give and take too little space
You want to lead with greater confidence and self-acceptance, showing up as yourself and making impact from there

Career Transition & Professional Growth

You’re facing a choice or change, but you’re not clear on what you want or how to get there
You’ve just stepped into a new role or position and are searching for how to be yourself and remain effective
You want more direction, fulfillment, or impact in what you do
You feel stuck – and don’t know how to move forward

Stress, Perfectionism & Inner Pressure

You experience tension, overload, or the constant feeling of “having to do more”
You’re highly self-critical or find it difficult to take up space
Your head feels crowded, and you miss calm, slowing down, or space for intuition

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This is how I work

We start with a chemistry session to see if there’s a connection and if your questions fit. From there, we design a trajectory – usually 6 to 8 sessions – depending on your goals. Sessions can take place while walking in nature, online, or face-to-face.

In the first session, we set the foundation: defining clear goals and what we’ll focus on in the sessions ahead. Each following session is built around a theme that matters to you and what is present at that moment. There is no fixed program; we work with what emerges here and now. These are conversations where you don’t have to perform, with space for reflection, intuition and embodied knowing – because your body often understands what your mind has yet to grasp.

My style is perceptive and empathetic: I quickly notice patterns and invite you to look deeper. We explore the story and what lies beneath it. With humor, creativity, lightness, and impact. In that depth, movement arises: we translate insights into concrete, lasting steps. This allows you to live, work, and lead in a more grounded and expansive way.”

Career coach
Life coach
Psychologist / Therapist / Counselor

In addition to the personal one-on-one coaching conversation, I practice:

Walking coaching
E-coaching/online coaching
Coaching via Teams/Zoom

Other work experience

With roles in consultancy, management, career and leadership development, I have been working at the intersection of personal and professional growth for over 25 years, the last 15 of which have been in an international context. From 2014 to 2025, I held a managerial role as Head of Career Services at the School of Business & Economics (SBE) at VU University Amsterdam. In addition to my coaching practice, I am still affiliated with VU Amsterdam as a Career & Executive Coach and in the facilitation and development of leadership programmes for professionals.

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What other people say about me

Verified client ✅

Lonneke’s coaching sessions have been the best investment I’ve made in recent years! Thanks to her brilliant embodied approach, I’ve learnt to connect with my body, listen to what it has to say, trust myself, and find peace with whatever life throws at me. She introduced me to my inner saboteurs, which has helped me enormously to change my perspective on my self-talk. I no longer believe everything I think!

Verified client ✅

Working with Lonneke was a wonderful gift! I came in thinking I needed someone to reflect with and who would ask me the tough questions (which she certainly did), but what I got was a whole new way of connecting with myself. I learnt (even more) how to process my thoughts, emotions and instincts through my body, and that changed not only how I make career decisions, but also how I make various life decisions (big and small).

Verified client ✅

I have completed two coaching programmes with Lonneke (spaced about a year apart) and I highly recommend her. If the fact that I came back for a second programme hasn’t convinced you yet, let me put it this way: Lonneke is fantastic. She tailored every session specifically to my personal questions and struggles and helped me untangle the confusing chaos in my head regarding my (career) path, insecurities, realistic options and limiting beliefs. She did this by using exercises to balance my thinking and feeling (particularly the latter), asking critical questions (in a loving way) and adding a healthy dose of humour. I felt truly seen by her, because she ensured I was always moving in the direction I wanted to grow.

Verified client ✅

What makes Lonneke so special is that she is not only an incredibly skilled coach, but also leads with empathy, flexibility, curiosity and just the right amount of challenge. She is curious about everything: abilities, needs, limiting beliefs and the bigger picture of life. After every session, I felt both energised and completely exhausted, in the best possible way. What’s more, I went home with very practical tools, such as an understanding of what matters to me in the workplace and how that aligns with my strengths. I would give it a 10/10! Just be prepared for tiredness, inspiration and perhaps a bit of surprise at just how much you can learn and grow.