Mastering leadership in today’s rapidly evolving world necessitates an upgrade to transformative leadership, equipped to handle volatile, uncertain, chaotic, and ambiguous (VUCA) challenges of a world in metacrisis with resilience, systems awareness and presence. Leadership is an individual evolutionary journey of consciousness where your actions, words, and even inactions significantly impact your ability to create results, and influence and collaborate with those around you, including both human and planetary systems. An organization can only become as conscious and thriving as the leader guiding the vision and the business.
This is where a trusted advisor proves to be an invaluable investment —not only for you as a leader and individual but also for the overall success of the business and the expanding circles of positive impact in collaboration with the local and global social and planetary systems surrounding you. A future steward comes to understand the nature of reality and perceives the root cause of social and planetary systemic issues, thereby restoring and regenerating living systems (our own families, cultures, organizations, ecosystems). I will accompany you on your evolutionary consciousness awakening journey, guiding you along a path of growth and self-discovery that I have walked before. This path leads towards mastery, transcendence of conditioning, and an epigenetic shift in thinking. While the extent of progress and achievement depends on your commitment and effort, my role is to provide invaluable support and guidance as you strive for personal excellence and consciousness in leadership.
As your advisor, my goal is to guide you in transcending challenges through higher consciousness, fostering your growth as a leader and compassionate planetary future steward. I help you gain clarity, address challenges, and focus your efforts in alignment with your business strategy and the legacy you wish to create. Simultaneously, I guide you in overcoming barriers and unlearning any limitations that may impede your progress towards a more liberated and conscious state. In this state, you can operate without pretenses or defenses, fully authentic, and engaged with life while experiencing a heightened state of awareness, mental clarity, and alignment with Source, ultimately fostering a life free from unnecessary mental suffering.
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TL Method
TL Method (Transformational Literacy Method) is developed by Sandja Brügmann, a prominent figure in the realm of transformational leadership and sustainable development. TL Method is a holistic synthesis integrating cross-disciplinary approaches in adult developmental psychology, transformational methods, leadership, living systems science, integral sustainability with a commerce logic. Drawing from her 26 years of experience in business, leadership, communication, and transformation, Sandja has refined this methodology through collaboration with top international executives and entrepreneurs across multiple industries including biotechnology, renewable energy, food systems, water management, health and life sciences.
The trailblazing TL Method is designed to empower leaders with the skills, knowledge and perspectives necessary to navigate the complexities of modern business, societal and global systems with resilience and presence. Transformational Literacy refers to the ability to navigate and adapt to complex, ever-changing environments, by expanding one’s consciousness and fostering new ways of thinking.
TL Method is delivered through a practical framework designed to expand developmental capacity, transcend challenges, broaden perspectives, and lead with greater awareness and purpose.
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What you can expect from me
- Uncovering the root cause of business challenges. With strategic advice and systems awareness, our clients come to realize the challenge that has persisted over years, sometimes decades, might have a root somewhere else in the organization, or within their own blindspots and leadership. I help you identify and unearth the patterns and root causes of challenges, and subsequently strategicaly design transformation pathways through leadership and business design holistically and systematically.
- We are concrete and action focused. A challenge initially requires insight and understanding in order to uncover the pattern, and thus designing triggers for transformative solutions. I guide you in this process deliberately and with finesse as it requires the engagement of both dynamism, goals and doing (masculine principles) and sensing and insightful allowing, systems awareness (feminine principles). We help you train these capabilities in your own leadership. The new wave of successful future leaders require a balance of both, and often it is the feminine principles like navigating chaotic times and volatility, EQ emotional intelligence, relational networked organizing, creativity, and mindset flexibility that needs the most strengthening.
- Sustainable Development as a business opportunity and innovative driver. I have global and vast experience strategically creating, implementing and transforming cultures and businesses to advance with the business opportunity of integral sustainability. Our Leadership 1:1 focus is primarily focused on your development as a leader, however, I will bring in my vast expertise with sustainability and living systems awareness in our sessions to help you advance your identified opportuniteis or mitigate risks for the business. A more comprehensive effort on sustainable development towards regeneration, can be agreed on seperately with our team of experts.
- We are all human. Business only works if you work, and thus identifying and implementing good work-life balance habits is of the essence. Many of our clients hold large responsibilities, and are often quite isolated in making heavy decisions. We support both work, mental health, and life design to help you perform at your best.
- Presence, consciousness, resilience, grounding and leading from the emergent edges to navigate VUCA is increasingly of importance as a leader, navigating complex and ambiguous challenges in an uncertain environment where the planetary boundaries are breaking down, affecting weather patterns, work force movements, resource disruptions, pandemics, unrest, disease and the roots of a sound and stable business.
- Proactively change driven. You are either pushed by pain, or pulled by a purposeful vision. We help you move your mindset and actions from victim of a challenge, to creator of your vision to transcend the challenge. Embracing adaptability and change with humility and grace, is not easy, and we do this work together.
- Transformational literacy, multi-systemic living systems awareness and leading from the emergent futureis a skill best accessed and navigated with access to all your human intelligences, including body wisdom, intuition, inner seeing, inner knowing, capabilities that are increasingly accessible to you in direct relationship to your level of consciousness. The more you clear your internal blockages, unhealed shadows, trauma, the more conscious and free you become, the less illusion, and the more realistic you view life, challenges and other people.
Embracing a compassionate and distinctive method, I am your trusted guide in fostering self-awareness and inspiring action. As a dedicated challenger, I adeptly navigate your resistance with a balanced blend of empathy and tenacity, ensuring straightforward communication throughout our journey together. Unlike conventional consultants driven primarily by financial gain, my unwavering commitment lies in cultivating your conscious growth, grounded in the pillars of integrity, honesty, and love. I pledge to impart the sometimes difficult truths others may shy away from, as I firmly believe that your evolution rests upon embracing these valuable insights. Together, we embark on a path of transformative growth, fostering resilience and illuminating the depths of your untapped capabilities.
Read more about Sandja Brügmann here.
Results
- Systems awareness and holistic thinking expansion
- Mental clarity and presencing
- Observing patterns in your own behavior, and moving towards breaking the pattern, ultimately transcending conditioning
- A growth mindset
- Up-leveling foresight capabilities and futures literacy, and how to bring it into your company culture
- Work with fear, anxiety and the dopamine addicted mind, into the being and free mind
- Ability to initiate and invite difficult conversations, with clear intent, empathy and presence
- Perceiving the whole system, and designing triggers for systems transformation
- Shadow work and healing projections, owning your behaviours with responsibility and accountability
- Improved relational and emotional intelligence, emotional regulation, improving collaboration and relationships
- Proactive holistic mental, emotional and physical health practises to ensure your sustainable high performance, early warning signals identification precursors for stress and burnout
- Identifying and recognizing patterns in your leadership challenges, and the organisation’s challenges to transform and transcend at the root
- Self-compassion practices and their integration into team culture
- Consistent, accountable actions aligned with values, purpose and strategy
- Building resilience amidst disruptions and challenges
- Strengthening your legacy as a global compassionate future steward
- Evolving towards pioneering consciousness and authenticity
- Leveraging challenges as opportunities for growth
- Cultivate wisdom, compassion, and openness in leadership
- Identify and mitigate energy drains for improved well-being
As an organization, The Passion Institute is well-equipped to be at the forefront of transformational methods, focusing on the intersection of consciousness growth, systems awareness, and strategic transformation. Our expertise lies in driving strategic sustainable transitions and fostering cultures of thriving for leaders, organizations, and multi-stakeholder efforts with a commercial logic. Our purpose is to shape the future of leadership by providing strategic business, board, and leadership council guidance. We serve as your guide to the future of good governance and support ambitious leaders and brands worldwide. We welcome you into our fold. Read more about us.
To elevate your success, I will engage our comprehensive global world-class associates team of domain experts in personal transformation & consciousness, mental and physical wellness, organizational design, sustainability, regenerative principles, diversity and inclusion, multi-stakeholder engagement, and narrative storytelling as required.
Are you interested in working with us? Call Sandja at 4244 9800 or email.
The Practicalities
- 4 x 50 min sessions per week
- 6 months retainer
- After first 6 months, agreement moves to month to month with a 30 days termination period
- In-person and online sessions via Zoom
- Our clients often stay with us for many years. We value longterm relationships
You can count on full discretion and confidentiality.
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“Sandja is talented in supporting my leadership development as I continue to push myself towards excellence and growth as a sustainable and purpose-driven leader. She is a visionary in sustainable development, conscious and authentic. She comes highly recommended by me and I have benefited from being part of her network.”
Mauricio Graber, CEO Chr. Hansen
Leadership Advisory Services
CxOs / Executive / Non-Executive / Future CEO / Founder Leadership Advisory
We are specialized in working with visionary leaders, CxOs, executive and non-executive leaders, entrepreneurial founders, future CEOs/VPs and board level leaders with an interest in growing in consciousness, excel in leadership practises, and to take realistic, informed and ambitious action with a commercial logic towards a more conscious, sustainable, just and thriving future for all.
Post CEO Term Transition Advisory
A CEO tenure can be a taxing experience for your mental, emotional, and physical health. Statistics show that more top leaders experience stress and burnout than ever before. CEOs often give their all, pushing beyond their capacity and depleting their emotional, physical, and mental resources. This situation is not uncommon for CEOs and entrepreneurial founders, and the post-term period itself can be a steep and important transition. Having a good sounding board during this time can help you land on your feet and recalibrate your internal resources more quickly. It can also assist you in deciding on your next career or life direction. We act as your trusted and wise advisor during this important life transition.
Additional Services
Strategic Transformation Design
On the strategic organizational, societal, global and multi-stakeholder levels, we are equipped to design strategic transformations. Read more about this service here. Identifying pathways and leverage points to ensure:
- A board operates at high respect and integrity with a first woman in the Chair seat, ensuring the (social) system up levels it’s consciousness and operates optimally for high performance (Client: Multi-national in biotech food, agriculture and health industries)
- Sustainability is integrated into the core of business strategy, unleashing purpose and passion in the workforce, and with global VP Challenger team and C-Suite and board leaders on board within a six month period. Multinational leader in coating and protection of marine transportation and leisure assets (Client: Hempel, Copenhagen, Denmark)
- An executive academic program is strategically designed to advance participants towards a transformative leadership approach rooted in growth in consciousness and authenticity, rather than merely expanding traditional competencies. Designed to engage participants in new and unfamiliar practices, the program delivers both intellectual insights and hands-on experience, guiding leaders towards a more conscious and impactful way of navigating their roles (University of X, USA)