Coaching The Elephant

Coaching The Elephant

Navigate life’s complexities with clarity and confidence. Join experienced coach Rene Sonneveld as he shares powerful perspectives and actionable insights for personal growth, harmonious family dynamics, and effective leadership.

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June 23, 2025 8 mins

Examines how adopting a growth mindset across different life areas enhances adaptability and success, while recognizing that fixed mindsets can offer stability in certain contexts.

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Highlights the transformative power of trust in leadership, illustrating how letting go of control fosters team empowerment and a collaborative culture.

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Argues that advisors to enterprise families must evolve from technical experts to emotionally intelligent partners, capable of navigating the complex interpersonal dynamics that underpin family businesses.

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Explores how societal pressures for perfection hinder youth development, emphasizing the importance of embracing failure as a pathway to resilience and growth.

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Draws a parallel between regular physical walks and coaching sessions, advocating for consistent mental engagement to enhance clarity, resilience, and personal development.

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Highlights the profound impact of self-belief and internal narratives on personal outcomes, illustrating how shifting one's mindset can transform confidence, relationships, and success.

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Highlights the profound impact of self-belief and internal narratives on personal outcomes, illustrating how shifting one's mindset can transform confidence, relationships, and success.

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Explores how overprotection and instant gratification have eroded resilience in today's youth, emphasizing the need for deliberate exposure to challenges to foster grit and perseverance.

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Highlights how leadership effectiveness hinges not just on skills but on moral maturity. Drawing from Piaget and Kohlberg to explore how leaders evolve in conscience, courage, and integrity across stages of development.

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June 23, 2025 9 mins

Emphasizes that clear, specific, and positively framed goals are more effective, guiding individuals toward meaningful progress rather than vague intentions.

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Highlights how traditional IQ tests fail to capture the full spectrum of human intelligence, advocating instead for recognizing diverse intelligences—like musical, spatial, and interpersonal—so individuals can discover and cultivate their unique strengths beyond academic metrics.

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Discusses how shifting perspective on adversity, inspired by Stoic philosophy, can transform challenges into catalysts for personal growth and resilience.

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Explores how unaddressed emotions can lead to conflicts in family businesses, emphasizing the importance of emotional intelligence to prevent personal disputes from affecting business decisions.

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Discusses how a family business successfully embraced innovation while preserving its traditional values, offering insights into adaptability and resilience.

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Examines how family offices help families manage wealth and maintain unity and purpose across generations after selling their businesses.

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Narrates the story of two brothers in Argentina whose successful business collapsed due to economic downturn and personal conflicts, highlighting the importance of strong relationships and mental health.

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Explores the transition of family-owned companies as they evolve from focusing on a single business to adopting a broader business orientation, affecting family dynamics and emotions.

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Details how the Paska Group in Mexico navigated conflicts between maintaining family values and business growth, emphasizing the need for alignment between family and business systems.

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Highlights how inheritance issues can threaten family unity, stressing that true family wealth lies in relationships and shared experiences.

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Describes how unresolved family conflicts led to dysfunctional board meetings in a family-owned company, impacting decision-making processes.

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