SAME WORDS.DIFFERENTWORLDS.
We help leaders, teams and organisations see what is really going on, bring different perspectives into the conversation and create movement where things have become stuck.
What happens when we see the same reality differently?
People can sit in the same meeting, use the same words and still understand the situation in completely different ways.
Assumptions, relationships and unwritten rules shape what we see — and what we leave unsaid. That is where another perspective helps.
- Our leadership team isn't having the conversations it needs to have.
- We are changing, but old patterns keep returning.
- People agree in meetings but act differently afterwards.
- Our leaders need to grow with the organisation.
- We work across cultures and keep misunderstanding each other.
- I need somewhere to think clearly about my own leadership.
We start with what is actually happening.
Sometimes the challenge is clear. Often it isn't. Different people see different realities. Conversations get stuck. Patterns repeat themselves. And solutions that make perfect sense on paper don't create movement.
We help leaders, teams and organisations step out of that dynamic. By slowing down enough to see what is really happening, bringing different perspectives into the conversation and turning insight into choices people can act on.
We don't arrive with a standard solution. We work with the situation, the people and the context in front of us.
Practice
We work with senior leaders, leadership teams and organisations, drawing on first-hand experience of leading teams and navigating change from within organisations.
Professional
Our work brings professional depth in executive coaching, team coaching and organisational development, using professional assessment tools where they add value.
Thought leadership
Books, TOP Talks, published Perspectives and Sonja’s ongoing PhD research into leadership and psychological safety connect organisational practice with active inquiry.
Leading in a Wicked World.
Complexity rarely needs another quick answer. It needs another perspective.
Leading in a Wicked World, written by Sonja Wekema and Matthias Schramm, explores what leadership asks of us when familiar approaches no longer work.
The ideas in the book are closely connected to our work at The Other Perspective: looking beyond the obvious, questioning the scripts we operate from, bringing different perspectives into the room, and finding a way forward without pretending complexity can simply be solved.
From insight to movement.
Executive Coaching
Space to think clearly about your leadership, your impact and the system you are part of.
Team Development
Creating the conditions for honest conversation, stronger relationships and collective responsibility.
Leadership Development
Developing leadership in the context where it actually has to work: your organisation.
Organisation Development & Strategic Facilitation
Making patterns visible, bringing perspectives together and helping organisations move through complexity.
We start with the situation, not the solution.
Sonja and her colleagues have led teams, sat in boardrooms and worked through change from the inside. That is the experience we bring to the conversation.
We look at the person, the relationships and the wider system, and create a shared language for what is happening. Research, assessments and practical tools come in where they help — never as the starting point.
Person · Relationships · System · Context
How we workFive themes we keep returning to.
Psychological safety, accountability, leadership and personality, culture and values, and working across different perspectives and cultures.
Explore our expertiseDifferent perspectives start with different people.
Sonja Wekema
Founder, executive coach, leadership advisor and author
LinkedIn profileThe Other Perspective is Sonja Wekema and a close network of experienced coaches, facilitators and leadership professionals, with backgrounds in international business, organisational development, psychology and research.
Meet the people behind TOP
Sometimes you need another perspective to see what is already there.
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