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.

Where we start

Start with what is happening now.

We don't start with a programme, a model or a predefined answer. We start with your situation.

What is really going on? What are you trying to achieve? Which perspectives are shaping the situation? And what matters now?

By looking at the person, the relationships, the system and the context, we create space to make sense of what is happening and choose what to do next.

What we do

From insight to movement.

Sonja Wekema in an executive coaching conversation

Executive Coaching

Space to think clearly about your leadership, your impact and the system you are part of.

Sensemaking met Cynefin

Team Development

Creating the conditions for honest conversation, stronger relationships and collective responsibility.

Accountability and feedback

Leadership Development

Developing leadership in the context where it actually has to work: your organisation.

A conversation about what matters

Organisation Development & Strategic Facilitation

Making patterns visible, bringing perspectives together and helping organisations move through complexity.

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How we work

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 work
Expertise

Five themes we keep returning to.

Psychological safety, accountability, leadership and personality, culture and values, and working across different perspectives and cultures.

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People

Different perspectives start with different people.

Sonja Wekema, founder of The Other Perspective

Sonja Wekema

Founder, executive coach, leadership advisor and author

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The 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
Working across sectors, cultures and borders
  • Mitsubishi Chemical Group
  • Rijksoverheid
  • AECOM
  • Feadship
  • NS
  • Kubota
  • Gemeente Den Haag
  • Rabobank

Sometimes you need another perspective to see what is already there.

Have a question, dilemma or situation you'd like to look at differently?