During my career as a strategy consultant and tech startup builder, I always felt like something was missing. I thought I was doing everything right in life: I was a straight A student, competed nationally as an athlete, traveled the world and got the best jobs. And yet it did not feel right. 

I was the typical “insecure overachiever” that was striving for perfection in both her career and life. I was hungry, ambitious and ‘hardworking’ was my middle name. I was a ‘high potential’ that had everything going for her. I was proud to work hard and be the last to leave the office. I thought working hard was the only way to realize my ambitions as a leader.

Until I couldn’t. 

My version of rock bottom brought me to very dark places. I was burned out in a country where that did not exist. It left me paralyzed for months. The little confidence I had in myself was completely shattered and I felt like I had to start all over.

And so I did. Without much professional help in the place I lived, I had to navigate these water myself. I dove deep in my inner world and learned to trust myself.

My burnout became my awakening. I discovered that I had spent all my life looking for fulfilment in the wrong places. Unknowingly, I had limited my own potential by disregarding my inner world. During my venture into the workings of my own mind and body, I discovered something important.

I discovered the missing piece of a fulfilling ánd successful life as an ambitious leader: consciousness. 

I discovered that I am here to shake things up in the world of business. We spend 40-60% of our waking, non-eating week at our workplace. That’s a whole lot of time. And yet, we need holidays and we need to sit on our meditation pillow or yoga mat to find ourselves. Needing these escapes from life seems like a very unsustainable way to live.

Of course, our holidays and meditation practices enrich our lives, but right now we utilize them to help us survive instead of thrive. We don’t do them justice and neither do we do our work life. 

Let me share something important: I don’t believe in work-life balance. Yes, you heard that right. 

Work is part of our life and therefore has to feel balanced in itself. The only way we can experience balance during our work is to level-up our consciousness and take radical ownership of our inner world. Our inner world drives our outer success. We can enrich our work as leaders by leveling up our consciousness so that we experience ease, confidence and success in our day-to-day lives.

The only true leadership of our time is conscious leadership. 

Right now, most leaders do not realize the potential that they have in them.

Sure, they are successful from the outside: leading a big team, climbing the ladder or starting their own business.

But they also struggle and work extremely hard to meet their ambitions only to feel unfulfilled or burned out once they get there. They constantly feel the need to do better, prove themselves and achieve. Overwhelm, fear and stress are no stranger to these highly ambitious leaders (to be). 

I am here to show leaders there is another way.

I bridge the gap between business and spirituality. I help ambitious leaders (to be) level up their consciousness to build sustainable success from the inside out. Why?

Because I believe conscious leaders are game changers. They are in the position to create ripples of greatness around them. Conscious leaders are self-aware, take radical responsibility and lead by presence rather than action. They are intentional and masters of emotion regulation. 

Conscious leaders are leaders that break through their own habitual patterns. They transform their own limiting belief systems (and yes we all have them) to empowering belief systems. They know how to shift their inner critic to become their inner champion. They are at the cause of their lives, not at the effect. And from there, anything is possible. 

Conscious leaders show the way. They light people up with their presence. They are confident, authentic and radiant. They empower others to take full responsibility, inspire them to do their best work and help them step into their full potential. They are the creators of greatness and have fun while doing it. 

When we all step up our game as conscious leaders:
Imagine how different our work life would be. 
Imagine how different our personal life would be. 
Imagine how different our workplaces would be. 

Exactly. That’s a world I want to live in. A world where we no longer ‘need a break’ from our daily lives. A world where we constantly evolve as humans and leaders. Our rise in consciousness unlocks the potential we have in us so that we can finally give the world that gift we were meant to give. 

I am building a movement of conscious leaders to change the world of business from the inside out. Trust me, you want to be part of this movement.

Now that you know more about me, I am insanely curious about you. 

• Who are you?

• What does next-level leadership mean to you?

• How can YOU level-up as a leader?

• And what is holding you back to experience a fulfilling and successful (work)life?

If you are wondering how I could help you level-up your consciousness as a leader (to be) so that you can build sustainable success, go ahead and book your discovery call below. 

There are currently two opportunities to work with me. The first is in an exclusive 1:1 coaching setting. The taylored 10-week Conscious Leadership 1:1 coaching program is for leaders that want to level up to be confident, authentic and radiant leaders. Read more about it here.

The other opportunity is in a team setting. I run 8-week Personal Leadership courses for groups of 6-8 people. It’s the perfect program to increase your and your team’s leadership qualities all while engaging with each other in a vulnerable and powerful way. Find more information here, or send me an email on hello@manonvermeulen.com

I can’t wait to meet you.

Love,
Manon