Sustainability Coaching

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What Exactly is Sustainability Coaching?

My Coaching Basics

Sustainability coaching is about empowering individuals, teams, and organizations to integrate sustainability into the heart of their purpose, strategy, and daily operations – not as an add-on, but as a core driver of future success.

It’s more than offering advice or technical solutions. Sustainability coaching is a partnership: it’s about building inner leadership, navigating complexity with clarity, and unlocking the resilience needed to lead real, systemic change.

Through sustainability coaching, I help leaders and changemakers:

  • See the bigger system they are part of

  • Turn bold visions into practical, strategic actions

  • Align sustainability goals with business and societal value

  • Build the inner capacity – courage, authenticity, resilience – to lead transformation from within

  • Overcome barriers, challenge assumptions, and stay true to their deeper purpose

Whether you are just starting or ready to take your impact to the next level, sustainability coaching helps you connect vision and action – creating positive, lasting change for your organization, your community, and the future generations who depend on it.

Do I Need Sustainability Coaching?

You might need sustainability coaching if you’re ready to move beyond good intentions and start creating real, lasting impact – but you’re facing complexity, resistance, or uncertainty about the next steps.

Sustainability coaching can help you when:

  • You want to embed sustainability into your core strategy but aren’t sure where to start

  • You’re leading change and need a trusted partner to challenge your thinking and sharpen your vision

  • You’re struggling to align different stakeholders, departments, or partners around a shared sustainability agenda

  • You feel stuck between ambitious goals and the reality of daily operations

  • You want to build your inner leadership skills – resilience, authenticity, systems thinking – to navigate complexity and inspire others

  • You are responsible for sustainability targets (like CSRD, SDGs, IDGs) and want support in making them meaningful and actionable

  • You’re committed to making a positive difference but need a space to reflect, grow, and translate vision into tangible results

If you’re serious about building a future where your organization, your people, and the planet can thrive together, sustainability coaching could be a game-changing investment.

My Approach to Coaching

My coaching approach is grounded in trust, partnership, and the belief that true leadership transformation starts from within. I work side-by-side with changemakers, executives, and teams to create the space for deep reflection, courageous conversations, and strategic action.

I don’t offer one-size-fits-all solutions. Instead, I listen deeply, challenge respectfully, and help you uncover the insights and strengths already within you. Together, we connect your personal purpose to your professional role, align your actions with your highest values, and develop clear pathways to create tangible, lasting impact.

My work blends systems thinking, strategic sustainability frameworks like the FSSD, and inner development principles (such as the IDGs), so you can lead not just with your head, but also with your heart and hands.

Coaching with me is not about “adding more” to your plate – it’s about unlocking the leadership capacity you already have to make the future better, starting now.

Whenever I think of Berend, I automatically get a smile on my face. He’s such a pleasant, joyful person! Berend knows how to combine idealism with concrete results: he’s not just dreaming of a better world, he’s simply creating one, together with the people around him. I don’t think there’s anybody in the world that wouldn’t get along with Berend. Berend is an optimistic, cheerful, authentic person, with great authority in the field of sustainability. Whenever you have the opportunity to work with Berend, take that chance and enjoy it!

Andrea Teeuwisse,

Business Coach, Fede Coaching en Advise (Netherlands)

I have known Berend for many years, and he is a true example to everyone when it comes to loyalty, honesty, integrity, and respect! Berend has an incredible amount of knowledge in the areas of sustainability, change management, and project development. He works tirelessly toward creating a sustainable world and is highly successful in doing so. I wholeheartedly recommend working with Berend – he truly makes a difference.

Margrethe van Heeswijk

CEO, Worldlife International (International)