About – Sander

Sander van Eekelen is an experienced transformational leadership coach and facilitator and the founder of Academy of Life. He is also a Certified Transformational Presence Coach. He specializes in individual and organizational wholeness and self-organizing systems. He creates environments in which people feel safe and supported to explore their greatest potential—environments where they can develop the courage to step through self-created and self-imposed barriers. He has a way of both playfully inviting and compassionately challenging people to go take their next big steps for deep exploration and shifts to become possible.
With a background in social psychology as well as many years of experience, both in management and in the field of Human Resource Management, he is able to quickly cut to the core of any organizational development issue.
Since 2012, Sander has worked closely with Alan Seale and the Center for Transformational Presence. He is currently a program leader for the various Transformational Presence programs, both open-enrollment and in-company forms.
Sander thrives on enabling and witnessing growth both in individual and in team development. His own continuous learning and developmental process lies at the core of his life and work. In his words: “I’m inspired to learn and teach; it’s a reciprocal, never ending dance. To playfully enable people to become the fullest version of themselves is my ultimate goal in life.”