Barbara Hoogenboom

Barbara Hoogenboom (1972) studied Business Administration both at Nyenrode Business University and the University of Oregon in the USA. After 11 years of leadership experiences at banks and insurance providers, she pursued a career as mediator and entrepreneur with her own mediation network. Over the past 10 years Barbara has become a skilled systemic constellations practitioner, trainer, facilitator and coach. She has worked with many organisations as well as their board of directors and leaders. She is the leader of Systemic Business School and the Bert Hellinger Institute of the Netherlands.

Barbara believes that the strength of systemic leadership is that you truly open yourself up for what is there – beyond data and goals –, providing guidance to your organisation from a place of connectivity. What are the things at play within your organisation, what are your colleagues showing you with their behaviour? If you are aware of how the undercurrent works, it provides you with a versatile repertoire in your leadership. This will ultimately lead to a more vital and agile organisation.

Systemic leadership contributes to movement without the need to force it. With an eye for the organisation, for the teams within it and for the people within it. From the head as well as the heart.

Barbara’s approach as a systemic coach of leaders and as a trainer seamlessly integrates with the above: she combines pragmatism and intuition, she pays attention to the logic of what is at play in the upper current and brings language and sensitivity for the dynamics in the undercurrent. The movement that is then set in motion, is the most sustainable.