Leadership Labs for your growth

Practical.
Effective.
Cutting-Edge.

Our Associates

Accomplished
Authentic
Approachable
Agile

Our Principles

Empathy and respect for diversity and context
Holistic approach towards professional development,
personal development and well-being
Oriented towards a regenerative future

Get to know our team below!

Our highly effective leadership development practices are grounded in rigorous research on leadership studies, adult development, neuroscience, and complexity at leading universities, from Harvard University, to MIT and the University of Cambridge.

Our approaches are highly contextualized and experiential. They support personal and leadership development and transformation.

Our Associates are certified in coaching, facilitation and deployment of personal assessment instruments like the Lectical Decision-Making Assessment and the Leadership Circle Profile 360° Assessment.

Our services range in formats from individual and group coaching to open and in-house, customized leadership development programs (on-site, blended and on-line), from leadership retreats and workshops, to consulting services.

We care deeply for sustainability, gender and diversity and we reflect this in what we do.

Our approach

We work with individual clients, with teams and with organizations.

I/Myself
  • Individual leadership development
  • Stress management
  • Emotional & body intelligence
  • Communication & social skills
  • Overcoming limiting beliefs
We/Team
  • Team coaching and development
  • Psychological safety
  • Process optimization
  • Performance management
  • Dealing with conflict
The System
  • Facilitation of strategic initiatives
  • Design of events & trainings
  • Sensemaking
  • Organizational development
  • VUCA world and complexity

Our team

Our international team brings decades of practice, extensive inter-cultural experience from four continents and rigorous academic training in adult development, leadership coaching and facilitation from Europe and the USA. We work on-site and online in English, French, German, Czech and Russian.

Seattle

Connecticut

Prague

Vienna

Lissabon

Blanka Bellak, PhD

Founding Director & Neuro- and Executive Coach

Angelika Pohnitzer

Executive Director and Head of Community Development

Hana Kabele Gala, PhD

Neuro- and Executive Coach

Lida Susek

Communications and Community Coordinator

Bernd Kosnar

Change Agent - Marketing & Sales for Sustainability & Diversity

Alexandra Reis

Head of Sustainability & Social Change Program

Ama Duncan

Executive Coach

Inge Tolson

Life Coach

Clients and Partners

How we give back

Establishing professional working environments and empowering women leaders are important for us. We volunteer our time to women leaders and emerging leaders. 

In 2023, our Community of Practice for women leaders evolved into the Women Lead Community.  We regularly host free workshops, networking and peer coaching sessions for women world-wide.

We also contribute to our planet’s regeneration.

In 2023, we co-hosted the sustainability network event “Nachhaltig Neu Denken” with our partners Initiative 2030 and Pro.earth

In 2024, Leadership Associates became a partner of one of the 100 Mitmach-Regionen in the German-speaking world. During the main event in Vienna it sported the key note and hosted a discussion forum.

Our Director, Angelika Pohnitzer, is part of Facilitators for Future and volunteers in several organizations that support social and ecological sustainability.

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