Transformative leadership coaching is a dynamic and personalized approach to developing the skills and mindset you will need to thrive in today’s fast-paced and complex business environment. Our coaching approach focuses on empowering you to cultivate self-awareness, emotional intelligence, cognitive agility and strategic thinking to drive organizational success. Through a combination of one-on-one sessions, assessments, and practical tools, our transformative leadership coaching programs enable you to navigate change, inspire your teams, and create a culture of innovation and collaboration. Our comprehensive approach will equip you with the confidence and agility to lead with impact in an ever-evolving landscape.
We understand that, as CEOs and senior leaders, you’re constantly navigating through complexity and rapid change in your organizations. But here’s the thing: real change starts from within.
Christine Baker and Dr. Iva Vurdelja spent over 20 years individually as organizational consultants and executive coaches before coming together 15 years ago to rethink how to develop senior leaders and their organizations. We recognized that the conventional behavioral approach to development was not creating the sustainable impact our clients needed.
We combine executive and consulting experience in business, rigorous scientific inquiry, leadership, and extensive education in adult learning and development. After 4000 executive coaching sessions focusing on cognitive and emotional development, we have accumulated comprehensive data and a deeper understanding of what leaders need – and how a different approach is required to create enduring leadership performance transformation.
Our journey with you begins by recognizing that the most impactful transformations happen when we first address the changes within ourselves as leaders. It’s not just about setting goals and seeking coaching; it’s about diving deep into who you are, your relationship with your work and your environment, and how you act in your role to create enduring positive impact.
We understand that leading in today’s world is no easy feat
What is important to us, as coaches, when we work with you? We bring:
- Authenticity: being true to ourselves, our principles, and to you
- Accountability: holding ourselves to the highest professional standards
- Integrity: paying attention to the ethics of what we do and how we partner with you
- Honesty: about our advice and our evaluation of situations
- Compassion: recognizing the humanity in all our clients and being non-judgemental
- Scientific rigor: recommending only what we know works, not popular fads
- Elegance: we bring simplicity, clarity, and effectiveness in explaining complex phenomena.
- Drive for excellence: that’s non-negotiable in our work with you
For you, we prioritize cultivating self-awareness, fostering fresh perspectives, crafting compelling personal visions, and nurturing a resilient mindset. Through honing strategic acumen, emotional intelligence, and reflective techniques, we guide you in scrutinizing your leadership persona, interpersonal dynamics, and organizational influence, igniting a drive to propel your teams toward excellence. We champion ongoing growth, challenging limiting beliefs, and expanding cognitive horizons to fuel exceptional performance and personal satisfaction.
We use the term ‘requisite development’ to mean a highly intentional approach to aligning your leadership capabilities with your organizational demands for stellar performance under challenging conditions.
So, what sets us apart?
We don’t ask surface-level questions. We delve into the core of your being – exploring your values, beliefs, thoughts, your sense-making.
All these factors are interconnected and shape your impact on the world around you – your teams, stakeholders, and other crucial relationships in your life.
We help you understand your capacity for complexity and its influences on your leadership in this ever-evolving landscape.
Meet the team
Christine Baker,
is the Founder of Requisite Development. She has built an international reputation over 30 years as an executive coach and strategic adviser, serving senior executives across Europe, the Middle East, and the USA in a wide range of industry sectors. Before changing her career to executive coaching and consulting in the 1990s, Christine held senior leadership roles in the banking sector. This experience allows her to understand organizational challenges and dynamics from her clients’ perspectives and ensures a pragmatic approach to helping them develop appropriate solutions.
Iva Vurdelja,
is a certified executive coach, organizational change strategist, and independent scholar-practitioner. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies and public sector leaders to develop organizational and personal transformation strategies. Her practice focuses on the impact of adult cognitive development and emotional intelligence on leadership capabilities for creating innovative, socially conscious, and purpose-driven organizations. Currently, she coaches leaders in global organizations and government agencies on how to build inner capabilities.
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
Senior VP and General Counsel, Global Pharmaceutical Corporation
Iva is incredible. Change in my team’s composition, change in management or senior leaders, change in organizational structure, new leadership responsibilities.
Senior Manager, Construction Company, Canada
Today was my last session with Iva and this journey has been amazing. Iva has changed the way I think and react towards other people. Self-awareness for myself has skyrocketed and life changing.
Executive, Space exploration organization
It’s been a life-altering 6 months for sure. I’ve learned a tremendous amount on how to reshape my thinking and my leadership. I thought these 6 months would be just a few tactical “tips for leaders” but this has really started me on a path of changing how I approach work, life, leadership, and tough situations!
Executive, Global Cyber Security
“I would say the biggest benefit of using Thought Forms has been my ability to take groups/ systems (such as a company or department) and uncover hidden patterns of existing relationships. I’m able to think through the implications of decisions on multiple stakeholder groups, not just through linear ‘if this then that’ thinking, but by taking into account existing relationships, communal values, and goals. This helps me form a clearer picture of how stable a group dynamic truly is and informs me where work needs to be done on bridging divides before solving whatever business problem we have in front of us.”
Global Pricing Lead, global insurance company
“Christine helped me to understand what strategic thinking looks like and how to develop it. I feel much more confident now in positioning myself for higher level roles.”
Head of legal services, global insurance company
“Christine has been a great trusted advisor. Having put her advice into practice, I have made great progress in building better stakeholder relationships. She really helped me to understand how to look at the world through other people’s eyes to improve my communication and ability to influence others.”
VP marketing, global software company
“I love that Christine asks me really hard questions to challenge my assumptions and to re-frame my thinking. I feel I have made tremendous progress over the last few months.”
VP PR, global insurance company
“Christine gave me some practical tools with which to build my resilience. I now feel much calmer in facing my challenges than I did before.”
PR Director, global media company
“Christine was a brilliant listener and sounding board. She presented insights which really helped me understand what my real challenges were and why. She gave me the confidence that I could take the initiative to fulfil my potential.”
HR Manager, Logistics industry
“I wasn’t sure how coaching could help me, but I found quickly that Christine’s wisdom opened up my eyes to the causes of my issues which have bugged my interpersonal relations for years. She was infinitely patient with my worries and never gave up on my mental blocks. I feel so much stronger having acquired new perspectives about myself and my personal style. I now have an incentive to change.”
Marketing Director, automotive industry
“Working with Christine was like being developed from the inside out. She showed me how to think about possibilities, and not be shackled by my doubts. She was kind, down-to-earth, and a brilliant listener. She spotted issues and causes long before I did and made it seem possible that I could get past them.”