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We help leaders thrive in complexity

Sapiens-Leadership - Valentine Ciudad & Yann Ofanowski leadership coaching

The Challenge

As uncertainty grows, leadership struggles to hold it collectively. Under pressure, teams revert to familiar patterns that no longer fit a changing reality.

Individual Leaders

 

  • Getting trapped in old habits and reactive patterns — unable to draw on deeper strengths and resources.
  • Losing energy and focus under pressure — feeling overwhelmed by complexity instead of mastering it.
  • Struggling with alignment and meaning — lacking conviction across roles, responsibilities, and life domains.
  • Navigating critical transitions — role changes, restructurings, or crises — while keeping perspective and confidence.
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Teams & Organizations

 

  • Leadership teams stuck in firefighting mode — reacting to today’s problems instead of shaping the future.
  • Siloed thinking and low trust —across functions, geographies, and levels of the organization.
  • Cultures that avoid difficult conversations — preventing innovation and honest accountability.
  • Transformations that stall or lose momentum — failing to gain traction when results matter most.

The cost: stagnation, disengagement, and missed opportunities — both for leaders and the organizations they serve.

 

Ready to tackle these challenges in your organization?

Our Purpose:  To elevate leadership for a better world

How We Help

We work hands-on with leaders and teams to move beyond old patterns and navigate complexity with confidence:

Individual Leaders

  • Executive Coaching
    Boost your leadership effectiveness, resolve complex challenges, and navigate transformation and transitions successfully.

 

  • Leadership Development Programs
    Equip leaders with practical skills, leadership mindsets, and behaviour shifts that enhance capability and organizational impact.
Sapiens Leadership - We develop your cross cultural leadership teams

Teams & Organizations

  • Team Coaching
    Develop teams with high trust, alignment, and collaboration to tackle challenges and deliver lasting organizational value.

 

  • Culture Transformation
    Shift behaviours, embed shared values, and create a culture of trust, innovation, and shared accountability that builds sustainable success.

Discover how we can transform your leadership and teams.

What makes Sapiens different

Strategic approach

With backgrounds at McKinsey, Accenture, and senior leadership roles, we link leadership growth directly to strategy, transformation, and results.

Human depth

We help leaders grow not only in role, but as people — with authenticity, courage, and purpose.

Science based

We integrate insights from neuroscience, psychology, and organizational development, using state-of-the-art assessments & tools to accelerate and sustain change.

Cross-cultural

We thrive in global contexts, coaching and facilitating in multiple languages, and bridging cultural boundaries.

Discover our approach in action

Our Team

Valentine Ciudad - Sapiens Leadership - Founder & Executive Coach

Valentine Ciudad

Co-founder, Executive Coach & Consultant

Valentine brings almost 30 years in consulting and elevating leadership across sectors and geographies. A former McKinsey consultant, she combines strategic insight, business acumen, and human focus to help executives and teams drive sustainable change amid complexity.

Expertise: Executive Coaching | Team & Culture Transformation | Resilience & Adaptive Leadership | Leadership Embodiment | Work & Life | Diversity & Inclusion

Languages: English, French, Spanish, Dutch

Valentine Ciudad - Sapiens Leadership - ICF Certified Coach
Yann Ofanowski - Sapiens Leadership - Co-Founder & Executive Coach

Yann Ofanowski

Co-founder, Executive Coach & Consultant

Yann has 25+ years of experience in leadership development, culture change, and HR, including roles at Accenture as management consultant and HR leader. He combines art and science to help leaders and teams navigate complexity, strengthen resilience, and innovate effectively.

Expertise: Executive Coaching | Team & Culture Transformation | Resilience & Adaptive Leadership | Neuro-Cognitivism | Creative Arts & Development

Languages: English, French

Yann Ofanowski - Sapiens Leadership - EMCC Certified Coach

Valentine and Yann are remarkably able to bring together two dimensions that tend to struggle in companies: how leaders can maximize business output and, at the same time, also maximize personal well-being. They create a safe environment to put our problems on the table and never forget the company’s priorities and business objectives.

Their work added real value to our organization.

Andrés Del Solar

VP Sales & Marketing EMEA, Amcor

Absolutely Brilliant

I have taken the individual leadership development program.

Yusuf

Brilliant

Our leadership team engagement has improved significantly.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Stephen

Corporate experiences

hours supporting organizational and individual transformation

Industries

hours of coaching

We are located in Belgium & France, and work across Europe & beyond.

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