International Executive Coach | Team Coach | Consultant | Lecturer
Helping international leaders and teams build confidence, navigate complexity and create meaningful change. Across cultures.
Which assumptions are steering your decisions?
I’m Sonia Thomas
I’m an international executive and team coach with more than 30 years of experience across sectors and cultures. Before coaching, I worked in international organisations, including as a COO, so I know how leadership decisions feel from the inside.
Every leader carries assumptions, beliefs and habits of thought. Some serve you well. Others steer your decisions before you’ve noticed. My work is to help you see them, so you can lead with more clarity, confidence and impact.
I work in English and French, online and in person. My approach rests on empathy, ethics, discretion and evidence.
Services
Executive Coaching
One-to-one support for leaders facing growth, change & complexity
- Leadership confidence
- Decision-making under pressure
- Communication & influence
- Intercultural leadership
- Career transitions
Team Coaching
Helping teams work better together, across borders and hierarchies
- Leadership team development
- Cross-cultural team dynamics
- Trust and psychological safety
- Collective decision-making
- Organisational change
Leadership Development
Workshops & programmes that build the capabilities leaders need
- Inclusive leadership
- Difficult conversations
- Cognitive bias & decision-making
- Leadership under pressure
- Female leadership & confidence
Speaking & Education
Keynotes, guest lectures & executive programmes
- Leadership & decision-making
- Cognitive bias & systems thinking
- Diversity, equity & inclusion
- Intercultural leadership
- The future of work
My approach
Tools that make the work practical
Over the years I’ve built practical frameworks for the situations international leaders meet most often. Each one is simple enough to use in the moment.
IDEAL Method
A five-step method for examining how you make decisions, spotting the biases at work and anchoring what you learn.
Cultural Compass
A five-step compass across four cultural dimensions, to see where you and the people around you stand.
OCRA
A four-step method for making sense of tensions in international teams, through individual, systemic and cultural lenses.
PARLER
A six-step framework for preparing and holding difficult conversations across cultures.
What clients say
“With Sonia, I gained confidence, understanding of my current situation, and finally I made a great step forward in my career. I strongly recommend Sonia and her coaching sessions, one of the best investments I made in my career.”
Sophia, Director, Event Sector
“Sonia established an environment where I felt comfortable working through difficult issues. Thanks to our work together, I know myself better and feel confident in my ability to advance in my life.”
Linda, Senior Partner, Law Firm
“J’ai choisi de travailler avec Sonia à un moment charnière de ma vie professionnelle, lorsque je ne savais plus quelle direction prendre. Grâce à son accompagnement, j’ai retrouvé de la clarté, appris à mieux gérer mes priorités et à consacrer du temps à ce qui compte vraiment…”
I chose to work with Sonia at a turning point in my professional life, when I no longer knew which direction to take. With her support, I found clarity, learned to manage my priorities better and to make time for what really matters.
Patrick, Architect and Professor of Architecture