Meet Sabine

Sabine Havenstein is an Executive Coach, Leadership Advisor, and Organizational Development Consultant with more than 20 years of international experience helping leaders, teams, and organizations succeed in times of transformation.

She partners with senior executives, leadership teams, entrepreneurs, and growing start-ups to navigate complexity, strengthen leadership, and build organizations where people and performance thrive. Whether supporting an executive through a critical career transition, facilitating leadership teams, or guiding organizational change across countries and cultures, Sabine combines strategic thinking with a deep understanding of people.

Her expertise spans executive coaching, leadership development, organizational transformation, team effectiveness, and culture change. She helps leaders gain clarity, strengthen collaboration, make confident decisions, and translate strategy into sustainable action.

Her clients range from fast-growing start-ups and family-owned businesses to universities and global corporations across a wide range of industries.

Having lived and worked internationally and collaborating with clients across Europe for more than two decades, Sabine brings a global perspective while adapting to different cultures, leadership styles, and business environments. She works fluently in English, German, and Spanish.

What defines Sabine’s approach?

• Strategic thinking combined with genuine empathy
• Building trusted partnerships that challenge and support leaders
• Turning complexity into clarity and action
• Strengthening leadership, collaboration, and organizational effectiveness
• Creating practical, sustainable solutions with measurable business impact
• Working across cultures with curiosity, respect, and professionalism

Areas of Expertise

• Executive Coaching for senior leaders and executives
• Leadership Development Programmes and Leadership Team Facilitation
• Organizational Development and Transformation
• Change Management and Culture Development
• Team Effectiveness and High-Performing Teams
• Executive Career Transition & Outplacement Coaching
• Leadership Workshops, Facilitation
• Executive Assessments and Leadership Diagnostics

Certifications & Background

• Over 20 years of international experience in Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, and Organizational Development
• Coach Assessor (dvct – German Association for Coaching and Training)
• Certified Systemic Business Coach (Stöger & Partner, dvct)
• Certified Systemic Team Coach (Munich Academy for Business Coaching)
• Certified in Systemic Organizational Development (Simon, Weber & Friends; Trigon)
• Certified E-Trainer (Mindsystems)
• NLP Diploma (DVNLP – German Association for Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
• Extensive experience working with global corporations, SMEs, universities, and fast-growing start-ups
• International facilitator and coach working in English, German, and Spanish

Certified in a broad range of internationally recognized leadership and team assessment tools, including:

• Hogan 360
• Leadership Circle Profile (LCP)
• Center for Creative Leadership (CCL): 360° Suite, Executive Dimensions, 360 by Design, Skillscope, Global 6, Leadership Gap Indicator
• Team Management Systems (TMS – Margerison-McCann)
• Workplace Big Five Profile (WPB5)
• FIRO-B
• Human Patterns
• Zurich Resource Model (ZRM)