
Team
Martine Cannon
Founder & CEO | Executive Strategist in Culture, Coherence & Leadership Transformation
Martine Cannon is a globally recognized strategist in culture transformation and executive leadership, known for guiding CEOs and top teams through seismic change with precision, depth, and a deeply human approach. For over two decades, she has helped some of the world’s most complex organizations evolve their leadership, performance, and culture to meet the demands of a fast-changing world.
Martine’s work centres on the principle of coherence: inner coherence within leaders, interpersonal coherence in and across teams and cultural coherence – which brings order and energy at scale. She enables leadership teams to go beyond leading change to transmitting it.
Gary Joplin
Somatic Leadership Coach & Embodiment Specialist
Gary Joplin is a senior leadership coach and global expert in somatic intelligence and embodiment. With a background in movement, theatre, and deep meditative practice, Gary helps leaders access the often-overlooked connection between body, emotion, and performance. His work aligns inner states with outer impact—supporting executives to lead with greater presence, coherence, and grounded vitality. Gary facilitates deep transformation for CEO-level leaders across Europe, Asia, and the U.S., and is a faculty member on intensive leadership programs for major corporations. Through a distinctive blend of somatic awareness and systems-level insight, he enables cultural shifts that go beyond theory—embedding change in the very physiology of leadership.
Gregor Steinmauer
Systemic Therapist & Executive Transformation Specialist
Gregor Steinmauer is a systemic therapist and international leadership facilitator with over 15 years of experience guiding leaders through deep personal and cultural transformation. Trained in neuroaffective psychotherapy, trauma healing, and systemic constellation work, Gregor blends psychological precision with a profound capacity to hold space for change in complex systems. He has worked with executives across Europe and beyond, supporting them to integrate unresolved patterns, embody presence, and lead from inner coherence. As faculty with the Academy of Inner Science and contributor to the Pocket Project, his work explores the edges of intergenerational trauma, mysticism, and integral development—especially where these dynamics intersect with modern leadership. At Martine Cannon, Gregor helps leaders and teams unlock insight, integrity, and high-performance alignment by working from the inside out—building cultures that are not only intelligent but whole.
Ivo Delfgaauw
Executive Leadership Coach & Culture Facilitator
Ivo Delfgaauw is an internationally experienced executive coach and leadership strategist with over 20 years guiding senior leaders across Europe and Asia. Known for enabling “irreversible growth,” Ivo works with C-suites and top teams to cultivate deep maturity, resilience, and impact in their leadership. Formerly a consultant at PwC and head of marketing at T-Mobile, Ivo integrates strategic business understanding with transformational coaching mastery—helping leaders navigate complexity with clarity and confidence. As former CEO of The Coach Partnership in Singapore, he has trained hundreds of executives and coached across industries from finance and energy to fashion and humanitarian work. His calm presence, commercial acumen, and intuitive insight support leaders in expanding their identity and capability—essential in fast-scaling cultural environments.
Jennifer Beard
Executive Coach & Leadership Culture Specialist
Jennifer Beard is a senior executive coach and culture facilitator with over 20 years of experience helping leaders and organizations unlock performance through clarity, alignment, and emotionally intelligent leadership. With a background in behavioural science and a sharp understanding of complex systems, Jennifer creates safe yet accountable spaces for executive teams to engage in honest dialogue, shift unhelpful dynamics, and co-create purposeful strategies. Her cross-sector experience spans financial services, infrastructure, government, legal, healthcare, and professional services—guiding leadership at every level from boardrooms to emerging talent pipelines. Jennifer specializes in culture-led transformation, leadership transitions, and building high-performing teams grounded in trust and strategic coherence. Her facilitation style is intuitive, structured, and impact-focused—equipping leaders to meet today’s demands with greater humanity, resilience, and systemic awareness.
Emma Markwick
Executive Coach & Human Systems Facilitator
Emma Markwick is a seasoned executive coach, occupational psychologist, and systems facilitator with over 30 years of experience guiding individuals, teams, and organizations through transformational growth. At Martine Cannon, she brings a rare blend of academic depth and lived global practice—drawing on advanced training in executive coaching, gestalt facilitation, and core process psychotherapy. Emma’s approach is both holistic and pragmatic, empowering leaders to navigate complexity with clarity and purpose. She has led impact-driven initiatives in post-conflict regions, contributed to global anti-trafficking efforts, and designed interventions for professional sports and Fortune 500 organizations. Her coaching methodology integrates emotional resilience, systemic clarity, and cutting-edge research on matrix leadership and inner regulation.
Abby Barton
Abby Barton is a transformational coach and leadership consultant known for blending strategic clarity with deep emotional intelligence. With a background as a chartered accountant and 15 years in multinational corporate leadership roles, Abby brings a sharp commercial lens to her coaching—while drawing on extensive training in vertical leadership development, neuroscience, and somatic practice. Her work supports leaders through transformation, ambiguity, and personal reinvention, enabling them to build high-performing teams rooted in trust and shared purpose. Passionate about raising consciousness in leadership, Abby supports clients across sectors to lead with more compassion, agility, and authenticity—especially in moments of complexity, change, and innovation. She has worked or travelled in over 60 countries and brings a global, future-fit mindset to every engagement.
Adriana Chmiel
Adriana Chmiel is a transformational strategist and senior executive coach who integrates deep consciousness work with real-world leadership execution. With over 25 years of experience, including senior roles in strategy, organizational transformation, and change leadership at Blue Cross Blue Shield, Adriana blends commercial acumen with cutting-edge development methodologies. At Martine Cannon, she brings a rare fluency in systems thinking, integral psychology, and cultural transformation to help top teams navigate complexity with heart, coherence, and clarity. A Master Certified Integral Coach™ and Certified Integral Facilitator™, Adriana supports CEOs and executive teams in dissolving limiting patterns, strengthening collaborative accountability, and unlocking performance through purpose. Her multicultural lens, grounded spiritual practice, and business fluency make her a powerful ally for organizations seeking sustainable growth through human potential.
Paul Zonneveld
Executive Coach & Systemic Intelligence Lead
Paul Zonneveld is a master practitioner in systemic leadership and organizational transformation with over 25 years’ experience advising global enterprises through complexity, integration, and growth. At Martine Cannon, Paul works at the intersection of deep human insight and strategic coherence, helping executive teams build cultures that are emotionally intelligent, structurally sound, and future-fit. As Director of the scientific department for systemic intelligence at Constellators International®, he is globally respected for advancing organizational constellations in high-stakes business contexts. His methodology supports leaders in activating their internal coherence and aligning deeply with purpose—becoming carriers of culture rather than enforcers of it. Paul’s work is especially impactful in post-merger integration, cultural onboarding at scale, and enabling ethical leadership systems in a world shaped by AI and uncertainty.
Laurence Shorter
Leadership Coach & Top Team Coherence Catalyst
Laurence Shorter is a specialist in executive resilience, creative leadership, and culture transformation—renowned for helping leaders sustain clarity, flow, and impact in the face of complexity. With a rare combination of strategic consulting experience, entrepreneurial leadership, and creative storytelling, Laurence supports C-suite executives and teams through pivotal moments of scale, challenge, or cultural reset. His work spans elite leadership programs at global retailers, vision and values alignment for major banking groups, and transformation coaching for both fast-growth start-ups and legacy businesses. A former McKinsey analyst turned bestselling author and stand-up comedian, Laurence bridges logic and emotion with ease, equipping leaders to stay anchored, energised, and coherent as they navigate an AI-shaped world. His mission: help organizations turn volatility into vitality—where human creativity and system intelligence meet.
Andrea Ingrish
Andrea Ingrish is a senior executive coach and transformational facilitator with over two decades of experience working with senior leaders and teams across sectors including tech, financial services, consumer goods, and fast-growth ventures. At Martine Cannon, she brings together rigorous strategic insight—honed through leadership roles at BCG, AOL, and Eden McCallum—with somatic and systemic coaching methodologies to help leaders activate performance, clarity, and coherence in times of rapid change. Based in Munich and working internationally, Andrea supports C-suites and high-performing teams to align on strategy, resolve conflict constructively, and build trust-based collaboration. Her work fosters deep self-leadership, transforming outdated patterns into conscious, embodied decision-making. In group settings, she creates powerful environments for insight, alignment, and collective evolution—essential for scaling culture without losing the human edge.
Kate Van Akin
Kate Van Akin is a strategic leadership and transformation expert with a 15-year track record guiding multinational organizations through periods of high-stakes change. At Martine Cannon, she brings a unique blend of system-wide rigor and human insight, having spent a decade at McKinsey & Company leading global research on change success factors and co-designing their flagship Change Leaders Forum. Her work equips leaders to become the cultural regulators of their systems—deeply aligned, highly adaptive, and able to drive coherence across growing, complex organizations. Kate’s approach integrates behavioral science, AI-informed storytelling, and embodied leadership practices to create living, scalable cultural shifts that stick. From C-suite alignment to large-scale employee engagement, she designs and delivers interventions that preserve core DNA while activating the future potential of enterprise culture.
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