Executive coaching

Integrated leadership

I help leadership teams make bolder, more sustainable decisions.

I develop leaders who stand firmly in themselves — with clarity, inner stability and human strength.
Berit Elisabeth Öhn · MCC · 15,000+ hours · 20+ countries
Integrated leadership

Modern leadership requires flexible solidity

Modern leadership demands more than strength and experience. It requires flexible solidity — the ability to stand steady without becoming rigid, to take responsibility without tightening, and to be serious without losing creativity or openness. When leaders expand their capacity, a subtle yet powerful shift occurs: firmness becomes steadiness, clarity becomes perspective, responsibility becomes presence, and structure becomes mobility.

Leadership regains flow — the ability to adjust, sense, explore, imagine, and respond with maturity and vitality. This is not a collection of traits. It is an integrated way of leading: steady and flexible, clear and curious, responsible and creative — with room for playfulness where it supports mobility and openness.

Leadership that breathes, listens, creates, and moves with the world.

The model

Clarity. Capacity. Coherence.

Integrated Leadership builds three capacities that let leaders meet complexity with steadiness — shaped through 16 years of global work at Accenture and with leaders across Europe.

01

Clarity

Seeing clearly under pressure — intent, perspective and direction, without narrowing into rigidity.

02

Capacity

The inner range to hold responsibility, adapt and stay present — steadiness that stays mobile rather than tightening.

03

Coherence

Alignment between who a leader is and what they do — so decisions carry both authority and life.

28+Years
15k+Coaching hours
16Years at Accenture
4Brandon Hall awards
20+Countries
The Work

Six ways to work together

01

Executive 1:1 Coaching

For leaders in complexity, transition, or a high-stakes next chapter.

02

Team Coaching

Building trust and direct communication before teams inherit old conflicts.

03

The 4C Model

Character, Competence and Capacity — with Core at the centre. Launching soon.

04

Program Design

Custom leadership programs for 20–150 leaders, globally.

05

Nature Workshops

Two-day immersive leadership work in nature, with practice that lasts.

06

Keynote Speaking

On EQ, purpose-led leadership, and "Be before you do."

The legacy behind Integrated Leadership

Heart Smart

The origin of a leadership practice that moved people

Heart Smart was the foundation that made Integrated Leadership possible. It grew at the crossroads of culture, humanity and leadership — a practice that united inner work, emotional precision and relational power, shaped by people who dared to meet themselves with honesty and courage. Developed over several years across cultures and contexts, and captured both artistically and professionally by those who followed the transformation in the room, it earned four Brandon Awards in 2022 — international recognition of its ability to unite inner transformation with practical leadership impact.

"Be before you do."

What Heart Smart created

Leaders who stood more firmly in themselves, met others with greater nerve and warmth, developed emotional precision and relational maturity — and experienced a personal transformation that changed the way they led.

The legacy that lives on

The human nerve, the depth of inner work, the power of personal transformation, the precision of emotional contact, and the ability to stand in yourself in the presence of others. This is the foundation Integrated Leadership is built on.

Right for this time

Leadership has changed, and the demands on inner capacity with it. Heart Smart was right for its time. Integrated Leadership is its continuation and refinement — shaped for a reality that requires lasting integration, real insight and a genuine capacity to act.

Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards · 2022 · for the Heart Smart program

GOLD

Best Advance in Leadership Development

GOLD

Best Advance in Coaching & Mentoring

GOLD

Best Advance in Custom Content

SILVER

Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program

Results

What Integrated leadership looks like

150top executives · 6 countries

Primark

A year-long leadership transformation for the board and top team — new framework, tailored psychometrics, coaching across six countries.

"Her uncompromising style and extensive experience led to the kinds of breakthroughs we were looking for."
— Breege O'Donoghue, Company Director, Primark
+20%leadership effectiveness & client satisfaction

Best Buy

50 senior leaders, 11 months, across the US and India. The program ran three more years as a global best practice — and the account director was promoted to Accenture's CEO Global Executive Leadership team.

5 yrs30 high-potential leaders a year

CRH

A high-potential pipeline that turned leadership development into business innovation — with senior leadership investing in new projects proposed by participants each year.

Case narratives

How leaders change

CEO stepping into a new role

An experienced leader entering a role that required a broader range of capacity. He expanded his leadership into a steadier, more flexible presence — grounded, clear, and able to shift with the situation. His leadership now carries both authority and agility.

Leadership team in a Nordic technology organization

A strong team seeking a more integrated way of working. They developed reliable solidity — clearer communication, greater openness, and more flexible collaboration. They now navigate with strengthened agility.

Senior leader in transition

A capable leader whose seriousness had narrowed her creativeness. She rediscovered intuitive insight, receptive openness, and playfulness. Her leadership is now both steady and flexible.

Leader seeking renewed creativity and agility

A strong leader who had begun to hold too tightly. She rediscovered curiosity, creative agility, and intuitive responsiveness. Her leadership breathes again — opening new possibilities for her team.

Trusted by leaders at
Accenture Primark Best Buy CRH Telenor Wärtsilä Volvo Lego Sanofi Schneider Electric Shiseido Aker Solutions Bank of Ireland Tata Communications UN World Food Programme
The journey

Voices from the journey

These videos are personal expressions from people who were part of the journey that shaped today's practice. They carry presence, warmth, depth and human strength — the real thing in the encounters between people over the years. Not descriptions of a programme, but voices from people who lived a journey that helped shape Integrated Leadership as it is today.

Mariam Amir-AhmadiFormer Leadership & Culture ASG Lead · MD, Accenture Austria
Ben SlaterFormer CEO, Bow & Arrow (acquired by Accenture)
Bart De RidderCountry Managing Director, Belgium & Luxembourg
Sander van der HeijdenSenior MD, Accenture Netherlands
Kristof LambertCountry Managing Director, Belgium & Luxembourg
"This coaching journey changed my life — how I think, feel and act, and my performance. I feel like a renewed person."
Director, TelecomOne-year coaching engagement
"In all my years in management, I have never seen a program have this kind of lasting impact on people's lives."
Best BuyFinancial Director
Berit Elisabeth Öhn
About

Founder. Master coach. Thought leader

Twelve years as a CEO. Founder of one of Norway's earliest coaching companies. Then 16 years at Accenture, who acquired the rights to her methodology and made her their global SME in Leadership, Coaching and EQ.

I develop leaders who both want to be and to do — strategic identity development, MCC-anchored, shaped through 15,000+ hours. I help them stand in themselves with greater clarity, inner stability and human strength.

Berit Elisabeth Öhn, MCC
Professional references

“I have had the pleasure of working with Berit on several occasions. The first was at Altibox (the Lyse Group) in 2012. Later we collaborated closely for a couple of years (2019–2020) when I led the TV and Broadband division at Telenor Norway, and again in 2023 at Miles, where I was Managing Director. Berit is deeply experienced and insightful. She quickly creates safety and direction — for leadership teams and individuals alike. She offers leadership development that goes beyond the traditional, with a focus on deep processes that create lasting, positive change in the leadership role. A process with Berit combines individual development, team development and business focus. She has a broad repertoire of practical tools and methodologies, which she both teaches and actively applies. We have worked concretely on real challenges while building stronger, more aligned teams. I have experienced that working with Berit delivers significant business results, and I warmly recommend her.”

Camilla AmundsenCEO, Rambøll Norway (Managing Director at the time)

“My leadership team and I received team and leadership development support from Berit Elisabeth Öhn over a period of nine months. The goal was to develop as a team and build closer relationships — to go from being a group of leaders to becoming a cohesive leadership team. We had five joint gatherings as well as several rounds of individual coaching. Together we worked through a range of exercises tied to establishing a shared vision, EQI, coaching each other and our employees, effective decisions and handling disagreement, and how to stand in uncertainty and support one another. The individual coaching included EQI assessment at the start of the process and again at its conclusion. We were strengthened to carry out major changes as a unified leadership team and to support each other, while every department also saw improved employee satisfaction. All participants raised our EQI, and several experienced a positive effect from the tools and coaching in their personal lives too.”

Leader of a leadership team9-month team & leadership programme · anonymised
My practice

Making the hidden visible

In my workshops I use the lifeline as an intuitive tool to make the hidden visible. By looking back at what we did for others — unprompted — early in life, we often find traces of our identity and purpose. When we explore what it gave us, and what made us do it, what has been unconscious becomes concrete and available. This is part of my practice for strategic identity development.

Berit Elisabeth Öhn
Beyond the work

Leadership is personal. The same principle I bring to leaders — lead from head, heart and gut — is the one I try to live: present, grounded, and close to what matters. Here, in the hills above Oslo.

— Berit & Bonnie

Integrated leadership is not about adding more. It is about expanding capacity — creating space, movement, and depth so leadership can meet complexity with clarity, responsibility with presence, and seriousness with creativity.

Leadership that is alive. Leadership that is mature. Leadership that is whole.

Get in touch

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