I deeply appreciate my clients, and work with individuals and teams from all backgrounds and walks of life. They are thought leaders, business owners, artists, expats, teenagers, young professionals and more. I have broad experience working with internationals, too. And because most of my coaching takes place via video conferencing, I have maximum global reach.

Get in touch for a coaching conversation with me. Email saskia@yourfuturenow.org and/or call: +1 206.601.4664.

When I started working with Saskia, I had been in a new position at my organization for a little over a year. I was working closely with an executive leadership team and had gotten feedback that I could improve my executive leadership and managing-up skills. I wanted to work with Saskia to improve and grow those skills. I was also feeling like I needed to push myself to improve my networking skills and thought a mentor would be good at helping me with that. Working with Saskia was an absolute dream and she was so helpful at providing me with resources, training programs, and techniques that I could use to help me achieve my goals and improve on the skills I had been wanting to grow. Saskia was there to talk through situations at work and help me figure out how best to approach them and apply the new skills and techniques I was learning with her. She provided me with really great resources about organizational and social psychology, which were helpful for me as a big part of the executive leadership skills I wanted to develop involved change management skills. Saskia is warm and empathetic and has a great sense of humor too, which is so essential in doing this work. I always looked forward to our meetings and she would consistently go above and beyond to provide me with support outside of our sessions. After working with her, I was able to come up with a development plan and think through my future career planning. I now feel more confident about what my future holds and what I can do to end up where I want to be. I can’t thank her enough for all the mentoring, training, and tips she provided me with during our time together. I feel like they’ve helped me feel more confident and comfortable as I start my first true management experience by managing the new Executive Assistant. It was really helpful to think about the type of manager and leader I wanted to be before I got to this place, so I could visualize it and now work on actualizing my vision.

Gabi, Program Leadership Team Manager at Earthjustice, USA

Saskia has helped me to get to know my essence in life and to connect with others from this essence. Saskia listens very actively and she knows how to summarize my sharing the core. That alone gave me a lot of insight into certain patterns or ways of thinking. The end of each coaching session was an agreement on how I could integrate the core of the session into my daily life. That could be a reminder in my agenda or something else to turn my insights into action and therefore make a meaningful change. I wish for everyone to share their life questions with Saskia. By her coaching, Saskia gave me a lasting enrichment of my life.

Jörg, Managing Director, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

I started working with Saskia at the end of 2020, which was an unprecedented time for us all. Working in education, I was feeling burnt out, stressed and anxious about the future. Saskia’s ability to meet me where I was at and coach me through the 6-week mental fitness program helped me see changes within a week of starting my practice. After taking the saboteur quiz, I knew I needed to work on my Stickler and Hyper-Vigilant saboteurs. Saskia listened and learned about where I wanted to improve and she was able to consistently apply the PQ practices to specific areas of my life. Our weekly small group meetings were a safe space to be honest and grow with each other. I felt supported by both Saskia and my teammate, even when I felt I was falling short with my practice. The 6-week Mental Fitness program brought practices in my life that I will continue to use and has changed my outlook on many things including myself and others. I would recommend this program to anyone looking to be more mindful of their thoughts, feelings, actions and relationships. If you truly commit to the hard work in the 6-week program, you will see positive results and changes in your life. Saskia’s leadership is effective and she is a wonderful guide to have throughout this journey.

Lydia, Special Education Paraeducator, USA

I’ve started to work with Saskia about 2 years ago, in 2018. At that time, I was trying to make a start with my own business, finding a path and purpose. I’d already left my office job and felt somehow blocked by thoughts and limited beliefs which prevented me taking the next steps. I was happy with the change of lifestyle but struggling to make it sustainable. I’ve already known Saskia for quite some years, as we once were colleagues. Back then she was my manager and I had always felt at ease and supported by her. When I saw on Facebook that she had started her own coaching business just at the moment I was looking for an (online) coach I contacted her right away. Even though we didn’t meet in person, her positive energy was always present. I’ve enjoyed all the coaching sessions with Saskia. Our conversations and corresponding exercises gave me lots of insight and clarification. Saskia helped me with finding answers within myself by asking all kinds of questions. We worked with intended results and measurable steps, which were called milestones. Every milestone was a moment of celebration. This was completely new to me and felt a bit weird at the beginning. Why celebrate when you’ve not reached your goal? But in fact, it makes so much sense, because the process is as important as the result. I feel very grateful to have worked with Saskia and I am sure we will continue to do so in the future. What I love about Saskia is her pureness, positive approach, enthusiasm, sincere interest, being a good listener and the ability to make you see that our opportunities are limitless. We can create whatever we want. Since the coaching sessions with Saskia, I’ve created my own Tiny House in the forest, which I rent out as a holiday home. This created financial freedom and gave me the opportunity to work on projects that give me energy. At the moment I’m working as a personal assistant for a family, I practice yoga and meditation daily and travel as much as I can. Me-time became more important and allowing myself to rest and relax had and still has a profound impact on my life. My new project is building a pousada in Bahia, Brazil. I’m super excited about this and feel that I’m living my full potential. Thank you, Saskia!

Marieke, (Digital) Nomad, Entrepreneur, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Saskia is an exceptional mentor, warm-hearted individual, and the Seattle youth community leader - the TEDxYouth Seattle event co-founder. I had the opportunity to join Saskia's TEDxYouth Event Logistics team from 2018-2019 working from brainstorming to successfully creating the first team of the TEDxYouth event. Saskia's ability to manage 10+ teams, keep track of small to big deadlines, and have an eye for "any possibility to make the event better" inspired me and the big TEDxYouth team to accomplish many "impossibles" into reality. As an exceptional mentor, she supported me tremendously on my leadership development, public speaking, and team management skills. I never thought I could lead a core team, pitch to companies, and execute a TED talk event in my young career - all due to Saskia inviting me to TEDxYouth Seattle and giving me the opportunity to lead as a youth from Seattle.

Jennie, Youth Leader TEDxYouth@Seattle, Seattle, USA

When I met Saskia, I had just discovered coaching and was thinking about transitioning myself to be a coach. Saskia was my very first coach and I loved it, from the client’s perspective and from the future coach’s perspective that was growing in me. From the first time I met her, I knew I wanted to work with her. I don't regret believing my intuition. Saskia has this ability to inspire immediate trust. She is warm, gentle, open-minded and generous. She offers who she is, with her heart. She is also courageous and provocative. Through her questions, she has led me to explore my fears and survival mechanisms in order to choose my future without fear. Thank you, Saskia, for accompanying me in my early days of coaching. Thank you for making me see my deepest essence and for helping me to trust myself more. You remain precious to me.

Cecile, Coach - Former French magistrate, Redmond, USA

Saskia is both serious and playful, welcoming and warm, inquisitive and interested. When I meet her I always feel at ease, as though I can be the person I am and say the things I think. She doesn’t judge. 

Georgina, Team Leadership Mentor and Coach, Sydney

Saskia has an open, approachable personality. Anyone can talk to her and she can talk to anyone, regardless of age, gender, race or social status. Saskia keeps a conversation going and is genuinely interested in what people have to say. If she feels comfortable in her surroundings she radiates even more and brings a lot of energy to a room. She’s the active type; she doesn’t wait for things to happen but takes initiative and takes things into her own hands.

Kristina, Affiliate Manager, Singapore

I started my coaching relationship with Saskia when I was really struggling to find my bearings in life. I'm an entrepreneur who had a desperate need for change and new direction. I was really unsure of how to connect with myself, and shift old habits and behaviors that were not serving me well anymore.  I felt stuck, frustrated, trapped in a disempowering state of mind, unable to see the natural resources I had at my disposal.  

Saskia worked with me through coaching sessions that spanned from actively listening to where I was and processing past experiences that held me back, to exercises and goal setting. She really helped my attitude shift from a woeful and overwhelming ‘I don't have any way to fix this,’ to realizing the strengths I'd taken for granted or literally forgotten about. I discovered how to honor all of them and use them to restart my own growth process. Just as important, she’s helped me work with my fears and identify my coping mechanisms by noticing and labeling them with humor. It’s helped me rise above them rather than sinking back into them, and old reactionary habits. 

Saskia is open hearted, totally non-judgmental and excellent at sitting with me in times of tough emotional breakthroughs. She’s also the first to acknowledge and congratulate me when she notices victories, both small and large. She has been a huge support during a particularly challenging time of transition. I'm certain that working with her has made a tremendous impact on my new, positive trajectory in life. 

Jennifer, Business Owner, Seattle