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The Excellent Leadership Company combines the wisdom and passion of Branka van Roon and Mirjam van Roon.
About Branka
Branka van Roon is an experienced CEO in the healthcare industry.
She excels at restructuring and change, and developing people-centred
working communities.
Her experience includes strategic planning, change management
and value-based leadership. She has experience in both the private
and public sector.
Branka is also an executive coach, who works with talented and
ambitious executives. She helps them increase their performance
by uniting their beliefs, behaviours and capabilities with external
input.
Using her own experience as active CEO, she is in a unique position
to help her clients to align people, processes and performance
expectation with corporate results.
Branka’s clients include executives at large, medium-sized
healthcare organisations, governmental organisations and consulting
firms. She coaches clients worldwide in her three native languages,
Serbo-Croat, Dutch and English. Her areas of expertise include:
- Thinking Partner - Acting as a sounding board to executives, in order to help them develop and implement ideas that are in line with company goals
- Executive Coaching - Providing coaching for CEOs, executives, and accomplished professionals on improving leadership, achieving high performance, and overcoming personal and professional obstacles to effectiveness.
- Advising management teams - Combining her extensive professional experience with a thorough understanding of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to advise management teams on conducting effective meetings.
Branka is a certified NLP Master Practioner and is credentialed at the Associate Certified Coach level by the International Coach Federation (ICF). She has trained with Nancy Kline in the Thinking Partnership Programme, a powerful personal development tool. She is a graduate of Corporate
Coach University (2001) and an active
member of the ICF.
Branka
holds a Master’s degree in Pharmacy
from the University of Belgrade and specialised in Clinical Biochemistry
at the Free
University of Amsterdam.
About Mirjam
Mirjam is a graduate of Coach University and is credentialed at the Professional Certified Coach level by the International Coach Federation (ICF). She is qualified to deliver and interpret the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Step I and II) and uses the assessment extensively in coaching and training. She obtained her NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer qualification with Robert Dilts at NLPU.

Mirjam is on the faculty at Coach University, where she teaches both introductory and advanced coaching skills to a new generation of coaches. She is also an active member of the ICF and its London Chapter, as well as a member of the Association for Psychological Type. In addition she trained with Nancy Kline in the Thinking Environment.
Mirjam combines analytical thinking with listening abilities, insightful questions, and a carefully established sense of intuition. Her clients find her an intelligent, very empathic thinking partner, who helps them get clear on their professional or personal goals - then inspires them to achieve those. Coaching with Mirjam is both productive and fun.
Prior to starting Cobalt Coaching & Training in 2000, Mirjam worked as a research scientist in a large American chemical corporation. She earned her PhD degree in Organometallic Chemistry from the University of Washington in 1997, where she also gained substantial teaching experience.
Mirjam coaches internationally, is widely travelled, has lived in the Netherlands, Italy, the USA and currently resides in London, UK. She is fluent in Dutch, English, Serbo-Croat, German and Italian and has a working knowledge of French and Spanish. Her interests include dancing, reading, travel, volunteering, exploring the outdoors and learning new things.
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