Ank Stuyfzand is a professional certified coach with more than twenty years of experience in the field of leadership and team effectiveness. She works with leaders and -multicultural- teams to create positive and productive team dynamics and inclusive workplaces, with skill and integrity.
Ank’s specific areas of expertise include cultural intelligence and conversational capacity, including navigating difficult conversations, influencing without authority, women leadership and personal effectiveness. Her work is research-based, and she combines international experience and expertise with a hands-on, practical approach that yields results.
Throughout her career as a coach and consultant, Ank has worked for start-ups, to 100,000+ employee organizations across a wide range of industries, varying from financial services, healthcare, life sciences, software, marketing, retail, professional services, non-profit and academia, both in the US and Europe.
Ank is a fulltime clinical professor at Suffolk University in Boston, MA, teaching undergrad and graduate classes in the field of Leadership, Cross-Cultural Management and Organizational Change.
Ank holds a master degree in Organizational Leadership from Chapman University in Irvine, CA, and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. She is accredited by the International Coach Federation and the European Mentoring & Coaching Council. Her professional certifications include Evidence Based Coaching (Fielding University, Santa Barbara, CA) Organizational Development (Chapman University, Irvine CA) and Organizational Communication (SHR, Amsterdam The Netherlands), Organization & Relationship System Coaching (CRR Global) and Systemic Team Coaching (GTCI).
