Hi! I’m Sima

I’m the founder of Executive Reflections, and I coach senior leaders and executives all over the world through burnout so you can thrive again, professionally AND personally. 

The short story: 

I was a C-suite executive who was harassed and burned out. I’ve used what I learned through experience plus a tonne of research (reading + conversations with top psychiatrists and therapists) on what top-performing leadership is today to craft a programme to support other leaders and executives from burnout to brilliance.  I’ve been at this for a long time now, and the approach I created - the BRITE method - gets consistent results allowing people to turn their lives around, reconnect with loved ones, pick up their favourite activities AND make an incredible impact professionally… all while staying healthy.

Back at the time, I was being harassed though, I was so caught off guard. I was the primary breadwinner, and had a mortgage and young child. I have always been driven and a high-flyer. Finding myself in a toxic environment, I did all the things I now know kept me down and stuck.  I struggled to admit to myself how bad things had gotten, until my doctor put me on burnout leave… for 7 months!! 

As I pulled through, I began to read and research like crazy. I’m a facts-first kind of person, and wanted to know:

What I realised was that if there was toxic leadership at one end of the spectrum, at the other end, it is empathetic, authentic, psychologically safe leadership that is the top-performing.  

And that's why top performing leadership today looks, sounds and feels vastly different from what our mentors would have been taught, because our interconnected, rapidly changing world demands a new leadership paradigm.