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Empowered Team PodcastValarie Sandjivy: A CEO's Guide to Adaptability and Inner PowerIn this powerful episode of The Empowered Team Podcast, Kari Schneider sits down with executive coach and leadership mentor Valarie Sandjivy, founder of Ellipsus. With over 20 years of experience coaching C-suite leaders and entrepreneurs, Valarie offers a rare glimpse into the inner world of high-performing leaders.
Together, they explore:
Why “it’s lonely at the top” and how to find space for your own evolution.
The true role of emotional intelligence in hitting key performance outcomes.
What “emotional mastery” really means — and how it helps leaders hold more without burning out.
Why inn...2025-07-2848 min
The 1 PodcastValarie Sandjivy- The 4 Pillars of Leadership and the Harmony of Your Soul MissionToday on The 1 Podcast, Lisa Toland welcomes elite leadership mentor and CEO of Ellipsis, Valarie Sandjivy, to share a soul-expanding perspective on emotional mastery, self-leadership, and how to harmonize business, family, and life.Valarie is a former mechanical engineer and global corporate executive who has led multi-million euro businesses across the US, Europe, and Japan. Now, she guides visionary CEOs, founders, and mission-led leaders to unlock clarity, power, and embodied authority using her 4 Pillars of Leadership framework.✨ In this powerful episode, we explore:Why you don’t need to force your way into...2025-07-221h 08
Intentional ConversationsIntentional Conversations with Valarie SandjivyWelcome to Intentional Conversations, the podcast where thoughtful leadership meets meaningful impact.This week we’re honored to be joined by Valarie Sandjivy for a powerful discussion.🎧 Grab your headphones, hit play, and let the conversation begin!** Be sure to SUBSCRIBE to our channel because we're all about keeping the great conversations flowing. **HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS EPISODE:Stretch more! To be in the position of CEO is really to stretch your capacity to hold more You must be able to be on your own emotional journey, be able to see thing...2025-07-2236 min
Higher Self Leadership, In between20. Refined learning, letting go of what we think we knowLetting go of what we think we know Today I explored how often we seek confirmation rather than true learning.Validation feels safer – but it keeps us stagnant.Real leadership is about intellectual humility: being willing to not know, to refine, to see new perspectives without feeling threatened.Ask yourself today:- Where am I seeking certainty instead of expansion?- Where could I stretch into a new perspective rather than confirm what I already know?Happy contemplation 2025-07-1010 minHigher Self Leadership, In between19. The pause that moves the worldn this contemplative episode, Valarie Sandjivy invites us into the sacred space of posing—not as a break or downtime, but as a powerful energetic field between two movements, two phases, two notes.Far from passive, the pause holds deep intelligence. Valarie shares personal reflections on how silence, stillness, and void have shaped her leadership path—from corporate pivots to entrepreneurial awakenings.She explores the discomfort that often arises in stillness, the paradox of speaking about silence, and the difference between procrastinating and consciously pausing. This is not a teaching—but a gentle offering, a space f...2025-06-2613 min
Sweet but Fearless PodcastThe Leadership Mirror with Valarie Sandjivy, founder of EllipsUS (S9:Epi 244) In this episode, Mary Sullivan, co-founder of Sweet but Fearless, talks with Valarie Sandjivy, founder of EllipsUS. As a seasoned leadership mentor and business coach with over 20 years of experience guiding leaders through growth and change, she empowers today’s leaders to lead themselves and others with empathy, agility, and fresh thinking. Valarie believes that true leadership starts within - because you can't lead others until you know how to lead yourself. Somewhere along the way, we were taught that focusing on ourselves is selfish, but the opposite is true. Self-awareness is strength, and asking for support is a si...2025-06-2328 minHigher Self Leadership, In between18. Redefining failure as the power of IterationIn this episode of In Between, the Higher Self Leadership Podcast, Valarie redefines one of the most feared words in leadership: failure. What if failure doesn’t exist and what we’re actually experiencing are iterations?Valarie shares how this subtle shift in language carries a powerful energetic shift. Instead of shame, guilt, and stuckness, iteration invites learning, movement, and evolution. When we see each challenge as part of a training ground rather than a dead end, we collapse time and reclaim our creative momentum.Tune in to explore:Why the fear of fail...2025-06-1211 min
Girl, Take the Lead!236. Lead Yourself First: Emotional Mastery and the Power of ReflectionValarie Sandjivy, GenX, is an adaptive leadership mentor and business coach with over 20 years of experience. She is an engineer, master degree recipient, and business coach with over 20 years of corporate experience. As the founder of Ellipus, she helps executives, C-suite leaders, and entrepreneurs lead with greater emotional intelligence, adaptability, and innovation. Her coaching approach is built on four key pillars: leading self, leading others, emotional mastery, and soul care. Valarie's deep expertise in corporate structures, combined with personal transformation practices, enables her clients to break through limitations and achieve lasting, sustainable growth.2025-06-1154 min
Women LeadBeyond the Playbook: Embodying Leadership Through Intuition, Energy & Emotional Intelligence with Valarie SandjivyIn this inspiring episode of Women Lead, host Nadia Koski is joined by Valarie Sandjivy, a Paris-based leadership mentor, business coach, and former mechanical engineer whose journey from Detroit’s automotive industry to high-level executive coaching is transformative.Valarie works with CEOs, founders, and visionary leaders who are ready to evolve beyond the status quo. Her approach is rooted in embodied leadership, blending structure and intuition, logic and emotion, strategy and soul. Throughout the conversation, she shares how leadership must go beyond theory. It must be felt, lived, and expressed through se...2025-06-1157 min
The Vault with Sonja MartinovicThe Four Pillars of Leadership: Self-Leadership and Emotional Intelligence with Valarie Sandjivy📌Take the Leadership Assessment Quiz: https://www.ellips.us.com/quiz📌Join the Elite Podcast Club, our free community, and unlock your next level Podcast Appearance 🔥https://www.facebook.com/groups/elitepodcastclub/ 👉Valarie Sandjivy is an adaptive leadership mentor and business coach with over 20 years of experience. As the founder of Ellipus, she helps executives, C-suite leaders, and entrepreneurs to lead with emotional intelligence, adaptability, and innovation. Valarie’s unique method combines self-leadership, emotional mastery, and soul care to break through limitations and drive sustainable growth. She combines her corporate expertise with a creative, intuitive appro...2025-06-1046 minHigher Self Leadership, In between17. You can't transcend what you refuse to AcceptIn this episode of In Between, the Higher Self Leadership Podcast, we dismantle the word acceptance — a concept often mistaken for passivity, but in truth, a powerful portal into clarity, presence, and energetic alignment. Valarie invites you to explore how real acceptance is not about giving up, but about reclaiming your power, collapsing time, and crossing the bridge between what is and what wants to emerge in your leadership and life. A must-listen for leaders navigating uncertainty, transition, or the quiet call for pause.2025-06-0411 min
Manager on a Mission#34: Stop Resisting Change, Start Creating With It: A Masterclass in Adaptive Leadership with Valarie SandjivyConventional wisdom often says that leadership is about having all the answers. But I’d argue that today’s business world requires the opposite: the skill and comfort to ask the right questions and help teams navigate change and ambiguity. If you’re a leader, I implore you to ask yourself: when was the last time you helped someone see a "failure" as an iteration? Or created space for your team to actually innovate instead of just survive?In this episode, we explore these questions with adaptive leadership coach Valerie Sandjivy, who challenges us to find h...2025-06-0343 minHigher Self Leadership, In between16. Words as creation in formIn this deeply reflective episode of In-Between: A Higher Self-Leadership Podcast, host Valarie invites us to explore the creative and intentional power of words. What if words are more than sound—what if they are life made form? Through personal stories and profound insights, Valarie delves into the relationship between language, silence, and presence. She reflects on her own childhood discomfort with excessive talking and how this shaped her sensitivity to meaningful communication.Valarie urges leaders, mentors, and visionaries to consider the intention behind their words. She draws a powerful distinction between “talking” from the mi...2025-05-1509 minHigher Self Leadership, In between15. Presence : our true powerIn this deeply reflective episode, Valarie explores presence as our true source of inner power—not a luxury, but a birthright we often forget. With clarity and warmth, she unpacks why we so often disconnect from the present moment, caught in loops of distraction, worry, and the need for control. Presence, she reminds us, isn’t something we need to achieve—it’s something we are. Through her personal journey with meditation, yoga, and daily life challenges, Valarie shows how presence can be cultivated anywhere—not just in peaceful spaces, but also in busy subways, work meetings, and everyday moments.2025-05-0811 minHigher Self Leadership, In between14. When chaos comes, innovative leadership beginsIn this powerful episode, host Valarie dives into the transformative potential of chaos in leadership. Far from being a destructive force to fear, she reframes chaos as a necessary and creative disruption—a sign that something outdated is ready to be reshaped. Through personal reflections and leadership insights, Valarie explains how chaos breaks down rigid structures, not to ruin us, but to make space for innovation, growth, and authenticity.She explores how resisting change only deepens discomfort, while embracing chaos as a portal opens the door to new ideas, strategies, and ways of being. Leaders, she says, ar...2025-04-2412 minHigher Self Leadership, In between13. Acceptance is an activation, not a renonciationIn this episode of In-Between, A Higher Self-Leadership Podcast, host Valarie Sandjivy redefines acceptance as a powerful activation tool rather than passive resignation. Speaking directly to leaders, she challenges the common misconception that acceptance means giving up or settling. Instead, she offers a transformative view: true acceptance is about holding presence, creating energetic neutrality, and allowing clarity and wisdom to emerge—especially in moments of discomfort.Valarie shares personal reflections and leadership insights to illustrate how resisting experiences can delay growth, while conscious acceptance can collapse time and unlock quantum leaps. She explains how our e...2025-04-1710 min
The Kind LeaderHow to Lead Yourself First: Mastering Emotional & Authentic Leadership with Valarie SandjivyWhat if the key to leading others starts with how you lead yourself? In this powerful episode of The Kind Leader Podcast, host Gino Degregori sits down with Valarie Sandjivy, adaptive leadership mentor and business coach, to unpack what modern leadership really looks like. Valarie reveals how true leadership begins from within and why emotional intelligence, authenticity, and soul care are now essential skills for impactful leaders. Together, they explore the four pillars of effective leadership—self-leadership, leading others, emotional mastery, and soul care—and how these foundations help leaders thrive while inspiring their teams to d...2025-04-1642 min
Pull the Chute - Grow your People, Grow your Company PodcastLead Yourself First: The Key to True LeadershipSend us a textPull the Chute podcast features Valarie Sandjivy, Elite Leadership Mentor - The Consciousness Behind Powerful Leaders.Valarie mentors elite CEOs, founders, and visionary leaders who refuse to plateau. She guide leaders break limitations, future-proof their businesses, and redefine success on their own terms. Her unique blend of corporate expertise and deep transformational work creates results that transcend traditional coaching.2025-04-1424 minHigher Self Leadership, In between12. Authenticity is Presence and not a soft skillIn this episode of In-Between: A Higher Self-Leadership Podcast, host Valarie Sandjivy dives deep into the overused yet misunderstood concept of authenticity. Beyond trendy buzzwords and social media performances, she explores what it truly means to be authentic—from a leadership and soul-aligned perspective.Valarie challenges the idea that authenticity equals raw oversharing or polished vulnerability. Instead, she invites us to view authenticity as presence—being fully engaged with what life is presenting, with our mission, our emotions, and with others. True authenticity, she argues, is an energetic resonance that emerges from congruence between what...2025-04-1012 minHigher Self Leadership, In between11. It's not lonely at the top - Leadership seriesIn this powerful kickoff to her new leadership series, Valarie challenges the common belief that leadership must be a lonely path. Instead of reinforcing the idea that "it's lonely at the top," she invites us to reshape this narrative — because what if it’s not lonely, just less crowded?Speaking directly to high-achieving CEOs, entrepreneurs, and visionaries, Valarie explores how the “self-made” identity often prevents leaders from seeking support, reinforcing isolation and over-responsibility. But growth doesn’t have to come through struggle alone. Through deep insight, personal stories, and practical tools, she shares how we can col...2025-04-0806 minHigher Self Leadership, In between10. Success as alignment in action and not just achievementIn this episode of In-Between: A Higher Self Leadership Podcast, Valarie redefines success—not as a destination or achievement but as a continuous evolution. She challenges leaders, CEOs, and visionaries to break free from borrowed definitions of success shaped by society, social media, and external expectations.Using the metaphor of an orchestra, she illustrates that true success comes from playing our unique note in harmony with the collective. Success isn’t about metrics or material gains but about alignment—being in tune with our mission, purpose, and the world. She invites leaders to embrace their...2025-04-0310 min
The Leadership CodeAdaptive Leadership: with Valarie SandjivyToday, we are diving deep into adaptive leadership—a framework that equips leaders to thrive in uncertainty, respond to rapid change, and mobilize people toward meaningful transformation. So, what does it really take to lead adaptively? How can leaders shift from rigid, top-down decision-making to a more flexible and resilient approach? And how do they navigate resistance when change feels uncomfortable? To help us unpack these questions, I’m joined by Valarie Sandjivy, an adaptive leadership mentor and business coach with over 20 years of experience. As the founder of Ellipus, she helps executives, C-suite leaders, and...2025-04-0239 min
Leadership Purpose with Dr. RobinTrusting Intuition When the Path Isn’t Clear with Valerie Sandjivy | Ep 221This week’s “How She Finds Purpose” insight comes from Valerie Sandjivy. She says – “That's something else I want to say is that, each time I was told to do something, I did it one step. And then the second step that I didn't know what it was. Showed up. But of course my mind wanted to know the 12 steps, you know, to go, to go all the way.” Valerie Sandjivy is an adaptive leadership mentor and business coach with over two decades of experience. She’s the founder of Ellips, where she supports executives, C-suite leader...2025-04-0236 minHigher Self Leadership, In between9. The Leadership pivot: How to start over without starting from scratchIn this episode, Valarie takes us on an inspiring journey through her dynamic career, marked by constant evolution, reinvention, and bold pivots. From being an expat and corporate leader to launching and reshaping her own business multiple times, she shares how embracing change has been the key to her growth.She challenges the idea of failure, reframing it as an opportunity to gain wisdom and move forward with deeper insight. Leadership, she argues, is about mastering the art of reinvention—letting go of what no longer serves us and stepping courageously into the unknown. Bu...2025-04-0115 minHigher Self Leadership, In between8. The Unseen Strength: How Vulnerability Shapes True LeadersIn this thought-provoking episode, Valarie explores a powerful yet often misunderstood trait in leadership: vulnerability. Far from being a weakness, she reveals how embracing vulnerability fosters deep connections, builds trust, and enhances resilience.Valarie introduces three key dimensions of vulnerability—physical, emotional, and mental—highlighting the importance of self-care, emotional intelligence, and embracing uncertainty. She dismantles the common misconception that vulnerability equates to oversharing or weakness. Instead, she argues that the most inspiring leaders are those who dare to show their humanity.Through insightful analogies, including superheroes facing their own struggles, she illustrates how vulnerability is w...2025-03-2716 minHigher Self Leadership, In between7. Leading with Acceptance : why great Leaders embrace the unknownValarie’s latest podcast dives into the power of acceptance in leadership—a strength often overlooked. She shares her personal journey, revealing how, early in her career, she felt the pressure to always have the answers. Over time, she realized that true leadership doesn’t come from control or immediate solutions but from embracing uncertainty and allowing space for new insights to emerge.She explores the illusion of control, the fear of appearing weak, and how leaders often resist pausing because they equate stillness with stagnation. Yet, it’s in these moments of pause that the best ideas surface. V...2025-03-2513 minHigher Self Leadership, In between6. Collapsing the Illusion of Perfection & Unlocking Your LeadershipIn this thought-provoking episode, Valarie challenges the conventional pursuit of perfection and reveals how it can limit personal and professional growth. She explores three key layers of perfection:1. Perfection is Limiting – Striving for perfection in every aspect of life is impossible; it forces us to prioritize, often at the expense of flexibility and creativity.2. Perfection is Rooted in Lack – The need for perfection stems from a fear of not being enough, leading to a constant chase for external validation.3. Perfection Already Exists – Everything unfolds as it should, offering the perfect opportuni...2025-03-2013 minHigher Self Leadership, In between5. Leadership framework and flowIn this insightful episode, Valarie explores a powerful leadership analogy: the river and its banks. Without structure (the banks), leadership energy flows chaotically, but if the structure is too rigid, growth is stifled. Finding the right balance between structure and flow is the key to effective leadership. She introduces four essential pillars that create a strong leadership framework: 1. Leading Yourself – Defining your vision, values, and purpose. 2. Leading Others – Building trust, fostering growth, and empowering teams. 3. E-Mastery – Emotional intelligence, expansion, and adaptability. 4. Soul Care – Balancing professional success with per...2025-03-1811 minHigher Self Leadership, In between4. The leadership Flow : integrating the art of receiving and givingValarie’s podcast explores the profound dynamics of giving and receiving, challenging the common belief that they are directly linked. She shares her personal journey of realizing that while she excelled at giving, receiving was a struggle, leading her to investigate deeper emotional and structural barriers. She introduces the idea that receiving requires a strong yet flexible structure—like a glass holding water—emphasizing that if our internal foundation is weak or rigid, we may block what we desire. Through self-reflection, she uncovers limiting beliefs around worthiness, obligation, and discomfort in receiving, which often lead p...2025-03-1310 minHigher Self Leadership, In between3. What's compliance in a leader's world?What if compliance wasn’t just about following rules? In this thought-provoking episode, Valarie invites us to explore a deeper perspective on compliance in leadership. Beyond mere obedience, we realize that we conform to much more than formal rules—our family, our friends, our beliefs, our emotions, and even our fear of change. But what happens if we choose to comply with our soul, with our highest vision? Are we ready to move beyond rigid structures and step into a more inspiring form of leadership, where rules are not meant to be broken but rein...2025-03-1207 minHigher Self Leadership, In between2. Leading with Certainty: The Power of Safety in LeadershipWhat if true safety didn’t come from external protections but from within? In this powerful episode, Valarie explores the connection between leadership, safety, and the deep-rooted sense of separation we often feel. She shares her personal journey of overcoming fear, realizing that safety isn’t about shielding oneself but about reconnecting with the higher self. The mind constantly tells us we are separate—from others, from life, from our own power—triggering fear and self-doubt. But when the higher self is in charge, safety naturally follows, allowing leaders to take bold steps, embrace uncertai...2025-03-1208 minHigher Self Leadership, In between1. The Yoga of Leadership: Vision, Presence for CEOsIn this episode, Valarie highlights how leadership, like yoga, demands a clear focus on vision, the ability to navigate emotional challenges, and the power of breath to stay grounded and present. In essence, leadership embodies yoga principles : like staying steady in turbulence, leading with grace, and making decisions from a place of deep inner alignment rather than reactivity.---Stay connected here : https://ellipsus.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/valeriesandjivy/https://www.facebook.com/valarie.sandjivyhttps://www.instagram.com/valarie_sandjivy/Free leadership...2025-03-1209 min
No Labels, No Limits podcast393 - Soul-Led Leadership: The Four Pillars of True Influence with Valerie SandjivyWhat makes a great leader? Is it strategy, intelligence, or experience? According to Valerie Sandjivy, true leadership starts from within. In this episode, we explore how self-leadership, emotional mastery, and soul-led leadership can transform the way you lead, inspire, and create impact.Meet Valerie Sandjivy: Leadership Mentor & Business CoachWith over 20 years of corporate leadership experience, Valerie Sandjivy has worked with executives, C-suite leaders, and entrepreneurs to develop leadership skills that go beyond strategy. She founded Ellips, a coaching company that helps professionals integrate emotional intelligence, adaptability, and innovation into their leadership approach.2025-02-2048 min