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Nordic Online TA Conference, 7 November 2026STAA — Sari van Poelje as conference host
Selected speaking engagements
Sharing ideas with the global coaching community
Sari’s keynote work brings practical experience in leadership, systemic coaching and professional development to international audiences.
ICF International Coaching Week — Transformational Team Coaching
18 May 2026 · 12:00 Amsterdam · OnlineInternational Coaching FederationWorkshop (90 min, max 70 participants)
The ability to create a coherent team out of a group of individuals is one of the core competencies of managers, HRO, coaches and consultants. Sari presents the four levels of team coaching and uses these to understand what interventions are needed to create agile structures, cross-functional cooperation and winning cultures — with best-practice examples of purpose, structure, dynamics and cultural interventions.
17 September 2026 · 19:00–20:30 CEST · OnlineEuropean Association for Transactional Analysis (EATA)Webinar (90 min) — with Sébastien Balbastre
Co-presenting with Sébastien Balbastre on the wonders and limitations of AI in coaching. The session explores concrete examples of AI in coaching practice, the benefits and risks, which types of coaching will remain distinctly human, and clear guidelines for coach training in an AI-augmented world.
7–8 November 2026 · Online via ZoomFinTA (Finland), NTAF (Norway) & STAF (Sweden)Workshop (90 min) — conference theme: Where Physis Finds Light
A workshop on the happiness factor within the Nordic TA Conference 2026, exploring how Transactional Analysis can support wellbeing, connection and the conditions for human flourishing — drawing on Nordic perspectives on physis, resilience and relational depth.
TA Cumbria Conference — Dancing Your Relational Patterns
28 February 2026 · In personTA CumbriaIn-person workshop
Workshop on recognising and transforming the relational patterns that shape how we connect, lead and collaborate — drawing on Transactional Analysis and systemic coaching.
About the speaker
Sari van Poelje — director of Intact Academy
Sari speaks as a practitioner and educator. She is the founder and director of Intact Academy, which has been delivering EMCC level 7 accredited coaching and supervision training across Europe for more than 20 years. Her speaking draws directly on this practice — 40 years of executive coaching, team coaching and organisational change work with multinationals, family businesses and start-ups.
