Executive Coach · Speaker · Author
Break free
to thrive.
Every genius did. Curie. Einstein. Mandela. Mother Teresa. Jobs. They honoured what protected them, aligned Head, Heart, and Gut, and acted anyway. That's not personality, it's a state. And it's learnable.
I'm Christoffel Sneijders, ICF Master Certified Coach and the person who decoded the 3 Brains. Thirty years and 4,650 assessments showing what happens when the three brains stop fighting each other.
Free · 5 minutes · 16 languages
THE VALUE
Is NLP and 3 Brains Training Worth It? Pedro's Life-Changing Experience
THE REFRAME
You're not broken.
You're protected.
You're not lazy. You're not closed. You're not in crisis. You're calm on the outside and muted underneath, running on the Head while the Heart and Gut have gone quiet. That isn't strength. It's suppression. And it always catches up.
You're not closed. You're suppressed.
And it looks like strength.
Behind every pattern you can't think your way out of is a protector doing its oldest job: keep you safe. There are twelve of them. They are not flaws to fix. They are biology working as designed, and once you can name them, you can release them.
WHO I AM
I decoded the 3 Brains.
Engineer turned executive coach. I started in Amsterdam, then Capgemini, then spent ten years as a partner at Krauthammer International, until burnout. I left Krauthammer and emigrated to Australia, follow your passion, escape the rain. Seven months after I arrived my marriage ended, and out of that came a deep passion to help people on a deeper level with the kind of serious issues that go beyond business coaching, so I trained as a therapist, set up my own school, and worked clinically for seven years in hypnotherapy, psychotherapy, NLP, and somatic work. I came back with three brains' worth of evidence that mindset alone does not change people.
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Since 2005 I've trained 13,000+ professionals and certified 300+ coaches across 42 countries. ICF Master Certified Coach, top 4% globally. Visiting Professor at IE Business School Madrid and Georgetown University Qatar. Author of four books on how Head, Heart, and Gut actually run a life.
ICF MCC
ICF Supervisor
IE Business School
Georgetown University
Clinical Hypnotherapist
NLP Trainer
Somatic Therapist
WORK WITH ME
Three doors. One method.
Whether you lead a company, coach others, or want to train in the method, there's a way in that fits.
WHAT I STAND FOR
Mindset is one third of you. Your Heart and Gut hold the other two.
Burnout lives in the Heart. Trauma lives in the Gut. Neither lives in your thoughts.
Most coaching, most therapy, most self-help — and even most of the science — has been looking for the answer in the Head. That's why it can't find what's been there all along.
You can't think your way to alignment. 3 Brains Intelligence is what fills the gap.
· Christoffel
THE BOOKS
Four books. One framework.
A decade of work turned into something you can read in a week.
Relationships? Which Brain Is Talking?
How Head, Heart, and Gut sabotage and save your closest relationships.
How Men and Women Fit
The first 3 Brains book. Why partners stop hearing each other, and how to start again.
Reclaim Your Brains
The short version. 74 pages on change that actually works. E-book.