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ELEVATE YOUR LEGACY

What’s new?

INTRODUCING THE FOUNDERS

Who’s behind Elevate?

OUR SERVICES

How do we serve our clients?

MODELS

Theories and concepts

METHODOLOGY

What is our way of working?

ELEVATE YOUR LEGACY

Shifting the system from within

At Elevate, we guide leaders, teams, and organizations to create lasting impact and to deal with geopolitical risks in a way that is attuned to a complex and rapidly changing world.

Our work integrates leadership development, systemic transformation, and peace-positive business strategy to drive change from the inside out, across individuals, organizations and society. Through deep facilitation, trauma-informed practices and whole-systems thinking, we guide clients to uncover unconscious patterns, reimagine governance and embed purpose into operations. Our work doesn’t just adapt to the world as it is; it helps shape the world as it should be.

Shift your system.

Lead with purpose.

Elevate your legacy.

INTRODUCING THE FOUNDERS

  • DR LARA TCHOLAKIAN

    Leadership expert advancing trauma-informed change, systems psychodynamic and DI in complex organizational settings.

  • MARK VAN DORP, MSC

    Economist enabling responsible business in fragile contexts through peace-responsive investment and improved human security for all.

  • EZRA DE KORTE MBA

    Strategist integrating peace, purpose, and systems thinking to redesign businesses for inner and societal transformation.

OUR SERVICES

1. Culture & Leadership Transformation

We develop sustainable leadership and governance, transforming culture through trauma-informed and systems-based approaches.

2. ESG/Corporate Sustainability Learning

We guide experiential learning journeys to deepen understanding of ESG risks and impacts and embed corporate sustainability across teams.

3. Strategic Facilitation

We facilitate boardroom dialogue and alignment around purpose, reputation and long-term value creation.

4. Peace Positive Business Design

We advise on responsible investment, strategies and operations in fragile and confict-affected environments.

MODELS

Our transformation model is multi-layered, time-sensitive and human-driven, requiring alignment from the self to the system across time.

MODELS

We are working with a whole-systems thinking approach.

Embracing historical influence, internal and external impact, working through people and organizations.

THE ELEVATE EFFECT

Create cultures of safety and trust decreasing anxiety, insecurity and fear in the workplace

Attain business-ease, clarity and flow in decision-making that result in resilient and relevant strategies contributing to peace- and purpose-driven societies, or what we call “peacepositive strategies”

Become a relevant and attractive organization where all generations want to belong, from emerging talent to seasoned experts

COMBINING UNIQUE EXPERIENCES AND METHODOLOGIES

Dr. Lara A. Tcholakian

Leadership & Inner Systems Lara empowers leaders to navigate their inner systems (unconscious patterns, values, and emotional drivers), to cultivate grounded, conscious leadership that aligns personal mastery with collective transformation.

Trauma-Informed Frameworks Works through individual and collective trauma (historical, cultural or systemic) to reshape leadership behaviors, deepen relational intelligence and historical consciousness

Systems Psychodynamic Surfaces unconscious dynamics and shadow patterns that block trust and change, to enable adaptive humancentered governance and organizations.

Diversity, Inclusion & Transformational Facilitation Designs and leads immersive programs that foster deep reflection, open dialogue and systems thinking to enable mindset change, bridge difference and co-create meaningful change.

Mindfulness & Somatic Practice Creates space for presence, self-inquiry, and somatic awareness in complex, high-pressure environments, to restore wholeness and embodiment.

Mark van Dorp, MSc

Systemic Foresight & Fragility Mark integrates strategic foresight with frontline experience in fragile and conflict-affected regions. His work focuses on enabling inclusive economies and locally grounded transformation.

Scenario Thinking & Systemic Foresight Navigating uncertainty through long-term visioning and strategic adaptability.

Inclusive Economic & Value Chain Development Designing resilient business models that foster people-centered, local ownership and social cohesion.

Multi-Stakeholder Facilitation Aligning the interests of governments, communities, security actors and businesses for shared value creation leading towards human security for all.

Field-Based Learning Embedding grassroots knowledge and local expertise into institutional and policy frameworks.

Peace-Positive Business Integrating peacebuilding approaches into business strategy and implementation, including enhanced human rights due diligence and conflict-sensitive approaches.

Ezra de Korte MBA

Strategic Design & Peace-Positive Organizations Ezra facilitates teams in creating transformative strategies that link inner leadership with systemic change, especially in contexts where business intersects with peacebuilding and sustainability.

Peace-Positive Business Modeling Embedding purpose and societal contribution into the DNA of business strategy.

Transformational Narrative & Governance Design Reframing systems through story, meaning-making, and context-sensitive governance.

Systemic Dialogue Practices Using Theory U, Deep Democracy, and Non-Violent Communication to surface hidden dynamics and foster generative dialogue.

Relational Intelligence & Boardroom Dynamics Navigating complexity, power, and trust in high-stakes environments.

Structural Dynamics Reading and shifting communication patterns to unlock collective intelligence.

What This Enables

Together, these methodologies allow for:

Whole-system transformation rooted in deep listening and grounded foresight.

Leadership development that integrates emotional depth, historical awareness, and somatic wisdom.

Organizational design that bridges strategy and healing.

Resilient economic models that work in fragile and fastchanging environments

A new paradigm of doing business. With integrity, humility, peace-responsive and lasting positive impact.