SharLin Leadership is a transformative coaching partnership founded in 2025
by Steve Sharpley and Lone Lindholt.
We offer two complementary dimensions to the coaching of individuals, teams, organisations and companies, with tangible benefits and outcomes, ensuring clarity, responsiveness and resilience:
"BOUNDLESS - Being Our Best Self"
- in a calm state of mind, aware, aligned, buoyant, connected, creative, energised, insightful and impactful
"GROUNDED - Make It Real, Make It Matter"
- strategic, structured, evaluative, analytical, and action plan oriented
Contact us here:
Email: steve@successisamindgame.com; lone@lindholtconsult.dk
WhatsApp: +856 20 8850 1339 (Steve), + 856 20 5553 6650 (Lone)
Our Services
We coach individuals, managers, leaders and teams, independently and within agencies, organisations and companies.
Coaching of Individuals, managers and Leaders
We both work with individual clients including corporate leaders, managers and teams, and dedicated professionals e.g., from the development and business worlds.
At the same time, we also work with motivated individuals, who are curious and wish to optimise their life and work for a more enjoyable and meaningful experience.
Our coaching easily takes place both onsite and online.
Coaching for teams, companies and organisations
We are both trained and have hands-on experience of working with and within businesses and organisations - e.g. in the development sector - and companies of different sizes.
The form of our engagement will be defined in close collaboration with our client, so we really meet their needs and capacity.
As an example, we can do both shorter presentations and in-depth workshops.
PivotiN
Our successful PivotiN programme is an online 12-week joint coaching programme.
PivotiN sprung from facing the harsh reality that, since early 2025, the international development sector as well as corporate business globally are experiencing major turbulence and change.
These are affecting tens of thousands of professionals globally, who have already, or are about to, lose their jobs. Our focus is on supporting these individuals “pivot” their work and lives in new directions.
To facilitate this, PivotiN provides a roadmap of proven practical approaches for gaining insights for how to: navigate the situation most resiliently; maintain and improve well-being; find new inspiration, clarity of mind and new direction; identify key life priorities and ways to reflect these concretely; and move forward in new roles or directions with revitalised perspectives.
ThriviN, publications and other cool stuff to come in 2026 - stay tuned!
In 2026 we launch ThriviN, through a similar approach as PivotiN, with a broader, expansive focus. It enables individuals, leaders and teams already on their path to further expand their "thriving" and achievements, both personally and professionally.
As established writers, both of us are in the process of developing textbooks and other creative expressions of who we are, what we do, and how we do it.
In 2026 we aim to publish some of these, so stay tuned, and follow us on our respective LinkedIn.
Read more about our approaches in these documents:
Why Choose us
"Professional"
We are both strong professionals, combining +50 years of relevant education and experience from our respective fields
"Personal"
We’ve each dealt with life’s curveballs. We both draw from our “lived experience” of having to navigate challenges and grow from them.
"Present"
We meet and engage with all our clients in honest open curiosity, from deep listening and focused attention, both in-person and online
"Practical"
Our coaching enables real change. Our clients will be able to reflect their insights into manifested concrete actions
About Our Company
SharLin Leadership was initiated by us in early 2025, and operated at this stage through Lindholt Consult.
At the core of our work at SharLin Leadership stand two dimensions, which reflect the respective approaches by Steve and Lone.
Firstly, Steve coaches from the “Three Principles” (3Ps) of Mind, Thought and Consciousness.
The 3Ps describe how we all function as human beings in the same way. At their broadest level, the 3Ps provide a universal blueprint for understanding how our experience of life is always created moment to moment, from the inside-out; as well as why this often misleadingly appears not to be the case. Furthermore, they describe and direct a way for how we can function more consistently at our best, accessing in a far more conscious and effortless manner our innate deeper capacities.
Secondly, Lone coaches from the basis of an adaptation, the “6C Framework” of the six Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) evaluation criteria of Relevance, Coherence, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Impact and Sustainability.
This framework are globally acknowledged as a proven and broadly applicable standard of assessment for actions and interventions, particularly in development programming, but also beyond that.
The holistic thinking behind these six criteria provides a framework for enabling individuals, organisations, teams and companies to achieve greater clarity and direction for their life and work and achieving their goals and visions.
When our two approaches are applied in synergy, the transformative inquiry that they both facilitate increases in depth, clarity and validity, and at the same time the insights gained can manifest at a tangibly deeper level across all dimensions of life and work.
Who Are We?
In 2000, I joined Senn Delaney Leadership Consulting Group, a global leadership and change consultancy. There, I experienced how the management team’s culture pro foundly influenced a company’s transformation approach. At the same time, I discovered 3Ps as a simple, fresh understanding of how people function at their best. Subsequently, I wrote my MSc dissertation on 3Ps, combined with a focus on positive unwanted redundancy. This has shaped my life and work ever since and has enabled me to share this understanding and insights with sportspeople, business leaders, and teams from small and medium businesses to multi-national corporations, across four continents. In 2009, I published ”Success is a Mind Game”.
After working at the Danish Institute for Human Rights for 17 years, and 10 years as a consultant, I joined Luxembourg Aid and Development in Laos from 2021. I have thus worked for, in and with a broad range of international development organisations and agencies in Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe and the MENA region, including with (I)NGOs and public institutions. I have worked extensively with all aspects of the Project Management Cycle including strategy and action planning, facilitation and coaching, as well as individual and organisational capacity strengthening and, most recently, communication.
What do our clients say about each of us:
Gerry
"Steve's work, rooted in the Three Principles of Mind, Thought, and Consciousness, reminded me that the clarity and confidence I was seeking weren't things I needed to acquire- I had lived them before and simply lost touch with them. The 3Ps provided a way back. His personal connection to this work gives his teaching an authenticity that goes well beyond technique."
Laura
Steve provides a uniquely nurturing space for growth. His deep, long-standing relationship with the **Three Principles** allowed me to explore my values and life's direction with warmth and ease. He helped me shift from a state of uncertainty to a place of profound clarity, guiding me toward my own inner qualities and providing the compassionate support needed to find a new sense of purpose."
Henrik
Laura
"Lone brings incredible clarity and structure to the coaching process. By applying the **OECD DAC framework**, she helped me evaluate my life’s direction with professional rigor and precision. Her ability to organize complex thoughts into a clear, actionable path was the foundation for my development, providing the 'eagle’s perspective' I needed to move forward with absolute confidence."
Henrik
"Having worked in international development myself, I was naturally more familiar with the OECD-DAC framework used by Lone, but I never realised how useful it could be as a roadmap to underpin my own life and attain my personal goals. I thoroughly appreciated the tangible tools, guided practice and homework during the course, as these helped to consolidate what I had learned over the course of both tracks, and provide impetus to really own the change that I want to make. "
Gerry
Client Testimonials - PivotiN
Henrik
Gerry
Laura