Sophie van het Erve is co-founder of The 1 Reset, a leadership coach, and group coach who works with individuals, teams, and organizations ready to lead with more clarity, intention, and energy.
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Sophie's work is rooted in the belief that meaningful change rarely requires blowing everything up. More often, it requires pausing, getting honest, and taking deliberate steps in a new direction. Her coaching draws on a decade of corporate experience, a deeply practical Dutch sensibility, and genuine curiosity about what makes people tick. She helps professionals cut through the noise, identify what is actually getting in the way, and build the foundation needed to perform sustainably and lead with purpose.
She has partnered with organizations including Google, Dress for Success Arizona, Boon Health, and a range of private and community-based clients, supporting leaders navigating growth, transition, and the kind of complexity that does not come with a clear playbook.​
Born and raised in the rural Netherlands, Sophie's path has always been shaped by a pull toward the unexplored. That instinct took her from the Netherlands to South Africa for her studies, then to Brussels, Dublin, San Francisco, and eventually Lisbon, where she now lives.
Along the way she built a decade-long career in digital media and sales at Oracle and Google, developing a sharp understanding of performance, teams, organizational dynamics, and what it actually takes to lead in fast-moving, high-demand environments. That business fluency is woven into everything she does as a coach.
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What shifted her trajectory was not a dramatic breaking point but something a bit more subtle: a growing awareness, sharpened during a 200-hour yoga teacher training, that the most important work she could do was helping other people find their joy. That clarity eventually led her to iPEC and to coaching, where she found a framework that matched both her skeptical, solution-oriented mind and her genuine interest in human potential. She brings that same combination to every client: rigorous and warm, direct and open, grounded in what works.
Sophie is deeply curious and brings that curiosity into her coaching without losing sight of the practical. She does not believe in change for its own sake, but she does believe that one honest conversation, one deliberate shift, one well-timed reset can permanently alter where you end up. Her role is to help clients find those moments and act on them with confidence.
Outside of coaching, Sophie can be found in the park reading a book, on the beach enjoying the sun, or attempting something ambitious in the kitchen. She is most at home when she is learning something new or helping someone else do the same.