About Sanita Pukite

Sanita Pukite.

Leadership Development Consultant,
Group Facilitator, Organisational Advisor

I work with leaders navigating high-stakes transitions as well as complex team and organizational challenges. I bring strategic clarity alongside awareness of what's driving behavior beneath the surface to achieve sustainable, long term behavioral change.

Whether stepping into expanded authority, creating a high-performing team, driving system-wide transformation, or facing pressure that conventional approaches can't resolve, my work reveals and engages the hidden dynamics shaping effectiveness: unconscious resistance, power structures, systemic patterns, and the unspoken forces keeping things stuck.

This isn't surface-level. I integrates psychological depth with strategic insight, enabling leadership that merges clarity, performance and impact.

Why I do what I do

After leading transformations across 55+ countries, I realized the hardest challenges leaders face aren’t technical, they’re adaptive, psychological and systemic.

The most capable leaders get stuck not because they lack strategy, but because they can’t see the hidden dynamics at play. This insight changed my practice.

I pursued Masters degree in Psychodynamic and Systemic approaches to help leaders work with patterns that drive their behavior - the internal barriers and external forces that either enable or block high performance in leadership.

This work is personal. I've experienced the pressure, the complexity, the times when typical solutions don't address what's really going on. I help leaders move through those moments with awareness, authority, and stronger capacity to lead under pressure.

What sets me apart

I bridge psychological depth with strategic reality.

Traditional leadership work treats symptoms without addressing root causes. My approach draws on psychology and two decades of global leadership experience to identify and work with the underlying dynamics that actually drive results.

The focus isn't just on what leaders do, but on how they see, what they resist, and what systemic forces are shaping outcomes. The aim is fundamental growth, not surface-level fixes.

My Values and Beliefs

Effective leadership requires seeing clearly - what's happening inside and what's happening in the systems around you. It's not about perfection, or performing the "right" behaviors.

Real capacity develops through depth: the ability to see clearly, hold pressure, own authority, and create transformational change - not surface-level fixes. Going deep is how leaders go far, faster.

This work isn't for everyone. It's for leaders willing to examine not just what they're doing, but who they're being and what forces are shaping that.

The Approach:

Working with what drives behavior – the unconscious patterns and systemic forces that determine results,
Addressing root causes, not symptoms – sustainable change requires going beneath surface reactions,
Building authority through self-awareness – knowing what you're bringing to every situation and why,
Leveraging complexity – seeing the whole system, not just the immediate problem.

Academic Credentials

I believe in lifelong learning, and it is a journey that never ends. A few of my academic pursuits.

Postgraduate Degree: Consulting and leading in organisations: psychodynamic and systemic approaches, The Tavistock and Portman, NHS
Psychodynamic Group Coaching Practicum, Kets de Vries Institute
Executive MBA, INSEAD
Executive Coaching, INSEAD’s Certificate
The Art and Practice of Leadership Development, Harvard Kennedy School

Professional Experience

I hold over two decades of global, cross-cultural leadership experience, including senior roles at Johnson & Johnson, bringing deep business insight into leadership development.

20+ years of global leadership experience across three continents,
Leadership development, cross-functional team, cultural diversity management across 55+ countries, 10+ markets
Strategic advisor to the CEO of a family- owned business
Former HR and Learning & Development Leader

Certifications & professional affiliations

Certified Emotional Intelligence Assessor by Six Seconds, The Emotional Intelligence Network.
Trained in Embodied Leadership Transformation by Strozzi Institute for Somatics.
Trained in The Art and Craft of Designing & Facilitating Learning Spaces by KAOSPILOT.
Certified Leadership Circle 360 Profile Assessor by Leadership Circle
Certified in Skillscope® 360 skills and Benchmarks® assessments by Center for Creative Leadership
Certified Immunity to Change facilitator by Minds at Work
Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation
Certified SPOT 3.0 Facilitator by Facilitators Network Singapore
Certified as EQ-i 2.0 Practitioner & EQ 360 Assessor by Multi-Health Systems Inc.
Certified practitioner of Hogan Inventory Profiles Psychometric assessment

Let’s connect and see what’s possible

I bring psychodynamic and systemic approaches to leadership development, backed by two decades of global experience and rigorous academic training. I help leaders see and work with the hidden dynamics - unconscious resistance, power structures, systemic patterns that shape effectiveness and determine whether transformation succeeds.

Let's talk