Leadership Coaching
C-suite executives, senior managers, and scaling entrepreneurs. Tailored, not templated.
Entrepreneur, Leadership Strategist,
Founder of innerV
I help CEOs and MDs build leadership teams they trust and lives they're proud to lead, using a proprietary profiling methodology and 10 years of business leadership experience.
Entrepreneur, Leadership Strategist,
Founder of innerV
I help CEOs and MDs build leadership teams they trust and lives they're proud to lead, using a proprietary profiling methodology and 10 years of business leadership experience.
InnerV is an executive coaching and strategic assessment firm based in Gauteng, South Africa.
Founded by Valeska van Schoor, a GIBS-trained coach, NBI Brain Profile Certified Practitioner, and award-winning entrepreneur,
InnerV occupies a distinctive niche at the intersection of neuroscience, character evaluation, and leadership development.
C-suite executives, senior managers, and scaling entrepreneurs. Tailored, not templated.
Team dynamics, performance, and cohesion. Systems-thinking approach to group effectiveness.
Hiring assessment that evaluates character and decision-making patterns. A unique market offering.
I'm GIBS-trained and on the ICF ACC accreditation path, bringing internationally recognised coaching standards into every engagement.
As an NBI Brain Profile Certified Practitioner, I integrate neuroscience-based insight into leadership development and team alignment to create structured, measurable growth.
My engineering degree ensures systematic thinking. My entrepreneurial experience ensures commercial realism. My coaching framework ensures sustainable leadership transformation.
This is not generic coaching. This is strategic leadership development and character-based evaluation designed to protect and grow your organisation.
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The most expensive hire you'll ever make isn't the one with the highest salary.
It's the one who looked great on paper, interviewed well, and was completely wrong for the role.
It can be costly when business leaders and SMEs hire based on gut feel, CV screening, and one or two conversations. The result? Inconsistent decisions, unconscious bias, and leaders who don't fit the culture they're supposed to shape.
InnerV has a structured interview service built for high-stakes hiring.
We partner with you before a single interview happens, understanding your culture, your team dynamics, and exactly what this role needs to deliver. Then we conduct minimum two independent interviews per candidate and give you a clear, bias-reduced recommendation.
The most expensive hire you'll ever make isn't the one with the highest salary.
It's the one who looked great on paper, interviewed well, and was completely wrong for the role.
It can be costly when business leaders and SMEs hire based on gut feel, CV screening, and one or two conversations. The result? Inconsistent decisions, unconscious bias, and leaders who don't fit the culture they're supposed to shape.
InnerV has a structured interview service built for high-stakes hiring.
We partner with you before a single interview happens, understanding your culture, your team dynamics, and exactly what this role needs to deliver. Then we conduct minimum two independent interviews per candidate and give you a clear, bias-reduced recommendation.
InnerV offers:
Each Profile Includes:
InnerV's greatest competitive advantage is the one no established competitor can replicate quickly: the combination of neuroscience-backed assessment, character-based interviewing, and an entrepreneurial founder who has walked the same path as her clients.
Whether you lead a team inside a large organisation or run your own business, your greatest asset, and your greatest obstacle,
Is how you think.
I work with executives and business owners to explore the inner lens that drives your decisions, your leadership style, and the way you show up. Because when that shifts, everything shifts.
I'm Valeska van Schoor.
I never set out to become a leader or a coach. But perhaps, like you, there comes a moment when you realise it's wiser to be coached by someone who has lived through the storms and emerged stronger on the other side.
For most of my life, I was the quiet achiever, the one recognized for academic success or hard work, but never for leadership. It took years, and a journey through the most unexpected places, for me to understand my purpose.
I value excellent service. To be a steward of influence, people and purpose is a great responsibility.
I speak truth with love and walk the talk. I don't compete for power. I anchor it.
I see beyond performance into character and decision-making patterns. Growth is tailored, not templated.
Built for
South African businesses.
Designed to protect your most important decisions.
"Inner V provides professional executive coaching services to young inspiring leaders or experienced Executives needing a different perspective on the challenges of work-life balance. What I personally enjoyed during my sessions with V is that she doesn't provide you with a toolkit of solutions and send you off (like a Chat gpt solution), she takes the time to thoroughly understand the individual in front of her, their specific ecosystem, everything that contributes to what makes the individual who he/ she is… She spends endless hours asking questions to delve deeper into the underlying issues, then she meticulously builds a view, a statement and a series of though provoking comments follow, things that leaves you reflecting on your life; past and present. What is really important… I have to add that what stood out for me was how structured and well-planned she came across and that the interactions was not limited to the session, but continued through email and whatsapp. It felt like she was journeying with me, always a partner in the process. The most unique element about her approach was that it was underpinned by scripture, she would often remind me of the truths captured in the bible. V will challenge you, but isnt that what growing is about.. she will not hold back and will share the truth even if its hard to hear… but I can assure you that you will be transformed after dealing with her. Thank you V for the role you’ve played in my career"
"Absolutely blessed to have had sessions with Valeska. She is such a wise, discerning person that guides you with so much love, wisdom and truth to come to your own revelation of your purpose in your heart. I can truly say this has helped me so much in my journey of discovering my purpose. She asks the right questions for you to journey on and answer yourself. So thankful God sent her over my path. She brought clarity and peace through all her strategic questions, and truly helped me to cancel the white noise that brought confusion and self-doubt, and helped me highlight the NBI indicators in my life!! I am much more confident, and less double-minded about things in my future, and super excited to take the next steps! ♡♡♡ Loved it! Thank you very much! You are a God-sent stepping stone in my journey!"
"Valeska is an amazing Entrepreneur and has a world of experience not only in building businesses, but also in coaching others to become the best version of themselves for their businesses or while working in an organization. She is the perfect match between understanding business and assisting people to reach success for themselves and their business."
"InnerV offers truly holistic coaching that looks at the whole person, not just the professional role. As a doctor, I appreciated that the process wasn’t afraid to go deeper — into personal patterns, values, and lived experiences - because that’s where real, sustainable growth happens. The coaching is thoughtful, honest, and challenging in the best way, creating clarity and confidence without forcing performance. If you’re a leader or professional seeking meaningful alignment rather than surface-level fixes, InnerV can help you get there!"
"Valeska has a gift. She doesn't just coach - she transforms. Great experience"