Sophie Witsenburg is a broadly skilled consultant with close to twenty years of global experience within the energy industry. As a member of Spencer Stuart’s Industrial Practice, she leverages cross-cultural skills, commercial acumen and management experience to partner with customers toward leadership solutions. Sophie’s style is straightforward, collaborative and focused on execution: setting a clear agenda, driving progress, and taking action to elevate teams and organizations. She is noted for her ability to quickly learn and become effective across diverse positions — from HR to marketing, M&A, and business development — within past roles at two large blue-chip energy companies. Based in the Netherlands, Sophie is used to working with multicultural teams and has contributed to various high-profile projects across EMEA. In 2025, Sophie was the incoming chair of the Giving Back charity in The Hague. That same year, she published a paper on balancing technology and geopolitics for supervisory boards for NR Governance. Expertise Sophie has specialized experience in: C-level and non-executive director searches Succession planning Leadership advisory assignments Local and regional management Governance dynamics Previous experience On the RWE Business Development team for Hydrogen, Sophie successfully led the first-ever tender for green hydrogen in the Dutch market, putting RWE's "Growing Green" strategy into practice. At Shell, she delivered significant strategy and change projects for renewables and energy solutions, capping her employment as post-merger integration manager where, among other achievements, she led the integration of a portfolio company supplying renewable electricity, gas and bespoke cleaner energy options to B2B customers in the UK. Education MSc from the University of California, Davis B.A. from University College Utrecht Recipient of multiple study grants, including the Fulbright Graduate Student Grant Practice Areas Industrial