Renee Steinbrecher, as Manager of Acorn Patterns Leadership Coaching LLC, is an ICF Level 2-certified executive coach from the Center of Executive Coaching and a certified trauma-informed leadership coach through Mobius Executive Leadership.

She holds a B.A. in International Language Business from the University of Scranton (Pennsylvania, USA).

As a Fulbright scholar, she conducted research and studied environmental business at the University of Freiburg, in Germany.

Professionally, Renee has worked with SAP for over twenty-five years, where she started as a technical writer, went on to lead a global team of writers, and was recognized as a top performer. Then as part of the Global Marketing team, she was a "voice of the brand" for this 110,000+ employee company and worked in brand strategy.

She is also the co-founder of a local nonprofit in Massachusetts, where she served as a co-president and director. During her six years with the organization, she learned what it means to build an organization from the ground up, create a board of directors, develop strategic planning, implement programming, and together with her fellow board members, lead a nonprofit organization.

In the midst of her corporate and nonprofit work, she started to wonder, what’s next?

After some time, she felt called to transformational leadership coaching work and is passionate about helping others reach their highest potential.

What motivates her to do this work?

It’s a combination of things.

What she learned during her Jesuit college education, which teaches to the mind, heart, and hands of a student so they can go out into the world in service of others.

The experience at her children’s preschool, the Waldorf School, where parents were continually asked to consider “what do children really need” and to hone in on their observational skills so they can be more present and less reactive.

Her belief that if we take our work seriously to become the best version of ourselves professionally and personally, we will along the way lift up those around us, positively influencing generations to come.

It is from all this and much more that Acorn Patterns Leadership Coaching was born.