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Positive Solutions
Business & Life Oy Ab
Positive Solutions Business & Life is a Nordic leadership and development company founded and led by Christine and Tom Suvanto.
Based in Finland, we work across the Nordics and the Baltics – and internationally with organisations, leaders and professional coaches around the world.
Together, Christine and Tom Suvanto form a Nordic expert duo within relational intelligence and coaching leadership.
They combine extensive business experience with internationally recognised coaching credentials and SDI partnership. Their work is grounded in a shared conviction: sustainable results in organisations always depend on the quality of relationships.
By integrating practical leadership experience with relational intelligence, they support organisations, leaders and professional coaches in working more consciously, clearly and sustainably.
Before focusing fully on coach education and leadership development, we both held extensive experience in business and senior leadership roles. We have carried responsibility for operations, finance, people and strategic development across several industries, including food production, logistics, banking, sports and education.
That experience shapes our work today. We do not speak about leadership as theory – but as lived practice, with accountability, performance expectations and relationships under pressure.
Our focus is relational intelligence in practice – how conscious communication, self-awareness and structured reflection strengthen both performance and human relationships.
We offer:
- ICF-accredited Level 1 coach education
- Mentor coaching (26 CCE)
- SDI Facilitator certification
- Leadership programs and workshops
- Executive and leadership coaching
- Keynotes on relational intelligence and coaching leadership
We are official SDI Partners and work with the Strength Deployment Inventory as a concrete framework for developing relational awareness and constructive conflict management.
Sustainable results always rest on the quality of relationships.
Christine Suvanto
Founder & Owner,
ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC),
Executive Coach,
Mentor Coach, Director of Training, ICF Assessor
SDI Partner & Master Facilitator,
NLP Master Facilitator,
Mental Trainer
I’m Christine – an executive and leadership coach with a passion for growth, purpose, and potential.
Christine Suvanto is an ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC), SDI Partner and Master Facilitator, and Director of Education for an ICF-accredited program.
Her professional background spans several industries, including food production, logistics, banking, sports and education. She has worked as a product manager, HR Director, and has held leadership and chair positions in professional associations. This breadth has given her a deep understanding of business realities, organisational culture and the complexity of leadership.
With more than 3,000 coaching hours and extensive experience as a mentor coach at ACC, PCC and MCC level, she combines business insight with structured coaching expertise and ethical clarity.
Christine works with leaders and professional coaches who want to develop conscious, sustainable leadership where relational intelligence is a strategic resource – not a soft factor.
Christine combines a warm and authentic presence with a clear belief in the potential of individuals and organisations, and challenges courageously and respectfully to create meaningful development and sustainable results.
christine.suvanto@positivesolutions.fi
+358 45 847 0443
Tom Suvanto
CEO, Sales
ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC),
SDI Partner & Master Facilitator
I enjoy coaching and training organizations and teams!
Tom is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), SDI Partner and Master Facilitator with solid experience from senior leadership roles in business.
He has served as CEO, controller, site manager and project leader with responsibility for operations, financial performance and people. His practical experience of strategic decision-making, accountability and organisational change gives him a grounded understanding of the realities leaders face.
In his work, he combines business acumen with coaching methodology and the SDI framework to help leaders and teams communicate more clearly, make better decisions and handle conflict constructively.
He is valued for his calm presence, analytical clarity and ability to make relational dynamics understandable and actionable.
tom.suvanto@positivesolutions.fi
+358 50 381 4737
Anna Nordström
ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Mentorcoach,
SDI Facilitator
I want to help you understand yourself more deeply, clarify your thoughts, find solutions, and grow as a person. Through this process, your motivation will increase, and you’ll experience joy and increased energy levels.
As a method, coaching assists you in personal development, enhances self-awareness, and creates opportunities to achieve your goals.
As a coach, I consider myself enthusiastic, open, and empathetic.
Currently, I work as a designated coaching professional at Gymnasiet Grankulla samskolan and Mattliden gymnasium. Additionally, I undertake coaching assignments for individuals and businesses. Mentor coaching is also part of my activities.
Previously, I spent several years in the business sector, both in Helsinki and in companies abroad, working in sales, budgeting, customer relations, training, coaching, and team responsibilities.
I graduated as a coaching professional in 2015. I place great importance on expertise and ethical principles, which is why I obtained an accredited certification from the International Coaching Federation (ICF). The ICF is a global professional organization for coaches, ensuring the quality of core competencies and ethical principles.
If you want to develop, strengthen your self-awareness, find inner motivation, or create positive changes in your life but don’t know where to start—please feel free to get in touch
anna.nordstrom@positivesolutions.fi
+358 40 900 6060
Karin Laubert
ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
I want to help you or your team find inner balance to support well-being. When you are at your best, everyday tasks and work flow more smoothly. Team balance, in turn, provides a strong foundation for existing structures and inspires the creation of something new—developing the organization to the next level.
However, at the core of life is the individual. Regardless of life stage, the starting point is always the person. Throughout my career, I have had the opportunity to be a manager for people of different ages and cultural backgrounds. As a manager, I realized that achieving balance in leading people depends on how effectively a leader can consider and integrate all diversities. Coaching leadership fosters trust, reveals hidden strengths, and develops existing ones. Coaching serves as a lifeline for workplace well-being, whether in project construction, considering all participants, creating strategies, resolving conflicts, or conducting development discussions. It also plays a crucial role in professional encounters.
I sought international training specifically to enhance cross-cultural work environments and achieve my ICF ACC certification. Coaching became a way of life for me, and I haven’t been able to stop learning, participating in training primarily in Finland and Estonia. On my personal journey, I hold the vision of “A Happy Life, Where Everything Is Possible.” I firmly believe that everyone can create such a life. As a coach, I instill hope, positivity, and enthusiasm in people, encouraging them to build a life that reflects their unique vision.
Feel free to reach out if you need assistance in any life situation. Let’s discuss and find the right solution for how coaching can fit into your life.
karin.laubert@positivesolutions.fi
+358 44 301 3956
Pia Peltoniemi
ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC),
Early Childhood Education Teacher
I am Pia, an ICF/ACC-certified coach whose passion is to help and support clients on their path to growth and change – whether it involves small everyday matters or major life changes.
Working with me helps you gain clarity in your thoughts, strengthen your own resources, and make concrete choices based on your values, so that your dreams can come true.
As a coach, I am attentive, safe, and encouraging. I do not offer ready-made solutions – instead, I help you find your own solutions.
I have a background as an early childhood education teacher and daycare director. I understand what it is like to bear responsibility in the crossfire of everyday life and work. This experience enriches my work with individual coaching, especially in the areas of parenting, work life, and leadership.
Take the first step today
Book a free introductory conversation in my calendar or contact me via email – let’s see together how coaching can support you.
Let’s walk together for a while!
pia.peltoniemi@positivesolutions.fi
+358 41 530 8567
Matts Pettersson
ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC), Special Education Teacher, Study Coach,
Contact Person for Schools
I feel a special passion for learning and growth.
At school, I work as a special education teacher and study coach. My responsibilities also include teaching and coaching students who have not yet completed their studies.
I also work as a coach, lecturer, personal trainer, and workshop facilitator. In addition, I am the contact person for Positive Solutions and your sales contact for the Stars concept. I provide coaching approaches and coaching leadership to schools and businesses, as well as other training, continuing education, and development opportunities.
As a professional coach, I help my colleagues, students, and clients see themselves and their potential. Together, we bring dreams to the surface and move forward. I believe in simplicity—listening to oneself, acting according to one’s values, and following one’s beliefs.
I coach individuals and teams, conduct workshops, give lectures, and design training programs.
I want to help you develop and thrive!
If your curiosity is piqued and you want to learn more about coaching, training, personal development, the Stars concept, or about me, read more below or schedule a free half-hour meeting with me.
Book your time from the calendar or get in touch using the contact information below, and let’s create something amazing together!
matts.pettersson@positivesolutions.fi
+358 400 283 386
Our mission
We change the world
"If we can help a person, team or organization to strengthen and function better, we have taken a small step in the right direction."
Our mission – 3P
We change the world by being Passionate about professional coaching, with our own Personal touch and always with top Professionality. This means that everyone, regardless of background, is welcome to us and to our education programs when they want to change the world, starting with themselves. When they come to us, they meet one of our team members, a unique human being that embodies a coaching mindset and the ethics of professional coaching. We represent professional coaching and a coaching mindset in everything we do, and act as role models for everyone else, so that they see the effective benefits of coaching and can acquire a coaching mindset and effective coaching tools themselves. That is how we change the world.
Our vision
Our vision is that everyone has access to coaching, regardless of resources or circumstances. Coaching should be a part of business and life; at workplaces, at schools, in homes, and we constantly conduct development projects, workshops and trainings to make this a reality. Because coaching should be accessible to anyone, our coaching education programs and courses are designed to support diversity and inclusion: they welcome leaders, parents, teachers, salespersons, consultants, business gurus, persons in between jobs, persons seeking a life change, persons seeking a career change, siblings, couples, etc. This diversity promotes the human factor of coaching: we concretely show that coaching is about human meeting human – thus titles, roles, grades, or other shallow attributes do not matter.
Our learning philosophy
We know that the core competencies and ethics of professional coaching are best learned through – coaching. That is why we combine a clear theory of professional coaching in accordance with the ICF principles with our own model of 3D coaching.