About

I know what it feels like
to drift from yourself.

And I know what it takes to find your way back. Not theoretically — I've walked it.

Anne Schady

Anne Schady — Cape Town

I've left twice.

First, academia. After a decade in the field, including five years working toward a PhD, I realised that what I was learning through presence, observation, and something closer to intuition than analysis didn't fit the scientific framework I was working in. So I left. Unfinished degree and all.

I found my footing in the corporate world. For a while, I thrived — growing into leadership, finding genuine meaning in the work. Until, fifteen years in, the environment shifted in a way that has become painfully familiar across large organisations today. Top-down, productivity-obsessed, asking me to treat the people I led as resources to be optimised.

It was costing me something I wasn't willing to lose. So I left that too. A well-paid, stable job. No package, no severance.

"Not because I'm reckless. But because I've learned, more than once, to recognise the moment when something that served you starts to consume you."

Looking around, I don't think my experiences were unique. I see people hanging on to work that once gave them meaning, now running on empty, caught in a way of life that quietly disconnects them from themselves, from each other, from what actually matters. Most can feel something is off. Fewer can see a way out.

That's the work I do with clients now. I help professionals who find themselves in the Twilight Zone — successful on the outside, exhausted and empty on the inside. I know that place. And I know what it takes to plot a way out.

How I work.

My approach draws on social anthropology, fifteen years of corporate leadership, and formal training in coaching — but more than any of that, it draws on the conviction that the people I work with already carry the answers they're looking for.

I work somatically, which means I pay attention to the body as much as the mind. I draw on Jungian and archetypal frameworks, on tools like the Drama Triangle and Positive Intelligence saboteur work, and on a philosophy I think of as slowfullness — the deliberate practice of slowing down enough to actually hear yourself.

This isn't about finding the right strategy. It's about rebuilding the inner foundation that makes every strategy possible.

I hold an ICF ACC credential and work with clients one-to-one, virtually, across Europe and beyond.


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Credentials

ICF ACC Certified Coach

Accredited by the International Coaching Federation — the global standard for professional coaching.

Background

15 Years Corporate Leadership

Former senior leader across multiple industries. I understand the system you're operating in from the inside.

Foundation

Social Anthropology

Doctoral-level academic training that shapes how I observe human behaviour, context, and meaning-making.

Sounds like the right fit?

A first conversation is free and commits you to nothing. It's simply a chance to see whether what I do is what you need right now.

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