About
And I know what it takes to find your way back. Not theoretically — I've walked it.
Anne Schady — Cape Town
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.
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.
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.
Credentials
Accredited by the International Coaching Federation — the global standard for professional coaching.
Background
Former senior leader across multiple industries. I understand the system you're operating in from the inside.
Foundation
Doctoral-level academic training that shapes how I observe human behaviour, context, and meaning-making.
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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