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Transforming Lives Through Self-Development
I help high-achieving professionals reconnect with purpose, energy and clarity through neuroscience-based lifestyle design.
My work is shaped by three worlds that have defined my life: professional sport, corporate leadership, and holistic wellbeing.
As a former professional figure skater, corporate executive, and today a coach working at the intersection of performance and wellbeing, I have spent most of my life exploring one central question:
How do people perform at a high level without losing themselves in the process?
Today I combine neuroscience-based coaching, leadership experience, and mind-body practices to support individuals and leaders in building lives that feel both meaningful and sustainable.
From Professional Sport
to Corporate Leadership
My journey began in the world of professional sport.
As a competitive figure skater, discipline, resilience and personal accountability were part of everyday life.
I also worked as a coach early on, supporting athletes in developing their skills and mindset.
These early experiences taught me how powerful encouragement, structure and belief can be in unlocking human potential.
When my competitive career ended, I stepped into what many athletes experience after leaving professional sport: a loss of identity.
Figure skating had defined who I was for most of my life. Suddenly I had to rebuild that sense of self and find a new direction beyond the ice.
I entered the corporate world and over the following two decades built an international career, eventually working in executive roles leading global teams.
The determination and work ethic I had learned in sport translated naturally into business performance. But the same mindset that once drove athletic success also pushed me to ignore the signals of exhaustion, imbalance and stress.
Several times I came very close to burning out. Each time I managed to reset my direction before fully collapsing, but those moments forced me to reflect deeply on what sustainable performance really means.
A Turning Point
One experience changed my perspective on life profoundly.
When my best friend was diagnosed with cancer, I was by her side throughout her treatments and held her hand when she passed away.
Walking that journey with her reshaped my values in ways I could not ignore.
It made me question the pace at which I was living, the priorities I was following and the meaning I attached to success. I realized that the way I had been operating in the corporate world no longer aligned with the life I wanted to live.
That moment gave me the courage to change direction.
Instead of choosing between performance and wellbeing, I began exploring how the two could coexist.
Bringing everything together
Over time I began to see that the different chapters of my life were not separate at all.
Professional sport taught me discipline, resilience and personal accountability.
My corporate career gave me a deep understanding of leadership, pressure and performance in complex environments.
And my own search for balance led me into the fields of coaching, neuroscience, wellbeing and mind-body practices.
Today my work brings these worlds together.
I combine performance psychology from professional sport, leadership insight from 20 years in corporate environments, and neuroscience-based coaching tools with embodied practices such as yoga, breathwork and meditation.
These practices are not theoretical tools. They are disciplines I practice myself and integrate into my work with clients to support not only mindset, but also energy management, nervous system regulation and sustainable performance.
Because lasting change does not happen through thinking alone.
It happens when the mind, body and lifestyle move into alignment.
Coaching Philosophy
One of the most important lessons from my journey is that work should not stand in opposition to life.
For many years we were taught to think about work–life balance as if work were separate from life. But work is a part of life, and the challenge is not separating the two, it is learning how to design life in a way that allows all important areas to coexist in a healthy way.
Today I help professionals rethink how they structure their lives, careers and energy.
Through coaching, I support people in reconnecting with what truly matters to them and in creating lifestyles where performance, wellbeing, relationships and personal growth are aligned.
The goal is not to achieve more by pushing harder, but to create a way of living and working that is sustainable, purposeful and energizing.
Certifications and Professional Training
Anna’s professional training includes studies and certifications in coaching, neuroscience and holistic wellbeing.
Her qualifications include professional coaching certification, neuroscience-based coaching training, mindfulness and meditation teacher training, yoga teacher training, and Yoga Nidra teacher training, alongside continuous education in leadership, wellbeing and performance development.
