Ann Backes

My passion for this work

I've always been drawn to personal development and fascinated by the complexity of being human. That curiosity about how we work deepened when, after losing my father, I revisited it more personally. I started a journey of therapy and training, one that shaped how I understand people today.

I'm now a certified coach in both professional and personal domains, and I keep learning through ongoing training. My approach takes in the whole person: the mind (thoughts), the body (sensations), and the heart (emotions).

Every engagement is, for me, a moment of exchange, growth, and personal evolution alongside people who are working toward goals that matter to them. I've seen first-hand the impact coaching can have, not only on the people I work with, but on those around them.

My professional path

Before coaching, I spent several years in the corporate and management world: management control in industry, Big 4 public accounting, financial advisory, then project lead and facilitator of group workshops for entrepreneurs at a non-profit. Today, I also teach at a university college.

This multi-sector path is my strength as a coach: I understand from the inside the realities of the executives, managers, and professionals I work with, their responsibilities, their workload, their trade-offs. I've lived them, and that's what makes my support concrete.

I love travel too. I lived several months in Greece and seven months across Europe, experiences that shaped how I understand others and myself.