Outdoor Sport meets Mindset Coaching

— About Anja

Resilience is trained
& built in real life experience.

Systemic coaching that meets you where you can actually experience change: in nature, in movement, in the moments that matter.

— My Story

Coaching from Experience.

I spent years in international corporate roles across Switzerland and Europe. Good titles, demanding work, constant pressure. On the outside, everything looked right.

Inside, I was increasingly disconnected from what actually mattered to me. It took me a while until I stopped looking out there and start looking in. The problem wasn’t the job. The problem was that I’d been ignoring my own values for years. Freedom, nature, movement, self-determination: none of that had enough space in the life I was living.

That’s when everything changed. I founded Skillup Outdoors, an Outdoor Sports Community dedicated to encourage people to try new things. I also retrained as a Mental and Systemic Coach and built OutdoorMind: a coaching approach that combines what I know from years in corporate, my experience with Skillup Outdoors and what actually creates lasting change.

Today I work with companies that don’t want to lose their best people to burnout before they even notice something’s off. And with small groups on retreats, for people at a turning point who need to step out to find their way back.

— What I believe

Coaching that works happens in real life.

Thinking your way out doesn’t workPeople already understand the problem intellectually, more analysis won’t change it. Change happens when you bring the body and the environment into the process.

Nature as a powerful toolMountains, water, open space are active tools. The physical challenge surfaces things that no meeting room or therapy room ever could.

Values before goalsMost people and most organizations chase goals that were never really theirs. We work on what’s actually true first, and let the right goals follow from that.

Honesty over comfortThe work is sometimes uncomfortable. That’s what it takes to change a status quo that isn’t working anymore.

— The Method

Science-based. Experience-tested. Nature-powered.

I also run Skillup Outdoors – an outdoor sports community in Switzerland, founded before I ever trained as a coach. Everything else grew out of that.

My coaching is grounded in systemic coaching principles: working with the patterns and invisible dynamics that keep people and teams stuck, not just the surface symptoms. The focus is always on sustainable change, not quick fixes.

On top of that: 8+ years of lived corporate experience. I know what it means to perform under pressure and slowly lose touch with yourself in the process, whether you’re leading a team through constant change or just trying to keep it all together. I’ve been there, and I found the way out.

And then there’s activity in nature. Not as a setting, but as a method. Movement and environment are integral parts of how I work, because real change needs to be felt, not just talked about.