As a certified systemic coach, I support women who recognise that ‘things can’t stay the way they are‘ – and who are ready to release their inner brakes.
Without drama. Without pressure. But with heart, structure and a dash of humour.
You have achieved a lot professionally, you take responsibility and you are committed to your work. And yet you are feeling increasingly dissatisfied with your job: Is this it? Is this really it?
Your tasks make sense – but they no longer touch you.
You feel that more could be possible. But what that could look like – and whether you are allowed to ask for it – often remains unclear.
You juggle projects, team meetings, clients and to-do lists. You get feedback like: ‘Wow, how she manages it all!
And yet sometimes you think, ‘But at what cost?
You are functioning – but you are finding it increasingly difficult to organise, decide and breathe.
You want to be clear in the meeting, speak your mind, be more visible. But then there’s this voice: Just don’t offend. Or seem too brash.
You are competent – but the inner feeling of ‘not enough‘ is holding you back.
You want to understand what is holding you back – and finally show what you can do.
You help colleagues, step in, hold teams together – quietly and reliably. But when it comes to your own goals? You remain vague.
You want to get ahead, position yourself, be intentional about your path – but often you don’t have the time, the focus or the clear next step.
You ask yourself: Am I just exhausted – or is it time for a change?
The job is draining. The role no longer fits. Or the environment feels suffocating.
You want to understand where that knot in your stomach is coming from – and what you need to get back to work with clarity and energy.
Maybe now is the right time for a professional reorientation – quietly, honestly and well thought out.
If you recognise yourself in any of these points, it’s no coincidence.
Many women experience exactly these tensions in their professional lives – and try to resolve them on their own.
In systemic coaching, we take a look together:
👉🏻 What is holding you back? Where do you want to go?
👉🏻 And what do you need to take the next step – with clarity, attitude and healthy self-confidence?
When Yasmin came for coaching, she felt disorientated and lacking in drive – the desire for professional clarity was great. Her creativity was masked by perfectionism, doubts and the feeling of being stuck. However, deep inside her lay a professional dream that she had been putting aside for years.
Through coaching, she not only rediscovered her strengths, but also regained confidence in herself – and the courage to explore her own path.
An eyeopener experience! I very much enjoyed every session with Barbara. Her free and light-spirited character not only made the sessions enjoyable, but most certainly opened my eyes to things I was never aware I was suppressing. The sessions with Barbara gave me clarity and confidence to explore a career opportunity I have been putting aside for years. I came in with 0 motivation and confusion, and came out with direction and a will to try and explore. Thank you Barbara!
You gain clarity of mind – and room to manoeuvre in your daily life.
You finally understand why certain situations stress, paralyse or annoy you. And you find new ways of dealing with them – instead of going round in circles.
You stop checking yourself all the time – and start standing up for yourself.
You learn to take yourself seriously again – with all that makes you who you are. You will no longer make decisions out of a sense of duty, but with an attitude.
You consciously create your professional role – rather than just fulfilling it.
Whether it’s a change of job, greater visibility or a new self-image, you’ll gain inner security, clarity and the confidence to go your own way.
Sounds like work? Yes, it does. But meaningful.
And you don’t have to do it alone.
I am a certified systemic coach with over 20 years’ experience in the business world – including many years in male-dominated industries. I know the balancing act between ‘working’ and ‘being seen’, between self-doubt and the desire to stand up for yourself.
My coaching is not about silver bullets or self-optimisation.
It’s about real clarity – in how you think, feel and act.
And about you. In your role. At your own pace. With what really matters right now.
With me you get:
I work in a deep and at the same time pragmatic way – with heart, clarity and an attitude that takes you seriously but doesn’t put you under pressure.
✅ It is systemic, but not overly intellectual.
✅ Warm-hearted, but not soft-spoken.
✅ Clear, but not cold.
And always at eye level.
For women who feel there’s room for improvement – and I can want that.
Ondine and I got to know each other in the run-up to the Female Innovation Forum 2024. As the founder of the Ting Community, she is very well connected – and yet she kept asking herself the question: How do I present myself and my ideas in such a way that they come across as powerful without feeling alien?
Our collaboration is therefore not just about strategic self-marketing, but also about inner clarity, the courage to stand tall – and the confidence to represent yourself to the outside world with your full voice.
She thinks bigger than I do. She gives me courage where I almost wet my shirt. She comes up with concrete ideas that I would never have dared to think of. Along the way, she unbuttons, builds self-confidence, points out the gaps in her own line of reasoning, asks clever questions and, in the end, leaves nothing more than a courageous ‘yes’ to herself. With a keen sense of personality and a keen eye for coherent self-promotion, she accompanies the outward journey just as carefully as the inward one. She has so much experience, she can and knows an incredible amount and yet I never have the feeling that we are not communicating at eye level. Anyone who wants a quick-thinking, creative and flexible ace up their sleeve at any time is well served by Barbara.
Systemic coaching means for you:
We look at the big picture and not just at your challenges:
📍Your patterns.
📍Your roles.
📍Your imprints.
🚀 And above all: your options.
You don’t get a box of solutions from me. You get the tools to find your own solution – one that really suits you.
You will
👉🏻 develop new perspectives
👉🏻 recognise and dissolve patterns
👉🏻 question inner blockages
👉🏻 make decisions more clearly
👉🏻 and feel more self-confidence.
Before we start, we get to know each other – with no obligation. In a 30-minute preliminary discussion, we’ll find out what you’re interested in, what you want to achieve and whether we’re a good match. Only then do we get started.
We clarify your issue, your questions – and whether my coaching is right for you. Free & relaxed, but with depth. That is a promise. We’ll define your direction and discuss the first steps so that we can get started right away in the follow-up meeting.
In the individual sessions we work systemically, i.e. solution- and resource-oriented and individually. You will receive valuable impulses, open questions, exercises and space for reflection, awareness and growth.
And between sessions: space for implementation and follow-up.
Here we reflect together on what has changed, what you are taking with you – and how you want to continue on your journey. This is often the moment when it all comes together again.
👉 The coaching sessions take place online (Zoom) or on site (Zurich area).
👉 You set the pace. There is deliberate space between the appointments – for integration & implementation.
👉 Individual booking or as a package possible.
Coaching with me is not frontal teaching – but a dialogue at eye level.
With clarity, heart and sometimes a little perspective.
I can definitely recommend the coaching!
I had a two-hour career coaching session with Barbara and am very satisfied. She is an empathetic and professional coach who made me feel that I was in good hands. The sessions were pleasant and extremely informative – the results were surprising and eye-opening for me.
If you are looking for sound and appreciative counselling, Barbara is the right person for you. I can definitely recommend the coaching!
- Pascal O., Merck AG
It was a great experience
Barbara asks the kind of questions that get things moving – without pressure, but with impact. She helped me to take myself seriously again and to make career decisions that really suit me.
What started as an orientation talk turned into a real turning point: I now know where I want to go – and, above all, how to get there. Her mix of empathy, structure and humour is simply unique.
It was a great experience and I thank you very much.
- Sabine H., ZKB AG
It wasn’t a standard coaching
‘Barbara immediately understood where I was at – even what I couldn’t yet put into words myself.
Her empathetic manner and targeted questions helped me to unravel a knot that I had been carrying around with me for a long time.
I left the coaching session with much more clarity and a whole new sense of self-confidence. It wasn’t standard counselling, but real support at eye level.
I felt understood, empowered and reorganised – and the effects are still felt today.
- Veronique M., EY AG
I am a systemic coach, mentor and woman with attitude.
I was at home in the corporate world for over 20 years, leading international teams, preparing proposals for major clients and learning how to be present in noisy, male-dominated structures – without losing myself.
At the same time, I was a single mother. Juggling a career and raising a child without a family network was often a balancing act. Today, my daughter is studying veterinary medicine and I am proud of every step we have taken together.
My path to coaching was not a spontaneous intuition, but a consequence. Out of exhaustion. From the feeling of always having to function. And from a desire to support women who, like me, felt that things couldn’t stay the way they were.
Today, I support women to take their place in their careers with confidence – with clarity, attitude and a stable inner compass. I work systematically, honestly and with a good sense of humour.
And yes, I love salsa, weight training and honest conversations.
Because true strength lies not in perfection – but in truth.
Find answers to frequently asked questions. Do you have any more?
More specifically: When you feel like you are going round in circles in professional situations.
When you feel: I want to change something – but I don’t know exactly what or how.
Systemic coaching helps you to make connections, break patterns and develop new options for action.
Whether it’s a change of role, a team problem, pressure to make a decision or simply the feeling that you’re not yourself any more – together we’ll find out what’s really going on. And what’s right for you now.
No. Coaching is not the last exit before burnout – but a powerful opportunity to take a timely and conscious look at yourself.
You don’t have to be a manager to want to lead – you have to want to lead yourself.
And you don’t have to be at your limit to get support. Coaching is self-care with depth – and just the thing when you feel you need to get things moving.
Not at all. Many women come to me with a vague feeling that something is no longer right.
And that’s where we come in.
You don’t have to be able to name your problem – but you can feel it.
And together we’ll find out what’s behind it – step by step, at your own pace.
Especially then.
When you feel like you’re just functioning – at work, in your everyday life, in your thinking – coaching can be the place where you reconnect with yourself.
Without pressure, without expectations – but with a safe space for what is important right now.
It all depends on you and your concerns. Some women come with a specific problem and are clear after three to five sessions.
Others go deeper – and stay with me for several months.
We discuss this together and you decide what is right for you.
Systemic coaching is usually self-funded. Some employers cover the costs as part of staff development or health promotion programmes – we can look into this together.
And: I offer packages that give you time and financial security.
Then let’s be honest. That’s why there’s a no-obligation chemistry call – so you can feel whether I’m the right person for you. Coaching is about trust.
And if it’s not the right fit, that’s fine. You don’t have to please everyone – not even your coach 😉.
Imagine
… you start your working day with clarity – instead of a knot in your stomach.
👉🏻 Say what is important to you – without feeling bad about it.
👉🏻 You no longer make decisions out of a sense of duty, but out of conviction.
And you stop questioning yourself – because you finally trust yourself.
This is exactly what is possible – if you allow yourself to look and give yourself space.
Sometimes an impulse is enough. Sometimes it takes a process. You decide what is right for you.
90 minutes, 1:1
for a specific topic.
– no further support
– no follow-up appointment
🟡 ideal for quick clarity
5 x 90 minutes coaching (within 3 months)
individually guided, in-depth.
✅ incl. preparation & follow-up
✅ short impulses in between
🟢 ideal for real transformation
Since working with Barbara, I feel much more confident in how I come across.
Coaching with Barbara is truly valuable and transformative! Our collaboration opened my eyes in so many ways. Thanks to her extensive expertise, I had numerous aha moments – especially when it came to my presence and effective communication. We worked intensively on the different communication styles of men and women, including how to navigate escalation levels. […]
Since the coaching, I feel much more confident and self-assured in the way I present myself. This coaching is an investment I can wholeheartedly recommend to anyone who wants to strengthen their communication skills!
- Astrid K., Hospital Horgen
Loved working with her! 🥳
The wonderful Barbara shared so many valuable insights with me in just one hour! I truly appreciate her open, cheerful and enthusiastic personality – she’s just so easy to work with and has such a generous heart. Absolutely loved working with her – 100%! 😃
- Barbara L., UBS AG
[…] I’ve gained confidence
…and now approach negotiations with much more ease.
I’m impressed by her expertise and her charming, humorous way of working – always focused on the goal. I’m happy to recommend Barbara Hesse and will definitely turn to her again in the future.
- Erna A., Aebli Homestaging
Ready for the next step?
You don’t have to plan everything. You just need to know where to start.
