ABOUT ME

I believe that we are the most important instrument in everything we do, in the way we show up, and in what we bring into every moment. And like any instrument, we need to attune ourselves. To what we want. What we need. Where we’re out of sync with our beliefs and values. Where we play safe. When we act from reactive patterns, and when we are fully creative and powerful.

If we’re not tuned, even when the rest of the orchestra is, it will still have an impact, no matter the musical piece, we will hear that something is off.

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You are what you embody.
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Anna Sumara

In short:

I believe everything starts from ourselves

I work with the whole person

True development isn’t just intellectual advancement. It’s the growth of all our capacities. My work places the body at the center. Not because it matters more than the mind or the heart, but because it’s the one we’ve disconnected from most. The body cannot lie. It reveals the patterns, the beliefs, the places where we’re holding ourselves back — long before our conscious mind catches up.

My approach brings together coaching, leadership, neuroscience, somatics, and mindfulness — intelligence of the mind with wisdom of the body and heart working as one. This isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about coming home to what’s already within you.

My practice is my work

To serve my clients fully, I must continually cultivate my own presence. Coaching is not about offering solutions; it’s about creating and holding a space where others can show up, explore, and reconnect with themselves. The more unattached, alive, and grounded I am, the more capacity there is for the client to access their own truth.

My ability to reconnect with wholeness in myself is what awakens it in others. That is not a given. It is a continuous practice.

Dance, theater, martial arts, voice work, bodywork, movement, and meditative practice are how I keep developing myself. Through them I meet what lives in my body, notice what I’m bringing into the world, and transform what no longer serves me. These aren’t hobbies alongside my work - they are my work.

What I teach is what I practice.

My mission is to help leaders, creators, and coaches build the embodied presence to lead, create, and live from choice with power and clarity, especially in the moments that matter.

Credentials & background

I’m a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC™), Faculty at the Co-Active Training Institute, and a Professional Fellow at the Institute of Coaching at Harvard Medical School. Over the past decade I’ve accumulated 2,500+ coaching hours and have trained more than 1,000 coaches globally.

I hold an MSc in Business Management and bring over 20 years of international experience spanning business and coaching - half of it in consulting and the financial industry before I transitioned fully into this work. I’ve lived in four countries and work internationally in English, German, and Polish.

Certifications

Leadership Circle Profile™ Certification - a holistic leadership assessment and development tool that measures both Creative Competencies and Reactive Tendencies, Leadership Circle
Embodied Transformation - how to powerfully align your vision of who you want to be with daily somatic practices to live your leadership everyday, Strozzi Institute
The Neuroscience of Change: Understand the Brain - Transform your Coaching, Coaches Rising
Leading from the Emerging Future - leading profound social, environmental and personal transformation, u.Lab, MITx
The Radical Wholeness - coming back home to the body, to your wholeness, Philip Shepherd
Social Presencing Theater, The Presencing Institute
The Power of Embodied Transformation - Embodied / Somatic Coaching, Coaches Rising
Search Inside Yourself, Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence Leadership Training, Google
Yoga Teaching Training 250h, PopUp Yoga
Meditation and Ayurveda 100h, Sampoorna Yoga
Pranayama Intensive, Yoga Studium

Qualifications

Co-Active Leadership Program (10 months of ICF accredited experiential learning), Co-Active Training Institute (CTI)
Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coach Federation
Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC™), Co-Active Training Institute (CTI)
Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching, CRR Global
MSc (Econ.) in Business Management; specialisation in Financial Management, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Cross Culture Psychology, short course, Birkbeck University, London

Outside of coaching, I love adventure and trying new things, I have too many passions and interests for one lifetime. I travelled the world in 380 days. I’m an art, dance, and music lover; a yoga and mindfulness teacher and practitioner. I hike, ski, swim, kitesurf, and train in Movement. I love theatre - sometimes as a visitor, sometimes as a persistent, though not very talented student of acting courses. Dance is how I express myself. I dance like everybody is watching.