For over two decades, the Sympatico team have been trusted to provide executive coaching and career development services.
We help you grow and flourish through the BIG changes in your life and career.
Our philosophy or guiding principle is connection and being in ‘sympatico’ with our clients and the purpose-driven organisations we serve.
SYMPATICO is Australia’s longest established single-owner corporate coaching service, Annie Stewart and her associates are committed to their clients’ success and proud of the positive impact they have made to many lives, communities and organisations.
Being in sympatico, we help clients gain greater strength and confidence, grow their skills and make significant advances in their performance and impact.
Many people say they feel immediately comfortable with a Sympatico coach even though they are ‘out of their comfort zone’ with what they are working on.
Who we work with
Sympatico partners with individuals and organisations to provide tailor-made leadership development programs and corporate, transition and career coaching services.
Introducing Dr Annie Stewart – Coach & Author
”My purpose is to inspire and guide people to work and live with greater skill and confidence, and then go out into the world and maximise their contribution and impact.
Annie StewartManaging Director - Sympatico Coaching Practice
About Annie
Annie has an enduring purpose to help people discover and sustain fulfilling work – at whatever age and stage they find themselves. She is the author of 2 career development books: How to Find and Follow Your Calling: 7 steps to living with passion and purpose (2010) and Career to Calling: How to Make the Switch (2019). She is also the founder of The Callings Program, a proven step-by-step methodology that has helped thousands of people commit to an action plan for living their calling or life’s purpose.
In recent years Annie’s work and focus has evolved to include supporting people through career transitions. This work parallels her personal journey as a business owner, truth-seeker, mentor, mother and grandmother. Her next book Something Happens: A Guide to Growing Through a BIG Transition will be published in 2025.
Annie holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (University of Sydney) and a Masters Degree in Ergonomics (UNSW). She has a PhD in leadership and transpersonal psychology. Her doctoral studies researched how leaders found, follow and sustain their calling. Annie is also a Master Practitioner in NLP and is a Member of the Career Development Association of Australia.