THE Design A Life You Love Philosophy
Life and Leadership by Design
A Coaching Experience for Leaders, Executives and Professionals blending Neuroscience, Human Design and Identity Transformation
Lead and Live Without Losing Yourself.
A 16-Week Coaching Experience to Rewire Your Inner Architecture, Redefine Success, and Align Your Life with Who You Truly Are.
“Working with Ann has been one of the most transformative experiences of my life. She met me exactly where I was, helping me come home to myself and step into authenticity and inner peace.”
I came to her at a time when my professional journey no longer felt like mine, and I was stretching myself in a role that left me deeply uncomfortable. From our very first conversations, Ann offered clarity that resonated at the core of who I am. Over time, that clarity grew into calmness and trust - trust in myself, and trust in the unfolding of life without needing to control every step.
What I valued most was Ann’s intuitive way of guiding the process. She didn’t push me through a rigid program but met me exactly where I was, sensing what I needed in each moment. Through exploring my nervous system, reparenting the self, integrating my inner parts, and diving into Human Design in a way that felt deeply personal, I began to remember who I truly am.
I’m proud of having come back home to myself - deconstructing illusions, landing fully in my truth, and stepping into a place of authenticity and inner peace. This work with Ann has laid the foundation for how I now live and how I hope to support others on their path.
Simon, Head of EMEA Solutions Architecture at Stripe
Creating Space for Intentional Living
What If This Is the Moment
Everything Starts to Feel Different?
It’s early. The light is shifting. Your body is already bracing for what the day will ask of you. Emails, meetings, decisions. You’re thinking about other people’s needs before you’ve even had a moment to ask yourself what you need.
The truth is - you’ve built a life of momentum. But momentum without alignment is exhausting.
You’re holding space for others, managing complexity, and solving invisible problems. You’re two steps ahead of everything and everyone. And yet, there’s a voice, persistent, quiet, steady, that’s asking:
Is this how I want to keep doing it?
You’ve been successful by many measures. But you’re craving more:
Not more output.
Not more accolades.
More presence. More connection. More meaning.
You want your inner world to match your external success.
You want to live, lead, and love from a deeper place.
This is the moment everything can start to feel different.
You are meant to experience feelings of love, connection, and buoyancy, regardless of circumstances. These aren’t luxuries; they are signs of a nervous system, mind, and inner world working in harmony.
For many executives, leaders and professionals, success brings visibility, recognition, and impact, but also a quiet spiritual hunger. An existential emptiness. A sense of unfulfillment. A feeling of not-enoughness, not in what you do, but in how you are being and feeling in the world.
And yet, beneath it all, there is often an innate knowing that a deeper, more connected way of living is possible. A way of attuning to the force of life itself.
This coaching helps restore that connection, so success no longer comes at the expense of your aliveness, but becomes a reflection of your deepest truth.
This work is about building from the inside out, developing the inner architecture that supports outer expansion.
You’re not here to tick boxes or follow someone else’s blueprint. You’re here to become the inner architect of your life: to rewire old patterns, restore your nervous system, and redesign how you lead, live, and thrive, on your terms.
“Working with Ann was one of the best investments I have made in myself.”
I came to her during the most challenging period in my life and was looking for guidance on how to move forward in my career. What I ended up getting was so much more. I gained a greater understanding of myself, a greater connection to my intuition and authenticity, and a clear path forward toward my purpose and goals. Every session with Ann is gold and I always come away feeling more grounded, more empowered, and with greater clarity on the next steps in my life. I’m forever grateful to her.
Jessica, Psychologist
This Isn’t About Doing More. It’s About Leading from Within
Sustainable growth isn’t about adding more to your plate - it’s about redesigning the foundation it rests on.
This work strengthens your inner architecture so you can meet life with clarity, resilience, and presence.
Across 16 weeks, we work on the layers that shape your experience of life:
Neuroscience-based rewiring - shifting neural pathways, outdated beliefs, and autonomic patterns of behaviour that keep you stuck.
Emotional regulation and interoception - strengthening your ability to feel, interpret, and respond to your body’s signals without overwhelm.
Identity-level shifts - moving from outdated patterns into leadership rooted in who you truly are.
Human Design insights - integrated through science, to align decision-making and energy with your natural design.
Nervous system regulation - expanding the capacity of your foundations so life feels manageable, not overwhelming.
Meaning and purpose design - ensuring your goals are connected to what truly matters, not just what’s expected.
Lifestyle Portfolio building - weaving career, creativity, family, and contribution into a balanced, sustainable system.
Behavioural strategies & daily scaffolding - embedding changes into habits, rituals, and environments that support you long-term.
Future self frameworks - creating momentum towards the life you want to inhabit, not just the one you’ve inherited.
Deliberate calm and frustration tolerance - skills that make you sturdy in uncertainty, change, and challenge.
This is not surface-level coaching.
It’s a recalibration of how you think, feel, believe, and behave, so success becomes both sustainable and deeply fulfilling.
Design a Life You Love Philosophy: 16-Week Life and Leadership Optimisation
Where Science, Strategy, and Spirituality Meet
Lasting change begins in the brain and body.
When your nervous system is overstretched or your identity is tied to outdated patterns, no external strategy will bring relief. That’s why this coaching begins with your inner architecture: the nervous system responses, thought loops, and beliefs that quietly shape everything you do.
Together, we identify the patterns that keep you in overdrive, rewire them, and reconnect you to the parts of yourself that achievement culture has sidelined: creativity, joy, intuition, and presence. Once your inner architecture is realigned, your outer structures, time, leadership, relationships, family and career can finally shift in ways that last.
Over 16 weeks, we bring together:
Portfolio Lifestyle Design → structuring your commitments so career, creativity, family, and rest fuel each other rather than compete.
Inner Architecture → rewiring neural pathways and emotional patterns to expand your capacity and rebuild trust in yourself.
Nervous System-First Life and Leadership → strengthening executive decision-making, emotional intelligence, and presence so you can lead sustainably and safely.
This is not about abandoning ambition. It’s about developing the internal capacity to live, lead, and create without burning out, overworking, or abandoning yourself.
We are cognitive, emotional, and spiritual beings, but in many professional settings, the spiritual dimension is ignored. And it’s often in that absence that the deepest sense of disconnection arises.
Traditional success starves creativity and family life. Portfolio lifestyle design integrates ambition with soul, creating a structure where both can thrive.
From burnout to falling in love with life again
“To say that working with Ann was life-changing, would be an absolute understatement.”
Before working with Ann, I had experienced significant burnout in both my professional and personal life and my mental health was at a critical point. I began looking for a life coach that used Human Design and I found Ann. From our first conversation, she made me feel heard and understood. The information she has taught me about myself and how I navigate through life was invaluable. She helped take me from a person that was suffering from debilitating depression and anxiety to a completely confident mom and business owner. I have had a lot of traditional therapy in my life, but was really looking for someone to help me get “unstuck.” I had a very bleak overview of what my life looked like and now I can’t wait to get started on all of the plans that Ann and I made during our sessions.
Ann was instrumental at helping me look at my life and figure out what was working and what wasn’t. She has given me the tools to move confidently throughout my life and to be genuinely happy. To say that working with Ann was life-changing, would be an absolute understatement.
Sophy, Attorney
Who This Coaching Is For
This coaching is for professionals, executives and leaders who want to:
Reconnect with their purpose and decision-making clarity
Navigate transitions or disconnections in their professional life
Stabilise and hold a new identity or role without compromising what matters most
Expand their emotional and cognitive capacity to handle complexity without burnout
Rewire outdated beliefs and autonomic patterns of behaviour
Lead and live with presence, emotional regulation, and long-term energy
Make confident decisions without second-guessing or reactivity
Integrate their strategic, intuitive, and soulful self into how they lead and live
Create meaningful momentum toward a legacy, not just another goal
Explore or expand a Lifestyle Portfolio, turning passions, projects, or side ventures into part of a fulfilling life design
Follow the pull toward more meaningful, aligned, and embodied success, without more hustle
If you see yourself here, this coaching is a match for the next level of your leadership, self-connection, and sustainable success.
Not sure if you’re ready for long-term coaching?
Sometimes what you need first isn’t a full programme, but a space to untangle the knot. Office Hours is a focused 2-hour session designed for:
Immediate clarity on a decision, challenge, or transition
Breaking down a complex situation into the next steps you can trust
Experiencing how neuroscience-based coaching feels before stepping into deeper work
Think of it as loosening the thread so you can see the pattern more clearly, without having to commit to a full rebuild just yet.
Not ready for coaching yet?
If you’d like to explore this philosophy at your own pace, the Design a Life You Love Journal is a self-guided tool to begin rewiring patterns, strengthening daily scaffolding, and connecting with your future self.
Design a Life You Love Philosophy: 16-Week Life and Leadership Optimisation
Lead with clarity. Expand your inner capacity. Integrate who you are into everything you do.
This 1:1 experience is for professionals stepping into a new era of work and self-leadership. Together, we’ll expand your nervous system capacity, so pressure doesn’t overwhelm you, decisions don’t paralyse you, and ambition doesn’t drain you. By rewiring your inner architecture, your nervous system patterns, identity beliefs, and thought loops — you gain the stability and space to create external structures that match who you are now: a rhythm of work, leadership, relationships, and creativity that feels sustainable.
You’ll Work On:
Cognitive clarity and flexibility - strengthening executive function so you can think strategically under pressure.
Decision-making from regulation - building nervous system capacity to stay clear and grounded in high-stakes moments.
Identity evolution - shedding outdated beliefs and stepping into the version of you that your next chapter requires.
Time and energy architecture - designing outer structures that sustain both your work and your life.
Human Design integration - interpreting and embodying your unique wiring so you operate from alignment, not conditioning.
Leadership presence - blending analytical sharpness with grounded intuition so others feel your steadiness.
Personal–professional coherence - ensuring that who you are is never lost in what you do.
What’s Included:
A Future Visioning Session to anchor your 16-week journey in clarity, alignment, and purpose.
16 weekly 90-minute sessions, plus unlimited Telegram and email support (Mon–Fri).
Your personalised Notion Coaching Dashboard.
A Full Inner Architecture Assessment across cognitive, emotional, nervous system, behavioural, and energetic layers.
Neuroscience-based tools: intercepting prediction loops, strengthening interoceptive awareness (body cues of safety), practising cognitive reappraisal, and expanding your nervous system’s tolerance for pressure and recovery.
Human Design frameworks (type, strategy, authority, profile, key gates) are applied directly to your leadership and life.
Future self frameworks and narrative repatterning to prime your brain for the outcomes you want.
Portfolio lifestyle mapping to design external structures that reflect your renewed inner architecture.
Before This Work, Clients Often Felt:
Constantly “on” but never truly at ease.
Rushed, reactive, and mentally crowded.
Emotionally flat or stretched thin.
Operating at the edge of their nervous system’s limits.
Outwardly successful, yet strangely unfulfilled.
After This Work, Clients Consistently Experience:
Greater nervous system capacity - able to hold pressure, change, and opportunity without collapsing into stress.
Calm clarity in high-stakes decisions, grounded in self-trust.
Emotional depth and presence in both leadership and relationships.
More energy and creativity, as stress loops release and space opens up.
A felt sense of alignment between who they are and how they live.
The ability to thrive, not just perform - sustaining success without self-abandonment.
“I would not be where I am today without her guidance.”
Ann has challenged me, supported me, accepted me and encouraged me in so many ways. I would not be where I am today without her guidance. She is an amazing woman who lights up any room she’s in. Anyone would be lucky to work with her.’
Emily, Senior Analyst, Global Strategy
The Coaching Journey: From Inner Rewiring to Outer Change
Every coaching experience is unique, but neuroscience shows that sustainable change always begins with inner work. By rewiring the brain’s predictive patterns and strengthening nervous system capacity, you create the foundation for external clarity, strategy, and leadership that lasts.
Think of this as a living map, a flexible framework tailored to your pace, priorities, and lived experience.
Week 1–2: Grounding & Inner Architecture Assessment
Map nervous system responses, identity beliefs, and thought patterns.
Establish the foundation for growth by identifying what must shift internally before external change can hold.
Week 3–6: Regulation & Rewiring
Spot reactive loops (fight, flight, freeze and fawn) and learn to rewire them in real time.
Strengthen vagal tone, your nervous system’s ability to recover from stress.
Expand self-trust to create space for presence and clarity under pressure.
Week 7–10: Expansion & Integration
Apply new inner capacity to real-time work and relational challenges.
Redesign your external structures, time, energy, and lifestyle portfolio around your renewed self.
Reawaken creativity and desires long neglected, weaving them back into your daily life.
Week 11–14: Visioning & Leadership Clarity
Use your future self as a compass, priming the brain’s predictive coding for aligned outcomes.
Strengthen connections between the amygdala and prefrontal cortex for emotional intelligence and resilience.
Embody leadership presence where others feel steadiness and clarity.
Week 15–16: Consolidation & Ongoing Strategy
Integrate your expanded inner architecture into external systems and commitments.
Leave with a personalised leadership and lifestyle portfolio, a map that evolves with you as your brain and body continue to adapt.
What Clients Experience
Because the work begins within, rewiring the brain and nervous system, the external results are not only visible, they’re sustainable.
Inner Architecture → External Alignment
Nervous system regulation and identity shifts that naturally translate into steadier decisions, clearer relationships, and sustainable energy.
Portfolio Lifestyle Design
External structures that finally support who you are: a rhythm where work, family, rest, and creativity coexist without compromise.
Nervous System-First Leadership
Presence under pressure, clarity in communication, and the confidence to lead with both strategy and humanity.
Together, these shifts lead to:
Confidence in high-stakes decisions, grounded in self-trust rather than stress.
Expanded creativity, adaptability, and access to desires once buried by overachievement.
A nervous system that fuels growth instead of sabotaging it.
Joy, rest, and meaningful connection are woven back into daily life.
A redefined success, not based on relentless output, but on inner coherence and sustainable leadership.
“This work gave me a way back to myself. I no longer feel like I'm performing at the expense of my spirit. I'm connected to my work, my team, and my own inner life in a way I never thought was possible. It’s not just that I lead better, it’s that I live more fully.”
- Michael, CMO
“It wasn’t just my work that changed. It was how I felt at home, how I showed up with my family, and how I related to myself. I stopped outsourcing my worth and started building a life that feels rich, connected, and real. This changed everything.”
- Angela, Management Consultant
“Before this work, I was burning out at both ends. Now I make decisions with more clarity, show up for my team and family with more presence, and enjoy my success again. The transformation was real and lasting. I now know how to lead myself.”
- Norma, Business Owner
This Is How You Grow Without Losing Yourself
Because of the depth and personal nature of this coaching, spaces are limited. If you’re ready to lead your next chapter with clarity, capacity, and inner confidence, now is the time to take the first step.
Next Steps: Book a Consultation
If this work resonates, the next step is a free 30-minute consultation call.
This call is an opportunity for us to connect, explore what you’re looking for, and determine whether the Design a Life You Love Coaching Philosophy is the right fit for you.
There’s no pressure to commit, just a thoughtful conversation to help you gain clarity.
During the call, we’ll:
Explore what’s currently challenging you or calling for change
Identify how this coaching approach might support you
Answer any questions you have about the structure, support, or focus areas
Clarify next steps if it feels aligned to move forward
Because this coaching is highly personalised, I only work with a small number of clients at a time to ensure depth and transformation.
This is a space for honest conversation, not obligation. Come as you are, and we’ll take it from there.
For HR Leaders and People-Centred Organisations:
If you’re a Human Resources Manager, Chief People Officer, or responsible for wellbeing and leadership development in your organisation, this work extends beyond the individual.
The Design a Life You Love coaching framework supports sustainable high performance by addressing the root causes of burnout, disconnection, and misalignment. When leaders operate from a place of nervous system regulation, emotional intelligence, and meaningful connection to purpose, organisational culture transforms—from reactive to resilient, from high-pressure to high-integrity.
If you’re exploring ways to support your team or senior leaders in cultivating greater clarity, capacity, and inner steadiness, while fostering spiritual wellbeing in professional contexts, get in touch.
This is a neuroscience-grounded, spiritually aware model that values human depth as a leadership asset, one that integrates emotion regulation, decision-making capacity, and resilience-building into the core of leadership development.
About Ann Smyth
Ann Smyth is a Certified Life and Leadership Coach and current M.Sc. Neuroscience candidate at King’s College London. Her work blends cognitive neuroscience, identity transformation, Human Design interpretation, and practical strategy to support high-performing professionals in leading lives of clarity, purpose, and sustainable growth.
Frequently Asked Questions
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While therapy often focuses on healing the past, this coaching is about forward momentum, integrating neuroscience-backed tools to rewire your inner world and expand your leadership capacity.
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No. Whether you're new or familiar, Human Design is integrated only in ways that are practical, accessible, and immediately relevant to your leadership and life.
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Yes. Many clients use Learning and Development or executive coaching budgets. I’m happy to provide documentation to support reimbursement or direct company payment.
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A Lifestyle Portfolio is the outward design of your life once the inner architecture is steady. It’s the way career, creativity, relationships, and contribution weave together. For some, it’s consulting alongside leadership. For others, it’s writing, launching a podcast, or carving out space for family and travel. It’s not just about income streams; it’s about designing capacity for what truly matters.
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Just a willingness to show up honestly. You’ll receive structured support, reflection tools, and space to grow. You don’t need to be perfect—you just need to be present.
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Yes I do. You can arrange one off reading by clicking on the Human Design Reading tab of this website.
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Curiosity is encouraged around here so I promise, no question is a silly one. Feel free to email me at ann@annsmyth.com and I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.