I work with executives, founders, and emerging leaders who've already proven themselves and are ready to stop negotiating with themselves in the moments that matter most.
Over more than a decade, I've coached upwards of 3,000 people across 40-plus companies, from Big Four firms to global corporates, tech, manufacturing, and finance.
Hi, I’m Petra
If you're reading this, you've probably already outgrown advice
that starts with
'just be more confident.'
Coach · Speaker · Founder
The self authority Method™
3000+
people coached
40+
10+ yrs
companies incl. big 4
coaching & leadership
2
founding disciplines
law & psychology
And during my studies, somewhere in the middle of attorney practice and working in sales, I realised I loved studying more than I'd ever love the day-to-day of law.
What actually lit me up was people.
Helping them. Understanding them.
Being in motion, not behind a desk.
So I never practiced. Straight out of university I went into sales, then into training: NLP, coaching, shadow work,...
The kind of work that asks what's actually running underneath the performance, rather than just the performance itself.
Public speaking taught me
how to hold a room.
Shadow work taught me
how to hold a person.
I didn't start here. I studied law
- a profession that rewards logic, performance and keeping everything perfectly together.
That pursuit of knowing oneself took me further than I expected. I spent the better part of a decade leading multiple-day personal development intensives, and soft skills corporate workshops.
I was standing next to people while they faced patterns they'd built entire identities around, then walking them across burning coals - proof, in the most physical terms possible, that a clear vision and total focus can carry you through almost anything.
Around the same time, I found competitive public speaking, won a few awards, and helped my club become the best in the world at educational and leadership development.
A few years into that work, life moved fast. I moved across the world and had a baby so coaching went from rooms full of people to one laptop and a much smaller audience. The last five or six years have been mostly online: 1:1 clients, group programs, the same depth of work in a different format.
I didn't start here. I studied law
- a profession that rewards logic, performance and keeping everything perfectly together.
Now I'm back in the rooms I love to hold. Speaking, corporate workshops, the in-person work I built my training on for a decade, alongside the group programs and the handful of 1:1 clients I still take on.
My own life kept handing me the same lesson from different angles - marriage, divorce, a few international moves, each one stripping away something I thought I "should" be and leaving more of who I actually am.
It's the same work I take my clients through. I've just done it first.
Law gave me clarity. Shadow work gave me depth.
Public speaking gave me presence.
Most days, I have the courage to use all three.
That integration is The Fully Expressed Method™ . Not as a theory, but the direct result of everything I've lived and everything I've studied, refined across thousands of hours with clients who were already capable and still, somehow, holding back.
Nina Grunewald
Before coaching with Petra, I felt confused about where I was. I had been blocked myself from keeping moving forward in business. I felt like I didn't know HOW to do it and was looking for the next shiny strategy.
Petra went much deeper than behavioural coaching. She helped me breakthrough a subconscious limit, and peel back an old layer I was holding onto.
Coaching with Petra has opened me back up to creativity, motivation and momentum and I have been moving forward ever since, creating a new community and feeling so much freer!
For you to follow your dreams with empowerment!
“
Remona Moodley
Before, I used to feel scattered. Constantly on edge. Feeling like I'm behind.
Coaching with Petra was a transformative experience! I changed the way I look at myself and others.
I’m grounded, confident and self assured now. I’m more resilient and less reactive.
My big win was that I was feeling alive and 100% myself on the stage at the semifinal of the World Championship of Public speaking.
What I appreciated the most was Petra's intuition around what I needed and felt. The balance between inner exploration and tactical action planning.
I changed the way I see myself
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that create better relationships and results
Healthier boundaries
and steady self-leadership under pressure
Clearer decisions
and presence in every room
you walk into
Stronger communication
In a nutshell,
you aquire
Too many people, and particularly women, have built entire lives around who they thought they had to be.
The calm one, the capable one, the peacemaker, the achiever. And somewhere along the way, we lost connection with ourselves.
I do this work because I want us all to feel like ourselves again. Free. Confident in who we are. Brave to speak it.
Not smaller. Not nicer. Not what’s expected.
When a woman remembers who she is and leads from that place, she becomes someone who changes her own life, and often the lives around her.
That’s the kind of work that matters.
