Angela left a six-figure corporate salary in 2018 to become a coach, driven by what she observed as an epidemic of burnout, people-pleasing and emotional pretending. High-performing individuals were succeeding on the surface, yet quietly disconnecting from themselves under the pressure to perform and fit in.

Her husband’s severe brain injury in 2021 became the catalyst to formally build Paseda360 – a human-centric coach training academy offering high-quality coaching accreditations in a refreshingly different way.

Through her work, Angela recognised that much of executive coaching still relies on models created in the 1980s that do not reflect how humans actually think, feel and behave. She created a contemporary approach that integrates coaching with psychology, neuroscience and therapeutic principles in a grounded and ethical way.

Paseda360 shifts the focus away from metrics, outputs and surface-level goals, and back to humanity – supporting people to live and lead authentically, without masks.

Burnout is no longer limited to people in crisis. Angela describes a growing ‘silent middle’ within organisations – individuals who are coping, functioning and delivering, yet slowly eroding their energy, confidence and self-trust.

Under constant pressure to perform, people adopt masks that allow them to fit in and succeed, but over time, they become exhausted by being one person at work and another at home.

Through Paseda360, Angela develops coaches to work with individuals to help them recognise and remove those masks, reconnect with their authentic selves, and escape what she describes as the pretending pandemic.