Patty Annicq is a trained medical doctor. Upon joining the world of management, she began linking solution-focused communication to stress-reduction and enhancing one’s resources and potential. She spent several years as HR and communications manager, and set up her own coaching practice focusing on stress and burnout management. She applies her skills to coaching stress within families, family businesses, and in other organisations, recognising that (non) communication plays an important role, too. She is an executive coach in the WFL programme at Harvard Business School.