Steven Sabet Logo
Website auf Deutsch
DeutschEnglishFrançaisEspañolItalianoTürkçeHrvatskiMagyarČeštinaSlovenčina
Free initial consultation
Steven Sabet Logo Coaching in English | Vienna

English-Speaking Coach in Vienna for Life, Career, Business and Leadership

Fluent English coaching in Vienna for clearer decisions, greater self-confidence, authentic communication, healthy relationships and meaningful professional development.

You may have reached a point where functioning well is no longer enough. Perhaps your life looks organised from the outside, while something inside feels unclear, constricted or no longer entirely yours. You may be considering a career change, carrying a leadership role, building a business, struggling with self-doubt or repeating a pattern that you understand intellectually but still find difficult to change.

I offer personal life coaching, career coaching, business coaching and executive coaching in fluent English or German. Sessions take place primarily in my private coaching practice in Vienna.

Request a free initial consultationExplore the coaching options
Coaching in fluent English or GermanPrivate practice in 1150 ViennaFree 15 to 20 minute video consultation

English-Speaking Coaching in Vienna: The Short Answer

Steven Sabet is an English-speaking life, career, business and executive coach in Vienna. He offers personal 1:1 coaching and psychosocial counselling in fluent English and German. Typical topics include self-worth, recurring patterns, difficult decisions, relationships, boundaries, career change, self-employment, business strategy, communication, leadership and performance under pressure. The first consultation is free. Initial coaching sessions generally take place in person at his practice in 1150 Vienna.

This page gives you a complete English-language overview of the individual coaching services available.

Life Coaching in Vienna in Fluent English or German

Life coaching can be helpful when you do not simply want to analyse an issue again, but want to understand what is happening, create new options and translate insight into real decisions and behaviour.

You do not need to arrive with a perfectly formulated goal. Many clients begin with a sentence such as:

  • “Something in my life no longer feels right, but I cannot yet name it”
  • “I keep repeating the same pattern even though I understand it”
  • “I know what I should do, but I do not feel able to act”
  • “I want to set boundaries without becoming cold or distant”
  • “My head, heart and gut seem to be pulling in different directions”
  • “I have achieved a great deal, but I still do not feel secure in myself”
  • “I want more clarity about what I actually want”
  • “I live and work internationally and would prefer to explore this in English”

What Is Life Coaching?

Life coaching is a structured personal development process that helps you clarify your situation, understand recurring behavioural patterns and develop practical next steps. It can focus on self-worth, self-confidence, decisions, relationships, boundaries, personal transitions, emotional reactions, meaning, values and the balance between work and private life.

The purpose is not to fit you into a predefined ideal. The purpose is to help you see more clearly, reconnect with your own inner criteria and make choices that are both responsible and authentic.

Common Life Coaching Topics we can work on

  • Personal development and self-awareness
  • Self-worth and self-esteem
  • Confidence and self-trust
  • Setting boundaries and learning to say no
  • People pleasing and fear of rejection
  • Relationship patterns and communication
  • Difficult personal or professional decisions
  • Overthinking and decision loops
  • Recurring behavioural and emotional patterns
  • Life transitions and personal reinvention
  • Inner pressure, perfectionism and self-criticism
  • Work-life balance and personal priorities
  • Motivation, direction and personal meaning
  • Adjusting to an international life or working environment
  • Turning insight into concrete action

How I Work in Life Coaching

We begin by clarifying what is happening now, what you have already tried and what meaningful change would look like in your real life.

Depending on the topic, our work may include precise conversation, reflection, perspective shifts, body awareness and suitable methods from NLP, Time Line Therapy®, hypnosis and mBIT. The method is never the centre of the process. It follows the issue and the person.

The decisive question is always:

What needs to become clearer, different or more available in your everyday life?

Between sessions, individual reflection questions, practical exercises or agreed check-ins can support transfer. This helps ensure that coaching does not remain an interesting conversation, but becomes visible in decisions, communication, boundaries and behaviour.

Schachfiguren vor Spiegel als Motiv für Life Coaching, Selbstreflexion und Klarheit.

Psychosocial Counselling in English in Vienna

As a diploma-qualified psychosocial counsellor and licensed Austrian Life and Social Counsellor, I also work within the professional framework of psychosocial counselling.

This can be relevant for personal, professional and interpersonal development issues such as decisions, relationships, self-worth, boundaries, life transitions and recurring patterns.

Coaching and psychosocial counselling are not psychotherapy. I do not diagnose or treat mental disorders. If your situation requires psychotherapeutic, clinical psychological, psychiatric or medical support, I will address this openly during the initial consultation.

Das Innere Zuhause: A Longer Coaching and Mentoring Process

Das Innere Zuhause, which translates as The Inner Home, is my own structured coaching framework for self-worth, self-awareness, self-confidence, self-respect, self-responsibility, self-acceptance, self-reflection, self-leadership and self-efficacy.

It can be a suitable option when several areas of life are connected and you are looking for a coherent process rather than a single intervention.

The programme consists of 12 sessions over approximately six to eight months. Follow-up sessions last 60 to 90 minutes. Written or voice-message check-ins between sessions support integration into everyday situations.

Discuss Life Coaching in a free consultation

Das Innere Zuhause im Life Coaching: Goldene Hauszeichnung für Selbstwert und Selbstführung mit den Leitmotiven Klarheit, Ausrichtung, innerer Halt und persönliches Wachstum.

About Steven Sabet

I speak English fluently and offer coaching sessions in English in Vienna. You can work with me entirely in English or German. This is particularly helpful for international professionals, expats, people working across cultures and anyone who can express personal and professional topics more precisely in English.

I hold an MBA and am a diploma-qualified psychosocial counsellor, Austrian Life and Psychological Counsellor, life coach, career coach, executive coach and NLP and mBIT trainer based in Vienna.

My work combines three perspectives:

  1. Personal development and coaching
  2. More than 15 years of international management and leadership experience
  3. A precise focus on recurring patterns, decisions and practical implementation
Steven Sabet, English-speaking coach in Vienna

Passion for Patterns: Recognising and Changing Recurring Patterns

A recurring theme in my work is the ability to recognise and change patterns.

Patterns can appear in:

  • Decisions
  • Relationships
  • Communication
  • Career choices
  • Leadership
  • Performance under pressure
  • Self-worth
  • Business systems
  • Sales and negotiations
  • The way people respond to expectations

When a pattern becomes visible, it loses some of its automatic power. A reaction that once seemed inevitable can become a new conscious choice.

I call this perspective Passion for Patterns.

Qualifications and Professional Background

My qualifications and experience include:

  • Diploma-qualified Psychosocial Counsellor in Austria
  • NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer according to ABNLP standards
  • Time Line Therapy® Master Practitioner
  • Hypnosis Master Practitioner
  • mBIT Coach and Trainer
  • Founder and owner of Anvoria, an institute for NLP, mBIT and personal development
  • International keynote speaker
  • MBA, Master of Business Administration
  • More than 15 years of international management and leadership experience
  • Former Commercial Director in a S&P 500 company with vast experience across leadership, sales, marketing, pricing and business intelligence with responsibility for international and multidisciplinary functions and teams

Coaching Informed by Real Business and Leadership Experience

Before becoming self-employed as a coach and trainer, I worked in international corporations and high-responsibility commercial roles.

I have led teams, managed conflicting stakeholder and shareholder expectations, worked with complex pricing and sales systems and made decisions under significant economic pressure.

This experience is particularly relevant in career, business and executive coaching. It allows us to connect personal patterns with the reality of organisations, markets, responsibility, hierarchy, money and implementation.

My Coaching Style

Clients often describe my work as:

  • Warm and clear
  • Empathetic and direct
  • Methodologically grounded
  • Structured without being rigid
  • Practical rather than purely inspirational
  • Focused on sustainable change and everyday transfer

I do not provide artificial motivation or universal success formulas. My role is to help you see clearly, recognise what is operating beneath the surface and develop choices that genuinely fit your situation.

Focus Programmes in English in Vienna

A regular focus programme gives you five personal coaching sessions dedicated to one clearly defined issue. We work on the situations you want to change and develop new responses you can test in everyday life. Reflection, practical tasks and brief check-ins between meetings help you bring those experiences into the next session.

Most Focus programmes include:

  • A free initial consultation
  • Five personal coaching sessions
  • 90 to 120 minutes per session
  • A typical duration of six to ten weeks
  • Individual reflection and practical transfer tasks
  • Brief check-ins between sessions
  • In-person sessions at my practice in Vienna
  • A fixed package price of EUR 850

The Career Reset typically runs for eight to twelve weeks. The Breakthrough Session is a separate intensive full-day format for a topic that you really want to let go.

Imposter syndrome coaching can be helpful when your actual competence and your internal self-image no longer seem to match.

You may receive positive feedback, take on responsibility and achieve visible results, yet still feel that your position is somehow borrowed. A new role, promotion, leadership responsibility or greater visibility may intensify the fear that others will eventually discover that you are less capable than they believe.

Typical search concerns include imposter syndrome at work, impostor feelings, professional self-doubt, perfectionism, fear of being exposed, high achiever anxiety and executive imposter syndrome.

What We Work On

We identify your personal imposter cycle:

  • Which situations activate self-doubt?
  • Do you respond with overpreparation, perfectionism, procrastination or withdrawal?
  • How do you explain your success?
  • What standards do you apply to yourself that you would not apply to others?
  • Why does positive feedback fail to update your internal self-image?
  • What happens when you become more visible?

The goal is not permanent confidence or artificial positive thinking. The goal is a more realistic relationship with your competence, achievements and remaining areas of development.

Format and Investment

  • Five in-person coaching sessions in Vienna
  • 90 to 120 minutes per session
  • Approximately six to ten weeks
  • Reflection questions, practical assignments and check-ins
  • Fixed programme price: EUR 850

Public speaking coaching can help when you know your subject but lose access to your voice, memory or natural presence as soon as people begin to watch.

You may prepare thoroughly and still feel unready. Your breathing becomes shallow, your voice changes, your mind goes blank or your attention shifts away from the audience and towards constant self-monitoring.

This programme combines inner coaching work with practical presentation training. It is relevant for public speaking anxiety, presentation anxiety, stage fright, fear of speaking in front of groups, online presentations, pitches, exams, meetings and visible professional roles.

What We Work On

We may address:

  • Fear of judgement and visibility
  • Past experiences of embarrassment or harsh criticism
  • Perfectionistic speaking rules
  • Physical activation and state management
  • Breathing, posture, voice, tempo and pauses
  • Presentation structure and core message
  • Managing a brief blackout or loss of the thread
  • Authentic presence instead of performing a false speaker persona

My experience as an international keynote speaker also informs the practical side of the programme.

Format and Investment

  • Five in-person coaching sessions in Vienna
  • 90 to 120 minutes per session
  • Approximately six to ten weeks
  • Practical exercises with real speaking situations
  • Individual preparation tasks and check-ins
  • Fixed programme price: EUR 850

Self-worth and boundaries coaching can help when you recognise your limits but still find it difficult to represent them in relationships, family or work.

You may say yes before checking your own capacity. You may feel responsible for other people’s disappointment, avoid conflict or explain your decisions until your boundary becomes negotiable again.

This programme is particularly relevant for people pleasing, low self-worth, fear of rejection, difficulty saying no, weak personal boundaries, over-responsibility and guilt after setting a boundary.

What We Work On

We explore:

  • Where you repeatedly override your own needs
  • Which relationships activate the strongest adaptation
  • How self-worth becomes tied to being helpful, easy or constantly available
  • How guilt and fear appear when you consider saying no
  • How to distinguish a wish, a request and a boundary
  • How to communicate clearly without becoming cold
  • How to tolerate another person’s reaction without abandoning yourself

The aim is not to become more selfish. The aim is to connect warmth with self-respect.

Format and Investment

  • Five in-person coaching sessions in Vienna
  • 90 to 120 minutes per session
  • Approximately six to ten weeks
  • Work with real boundary and relationship situations
  • Communication exercises, reflection tasks and check-ins
  • Fixed programme price: EUR 850

Performance coaching can help when your ability is available in training or preparation, but becomes harder to access when the moment matters.

This may happen in sport, examinations, presentations, pitches, negotiations, auditions or other high-stakes situations. You may become physically tense, narrow your attention, overcontrol your performance or remain mentally stuck after a small mistake.

The programme is relevant for performance anxiety, choking under pressure, competition nerves, test anxiety, mental preparation, performance under pressure and focus in high-stakes situations.

What We Work On

We develop a personal model of your pressure response:

  • What makes the situation feel highly significant?
  • When does physical activation begin?
  • How does attention narrow?
  • What do you attempt to control consciously?
  • How do you react after an error?
  • Which routines support access to your actual skill?

Depending on the topic, we may work with state management, body awareness, focus, mental rehearsal, pre-performance routines, error recovery and practical application situations.

The goal is not to eliminate activation. The goal is to use it without losing access to your competence.

Format and Investment

  • Five in-person coaching sessions in Vienna
  • 90 to 120 minutes per session
  • Approximately six to ten weeks
  • Individual routines, practical exercises and check-ins
  • Fixed programme price: EUR 850

Decision clarity coaching can help when you have considered every argument and still remain unable to choose.

You may be facing a professional or personal decision with real consequences. Perhaps several options are reasonable. Perhaps you are looking for complete certainty, fear regret or try to anticipate every reaction from the people around you.

The programme addresses decision-making difficulties, overthinking, fear of making the wrong decision, career decisions, relationship decisions, uncertainty and analysis paralysis.

What We Work On

We separate the different layers of the decision:

  • What are the verified facts?
  • What are assumptions?
  • Which values and needs are involved?
  • What are you afraid of losing?
  • Which responsibility genuinely belongs to you?
  • Which reaction from others cannot be controlled?
  • What information is still necessary?
  • What is only another attempt to remove uncertainty?
  • What next step can you responsibly take?

You will not be told which decision to make. The purpose is to develop criteria and a decision logic that you can understand and carry.

Format and Investment

  • Five in-person coaching sessions in Vienna
  • 90 to 120 minutes per session
  • Approximately six to ten weeks
  • Reflection questions, decision experiments and check-ins
  • Fixed programme price: EUR 850

Career Reset is a structured programme for people whose professional life may look successful from the outside but no longer feels fully aligned.

You may be considering a job change, a different role, self-employment, a new working model or a broader professional reinvention. You may want change without discarding everything you have built.

This programme is relevant for career change despite a good job, career transition, job change, professional reinvention, career clarity, work-life balance, career coaching for expats and the move into self-employment.

What We Work On

We examine:

  • Which parts of your current work still fit
  • Which tasks, roles or organisational conditions no longer fit
  • Your strengths and transferable experience
  • Values, priorities and desired working life
  • Realistic professional options
  • Risks and constraints
  • Conversations, research and experiments that can create better information
  • A concrete next step

Career Reset combines personal clarity with strategic exploration. It does not assume that a radical resignation is the answer.

Format and Investment

  • Five in-person coaching sessions in Vienna
  • 90 to 120 minutes per session
  • Approximately eight to twelve weeks
  • Reflection, research and transfer tasks
  • Brief check-ins between sessions
  • Fixed programme price: EUR 850

The Breakthrough Session is an intensive full-day 1:1 coaching format for one clearly defined issue that requires uninterrupted attention.

It may be suitable when you already understand a great deal about the topic but remain stuck in a central reaction, internal conflict, decision or behavioural pattern. It can also be relevant before an important turning point.

This is not a fast promise that everything will be solved in a day. It is a carefully prepared and concentrated process for an issue that genuinely fits the format.

What We Work On

The process includes:

  • A detailed 30 to 45-minute preparatory conversation
  • Precise definition of the coaching topic
  • Individual preparation questions or tasks
  • Approximately five to ten hours of focused in-person coaching
  • Breaks, movement, food and integration during the day
  • Methods selected according to the process
  • Individual reflection and transfer tasks after the session
  • Short follow-up check-ins

The format can be relevant for a decision knot, recurring block, internal conflict, visibility issue, boundary issue or significant personal transition.

Format and Investment

  • In-person in Vienna
  • Detailed preparatory consultation
  • Approximately five to ten hours
  • Individual preparation and follow-up
  • Fixed price: EUR 1,300

Discuss the right focus programme

Career Coaching in Vienna in English

Career questions are rarely only about a job title.

A career decision can involve identity, security, income, values, recognition, belonging, responsibility, lifestyle and relationships. This is especially true for international professionals and expats who may also be navigating language, culture, relocation or a cross-border career.

Career coaching in Vienna helps you clarify professional direction, evaluate realistic options and translate reflection into a concrete next step.

Moving from academic research into business

If you work in research and are considering a move to a company, start with the work you want to do. Compare actual responsibilities, employment terms and what matters in your life. Then choose a real vacancy: Which requirements can you show through research projects, coordination, analysis or communication? Which skills would you still need to learn? For your CV and interview, describe your own contribution in terms someone outside your field can understand. A conversation with someone in the target role can test your assumptions before you apply. Career coaching can help you sort the decision and choose a next step. Discuss your situation.

Further reading (in German): Coaching in academia: career and leadership.

When Career Coaching May Be Helpful

Career coaching may be useful if you are:

  • Considering a career change
  • Dissatisfied despite having a good job
  • Deciding whether to stay, change or renegotiate your current role
  • Preparing for an internal role change
  • Considering self-employment
  • Returning after a break
  • Moving between countries or professional cultures
  • Uncertain about your strengths and professional identity
  • Preparing for an interview or salary negotiation
  • Trying to create a more sustainable work-life balance
  • Considering a leadership role
  • Looking for more meaning, autonomy or professional clarity

Career Change Despite Having a Good Job

Some of the most difficult career decisions do not begin with an obvious crisis.

Your position, income and CV may look good. You may still sense that the role, organisation, working model or direction no longer fits the person you have become.

In this situation, career coaching does not begin with the question:

What job should I apply for?

We first clarify:

  • What exactly no longer fits?
  • Which parts of the current situation still work?
  • What has changed in your life or priorities?
  • Which values should guide the next phase?
  • What would you be leaving behind?
  • Which professional experiments can provide better information?
  • What is a realistic next step rather than an idealised escape?

Career Coaching with Business Understanding

I combine coaching with long-term experience in management, sales, pricing, business intelligence and commercial leadership.

This means we can work with both the personal and strategic dimensions of a career decision.

If useful, mentoring may include perspectives on:

  • Positioning
  • Professional communication
  • Leadership
  • Self-employment
  • Negotiation
  • Role design
  • Business thinking
  • Market reality

The decision remains yours. My role is to help you sharpen your criteria, see contradictions and create an actionable direction.

Portrait-Collage verschiedener Menschen als Motiv für Karriere Coaching und berufliche Entwicklung.

Common Career Coaching Topics

Career Direction and Professional Identity

Clarify which work, responsibilities and environment fit your strengths, values and current life phase.

Job Change and Career Transition

Assess whether staying, moving internally, changing employer or preparing a larger transition is the most responsible next step.

Interview and Self-Presentation Coaching

Prepare your strengths, professional story, interview answers, difficult questions and personal presence.

Salary and Career Negotiation

Clarify your position, value, alternatives, boundaries and communication before a salary or role negotiation.

Self-Employment as a Career Option

Explore motivation, risk, desired working life, business model assumptions and realistic tests before making a larger commitment.

Work-Life Balance and Professional Boundaries

Examine workload, availability, responsibility and role expectations, then develop more sustainable choices.

Discuss Career Coaching in English

Business Coaching and Mentoring in Vienna for Self-Employed Professionals

Self-employment requires you to hold several roles at once.

You may be the expert, strategist, salesperson, marketer, decision-maker and operational problem-solver. A question that looks strategic on the surface often also touches confidence, visibility, boundaries and identity.

Business coaching in Vienna combines personal coaching with strategic mentoring for self-employed professionals, founders and entrepreneurs.

This section is designed for individuals who book their own coaching. It does not promote corporate workshops, team training or wider company consulting.

When Business Coaching May Be Helpful

Business coaching may fit if you are:

  • Building or refining a self-employed business
  • Struggling to prioritise too many ideas
  • Unclear about positioning
  • Developing or simplifying an offer
  • Reviewing pricing
  • Preparing a price increase
  • Improving sales conversations
  • Negotiating with clients
  • Working through an important business decision
  • Managing visibility and self-promotion
  • Setting clearer client boundaries
  • Moving from expert to business owner
  • Deciding whether to grow, delegate or deliberately remain small
  • Trying to connect economic viability with a sustainable personal life

Strategy Problem, Implementation Problem or Personal Pattern?

A central part of the work is distinguishing what kind of problem you are actually dealing with.

Sometimes a business needs a clearer offer, a better price or a more structured sales conversation.

Sometimes the strategy changes repeatedly because visibility, perfectionism, fear of rejection or people pleasing make implementation uncomfortable.

We may ask:

  • Is this a market problem?
  • Is this an offer problem?
  • Is this a pricing problem?
  • Is this a sales problem?
  • Is this a role problem?
  • Is this an implementation problem?
  • Which personal pattern is influencing the business decision?
  • Which assumption can be tested rather than analysed indefinitely?

This distinction prevents endless mindset work when a concrete business decision is missing. It also prevents constant strategy changes when the deeper difficulty lies in confidence, boundaries or communication.

Business Coaching Topics

Positioning

Clarify who you serve, what problem you solve, what makes your approach relevant and how your business should be understood.

Offer Design

Examine value, scope, delivery, complexity, profitability and the relationship between what clients need and what you can sustainably provide.

Pricing and Value Communication

Pricing is one of my strongest professional fields. We can work on pricing logic, packages, price increases, discount requests, value communication and negotiation.

Sales Conversations

Develop a clear process for understanding needs, presenting value, addressing concerns, discussing price and agreeing on the next step without using pressure-based tactics.

Business Decisions and Focus

Prioritise options, define practical tests and create a decision process that connects evidence, strategy and personal responsibility.

Self-Leadership and Boundaries

Address capacity, client expectations, availability, workload, delegation and the difference between healthy responsibility and constant overfunctioning.

Business Mentoring Informed by 15+ Years in Pricing and Sales

My business background includes more than 15 years of experience in commercial management, sales, marketing, pricing, business intelligence across several industries and business models.

I have worked with and on:

  • B2C, B2B, B2B2C
  • Sales & Marketing
  • Complex Negotiations
  • Business intelligence
  • Marketing
  • As Commercial Director in a S&P 500 company
  • Multidisciplinary teams
  • International teams
  • Strategic and operational decision systems

This experience allows us to move between personal coaching and practical business sparring when appropriate.

Steven Sabet auf der Bühne als Motiv für Karriere Coaching mit Business-Erfahrung.

Coaching, Mentoring or Consulting?

Business coaching helps you develop your own clarity, decisions and self-leadership.

Business mentoring adds experience, perspective and practical sparring.

Consulting analyses a defined business problem and recommends a solution.

In our work, coaching and mentoring can be combined transparently. I will make clear whether I am asking a coaching question, reflecting an observation or offering a professional perspective.

Discuss Business Coaching or Mentoring

Executive and Leadership Coaching in Vienna in English

Leadership becomes most demanding when there is no perfect answer.

You may need to make decisions with incomplete information, address a difficult performance issue, manage competing stakeholders or provide direction while you are still processing the situation yourself.

Executive coaching and leadership coaching offer a confidential 1:1 space for managers, executives, business owners and first-time leaders.

Who Executive Coaching Is For

The coaching may be relevant for:

  • First-time leaders
  • Team and project leaders
  • Department and business unit heads
  • Senior managers
  • Managing directors
  • Executives
  • Business owners with leadership responsibility
  • Experts preparing for a management role
  • Leaders working in international organisations
  • Managers who prefer to reflect complex situations in English

Common Executive Coaching Topics

Stepping into a New Leadership Role

Clarify how your role, relationships and responsibilities change when you move from expert or colleague into leadership.

Difficult Conversations

Prepare feedback, performance discussions, conflict conversations, boundaries and decisions that need to be communicated with both respect and clarity.

Decisions Under Uncertainty

Separate facts, assumptions, interests, risks and personal reactions, then develop a decision logic you can understand and carry.

Conflict and Team Dynamics

Recognise tensions earlier, clarify responsibility and address patterns before they become entrenched.

Delegation, Trust and Control

Distinguish between responsibility that belongs with you and work that must become owned by others.

Leadership Under Pressure

Understand how pressure changes your communication, pace, focus and decision-making, then develop a more deliberate response.

Executive Presence and Stakeholder Communication

Strengthen clarity, credibility and consistency in communication with teams, peers, senior management, boards or shareholders.

Leadership Begins with Self-Leadership

Self-leadership does not mean controlling every emotion or appearing calm at all times.

It means noticing what is happening inside you and still being able to choose a response that fits your role and values.

We may explore:

  • Which expectations are you trying to meet simultaneously?
  • What makes you feel valuable as a leader?
  • When does professional ambition become perfectionism?
  • Which conflicts are you avoiding?
  • Where are you taking on responsibility that belongs elsewhere?
  • What signals do you send under pressure?
  • Which values should be visible in your leadership behaviour?

When these patterns become visible, you gain more choice. You do not have to respond automatically with more control, more analysis or more personal workload.

Executive Coach with Real Management Experience

I know leadership questions from both coaching and personal management experience.

Before becoming self-employed, I spent more than 15 years in international companies and leadership roles. I led functions across sales, business intelligence, marketing and pricing, managed teams across countries and made commercial decisions under substantial pressure.

This helps me connect individual psychology, coaching methodology and organisational reality.

Steven Sabet im vertraulichen Führungskräfte Coaching in Wien.

Private Executive Coaching and Employer-Funded Coaching

You may book executive coaching privately and define the topic, goal and scope yourself.

If your employer pays for the coaching, an overall development objective and organisational framework can be agreed at the beginning. Personal session content remains confidential. Any feedback to the organisation only takes place within a format that has been explicitly agreed in advance.

This English overview page does not include corporate training, workshops or team programmes.

Request a confidential Executive Coaching consultation

Which Coaching Service Fits Your Situation?

Your main questionMost relevant starting point
“I want more clarity, self-worth, healthier boundaries or personal change.”Life Coaching
“I have one clearly defined issue such as imposter feelings, public speaking anxiety or decision paralysis.”Focus Programme
“I am considering a job change or professional transition.”Career Coaching
“I am self-employed and need personal clarity plus strategic business sparring.”Business Coaching
“I lead people, carry organisational responsibility or work in an exposed role.”Executive Coaching
“Several personal areas are connected and I want a longer structured process.”Das Innere Zuhause
“I am not sure which format fits.”Free initial consultation

The categories are not rigid. A professional question can involve self-worth, relationships or identity. A personal issue can affect work and leadership. The initial consultation helps us choose the most useful starting point.

Coaching Process, Fees and Practice in Vienna

1. Free Initial Consultation

You begin by sending a short message through the contact form.

You do not need to describe the issue perfectly. A few honest sentences are enough:

  • What is happening?
  • What would you like to change?
  • Is there a specific situation or decision?
  • Which coaching language do you prefer?

I normally reply personally within two business days.

The free initial consultation lasts approximately 15 to 20 minutes and normally takes place by video call. Its purpose is to understand the issue, assess fit and clarify the most suitable format.

2. First Coaching Session

The first session often lasts approximately two to two and a half hours.

We clarify:

  • The current situation
  • Relevant people and contexts
  • What you have already tried
  • Recurring patterns
  • The desired change
  • The most useful initial direction

You will know the likely structure and cost before committing to a longer process.

3. Further Sessions

Further coaching sessions generally last between 60 and 120 minutes, depending on the topic and process phase.

The method follows the issue. Sessions may include dialogue, reflection, perspective shifts, body awareness, practical preparation and suitable coaching methods.

4. Transfer into Everyday Life

Coaching becomes valuable when something changes outside the practice.

You may work with:

  • Reflection questions
  • Observation tasks
  • A conversation to prepare
  • A boundary to communicate
  • A decision experiment
  • A practical behaviour to test
  • Agreed written or voice-message check-ins

We review the experience and adjust the next step.

Coaching Fees

ServiceDurationFee
Initial consultationApproximately 15 to 20 minutesFree
Standard coaching session60 minutesEUR 140
Additional timeEach started 30 minutesEUR 70
First coaching sessionOften 2 to 2.5 hoursBased on actual duration
Most focus programmesFive sessionsEUR 850
Breakthrough SessionApproximately 5 to 10 hours plus preparation and follow-upEUR 1,300
Das Innere Zuhause12 sessions over 6 to 8 months; follow-up sessions of 60 to 90 minutesEUR 1,650

Coaching Languages: English or German

Coaching sessions are conducted in English or German.

I speak English fluently and can conduct the full coaching process in English.

Because coaching involves nuance, emotions, values, relationships and precise reflection, you need an active working proficiency in the chosen language. You do not need perfect grammar or a particular accent. You do need to be able to describe experiences, understand questions and engage in detailed dialogue.

This requirement exists to protect the quality and responsibility of the coaching process.

In-Person Coaching in Vienna

Initial coaching sessions generally take place in person at:

Holochergasse 38/10, 1st floor
1150 Vienna
Austria

The practice is approximately five minutes on foot from:

  • U3 Schweglerstraße
  • U3 Johnstraße

Street parking is available in front of the building. Vienna short-term parking regulations apply.

Coachingraum mit Sesseln in Steven Sabets Praxis in Wien 1150.
Praxisraum mit Tisch und ruhiger Atmosphäre für Coaching in Wien.

Is Online Coaching Available?

The first coaching sessions generally take place in person in Vienna. Later sessions may take place online when the topic, process phase and working relationship make this appropriate.

Focus programmes and the Breakthrough Session take place in person in Vienna.

Clearly defined business mentoring or discussion of non-acute professional situations can also be conducted fully online.

Confidentiality and Professional Scope

Coaching and psychosocial counselling take place in a confidential professional setting.

I do not offer psychotherapy and do not diagnose or treat mental disorders.

If your situation involves severe or persistent symptoms, an acute crisis, self-harm, suicidal thoughts or a need for diagnosis and treatment, psychotherapeutic, clinical psychological, psychiatric or medical support may be the more appropriate framework.

Free Initial Coaching Consultation: Discuss Your Situation

You do not need to arrive with the final answer.

You only need enough clarity to say:

This is what is happening, and I would like to understand what could change.

The free initial consultation gives us 15 to 20 minutes to clarify your issue, your preferred language and the most suitable coaching format.

Request a free initial consultation

Frequently Asked Questions About Coaching in English in Vienna

Do You Offer Coaching in English in Vienna?

Yes. I speak English fluently and offer life coaching, career coaching, business coaching, executive coaching and focus programmes in English. Coaching can be conducted entirely in English.

Is the English Page Only a Translation, or Is Coaching Actually Available in English?

Coaching is genuinely available in English. The page is not simply a translated information page. You can complete the initial consultation and the coaching process in English.

Do I Need Native-Level English?

No. You do not need native-level English or perfect grammar. You do need an active working proficiency that allows you to describe experiences, understand nuanced questions and engage in detailed dialogue.

Do You Work with Expats and International Professionals in Vienna?

Yes. English-language coaching is suitable for expats, international professionals, people working across cultures and clients who prefer to discuss personal or professional topics in English.

What Is the Difference Between Life Coaching and Career Coaching?

Life coaching focuses more broadly on personal development, self-worth, relationships, boundaries, decisions and recurring patterns. Career coaching focuses more specifically on professional direction, career change, work-life balance, interviews, negotiation, role changes and self-employment.

What Is the Difference Between Business Coaching and Executive Coaching?

Business coaching is designed mainly for self-employed professionals, founders and entrepreneurs. It can cover positioning, offers, pricing, sales, decisions and self-leadership. Executive coaching focuses on leadership roles, teams, stakeholders, delegation, conflict, communication and organisational responsibility.

Can I Book Executive Coaching Privately?

Yes. You can book executive coaching privately and define the issue and goal yourself. Employer-funded coaching is also possible, with clear agreements about confidentiality and any organisational objectives.

Which Focus Programme Is Right for Me?

The right focus programme depends on the central issue. Imposter Syndrome Coaching addresses professional self-doubt. Public Speaking Coaching addresses visibility and speaking pressure. Self-Worth and Boundaries focuses on people pleasing and saying no. Performance Under Pressure addresses high-stakes situations. Decision Clarity focuses on difficult choices. Career Reset supports professional transition. The Breakthrough Session is an intensive full-day format for one clearly defined issue.

Are Focus Programmes Available in English?

Yes. The focus programmes can be conducted in English or German. They take place in person at the Vienna practice.

How Much Does Coaching Cost in Vienna?

A standard coaching session costs EUR 140 per 60 minutes. Each started additional half hour costs EUR 70. Most focus programmes cost EUR 850. The Breakthrough Session costs EUR 1,300. The initial consultation is free.

How Long Is a Coaching Session?

Further sessions generally last between 60 and 120 minutes. The first session often lasts approximately two to two and a half hours because it includes a more detailed assessment of the situation and desired change.

How Many Coaching Sessions Will I Need?

This depends on the issue. A clearly defined conversation or decision may require only a few sessions. Recurring patterns, role development or broader personal change may benefit from a longer process. The likely scope is discussed transparently after the first session.

Is Online Coaching Available?

Later online sessions may be possible when the topic and process phase are suitable. Initial coaching sessions generally take place in person in Vienna. Clearly defined business mentoring can also take place fully online.

Where Is the Coaching Practice?

The practice is located at Holochergasse 38/10, 1st floor, 1150 Vienna. It is approximately five minutes on foot from the U3 stations Schweglerstraße and Johnstraße.

Is Coaching the Same as Psychotherapy?

No. Coaching and psychosocial counselling are development and counselling formats. They do not diagnose or treat mental disorders and do not replace psychotherapy, psychiatric care or medical treatment.

Can I Contact You If I Am Not Sure Which Service Fits?

Yes. That is exactly what the free initial consultation is for. You can describe what is happening, even if the issue still feels unclear. We will identify the most suitable starting point together.

How Quickly Will You Reply?

I normally reply personally within two business days. If the issue is time-sensitive, mention this in your message.

Contact Steven Sabet for Coaching in English

A few honest sentences are enough.

Tell me:

  • What is currently happening
  • What you would like to change
  • Whether there is a specific decision or situation
  • Which coaching service interests you
  • Whether you prefer English or German

I will reply personally, usually within two business days.

I will reply personally, usually within two business days.

Alternative contact: coaching@steven-sabet.eu | +43 677 628 011 76