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Anna Schmidt

Evaluator · DISC type DCS
CEO - Beyond Outplacement™ I Career Transition I Executive Coaching I Portfolio Psychology Training at Career Partners International
📍 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Anna is the author of "Portfolio Psychology" and CEO at Career Partners International, where she pioneers the "Beyond Outplacement™" model for career transitions. As an Industrial Psychologist educated at Harvard and UPenn, she helps leaders design fulfilling portfolio careers. People who have worked with her describe her as empathetic, insightful, and pragmatic.

Personally, Anna is passionate about fostering genuine human connection over transactional networking. This interest led her to co-found the Modern Salon Movement with her daughter, creating intimate gatherings for authentic conversations, a concept born from social dinners she hosted with a strict "no work talk" rule.

She founded the Modern Salon Movement to replace transactional networking with authentic human connection.

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Experience
30 Years
Current Role
CEO - Beyond Outplacement™ I Career Transition I Executive Coaching I Portfolio Psychology Training
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Personality Overview

How Anna shows up

Quality Focused
Thorough Evaluator
Hard To Convince

They are not very likely to become strong advocates of your product or service They focus on the results, but can still be quite procedural and analytical about how to get there They have a unique set of diverse traits where they are decisive and methodical but can sometimes be extra cautious and skeptical

Priorities

Topics Anna cares about

Portfolio Careers
Her professional mission is to help ambitious leaders design portfolio careers that integrate their passions with financial security, a model she has authored a book about.
Authentic Connection
She co-founded the Modern Salon Movement to replace transactional networking with genuine human connection, believing that real business outcomes stem from authentic relationships.
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Career

Work history

6-2012
CEO - Beyond Outplacement™ I Career Transition I Executive Coaching I Portfolio Psychology Training
Career Partners International
10-2010
Co-Founder :: Salonnière :: Chief Salon Curator & Human Connectivity Advocate
Modern Salon Movement
3-2002
Executive Sparring :: Work Futurist :: C-Level Career Transition :: Portfolio Life Design
schmidtandpartners.com
10-2020
Founder
Kevin Is Not Alone™ - Foundation
10-2019
Chair
Innovators Serendipity Academy
In the press

Media appearances

Women’s Directory 2022 – Featuring Anna Schmidt, CEO of Beyond Outplacement™ at Career Partners International. Featured in Base Mindset
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Education
2019 - 2019
Leadership Coaching
Harvard University
Applied Positive Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Dominance (D)

Dominance (D) reflects how goal and task oriented a person is, and their ability to accomplish results irrespective of how demanding the circumstances might be. Those scoring high tend to be motivated by winning, competition, and success.

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