Clarity Under Pressure
Ann Sommer helps high-performing professionals distinguish instinct from conditioned fear so they can lead and decide with clarity.
Not sure where to start? Begin with the quiz.
Clarity Under Pressure
Ann Sommer helps high-performing professionals distinguish instinct from conditioned fear so they can lead and decide with clarity.
Not sure where to start? Begin with the quiz.
If this feels familiar, you’re not imagining it
You replay decisions after they happen
You hesitate when the stakes are high
You feel pressure to always appear certain
You know you are capable, but something still interferes
Two signals shape every important decision
The Fear Code™ helps you tell the difference.
Fear One
Instinct guiding action
The signal that moves you toward what is true, necessary, and aligned.
Fear Two
Conditioned fear distorting perception
The signal that creates hesitation, second-guessing, and internal conflict.
When you can tell the difference, you stop fighting yourself
and start moving clearly.
Ann’s work was built where clarity was not optional
Ann Steffen Sommer, PA-C, spent nearly three decades in clinical and surgical medicine, where decisions carried immediate consequences and clarity was never optional. Over time, she noticed a pattern that extended far beyond medicine:
Highly capable people sometimes hesitate in important moments not because they lack intelligence, skill, or opportunity, but because they misinterpret the internal signals driving their decisions.
That work led Ann to study the relationship between biological threat signaling, perception, and decision behavior, and eventually develop The Fear Code™.
Nearly 30 years in clinical and surgical medicine
Developer of The Fear Code™
Decision Clarity Advisor for High-Performing Leaders
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Private Advisory
For high-performing professionals who need confidential, high-level support around decision-making, leadership, communication, and next-stage clarity.
The Fear Code Quiz
A fast way to see whether you are operating more from instinctive direction or conditioned fear.
Speaking & Thought Leadership
Book Ann for speaking engagements focused on decision clarity, leadership pressure,
internal authority, and communication under pressure.
Book Ann for speaking engagements focused on decision clarity, leadership pressure, internal authority, and communication under pressure.
H.J.B
Friends
After having Ann as my gyn for many years and trust her heart, intelligence, and that I could work with her Coaching business, I reached out after resigning from my job and feeling completely lost. I always had a plan until I didn’t, and I wasn’t sure where to turn. I didn’t realize how broken I was until I started to heal, and Ann is helping me confront the trauma that put me in survivor mode, so that I can live my life happier, healthier (I never knew how much the mental health connected to the physical), and more fulfilling.
JACK CANFIELD
Best Selling Author
Ann is expanding her work outside her ‘exam room’, and is more outspoken and willing to talk about things most people aren’t. Keep up the good work, you’re a joy to be around, and you always make me smile and laugh and I’m sure you do that for anybody. And at the same time, you help us understand things that maybe we won’t, like ‘the hamster wheel’.
What clients are saying
JO. H.
A Study in Personal Transformation
A CLIENTS EPIPHANY: “The reality that my negative thoughts were all lies, was a life changing pivot. I didn’t realize the way I was thinking about myself was hindering me from reaching my full potential. And when this was removed, I was able to see me more clearly, not only was I truly “Joyful”, but I physically felt it, visually saw it, and emotionally understood what ‘Overjoyed’ meant.”
K.A.K.
LISA NICOLS (Legendary Speaker)
“ I feel like I’ve been living under a haze that I didn’t even realize I was living under. I want to cry out how long I’ve been letting my life be run by this and that the best parts of my life are actually a price of who I am and I know that I don’t even know how much better it could be without that haze around me stopping me from the life I am fully meant to live.”
What clients are saying
After having Ann as my gyn for many years and trust her heart, intelligence, and that I could work with her Coaching business, I reached out after resigning from my job and feeling completely lost. I always had a plan until I didn’t, and I wasn’t sure where to turn. I didn’t realize how broken I was until I started to heal, and Ann is helping me confront the trauma that put me in survivor mode, so that I can live my life happier, healthier (I never knew how much the mental health connected to the physical), and more fulfilling.
A CLIENTS EPIPHANY: “The reality that my negative thoughts were all lies, was a life changing pivot. I didn’t realize the way I was thinking about myself was hindering me from reaching my full potential. And when this was removed, I was able to see me more clearly, not only was I truly “Joyful”, but I physically felt it, visually saw it, and emotionally understood what ‘Overjoyed’ meant.”
Ann is expanding her work outside her ‘exam room’, and is more outspoken and willing to talk about things most people aren’t. Keep up the good work, you’re a joy to be around, and you always make me smile and laugh and I’m sure you do that for anybody. And at the same time, you help us understand things that maybe we won’t, like ‘the hamster wheel’.
“ I feel like I’ve been living under a haze that I didn’t even realize I was living under. I want to cry out how long I’ve been letting my life be run by this and that the best parts of my life are actually a price of who I am and I know that I don’t even know how much better it could be without that haze around me stopping me from the life I am fully meant to live.”
Insights for professionals who carry real responsibility
Ann’s work is designed for people whose decisions affect more than just themselves.
Explore thought leadership on topics like:
Why Successful Leaders Hesitate
Instinct vs Overthinking
The Hidden Pressure of Leadership
If internal interference is affecting your decisions, do not ignore it
The longer hesitation, second-guessing, and unclear internal signals go unchecked, the more they can affect your leadership, communication, and next moves.
If you are ready for clearer decisions and stronger self-trust, start here.
Ann Sommer Coaching provides educational and advisory services related to decision clarity, leadership performance, and internal signal recognition.
These services are not medical or psychological treatment and are not intended to replace licensed medical or mental health care.
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