Anne is an executive coach, consultant and educator with over 34 years of professional experience. She is distinguished by her action-oriented approach with the key premise that it is far easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting. Her expertise includes action learning, rapid cycle time approaches for turning ideas into commercial reality, embedding innovation practices and building alignment processes for executive teams and partnerships. Since 1994, she has developed the Action Lab™ rapid time to market approach for new business development and corporate ventures.

Anne’s offerings adapt to the business issue but she is consistently focused on exploiting the potential to rapidly increase commercial value through individual and collective performance. Her clients are normally senior executives who are committed to going beyond their past successes within organizations – from large global companies to early stage businesses. She partners with these clients to help first articulate and then produce the behavior and performance breakthroughs they seek for themselves, their teams and their organisations.

As an advisor to the London Business School, Anne created and then served as founding director of the Entrepreneurship Summer School. She has been a Partner with Mercer Delta Organizational Consulting, helping to grow their brand in the UK for organizational change and leadership development – and formerly a Principal with CSC Index, both in the UK and Hong Kong. She began her career in IT leading teams of analysts and programmers in the design and development of customer solutions for banking, seismic exploration, financial planning and oceanographic research. At the time she was a pioneer in prototyping solutions at the customer interface to ensure customers got what they really needed – usually different from what they asked for.
 
Anne is a member of the Marshall Goldsmith Partners Network, the International Coach Federation and the Drucker Thought Leaders Forum. She serves on the advisory board of a distance learning company based in California and is a non-executive director of 4 Future, a strategy dynamics company. She is a citizen of the USA and the UK. In addition, she has lived and worked in Europe, Malaysia, South Africa, Brazil and Mexico.
 
Anne is co-author, with Richard Pascale of “Acting Your Way Into a New Way of Thinking”, Leader to Leader Quarterly Journal, and “Action Lab: Greenhouse for Change”, Strategy + Business.

Anne received a BA in mathematics from Colorado College, and graduated with merit as a Sloan Fellow from London Business School. She has trained with the College of Executive Coaching in the USA, has been certified from the England and Wales Law Society for the Meyler Campbell Business Coach program and has received certification in the Goldsmith Coaching Process™. She is qualified to deliver Seeds of Innovation Training by the Innovation Group, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI™) and Hogan Leadership Assessments. She is fluent in Spanish and has some understanding of Portuguese.

She is a former triathlon champion who loves adventure travel, spending time in the wilderness, travelling by cycle, theatre, reading, photography, friends, family and quiet time.

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