Your Leadership Partner

“I partner with senior leaders and their teams to help foster cultures of care, connection and collaboration.”

What is a Leadership Partner?

Delivered either individually or to teams within an organisation, I offer a powerful learning approach that creates self-awareness, helps drive transformational change, and provides critical challenge and support. Throughout the experience, I build an open and collaborative relationship, adapting delivery to fit the needs of busy executives.  

Through regular sessions (whether in-person or virtual), I get to the heart of your needs and develop a fully personalised approach to help you gain confidence and courage and create positive change in your organisation.

Executive leadership development

With more than 30 years’ experience as a leadership partner, I’ve helped many organisations and senior leaders to develop leadership potential. I can provide a variety of one-to-one, team and group leadership development mentoring experiences to co-create cultures of care and connection where people feel valued - able to be their best.


As an established facilitator and mentor, specialising in inclusivity and diversity of thought, I passionately believe in the power of collaboration. Together, we work to create a safe environment, harnessing open communication and courageous conversations to drive organisational change.

Services

Executive Team Leadership Development

I partner with Chief Executives, Presidents and Vice Presidents, Senior Leaders and their teams, helping them develop their individual, team and collective leadership strengths. The partnership will begin with me listening and questioning to understand your context and ambition - not only for our work together, but also for your business.

  • Create your shared purpose and vision.

  • Understand what you truly care about as a team.

  • Appreciate your strengths and differences.

  • Discover your values and beliefs.

  • Hold open and honest conversations.

  • Build your team's confidence and capabilities.

Executive Team Leadership Development can include the power of paired Walk and Talks, outside in nature, in parks, and in city centres.

Find out more about my executive team leadership development here.

Wider Organisational Leadership Development

Working with the full organisation to exact lasting change is an extremely powerful experience, for both the participants and myself. In large settings, with large numbers, I facilitate and create space for deep explorations that prompt active listening to one another. Sometimes co-led with another speaker, we have the capacity to take groups of over 120 people through this experience, so as to empower your entire organisation and open doors to change for everyone at the same time.

Find out more about my wider organisational leadership development here.

Individual Executive Development

Through one-to-one Individual Executive Development, you’ll have an opportunity to reflect on your leadership and grow deeper self awareness. In making space for reflection and holding courageous conversation, you feel encouraged to explore the things that might be holding you back, to ask for feedback and help, and to affirm your strengths:

  • Identify and connect with your values and beliefs

  • Learn how to practise these in your leadership

  • Be clear on who you are now and who you want to be

  • Grow confidence in leadership

  • Inspire others to be at their best

  • Build resilience - personally and in your teams

  • Overcome the things that have held you back

  • Reach your full potential

  • Drive cultural change that fosters collaboration, courage, and care

One-to-one sessions take place either online or face-to-face as a walk and talk in East Sussex.

Find out more about my individual executive development experience here.

Collaborative team leadership through conversation

Partnering with senior leaders and their teams is what I love. Building a relationship with the senior leader, supporting them and their team on what it means to be a 'high performing leadership team', what being a leader amongst leaders means, and, in particular, what it means to be a leadership team above and beyond each person's particular area of responsibility - that’s what brings me joy.

When meeting the CEO/most senior leader, questions I ask include: 'Why now?', 'What’s your ambition for the team, for the wider organisation, and for the future of the business'.

I like to understand the current reality to know what is missing or lacking. Through partnering with me, together we can harness your team’s strengths and differences using open conversation - inclusive dialogue and diversity of thought.

In this way, they grow, learn, and collaborate when they need to (not just when they’re together!); they’ll know when to cooperate or coordinate, based on having developed a greater understanding of each other. Ultimately, they’ll have deeper trust and a commitment to each others' success and the wider team and company.

Courageous leadership through greater self awareness

What’s the difference you want to make in your leadership? What are your core values? Who are you when at your best as a leader?

Answering and adding purpose to some of these questions can help you achieve greater personal, professional, and team success - now and in the future.

By developing greater self-awareness and confidence, leaders become more courageous in their approach, building stronger relationships that enable others to be at their best.

My Leadership Consultancy Journey

I’m delighted to be featured as a guest speaker on the Coaching Conversations Podcast with Carey and Julian.

This established podcast series was created by Carey Davis-Munro and Julian Roberts to understand what drives people like me to become a leadership coach.

 
 

Leading with Purpose

“Leading with purpose is one of the most powerful abilities a team or an organisation or an individual can develop. Anni has helped us connect to our values and apply our abilities to fantastic outcomes. Her expertise in diversity and inclusion makes a huge difference and I have seen Anni impact on business and personal development.”

 - Roberto Funari, CEO, Alpargatas

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    “Magic just seems to happen working with Anni. I have always admired her incredible knack for creating and then holding the space in which people can bring everything they are and give everything they have. Anni brings an intellect and generosity of spirit that together make for truly collaborative and powerful partnerships. And there is a lot of fun along the way!”

    - Russ Pocock, Principal Director, Leadership & Culture at Accenture

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    “Anni worked with my Leadership team for 18 months. Our time together was extremely valuable. Through her facilitation she has created a safe space for the team to have courageous conversations, build strong relationships, think about how we show up as a team, and support each other as individuals. I cannot recommend Anni highly enough.”

    - Louise Houson MD, MSD

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    “I have come to know her as a strongly principled coach with genuine passion to bring the best out of the leaders she works with. Anni is one of those people that embodies the principle of being the change you want to see in the world. Being coached by her could be the best development opportunity for your leadership, and a lifeline for your organisation.”

    - Hind Farag, Energy Advisory & Analytics Leader

  • “Anni is without doubt one of the best facilitators and coaches I have ever come across. She manages to get to both organisational and personal development and combine them in a way that is both challenging and empathetic at the same time. I know that every one of my top team values the work she did with us highly and would not hesitate to use her again.”

    • Andrew Kerr, Chief Executive, City of Edinburgh Council

Connect

Whether you’re seeking executive individual, team, or wider organisational executive development, contact me to have a conversation about your ambitions.

 

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