Anna Hipkiss

CONSULTANT, COACH AND BUSINESS WRITER

As a business consultant, Anna helps organisations achieve results through people and through managing change.  Her breadth of experience across different business functions enables her quickly to get to grips with the dynamic of an organisation, to find the levers and drivers for change and for engaging staff.

As a coach, having operated at board level for many years, she understands the demands of an executive role, and she can provide the support and challenge needed at that level. She can offer hard-edged business mentoring, and equally, at the other end of the coaching spectrum, she can be the most sensitive listener, enabling someone to explore their innermost doubts or uncertainties, and find ways to overcome them.  If someone faces difficult choices, she can facilitate the decision making process. If someone is unsure of what career direction to take, she can help them identify what energises them and what drains them, to clarify the way forward.

Anna has 25 years of management experience, much of it at board level. Her career spans HR, learning & development, marketing, IT services and general management.  She has much experience of navigating the politics of an organisation and helping others to do so.

This experience is also translated into business writing – articles and books, but also the writing of bids and proposals, where a rapid grasp of a new business environment, and a strong focus on delivering precisely what the client wants, are challenges she enjoys.