Annie Richardson

annie richardsonBoard & Executive Coach

Annie has been a coach and facilitator since 2001. She has extensive experience in both the public and private sectors and a strong practical business orientation. Annie’s passion for people drives her real desire to help them achieve their full potential and her exceptional listening skills make her a very effective coach, incisive and direct, driving to the heart of issues. Annie is renowned for connecting quickly with people and forming transformational coaching interventions, she has the ability to combine challenge with warmth and focus with sensitivity. She has lots of energy and establishes powerful partnerships that support her clients to achieve outstanding results. Her coaching profile is best described as executive coaching to improve performance, developing a client’s awareness and personal skills alongside business expertise to improve boardroom and management relationships.

Annie has over 25 year’s corporate business experience. She has held the positions of regional Director of Housing for a major UK Housing Association, Senior Principle Consultant for theUK’s largest IT Services Company and two board positions. In 2001 she stepped away from her corporate career and founded Quantum Corporate Coaching. She has both coached and designed development workshops around Europe and the USA, frequently working with organizations with global presence. She enjoys both working with individuals and groups and has supported organisations’ initiatives to adopt coaching cultures.

Representative Client Engagements:

  • Annie coached a newly appointed Finance Director of a major pharmaceutical company to succeed in his role and lead the UK finance team through a challenging company reorganisation. The director was appointed to the board and through raising his self awareness and leadership skills he was able to gain the confidence and gravitas needed to operate at board level.
  • Annie delivered a series of coaching and developmental workshops to a business head and his team within a global IT services company. The programme included 1:1 coaching, coaching skills workshops and development sessions on goal setting, rapport and feedback. This was to engender a coaching culture and a set of shared values within the entire practice. This led to a complete change of emphasis in the annual appraisal process resulting in the highest levels of engagement experienced by this business team.

  Areas of Expertise

  • Confidence & resilience
  • On-boarding into new roles
  • Advanced influencing strategy
  • High potentials
  • Engagement and communication style
  • Gravitas and presence
  • Image and impact

Client Types/Levels of Experience

CEO, Managing Director, CFO, VP, Director, Client/Account Director, Programme Director, Senior Managers

Industry/Functional Experience

Financial Services, Law Firms, Consultancy Firms, IT Services, Utilities, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Central & Local Government, Retail

All Leadership and management roles.

Representative Clients

Barclays, HSBC, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Pinsent Masons, Fujitsu Services, Local & Central Govt, Centrica, Wrigley, Novartis Consumer Health, AAH, National Grid, Interflora, Oxford Instruments, CCFE, Everything Everywhere, Barclaycard, Allianz

Cultural/Multi-National Experience

Coached and facilitated across Europe, USA, Asia and UK.

Professional/Corporate Experience

  • Quantum Corporate Coaching: MD, Executive Coaching
  • Development Specialist ICL
  • Senior Consultant ICL
  • Board member Oxford Citizens Housing Association
  • Consultant & Account Development IT Services
  • Regional Director of Housing, major UK Housing Association
  • Housing ManagerBirminghamCityCouncil

Training and Education

  • Diploma in Housing management
  • Advanced Diploma in Coaching & Mentoring –Oxford School of Coaching & Mentoring
  • Neuro-Linguistic Programming- Business Practitioner – Master Practitioner and Train the Trainer

Professional Affiliations

  • Faculty member OSCM
  • Member EMCC
  • Member British Board NLP
  • Member British Psychological Society

Certifications

  • Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Steps I & II
  • CPI – Californian Personality Inventory
  • Occupational Personality Questionnaire
  • Certified Hogan Practitioner
  • Certified ESCI Practitioner

Notables

  • Henley Management College coaching conference speaker
  • Currently writing book on coaching.

  • “Annie is an exceptional coach, mentor and trainer/facilitator. Having attended one of her courses on coaching and mentoring I was fortunate and privileged to be able to join her as co-coach for further training and saw for myself the dedication and attention to detail she puts into her work. Her heightened sense of perception ensures that everything she does meets the needs of those around her. Annie is highly motivating and always shows an innate belief that each of us has the potential to achieve our goals, especially when we think we can't! She is professional and a role model for a "can do" attitude and continues to inspire me in my coaching.”

  • “Annie is the consumate professional. She provides measurable Executive Coaching interventions in a very personable style.”

    MD of Utilities Company

  • “Annie balances a professional approach with a warm and caring attitude, and this is evident in the workshops we have run together. She is fun to work with and focuses on generating great results for her clients.”

    Development Consultant

  • “Annie is an engaging, authentic and warm hearted workshop leader. She is the consummate professional in that she delivers to the brief, exceeds expectations and has boundless energy and enthusiasm that captures the attention and interest of the participants. As an executive coach, Annie truly connects with her clients and brings her wealth of knowledge and experience to the sessions which ensures clients leave feeling that they got great value and are able to achieve exceptional results.”

    HR Director IT Company

  • “I have worked with Annie as a client both professionally in my capacity of Learning and Development Director at Centrica and personally as a professional, personal to me on a coaching programme. Annie is empathetic, professional and a great coach, I would recommend her to any client or company.”

    Learning & Development Director, Centrica

  • “The coaching was excellent and I would highly recommend it to anyone wanting to grow in their professional environment.”

    Director at Open University

  • “The coach was very relaxed and could immediately empathise with any given situation, whilst being able to give constructive help. Annie very quickly grasped where my strengths and weaknesses lay and could gauge challenging situations very well – only an experienced coach can do this.”

    MD Financial Services

  • “Annie’s challenges enforced reflection on my thought processes and therefore my behaviour patterns. A very satisfying experience.”

    Director Open University

  • “Quantum have provided a very professional and friendly service. The requirements we have requested have been very specific and individual to our companies needs, and Quantum have gone out of their way to understand these requirements and organise and develop the training accordingly. Annie Richardson is always very professional and is also well received by all those who attend her courses. Quantum is a delight to work with and I would strongly recommend their services to anyone wishing to develop their company’s development initiatives further.”

    ICRH Group Leader, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy
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