Ann Bates - UK & Continental Europe 

Founder, CEO, Performance Impact regional leader UK & Continental Europe

Areas of expertise

• Programme design, facilitation and leadership
• Executive coaching
• Fast start for newly appointed leaders
• High potential future leader development
• Career, project and life coaching
• Business consulting

 

Special interests

• Developing leaders, business owners and professionals to their potential
• Achieving project ambitions
• Creating high performance teams
• Building tremendously successful organisations
• Leading strategy implementation and transformational change

 

Business experience

Ann is the founder and CEO of Performance Impact. She is a highly experienced, programme director and an exceptionally gifted executive coach.

For over twenty-five years she has worked with executives, senior leaders and their teams to significantly impact performance at both the individual and the company level in Europe, Asia and the USA. She held leadership and executive roles in Hewlett Packard, CIGNA International and Jones Lang LaSalle, with the last ten years of her corporate career being spent as either European or World HR Director.

 

Coaching, facilitation and consulting approach

Ann’s style is respectful, assertive and validating. She quickly understands the demands faced by her clients and helps them to elegantly and effectively navigate to the best possible outcome.

Clients frequently come to Ann with particular challenges and very soon discover that the real issue is something different. The priceless changes she facilitates are frequently beyond anything her clients could have imagined.

What makes’ Ann special as a programme leader and as a transformational coach, are qualities that become apparent when you spend a few minutes with her, and just a few minutes may well be enough for her laser sharp insight to have a profoundly positive effect on you.

Ann gives her clients the ability to see themselves, their organisation and the world from a new viewpoint. Clients find out “who they really are”; they develop a greater understanding of other people and discover how to realise their potential and the potential of their organisations. What they discover permeates through their whole life and ripples out to bring positive benefit to colleagues, associates and other stakeholders.