Anna Saunders
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Shereena Hussein
Having known Anna as a kind, thoughtful and fair leader, I contacted Anna at a point in my career when I was at a crossroad. Having considered my strengths and talents, I wondered what I should do next, and where I should take my career. Anna guided me by helping me see the value I brought to an organisation, and where my strengths, talents and self-limiting beliefs lay. In our discussions, Anna coached me to determine for myself how I could grow my skills further, and what else I needed to do to optimise the value I brought to an organisation. From these discussions, I was able to get clarity about what my next career steps were - and my original thoughts about what I wanted evolved into a set of practices that I have starting implementing - to great results. I owe a debt of gratitude to Anna for her guidance.
Tracy Southern
Anna was a calm, thoughtful and insightful executive coach that supported me and brought out my qualities that helped me make clearer, more collaborative decisions, and ensured that I focused on what was most critical during a time or great turmoil with my employer. She firmly gave me more confidence to understand my motivations that helped me build my high performing team. A fantastic experience and full of great benefits for me personally. Thank you Anna.
Shereena Hussein
Having known Anna as a kind, thoughtful and fair leader, I contacted Anna at a point in my career when I was at a crossroad. Having considered my strengths and talents, I wondered what I should do next, and where I should take my career. Anna guided me by helping me see the value I brought to an organisation, and where my strengths, talents and self-limiting beliefs lay. In our discussions, Anna coached me to determine for myself how I could grow my skills further, and what else I needed to do to optimise the value I brought to an organisation. From these discussions, I was able to get clarity about what my next career steps were - and my original thoughts about what I wanted evolved into a set of practices that I have starting implementing - to great results. I owe a debt of gratitude to Anna for her guidance.
Tracy Southern
Anna was a calm, thoughtful and insightful executive coach that supported me and brought out my qualities that helped me make clearer, more collaborative decisions, and ensured that I focused on what was most critical during a time or great turmoil with my employer. She firmly gave me more confidence to understand my motivations that helped me build my high performing team. A fantastic experience and full of great benefits for me personally. Thank you Anna.
Shereena Hussein
Having known Anna as a kind, thoughtful and fair leader, I contacted Anna at a point in my career when I was at a crossroad. Having considered my strengths and talents, I wondered what I should do next, and where I should take my career. Anna guided me by helping me see the value I brought to an organisation, and where my strengths, talents and self-limiting beliefs lay. In our discussions, Anna coached me to determine for myself how I could grow my skills further, and what else I needed to do to optimise the value I brought to an organisation. From these discussions, I was able to get clarity about what my next career steps were - and my original thoughts about what I wanted evolved into a set of practices that I have starting implementing - to great results. I owe a debt of gratitude to Anna for her guidance.
Tracy Southern
Anna was a calm, thoughtful and insightful executive coach that supported me and brought out my qualities that helped me make clearer, more collaborative decisions, and ensured that I focused on what was most critical during a time or great turmoil with my employer. She firmly gave me more confidence to understand my motivations that helped me build my high performing team. A fantastic experience and full of great benefits for me personally. Thank you Anna.
Shereena Hussein
Having known Anna as a kind, thoughtful and fair leader, I contacted Anna at a point in my career when I was at a crossroad. Having considered my strengths and talents, I wondered what I should do next, and where I should take my career. Anna guided me by helping me see the value I brought to an organisation, and where my strengths, talents and self-limiting beliefs lay. In our discussions, Anna coached me to determine for myself how I could grow my skills further, and what else I needed to do to optimise the value I brought to an organisation. From these discussions, I was able to get clarity about what my next career steps were - and my original thoughts about what I wanted evolved into a set of practices that I have starting implementing - to great results. I owe a debt of gratitude to Anna for her guidance.
Tracy Southern
Anna was a calm, thoughtful and insightful executive coach that supported me and brought out my qualities that helped me make clearer, more collaborative decisions, and ensured that I focused on what was most critical during a time or great turmoil with my employer. She firmly gave me more confidence to understand my motivations that helped me build my high performing team. A fantastic experience and full of great benefits for me personally. Thank you Anna.
Experience
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Leadership Creativity
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Australia
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Business Consulting and Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Executive Coach | Management Consultant | Leadership Mentor |
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Dec 2014 - Present
Creates and supports high-performing leaders, teams and businesses by delivering consulting, coaching and mentoring services. Whilst many coaches deliver generic courses, Anna provides tailored solutions to meet the specific needs of each client. As a result of working with Anna, leaders have achieved: - improved employee engagement of up to 50% in 6 months - alignment of leaders, partners and teams around a common purpose and direction - removing their barriers to success - increased confidence and the ability to deal more easily with conflict - enhanced skills in empathetic leadership, communication and resilience - improved business results and financial outcomes due to improved decision-making and engagement - a shift to a high-performance culture, having defined and delivered new ways of working and operating models - awards for customer service, business excellence and great places to work - clarity on business/team strategy and the confidence to make the changes required to drive improved results - reducing the noise and stress in their roles to enable them to deliver on business objectives and goals - significantly lower stress levels with increased sense of achievement and happiness in their roles Show less
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General Manager - IT Services, Network & Service Operations
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Jul 2012 - May 2017
Successfully led the largest IT division in nbn at the peak of the network rollout. An integral member of both the CIO and COO leadership teams delivering all IT services to the largest nbn business division (Network & Service Ops). Managed over 300 internal and outsourced staff to deliver software and services. Key Achievements: - Delivered systems to enable the business to scale to 6000 connections a day - Significantly improved team engagement moving from 21% engagement at commencement to 68% within 6 months - Led the transformation from a waterfall to agile delivery model within the NSO IT team and customer group - Accountable for all aspects of planning, delivery and operations to the customer group - Established a strong & collaborative relationship at all levels with a highly demanding customer group - Coached and mentored GMs and Senior Managers across nbn to lift performance and engagement. Show less
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Macquarie Bank
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United Kingdom
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Banking
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1 - 100 Employee
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Associate Director
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Jun 2008 - Jul 2012
Accountable for the delivery of multiple successful IT transformation programs across Australia, USA and Hong Kong. Dec 2011 – Jul 2012 Sydney, Australia - Program Manager – Infrastructure Strategic Programs Program Manager delivering key strategic programs (budgets over AUD$20m) within the Infrastructure Organisation. Included a Virtualisation Program and the outsource of Storage via a Managed Service offering. Jan 2011 –Nov 2011 Hong Kong - Head of Asia Infrastructure Design and Development Responsible for the delivery of all Infrastructure Projects across the Asia region (excl. ANZ), and for the inception and delivery of Global infrastructure projects. Transformed the Asia team from a ‘technology tower’ based structure into a service-based structure, implementing new local and global processes and practices to support the transformation. Oct 2009 – Dec 2010 Philadelphia, USA - PMO Manager – Delaware Investments Integration Responsible for design and delivery of the Program to integrate Delaware Investments into Macquarie Group. The PMO’s role was to facilitate and drive separation from the parent company and integrate into the Macquarie environment. Show less
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Singtel Optus
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Australia
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Telecommunications
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1 - 100 Employee
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NSW Regional Manager, Transition & Customer Projects
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2006 - 2008
General Management in Telecommunications General Management in Telecommunications
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Commonwealth Bank of Australia
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United Kingdom
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Retail Office Equipment
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1 - 100 Employee
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Program Manager
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2006 - 2006
Program Management in IT Infrastructure Program Management in IT Infrastructure
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Vodafone
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United Kingdom
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Various Senior IT Management roles
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2000 - 2005
Operational and Program Management Operational and Program Management
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Various
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Various Consultancy roles - Aus & UK
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1996 - 2000
Consultant for: - ICL UK - Environment Agency UK - Cable & Wireless UK - Compaq Aus Consultant for: - ICL UK - Environment Agency UK - Cable & Wireless UK - Compaq Aus
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