Profile

Anna-Marie has a diverse range of experience gained from over nineteen years working with high-performing individuals and teams across four continents. She served in the British Army for nine years, deploying on three operational tours, and worked in a range of challenging environments. From icy snow-holes in northern Norway to the heat and sand of the desert in Central Asia her curiosity at the world, desire to support others, and positive “can-do” attitude have formed the basis for her success. 

Anna-Marie initially developed valuable coaching experience from her successful military career, and then further developed her knowledge through working on a variety of international multi-cultural learning and development projects. She has designed and delivered leadership-based training packages for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), Abu Dhabi Government, TUI Travel and ENI. Recent UK-based public and private sector coaching clients include: H2H Performance, ustwo, Waves Training Solutions and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

A Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF) and is one of the co-leaders for the Executive and Leadership Coaching Community, she was also actively involved in the establishment of the inaugural Dubai and Saudi Arabia ICF Regional Chapters. Anna-Marie co-hosts the International Coach Federation Executive and Leadership Coaching Community of Practice, which offers quarterly webinars supporting ongoing professional development. Its official LinkedIn Group provides a space for coaches to share ideas, and has well over 5000 members - join the conversation here. 

A self-certified learning junkie, Anna-Marie loves to soak up knowledge from across a range of disciplines to support her coaching clients. She devours books and journal articles and avidly listens into a range of podcasts to keep up to date with the latest research. She actively contributes thought pieces to both the coaching and endurance worlds, and it regularly interviewed  in podcasts, articles, radio shows and more to raise awareness of coaching, particularly the benefits of taking coaching conversations outdoors, and a multi-dimensional approach to human performance.

Check out our media page for her latest articles here.  

Sports Performance

Anna-Marie is an elite endurance athlete, constantly pushing her own mental and physical boundaries through participating in extreme events across the disciplines of ultra running and long distance triathlon.

She regularly achieves podium positions, and her most notable successes include winning the first edition Oman by UTMB - branded the "Beast from the Middle East" in 2018. She also placed 7th lady and in the top 100 finishers in the Ultra Tour de Mont Blanc in 2017. This 170km trail race has 10,000m of vertical ascent (and descent!) takes the average hiker 10 days to complete, whereas Anna-Marie finished in 28 hrs 32 mins.

Read more about her running adventures in her latest Explore Discover Race blog series here.

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Alongside her corporate work, Anna-Marie supports youth development projects as a qualified Expedition Leader, heading up expeditions to remote environments for World Challenge and the Duke of Edinburgh's Award. Recent expeditions have gone as far as  to Morocco and Nepal, while other stay closer to home within the UK.

Anna-Maris is a strong advocate for taking coaching conversations outdoors and developed the initial concept from her observations of transformational change during trekking expeditions in Nepal and the UK. The combination of moving whilst being immersed in nature opens new perspectives, and encourages shifts in thinking within clients. Discover more about how this approach can be integrated into the performance coaching process here.