Anne Flynn
Executive Coach
Anne is an intuitive, internationally experienced executive coach who supports high-potential leaders to elevate their impact, navigate transitions and accelerate their careers. With a decade in executive development and a background spanning HR, talent, outplacement and global commercial roles, she brings a strong business lens and a results-driven approach.
Known for her insight, empathy and ability to challenge constructively, Anne helps clients strengthen executive presence, influence stakeholders and become more effective people leaders. Comfortable working across French and Anglo-Saxon cultures, she tailors her coaching to each leader’s goals, enabling them to stretch, grow and deliver with confidence.
Country: France
Sector experience: Financial Services, Telecommunications and Engineering.
Background
Anne is one of the coaches/people developers who is equally comfortable with both French and Anglo-Saxon culture.
With over 10 years experience as a consultant in executive coaching and development, her particular focus is with high potentials and leaders.
Extremely business and goal oriented, she makes sure her clients are driven to deliver.
Coaching Style
Anne is very intuitive. She thrives in helping her clients realising their potential hence reaching higher. She knows how to challenge them with a positive and insightful attitude and endless empathy. Always attuned to her clients’ needs, she tailors her approach to each one.
One of her clients says: “Anne has this strong capacity to make you feel unique: she listens to you, she expresses interest for what you do, who you are, and where you are aiming at. And really helps you getting there.”
Special Interests
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Enhancing executive presence and personal impact
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Managing transition into new roles/organisations
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Helping her clients developing and executing career strategies
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Effective stakeholder management and influencing
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Helping leaders to become better managers of people
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Effective time management
Anne started off as a Sales and Marketing Manager USA for Bragard Inc. from 1990 until 1992. Not long afterwards, Anne continued her career into Right Management, an outplacement consultancy up until 1994 up until she began to work for Marsh: Head of Learning and Talent Development (Recruiting and Training Officer) up until 2008. It was a year after that Anne then started up Reach Higher, becoming both the Director and Founder where she dealt with Executive Coaching and Training.
Training & Qualifications
Anne has a Master’s in Human resources and sociology that she received in 1986 which was later followed by a coaching qualification; Coach (International MOZAIK) in 2011. Not too long after, Anne received both a PNL Practitioner (IFPNL) qualification and a Certified MBTI OPP in 2009.
Current Clients
Cap Gemini, Safran, HSBC, Orange, France Telecom, Philips, PSA, BNPParibas, Marsh, Bouygues Construction, Nufarm, Océan, Château de Versailles, Prévention routière, Janssen, Rio Tinto, OECD, FAFIEC / Vignobles Bernard Magrez and QBE.
Incredibly valuable and insightful - really helped me better understand what I can do to drive value and be successful within my organisation and helped me identify where my challenges may be along with a plan on how to address them. Excellent coaching!
All employees deserve to get an attentive, committed and improvement focused coach, and all businesses deserve to get improvement from investing their employees. This coaching experience delivered on both those things - it’s the easiest decision you can make
The six sessions I had with my ECC Coach changed my perspective of coaching. I was initially uncertain (and possibly sceptical) about the benefits of coaching but my coach read me very well and knew when to coax a response out from me by being encouraging and when to firmly push me to see the benefits of reframing some of my previously held positions.
I found my ECC coaching sessions incredibly valuable – for the unique and necessary space I was seeking as a sole proprietor to feel heard, understood and connected to a peer in business. My coaching experience provided a safe space where I could be the real me, and provided a relationship I could truly trust. Thank you ECC.
The coaches at ECC are commercial, pragmatic and highly focused. The coaching they provide on an individual basis has given valuable insight and helped our senior executives to gain greater perspective in terms of managing relationships, prioritising, strategic thinking, influencing and confidence.