Anne Miller

PARTNER

Anne is distinguished by her action-oriented approach with the key premise that it is far easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting. For over 35 years she has worked globally with individual leaders and teams committed to going beyond past successes to create extraordinary futures for themselves and their organizations. She specializes in action learning, rapid cycle time approaches for strategy implementation during of times change, leadership development and executive alignment.

Anne takes a pragmatic approach in working with individuals and multi-cultural teams that seek to achieve step changes in leadership ability and performance in challenging business environments. She created the Action Lab™ as a tool for C-level executives to accelerate the delivery of breakthrough results while developing their leaders through a series of iterative accomplishments. Anne has led successful leadership development and organizational transformation efforts for Fortune 100 companies in many areas of the world. She has coached senior executives and their teams in a variety of cultures and industries with clients such as Novartis, Shell, Miller Brewing, Coca-Cola, Accenture, Citi, Humana, Hewlett-Packard, BP, XL Capital, the former ABN Amro, Plastic Logic and Dow Chemical Venture Capital. She works with two leading business schools—Vanderbilt Owen and London Business School. At London Business School, she designed and then was founding director and faculty for the Entrepreneurship Summer School and developed the initial concept for the Masters in Management.

Prior to her own business, Anne was a Partner with Oliver Wyman Delta Organizational Consulting, helping to grow the brand in the UK for organizational change and leadership development – and formerly a Principal with CSC Index, both in the UK and Hong Kong. She began her career in IT, leading teams of analysts and programmers in the design and development of customer solutions for banking, seismic exploration, financial planning and oceanographic research. Anne is currently also a network partner with Praemia Group and an affiliate faculty member for Pivot Leadership. She is a citizen of the USA and the UK, and in addition has lived and worked in Europe, Malaysia, South Africa, Brazil and Mexico.

Anne is co-author, with Richard Pascale, of “Acting Your Way Into a New Way of Thinking”, Leader to Leader, and “Action Lab: Greenhouse for Change”, Strategy and Business. She is qualified to deliver several leading assessments and training such as the Myers-Briggs, Hogan Leadership, Focused Energy Balance Indicator, The Corporate Athlete and the Tilt360. Her pro bono work has included the design and delivery of entrepreneurship training for vulnerable women in Eastern Europe as part of a reintegration process to build confidence and competence. She currently serves on the board of Silver Bullet Productions in New Mexico.

Anne received a BA in mathematics from Colorado College, and graduated with merit as a Sloan Fellow from London Business School. She has trained with the College of Executive Coaching in the USA and is certified with the World Association of Business Coaches and in the Marshall Goldsmith Coaching Process. As a former triathlon champion she still thrives on sports and adventure travel and lives in Santa Fe, NM where she built an award-winning house.