Who we are

Ann Lewis Coaching was founded at the end of 2002, with an emphasis on leadership coaching and organisational development. Our clients include government bodies, professional membership organisations, charities and SMEs. Now we've become "Your Great Workplace", bringing together all our experience to serve our clients even better.

Ann has worked with many leaders who have lost their confidence and balance because of events at work from redundancy to workplace bullying and work overload. She has developed Recover Your Balance to support fast and effective recovery from distressing situations at work, and has written Recover Your Balance - how to bounce back from bad times at work as a self-coaching guide.

Over the years, we have developed collaborations with a handful of like-minded, highly qualified practitioners to bring our clients new services that enhance our core work - see collaborations.

Interviews

Listen to Ann Lewis talking about Recover Your Balance with US radio show host Kat Tansey (about an hour), and with Ian Mac on Vectis Radio (about 30 minutes).

Read an interview with Ann.

More about Ann Lewis

Ann is in demand for her unique style, which blends insightful, supportive challenge with profound respect for her clients and gentle humour. She knows that bad things can happen to anyone at work, and seniority gives no guarantee of immunity. Alongside developing leaders, she has a special interest in coaching individual recovery after confidence-sapping work setbacks including bullying and redundancy.

Ann is an experienced coach and facilitator, with Diploma in Advanced Executive Coaching (accredited by Middlesex University and the major professional coaching bodies) from the Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC). She is also an AoEC Accredited Professional Executive Coach. Ann believes passionately in the capacity of coaching to support development, and is committed to her own continuing professional learning. Her coaching is regularly supervised through the Coaching Supervision Academy.

Ann is accredited to administer Consulting Tools' Facet5 personality profiling tool together with Facet5 Teamscape, and trained to offer StressScan to help clients identify and manage stressors.

Previously a Human Resources professional, initially in manufacturing companies including Beecham Pharmaceuticals (now part of Glaxo SmithKline), Ann worked for 16 years in the Third Sector. From 1992 to 2002, she was Director of Human Resources for major charities, notably the children's helpline ChildLine and the Peabody Trust, London's biggest and oldest housing association. A Common Purpose graduate with a BA in Sociology, Ann is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and a member of the Association for Coaching, and ANKLe (A New Kind of Leadership).

She is married to Peter, an electronics engineer, lives on the Isle of Wight, and enjoys singing with a local choir, spending time with friends, walking, photography (she created the photographs for this site), gardening and a little gentle cycling.

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