Anna Griffin
Leadership & Career Coach, Founder & CEO of ANA Coaching, Award-winning Author, Entrepreneur, Speaker, ex-PwC Director, Women Empowerment Advocate, Mentor.
Coaches on leadership, career, business, innovation, transformation. Helps develop and elevate leadership skills for women around the world; advises on career management.
Anna is a driving force for transformation, inclusivity, and impactful change in the realm of mentorship, leadership and entrepreneurship coaching.
Her vision is to create a powerful movement for creating future female leaders, empowering all women and enabling an environment to create a bigger pool of female leaders and entrepreneurs for the future generations.
Global Leader
With over 23 years of global experience in consulting, advisory, innovation, technology transformation and leadership coaching across multiple organisations and industries, Anna brings years of experience in Leadership Coaching and Mentorship.
For over two decades, Anna has been advising companies and clients in strategy, management, innovation, digital transformation and future of workforce, working with top consulting firms globally.
Her experience spans multiple countries, including the Middle East, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, UK, US, and Europe.
As the ex- PwC Director for over 12 years, she held global roles in Strategy & Transformation, HR Digital Transformation, Global Operations Management, Human Performance, Leadership, Mentorship and Coaching, Change Management and Communications, High Performing Teams, Design Thinking.
As the Strategy & Transformation Director for the Workforce of the Future at PwC, Anna delivered the new ways how people can better operate in the post pandemic world through combining smarter people strategies with emerging technologies and connected human experience that delivers transformation and is built to last.
Through the adoption of people and technology advancements, she executed agile employee and customer-centric initiatives for the future of work, driving business strategy through people agenda and digital transformation.
Now, she advises and coaches women on bringing innovation, change and creativity to the ways organisations operate. With this in mind, her passion is to combine smarter people strategies with emerging technologies and connected human experience that delivers transformation in the way leaders operate.
Leadership & Career Coaching
Anna is a founder of her own Leadership & Career Coaching Company, based in Dubai - a cutting edge, client centred and technology enabled coaching company based in Dubai where she delivers holistic, dynamic and systemic Leadership and Career Coaching services that help clients create a transformation rapidly, achieve greater results and peak performance.
Anna's coaching philosophy is to deliver concise and solution-focused leadership strategies based on individual needs of her clients.
Through the adoption of people and technology advancements, Anna executed agile human-centric programs for the future of work, high performing teams, high potential professionals driving business strategy through a people-led agenda and digital transformation.
Through her coaching, she empowers women with both the tangible skills and the intangible mindset needed to emerge as the leaders and entrepreneurs of tomorrow. Her approach inspires greatness, encourages a reimagining of leadership norms, and fosters global innovation.
Anna offers the essential knowledge and skills needed for women to redefine not just their own paths, but also the future economy and society at large.
Her passion and personal transformation is intertwined in her effective and practical coaching methodology based on rapid change, action and communication that encompasses the work of great thinkers and best disciplines of organisational psychology, neurolinguistics, human psychology, influence, negotiations, innovation, technology, business and strategy.
Women Leadership & Empowerment
Anna is committed to ongoing mentorship and coaching of females in business and entrepreneurship, including the younger generation of females who are becoming the leaders, thinkers, innovators and creators of the future.
She participates in Women in Business Mentoring and Leadership Programs in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and globally, which gave birth to the creation of her company and her own mentorship program.
She is an advocate of a movement that gives women a competitive edge to rise to the top, break through glass ceilings, and make a lasting change.
Her commitment to women empowerment extends to mentorship of women in the STEM arena (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) from low socio-economic backgrounds, young and aspiring female entrepreneurs and those in transition roles.
She is a member of Women in Technology, Data & AI (Artificial Intelligence) in the United Arab Emirates where she actively advises and coaches women on leadership and career management. She is a regular contributor and speaker in AI and Technology related events.
Having been active in the realm of business and gender, business and writing, and women empowerment, she is a visionary and a force for good.
Her mission is to create a powerful movement for creating future female leaders, empowering women and enabling an environment to create a bigger pool of leadership and entrepreneurs for the future generations.
Author & writing enthusiast
Anna is an avid writer and an award-winning author of ‘Reimagine the Possible. Unleash your full potential and have a more meaningful career and life’.
In addition, she is the co-author of the book ‘The Authorities’ which she co-authors with authors like Marci Shimoff and Dr John Gray.
Currently, she is writing her next book in the area of ‘new leadership in the new era of thriving organisations’ based on the experience of the greatest women leaders.
Her passion for writing extends to documentaries and family history writing. She has been chronicling her family history and life during World War II and their voyages from Poland to North Asia through Ural Mountains in Siberia, to Central Asia of lands of Kazakhstan.
Mental Health & Wellness Advocate
Anna is an athlete and fitness lover. In her youth, Anna spent 20 years training as a classical ballroom dance professional, competing internationally as well as training young athletes. She was a professional ballroom dance coach in the Fred Astaire Dance Studio on Broadway in New York City, and in Poland. Her love for sport led her to now being competitive in an arena of body sculpting as well as developing mental resilience in athletes. She spends her free time playing golf with her brother.
She is passionate about a healthy and balanced lifestyle and mindfulness. She is a proponent of balancing the body, mind, and spirit to activate self-awareness and live a more purposeful life. She is a fan of meditation and connecting mindful living with professional life.
Anna’s passion also is in gemology, precious stones, and luxury goods. As trained Gemologist and rough diamond valuer, Anna worked for De Beers Group where she held roles in diamond pricing and valuation, sales and marketing, corporate relations as well as government relations. She holds an MBA amongst other certifications.