‘The years teach much the days never knew.’
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s over. We’re done.
No words are more difficult to hear from a spouse, partner, or employer. Life is about to change for reasons beyond your control. It’s normal to be consumed with a fear of losing what you want and gaining what you don’t want. To feel unfairly exposed to big problems you have managed to protect yourself from for many years. To feel uncertain about how to navigate an unknown future without the person(s), job, place, or things you once valued and relied upon. Having a dedicated Coach in your corner can make a difference.
I am a CDC Certified Divorce Transition and Recovery Specialist with a focus on supporting Senior Leaders encountering a major loss in their personal or professional lives. Whether facing separation or divorce, redundancy, termination, or severed business partnership, my goal is to settle you into a tailored system to make the process smoother and foster a successful transition into a more rewarding and meaningful next chapter.
Understanding Transition
It’s common to be consumed by what you’ve lost and the challenges that you’ve gained. The most important first step is to conduct a thorough audit of what and who steadfastly remains as you venture into a period of transition.
Think about the invaluable assets of time, flexibility, and freedom available to you. Your education, intellect, knowledge, and experience are uniquely yours. Friends, family, and business connections who actively believe in you. Your health, energy, appearance, and vitality are yours to nurture and protect.
Our transition and recovery coaching program facilitates how to acknowledge, leverage, and build upon all that you’re taking with you. People in a positive mindset see nothing but doors opening everywhere.
Commitment is Everything
There is a formula to successfully achieving any personal or professional objective that you set. It’s a combination of the following essential factors:
MEANINGFULIs the objective you’ve set deeply meaningful to you?
BELIEFDo you believe you have the knowledge, skills and capacity to achieve it?
COMMITMENTAre you willing to commit the time, energy, and resources necessary to achieve it?
If the answer is no to any one of these questions, then it is unlikely you will see your objective through to success. Failure to commit is the leading cause of not achieving an objective, giving in or giving up when it gets hard. Why? Because you thought it would be easier than it turned out to be.
Effective strategic planning is critical to success because it anticipates that moving from where you are to where you want to be is not a straight line. Challenges, setbacks and plateaus are an inevitable part of the journey. It’s okay to be optimistic but it’s better to be prepared.
Why Anne?
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology
CDC Certified Divorce Coach
CDC Certified Divorce Transition and Recovery Coach
Corporate Brand and Marketing Strategic Planner
Throughout my career I’ve worked with over two hundred of the world’s leading brands and learned the keys to creating, launching and sustaining winning brands. I employ the models, planning and marketing processes, and team structures they use, with each one of my clients today.
I’ve observed masterful leadership, productive teams and inspired cultures; all of which are the result of planning, execution, ongoing assessment and refinement. Today, I’m driven to educate and empower your team to adopt, implement, and commit to the same playbook that leading global brands use.
My ultimate goal is to teach you how to break through plateaus and fire up internal joy, passion, and commitment to the business.
Julia Braun, General Manager, Beiersdorf, Australia provided the following testimonial:
Anne McKinnon worked for Beiersdorf Australia Ltd. on a special Nivea brand project as a consultant for a total period of 12 months. During this time Anne’s support was of high value not just for the business but our team in general.
Anne’s strong analytical skills combined with many years of proven experience in fast-moving consumer goods research as well as brand-to-consumer communication from first contact to re-purchase were fundamental for gaining complete understanding and defining core levers resulting in a positive project outcome.