Ann Purchese - Advance Performance

Ann holds an MBA from Henley Management College and has a proven track record in operational leadership in Marketing, HR and General Management across Europe, Middle East & Africa, including six years operating at international board level.

In her roles with Mars, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Proctor & Gamble, Ann has developed and led critical organisational development and cultural change solutions. Her experience includes merger & acquisition integration and leading HR activities during an 18 month divestiture period. She has line experience including co-leadership of a significant South African business operationally and through transition to a joint venture model.

In her career Ann has gained considerable experience in strategy development, behavioural development interventions in multi-cultural environments, cultural and change management, executive coaching and leadership assessment and development.

Over the last ten years, Ann has acted as an executive coach to managers, directors and VPs in a number of blue-chip organisations within a range of functional areas and across three continents. She is an accredited Henley Management College coach and NLP Business Practitioner. She believes passionately that individuals achieve performance beyond that which they imagined possible when inspired with clarity of vision, are supported to build on their greatest strengths and encouraged and enthused to drive onwards.

Education & Accreditation
• MBA
• OPQ & Myers Briggs Type Indicator
• Saville & Holdsworth accredited assessor
• Chartered Institute of Management accredited trainer for Executive

Knowledge
• Diploma programs
• Thomas Kilman Conflict Model