Company Culture- Does the Compmany Walk the Walk or Just Talk the Talk?

Ann is a native Califo
ian, born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has attended several colleges and universities. Most notable; San Jose State University where she majored in English, Saint Mary’s College where she obtained her Paralegal Certification, Pomona College through CUNA’s Western Management School for executives and senior managers. Most recently she became a certified professional and life coach. She has continued her education throughout her career by continuing her studies in higher education.

Her work experience over the past 20+ years has been in the financial industry at the “C” level. She was one many individuals laid off as a result of the downtu
in the economy. She looked inward to determine what about her collective experiences she truly enjoyed about each phase of her career. The result was she enjoyed helping her staff better their professional acumen through coaching. Working with them to identify what they really did well and assisting them in finding ways to do things better whether it was to enhance the job they were doing or looking for advancement within their current career path or looking beyond for career options. This was her “a-ha” moment. It helped define her next steps, turn her passion into a career. Confucius says, “Choose a job you love and you will never hat to work a day in your life.”

Her hands-on value proposition is bringing operational organizations to consistently high levels of achievement based on her ability to build teams, drive strategy, operations, cost and profitability across operational functions. Ann’s expertise in leading multi-million dollar organizations is grounded in solid economic and financial disciplines. It encompasses nearly every functional and operational aspect of the business and includes business development strategies.

Ann believes her strong team building skills, process orientation and quantitative decision-making methods have been the cornerstone of her success and have continued to be the foundation and source of growth in her career as “Coach.”