Anne Nagle

I work with leaders and humans who are committed to their own growth and development for the sake of what matters most to them, their teams, organizations, their families and communities. 

My clients include individuals and groups in large multinationals organisations as well as small businesses across the globe. I also contribute to programs in a number of universities in Ireland. The people I work with have roles from executive and senior leadership to high potential managers and individual contributors. In my coaching, I am privileged to have clients that are willing to trust me to partner with them on their development – I hold that trust with great care.

My work often has the theme of leading and/or living in complexity: I help clients understand why complexity often requires a less practiced response from us; and share tools and moves to support them build their own capacity and range.

I first seek to deeply understand my client’s current reality and your need for things to be different. I want to hear about what really matters and listen for the texture of emotions and beliefs/assumptions as well as behaviours.

I bring deep curiosity, searching questions, and an open, listening ear to hear and see into the heart of what matters for you. I also bring a lot of life wisdom and business experience as well as many methodologies, tools, resources and potential moves you might try out.

I aim to work in a way that is both immediately practical and,  over time, developmental for you. For example: I might use an Immunity to Change Map to understand your current reality, and help us see the hidden beliefs and assumptions that may be making a change difficult for you to make. 

Our work will invite your real world experiences – build your capacity to notice, and build a practice of experimentation to learn. You will likely become a practiced explorer – of your inner world and your external context – and, hopefully, expand your range, and amp up your own curiosity and compassion for self and others. 

I believe that we each have more capacity for change than we think. This has been true for myself as I spent my early career looking for “a bigger book of answers”  – that search brought me to an executive MBA and, eventually, I realized there isn’t a book big enough! (I was looking through, what I now understand to be, a “complicated” lens and hadn’t yet been introduced to the work of adaptive leadership and leading in complexity.)

A whole new world opened up as a result of an introduction to Harvard Professor Robert Kegan in 2004. I was a bit of a slow burn as I juggled a busy career as a vice president of supply chain. In 2009/10 I jumped in at the deep end and studied and experienced Immunity to Change (ITC) with Bob and his colleague Lisa Lahey. This brought about big shifts in my own sense of self, many of which are on-going, and opened up the world of adult development, including a relational pathway into Cultivating Leadership. 

My business experience is always in the background. I think it helps with empathy – having my own felt sense of executive life – and being able to quickly understand context.  I am also drawn to tools, moves, approaches that have practical applications in a business as well as human context. 

The concept of polarities strongly resonated with me – one of those “I wish I knew then what I know now” ideas. That interest took me to Georgetown three times in 2018/9 when I studied with Brian Emerson and Kelly Lewis in the first cohort of their Executive Certificate in Polarities and Paradox. I find I learn first by applying ideas to myself and then bringing what works to clients. So I do my own work too – I’m an ongoing work in progress!

Happy to be a colleague for 10 years. Along the way I was a Cultivator and a director of our European business.

I love to walk by the sea and pick sea glass, shells and stones. While often I walk alone, I find that my beach walks invite thoughts and memories of friends, family and the many who have walked by my side. I return full of gratitude in my heart and a pocket full of bits and pieces. I love the natural world and can often stop and wonder at the detail on a flower, a leaf or a cobweb.I’m currently leaning into more leisure pursuits and exploring my (hopefully) latent talents – enjoying workshops and practicing textile art such as felting, tapestry weaving and playing with different materials. 

I’m committed to providing a high-quality coaching or facilitation experience, and that means setting clear boundaries. I am based in Cork, Ireland, and, while the time -zone overlaps with business hours for much of the world, there may be a limit to my available times for coaching. We would explore that as part of a discovery call and agree the flexibility and time boundaries available should we decide to work together.

It’s important to note that I am not a therapist. While coaching can be therapeutic, it is focused on helping you develop your skills, achieve your goals, and overcome challenges. If you are looking for support outside of my areas of expertise, I’m happy to refer you to colleagues who can better meet your needs. My goal is to ensure a positive experience for everyone.