Anna Pool
Anna Pool expresses her passion for individual and organizational effectiveness through a powerful range of consulting skills and expertise. Her breadth of experience in facilitating strategic planning, leadership development and alignment, and organizational culture development in both private and public organizations allows her to quickly understand and clarify her clients' "must win" business imperatives. As a trusted advisor to top leadership, she provides insight, tough feedback, and the collaborative environment within which the future can be powerfully envisioned and systematically enabled.
A seasoned business professional, Anna has facilitated leadership development, executive education, and executive coaching across a broad range of industries, including Michelin, Shell, Fluor, Bechtel, Bayer, Bertelsman, Sandia National Labs, Cargill, Lucent, Cisco, Nike, Raytheon, Bank of Canada, and Ford Motor Company, as well as numerous government agencies.
Anna's business background includes experience at the vice president and Board level of a medium size alternative health care facility benchmarked by the Harvard Medical School as one of the most innovative and effective of its kind. She is the former director of Organizational Consulting for Lore International Institute in Durango, Colorado. She also served as an organizational learning consultant to Ford's New Business Leader program, an innovative, action-learning program that was benchmarked by the International Consortium on Executive Development as among the best in the world.
Anna is the author of the Bronze Telly Award winning video series, Effective People Skills, and is the co-author of Lore's 360 Assessment of Collaborative Tendencies. She has authored numerous white papers and has presented at organizations and conferences such as the American Society for Training and Development.
She holds a Masters degree in Organizational Development from the Fielding Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. and has completed a two-year certification with the Gestalt Institute of the Berkshires. Anna is also certified in the use of the Lominger Limited, Inc. Voices® 360 Feedback Tool, The Leadership Capability Indicator, a tool designed for executive succession planning and selection and numerous other assessment tools.