Annette Perry, Director of Change Arc, partners organisations internationally to manage strategic change and build the capability of people. Initially, she gained this experience during fifteen years as a senior HR professional in financial services. She partnered executives to deliver business strategy through people and led strategic HR projects to create a 1500-employee operation in India and launch a UK health insurance business.
An independent consultant for more than twelve years, she has worked with clients to create and deliver business change, build leadership effectiveness and develop successful business partnering approaches for corporate services. She has also supported Board-level decision making through organisational effectiveness reviews and facilitated development programmes that equipped people with the skills and confidence to deliver change. Annette coaches at executive level and has experience across many sectors including IT, financial services, property, higher education and not-for-profit.
Annette combines a deep understanding of how people respond to change with a practical and goal-oriented approach. Her consultancy and facilitation style combines professionalism and credibility with warmth and humour.
She works with highly experienced associates to bring specific additional skills and knowledge to clients based on their needs.
Our Approach
We will always:
- Work in close partnership with you
- Be led by what delivers results
- Agree the role you would like us to play and the role you would prefer to play yourselves
- Base our solutions on your needs
- Leave you equipped to handle similar challenges in the future, rather than building in reliance on us
Sample Recent Assignments and Quotes
- HR capability development programme for a global property and investment business with modules delivered to groups in the UK, the US and Asia. “Thank you for two excellent days. You left the wider team buzzing with ideas and learnings, which is what I had hoped.” Global HR Director.
- Development of a Leadership Capability Framework for a high profile funding organisation which set out expectations and development paths for leaders at all levels in research environments. This was integral to ambitions for an inclusive, creative culture which sustains public trust. Co-author of the gap analysis which compared the Framework with current practice and made recommendations to bridge the gap. “Annette rapidly got up to speed with the purpose and desired outcomes of this assignment and delivered high quality and insightful work which received excellent feedback. She was strong in active stakeholder engagement and quickly built the relationships across the Programme which enabled us to balance engagement with the need to deliver to tight deadlines. She brought her considerable expertise and external perspective to all of the team’s work, gave her time generously and with the right level of support, challenge, questions and insight. We received excellent feedback at Board level. I personally not only learned a lot from Annette but also greatly appreciate her integrity and trust. I would strongly recommend Annette for similar work of this type.” Head of Talent and Development.
- Management development programme for a communications business in London, UK. “Just wanted to say thanks for a great management training session at the start of this week – the informal feedback I’ve had has been great. They also felt it will be relevant in client management as well as internal so really positive. I appreciate the time you took to understand the organisation and how we work – it really showed.” Operations Director.
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