Capabilities
Coaching for Impact and Effectiveness
I work with leaders to heighten their awareness of the impact they have on their organizations and help them create a path to greater professional effectiveness and personal fulfillment.
With gratitude for your insight and capacity to stand next to me with guidance. Your observational and listening skills are acute. You offer the very rare gift of deep listening and hearing – both what is being said and what has not been said. The outcome for me has been clarification of my intention and how to move in ways that move me closer to actualizing, manifesting that intention.
I cannot think of a time when you do not express willingness to radically be in the moment with me. I could not be in this conversation with someone else. Your capacity to feel it as adventure makes an opening possible. I let my energy and curiosity roam with you and it feels spacious.
Coaching for action
I work with individuals to help them clarify possibilities and take action toward what is most life-enhancing for them.
Good coaches listen to what you say. Great coaches listen to what you don’t say and then probe deeper in a way that makes you hear yourself rather than feel invaded.
Anne Starr seamlessly integrates this delicate dance between challenge and support. Her gift is a remarkable ability to listen with all of herself to all of you, thereby positioning herself to be able to reflect back the ’you’ that is the more fully integrated Self that is yet-to-be.
Anne is not only versed in powerful coaching tools, but, more importantly, is capable of discerning in the moment when such tools should be laid aside to attend to the needs of the client. I am personally grateful for her-being-her facilitating me-seeing-me.
Your coaching gives me calmness, clarity and courage. I have the profoundly nourishing sense of having been heard and understood, retuned and renewed.
Anne Starr is a spelunker of the spirit. She has an uncanny ability to hear the deeper leitmotifs in our daily living and uses the power of metaphor and evocative language to hold up a mirror to where we are in our life right now. Her eloquent and powerful method sheds a light on our path that enables us to move forward with surer steps.
Witnessing and Catalyzing Teams
I observe leaders in group interaction, gain additional insight through individual interviews with team members and act in real time to open the situation to new understanding, behavior and action.
Anne sees the underlying, often hidden, agreements that determine a group’s interactions with extraordinary subtlety and excels at helping them enact new agreements, at both the individual and group levels. I have experienced this capacity myself over the past 12 years and I have benefitted from having Anne share what she can see with groups I work with – like the THORLO community, which still talks about the impact of her work 18 months later.
Organizational Analysis for Change
I co-design and implement research projects aimed at positively influencing patterns in structure, process and behavior that have led to persistent problems. I conduct research, interview, synthesize complex data, present findings, facilitate exploratory group conversations and write final reports and recommendations.
Anne is able to hear and tell the full story of an organization's structures, practices and challenges in a way that is both accurate and deeply appreciative and respectful of the human beings who live there. Even in the most charged environments, Anne has a knack for opening the door for important dialogues that previously seemed impossible.