ANTHEA WILLEY


 

Prior to becoming a trainer, Anthea spent 17 years in advertising at Ogilvy, Leo Burnett, M&C Saatchi and JWT where she was part of the London Management Team, leading a department of 80. She has led global teams to provide brand and creative strategy for clients including P&G, Glaxo SmithKline, Dept. of Health, Kimberly-Clark, TfL, Heinz, IBM, The Samaritans, Kraft and De Beers.

Anthea is an experienced Trainer, Facilitator & 1:1 Skills Coach and works with a cross-section of organisations including professional service firms, financial services, advertising & technology businesses. With a particular interest in helping high achievers perform with greater ease, Anthea’s training and coaching helps develop gravitas, impact and influence, increases confidence and self-awareness and challenges limiting beliefs such as perfectionism, fear of failure and impostor syndrome. Her work includes enhancing authentic and effective leadership skills, supporting effective collaboration and communication.

Since 2011 Anthea has delivered many hundreds of courses and 1:1 coaching sessions on subjects such as ‘Executive Presence’, ‘Presence and Presentation’ and ‘Influence and Communication’ to a broad range of clients. She has also coached a number of senior individuals across business and beyond including UK politicians in public speaking.

Qualifications:

  • Anthea has a BA and MA (Oxon) in Modern History. She holds a certificate in Coaching Skills from the ICF-certified Neuroleadership Institute and is an MBTI (Step I) Qualified Practitioner; Anthea also has a TKI accreditation (Thomas-Kilman Conflict Mode Indicator) and a JCA Global EIP3 accreditation (Emotional Intelligence).

  • Anthea is also accredited in the PROPHET leadership profiling psychometric.

 

“I have had fantastic feedback from yesterday. Thank you so much… You have ‘blown out of the water’ a previous development company we used.”

Head of L&D for Sales Team, IT Hardware Retailer, UK

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“I have had fantastic feedback from yesterday. Thank you so much… You have ‘blown out of the water’ a previous development company we used.”

Head of L&D for Sales Team, IT Hardware Retailer, UK

 

“[The Head of HR] was full of compliments about your style and delivery. She said it was very artful how you kept everyone engaged.”

L&D Manager, Cybersecurity company, UK

 

“I just wanted to say a quick 'thank-you' for your time yesterday. You ran such an engaging and productive session - I really appreciated it. I went out with a few members of the team for dinner and we kept talking about how useful your session was. I really, really enjoyed it.”

Manager, Internet Search company, Global

 

“Please thank Anthea for her time in today’s session. I can honestly say it was one of the most productive sessions of education I’ve ever had.”

Attendee, Media Agency, UK