About My
Offerings
When we work together, my goal is to empower leaders and teams to make durable changes that stick around. Any coach knows that practice makes permanent. That’s why I always emphasize active and collaborative practice over conceptual work alone.
As a partner in conscious leading and teamwork
I advocate for the whole person, engaging in the process of deepening awareness, crafting new ways of being, and integrating those discoveries into people’s lives in durable ways. Whatever outcomes you seek, I am here to help chart the arc of transformation that will get you there.
To change our outcomes, we need to change ourselves. The journey starts as soon as our first call. For those ready to do the deep work, let’s face complexity fully and fearlessly.
Leadership & Development
Some leaders preserve peacefulness at the expense of growth and development. However, there is an innate polarity to human nature that cannot be denied, and the best leaders must embrace this shadow side within both themselves and their teams—even when it exposes simmering conflicts.
Only by increasing their capacity for complexity can leaders achieve professional and personal progress. At the intersection of building self-awareness and high performance, my approach to leadership development helps clients to explore new narratives that broaden their possibilities for choice in managing volatility and change while finding a healthy balance between collaboration and decisiveness.
Don’t micro-manage your teams—be there with them.
Client feedback
“I have had several executive coaches over my 36-year corporate career, and Annalise was the most effective coach I have over that time.”
— Executive, Financial Services
Team Coaching
Members of a team can be masters of their craft but still struggle with individual regulation of the self and others. Without shared intention or cohesive alignment on the purpose of their work, a team will never execute to the full extent of their abilities.
Growth becomes stunted when teammates feel they have lost clarity of purpose and lack the psychological safety to speak truthfully. By embedding with teams, through individual and collective coaching sessions, I help my clients mediate communication stagnation and rebuild the foundations that infuse work with communion and meaning.
Client feedback
“Annalise is a warm and engaging presence in the room - people feel enriched having experienced her skillful facilitation, deep content knowledge and the affirming connection she builds with them.”
— Master Facilitator
Off-Sites & Retreats
In a time when in-person experiences are rare and essential, I curate unique, personable, and engaging off-sites and retreats for teams that desire to discover new depths. My experiences offer bespoke solutions for an organization’s key problems in spacious settings that dispel old ways of being and pave the path to targeted outcomes.
With me, it’s never just a retreat. From the pre-work I conduct with clients before an off-site to my follow-up ensuring that teams can achieve long-lasting integration, I scaffold the deconstruction and reconstruction of a team’s self-conception without getting in the way. My programs include, but are not limited to:
Culture work
Strategic planning
Team building
Working sessions
Any experience that would benefit from expert facilitation
The clients are always at the center of the experiences. By leveraging the abilities and brilliance that clients already possess, we identify the primary needs of the specific group and unlock their innate power to self-regulate and grow holistically.
Client feedback
“I am pleased to provide a glowing testimonial for Annalise Koltai as a coach. Working with Annalise has been an incredible experience that has helped me to achieve significant progress in both my personal and professional life. Annalise has an impressive ability to listen actively and provide thoughtful guidance, which has been invaluable in helping me identify my goals and map out a plan to achieve them. Her coaching has been instrumental in helping me to gain greater clarity, focus, and confidence in my decision-making, which has enabled me to achieve some significant milestones in my life. Annalise's approach is always customized to my individual needs and goals. She is skilled at asking insightful questions that prompt me to think deeply about my values, motivations, and aspirations. Her thoughtful guidance and advice have been invaluable in helping me navigate challenging situations, make tough decisions, and develop new skills.”
— HEAD OF OPERATIONS, SAN DIEGO, CA
