Ann Mehl is trained as a life and career coach with New York Times bestseller and O Magazine columnist Martha Beck since 2005. Ann is also certified through the International Coaching Federation (I.C.F.) approved Life Purpose Institute coach training program.
A graduate of Boston College, Ann began her corporate career as a programmer with Andersen Consulting, followed by over 6 years at Otec, Inc., a boutique firm specialized in staffing IT talent for Fortune 500 companies and innovative start-ups. Ann served as a VP, recruiting C-level prospects and building management teams for high-growth companies. In 2002, she joined Citigroup Asset Management covering Institutional Sales for the Middle East. Ann then moved into the field of executive search at Sextant Search Partners in New York, helping candidates to navigate their way towards new job opportunities.
With compassion, insight and a good dose of common sense, Ann aids clients who feel stuck in their lives or simply need a plan to jumpstart their careers. Through one-on-one sessions, she takes people through a self-exploration process to determine what they love to do, what their unique talents are, and all the things they truly want. Then, she helps integrate all these aspects into a meaningful life and career. Ann assists her clients to think authentically and to identify steps to achieve their ambitions and desires.
Having run her first Boston Marathon fourteen years ago, Ann has since completed over forty marathons all across the world. She is a dedicated duathlete and member of the Asphalt Green Triathlon Club. When not training in Central Park, Ann relishes in volunteering for Girls On The Run, a non-profit organization dedicated to the health and well-being of adolescent girls ranging in age from eight to fourteen. She is also an active supporter of Riverkeeper, an Emerging Leader with the Financial Women's Association and a member of The Women's Association of Venture and Equity (WAVE).
For more information about Ann and her coaching services visit annmehl.com.
At first I didn’t think Ann would be the right coach for me. She is a life coach, and I was looking specifically for a career coach, but we decided to meet for lunch to see if it made sense to work together.
Before they even took our order I knew Ann was exactly the person I needed to be talking to. Maybe that’s because after ten minutes with her I felt like I was hanging out and catching up with an old friend. Or it could be that she is an incredible listener and kept making connections between really important things I didn’t even realize I’d said. Or perhaps it’s that she crafts a plan out of smaller, specific goals, so you almost don’t notice you’re making progress until you’re suddenly miles ahead of where you started. Whatever the reason, every subsequent conversation I had with Ann felt like progress.
To Ann, coaching is about identifying the all-important areas where work and life overlap--or, in my case, where I could structure them to overlap to a greater degree. Ann focuses on these areas because she knows that you work the way you live your life, and that it’s important to feel good about what that way is. If you don’t, she will patiently guide you through the process of figuring it out. Warning: this process won’t be all warm, fuzzy and stress-free (though Ann herself is incredibly warm and fuzzy). A good example is what Ann likes to call the “sweat test”, which is an exercise that forces you to make the-room-is-on-fire-and-you-can-only-save-three-things-type decisions about your goals and desires. The sweat test works on the principle that you have to make brutal choices to cut your list of goals down to a list of priorities that you can accomplish with a reasonable amount of time and energy. I have some fairly lofty ambitions, but they became much more accessible when Ann helped me break them down into smaller steps that I could actually accomplish instead of just thinking about accomplishing. It turns out that the first step to “publish a book” is not “write 200 pages in the next three months”, but “spend ten minutes picturing which section of the bookstore your book is in”. And that “become an expert in something” does not begin with “spend five years getting a PhD” but “look through a course catalog, select one course that looks interesting and think about why you chose it”.
If all this seems obvious to you, then maybe working with Ann isn’t for you. But for anyone who is a high achieving, ambitious person interested in a lot of things and searching for the best way to apply their skills and abilities, Ann can help you navigate the twists and turns of deciding where you want to be, and then help you map a surprisingly doable plan for getting there.
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