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Anna Urnova

at The Kets de Vries Institute

Executive Coach at ESMT Berlin/Executive Coach at INSEAD Business School

Schools

  • INSEAD Business School
  • The Kets de Vries Institute

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Biography

The Kets de Vries Institute

As an Executive Coach, Anna Urnova specialises in helping her clients to thrive in times of change: be it leaders’ personal transition to a new career, role, business and cultural environment; or big scale business transformations that executives are leading within their companies. She focuses on maximising leadership potential, while constructively dealing with derailing factors in personal and organisational development. Anna provides support to individuals and teams looking to improve performance and effectiveness, develop personal and organisational innovation capabilities, and design and implement self-sustaining coaching culture in teams and companies.

In coaching others, Anna benefits from her knowledge of the corporate world gained through 17 years of work experience in multinational companies such as Ernst & Young, Reuters, BAT and PepsiCo. She successfully developed her career from internship to VP of Human Resources. As a member of an ExCo for the last 7 years, Anna led major business, organisational and cultural integrations. During her career, Anna has been exposed to working cross-functionally, cross-culturally and internationally. She is an expert in change management and has extensive hands-on experience in supporting big scale organisational transformations in Russia and elsewhere.

Since 2000, alongside her corporate career, Anna also practices as an executive coach to top management and a mentor to high potential leadership talent. People and teams coached by her are successfully operating across different businesses in Russia, and many are returning clients.

In 2012, Anna’s passion for developing others, and the success of her coaching work led her to become a full-time coach and consultant.

 

INSEAD Business School

As an executive coach, Anna is helping her clients to thrive in times of transformation and change. She is supporting senior leaders in their personal transitions to a new career, role, business or cultural environment, as well as in managing big scale business and organizational transformations in their companies. Maximizing performance and realizing leadership potential, while constructively dealing with derailing factors in personal and organizational development are often in focus of her work. Anna coaches individual leaders and executive teams.

In coaching others Anna is benefiting from her excellent knowledge of the corporate world gained through nearly 20 years of work experience in such multinational companies as Ernst & Young, Reuters, BAT and PepsiCo. She has successfully developed her career from internship to VP Human Resources. Anna led major business, organizational and cultural integrations and has been exposed to working cross-functionally, cross-culturally and internationally.

Since 2000 Anna is practicing as an executive coach and has gained experience working with clients from a variety of industries. Amongst Anna’s clients are big multinational corporations, small start-up businesses, international business schools and global educational organizations.

Education

  • MSc London School of Economics and Political Science (1995 — 1996)
  • Executive Master’s Degree INSEAD (2012 — 2014)
  • Diploma INSEAD (2007 — 2008)

Companies

  • Executive Coach INSEAD (2013)
  • Executive Coach ESMT Berlin (2012)
  • Executive Coach *Anna Urnova Executive Coaching * (2007)
  • Mentor for LSE Alumni Professional Mentoring Network The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2012 — 2021)
  • Associate Executive Coach Center for Creative Leadership (2008 — 2020)
  • VP Human Resources PepsiCo (2010 — 2012)
  • *Head of Human Resources | Org. Development Director | Head of Reward * BAT (1998 — 2010)
  • Organisational Development Manager Rothmans (2002 — 2004)
  • HR Generalist Thomson Reuters (1997 — 1998)

Skills

  • Team Building
  • Workshop Facilitation
  • Emotional Intelligence

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