Anne Graham
As a proven business leader, successful consultant, and author of the Profit Maximization Breakthrough System™, the Not Another Boring Strategy Session™ Program, and the Legendary Value Cycle™, Anne helps motivated business leaders transform their organization in two ways: with Learn-by-Doing programs guaranteed to deliver results within 91 days, and with hands-on hold-feet-to-the-fire coaching and consulting support to execute well.
Clients benefit from and attest to Anne’s uncommon and enjoyable transformational leadership approach for creating stunning results, developed over more than 25 years of success creating business growth strategies, building high-value organizations, and achieving rapid corporate turnarounds in a wide variety of industries including high-tech, pharmaceuticals, financial services, professional services, wireless telecom, academia, and most recently, non-profit and membership-based organizations
Her personal track record includes leading a last-place division to first place within 9 months, successfully launching a new professional services company, exceeding national product launch expectations by 100%, improving top-line results by 583%, developing highly effective brand and positioning messages that cut through the clutter, designing customer and membership acquisition and retention strategies that produce results, and working with clients to build Line-of-Sight Strategic Plans that can be executed more quickly and easily.
Today, all of Anne’s 1:1 consulting results from referrals from ecstatic clients. Clients have seen quantifiable increases in Alignment, Execution, Top Line Growth, and Bottom Line Profit, and there are numerous case studies on the Legendary Value blog.
Anne pursues ongoing applied research related to building high-performance organizations as an Executive in Residence at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia, where she served as Assistant Dean and now lectures regularly in the award-winning MBA program. She’s been named an Expert Author, published in leading business publications including Profit, the LA Times, and Bloomberg News. She was first named to the list of Who’s Who in Canada in 2004. She has guest-lectured to hundreds of business professionals for MarketingProfs.com, spoken at conferences across the US and Canada, and conducted seminars for TEC, with attendees ranking Anne as "one of the top 5 TEC speakers" and "one of two who fundamentally changed the way to look at business."
As part of her commitment to give back, Anne sits on several business advisory boards including that of a top BC Venture Capitalist.
When not pursuing the fascinating art-and-science of building great businesses, she’s found on Whistler’s ski hills in the winter, exploring the beautiful coast of BC in her 36’ Trojan sportfish in the summer, or traveling to exotic destinations, including a charitable fund-raising trek to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in 2006.
