Opera singers employ voice coaches, athletes hire trainers, and business leaders engage executive coaches. Parks Executive Coaching partners with clients to maximize their potential by identifying and leveraging their strengths.
To achieve your leadership potential, you must communicate effectively and build strong relationships. Learning to leverage your talent and personality to differentiate yourself in an increasingly challenging business environment will not be easy, and it is certainly not intuitive. Parks Executive Coaching guides you through the process. Ann Parks draws on 25 years of leadership experience at Fortune 500 companies to coach you in the fine art of leadership, situational, and high potential development.
Business leaders who employ the Parks Executive Coaching model will improve management and leadership skills, interact more successfully with their boards, peers, staff, and clients, and become more aware of their personal communication styles. Ann coaches senior level executives, managing directors, senior vice presidents, vice presidents, and high potential professionals. Her client engagements include executives in financial, entertainment, startups and fintech.
Ann is an executive coach and founder of Parks Executive Coaching. She began her career as an Institutional Fixed Income salesperson, specializing in high-grade debt for Merrill Lynch. Ann’s passion for developing talent led her to a long career managing the Learning and Development divisions of investment banks such as JPMorgan, Citigroup, and Lehman Brothers. Ann understands the challenges of leading geographically dispersed teams, managing complex technologies/systems and motivating staff to be highly effective.
Ann is active on non-profit boards, strategic planning initiatives for her local school system, and numerous volunteer projects. She holds an MA from New York University and earned her BA from Drew University. She received her certification in Executive Coaching from the Zicklin Business School, Baruch College (an ICF certified program). Ann is certified in the MBTI, Hogan, FIRO-B, Workplace Big Five, and EQi.
