Sharpening focus, advancing the
mission
and realizing vision
People
Start-ups, scale-ups and businesses moving towards their IPOs need specific skills in specific areas.
Expecting the same team to be equipped to deal with these growth challenges is unrealistic, at best.
I can help you to identify the gaps in your team, help you to define the roles you need to fill, then attract, incentivise and retain the right talent, especially in senior leadership and at board level.
Efficiency
So, you’ve got the right people in the right seats, but are you using them right?
Creating efficiency within your leadership teams enables you to maintain your future focus, giving you the peace of mind that the mission and the vision is front of mind for everyone.
I can help you iron out the inefficiencies and ensure that you’re using your executive teams the right way: focussed on advancing the mission and realising the vision, with efficiency and productivity.
Optimization
The right people are in place, and all the inefficiencies have been ironed out. The next key area of focus is maintaining this productive, proactive state.
I can help you identify the data to track, what data you need to analyse, and why. Together we can develop the dashboard so that you’re always focussed on the business, rather than working in it.
Culture
With an optimised, efficient leadership team in place, a crucial key to unlocking growth is culture. What draws people to want to help you achieve your vision needs careful management and protection.
I can help you to preserve culture by ensuring that you’re celebrating the right things at the right time. That the vision is clearly defined and communicated at every level of the organisation. That the culture that helped get you to where you are today is maintained, honoured and protected.
Target
Do you really know the difference between KPIs and an OKRs?
Setting the right goals and tracking the right targets is subject matter in of itself. It’s likely that you know where you need to get to, but how do you measure that journey accurately? How can you alter your course along the way, if and when you need to?
I can help you to determine the key differences between targets and goals, ensuring that you track progress in the most productive way. Getting this stage right is critical not only for your internal teams encouragement and productivity, but to keep your investors invested in your vision, and your capability to deliver it.
Chris Thurling
I have had the pleasure of working with Ann as a non-executive director since 2018. She has consistently demonstrated a unique ability to focus board discussions on the core challenges and goals of our organization, and has been a catalyst for action in driving progress. Ann has brought a wealth of experience from working at large tech companies to our small business, and has always kept the needs of our team at the forefront of decision-making. She is skilled at collecting and synthesizing information, and is a valuable asset to our board and organization. I highly recommend Ann to any team looking for a strategic and people-focused board level adviser.
Dan Vigdor ThriveDX
I have brought Ann Hiatt in to consult on several critical projects over the past two years while running and scaling ThriveDX. Her understanding of what a C-Suite needs to effectively scale their leadership has been a vital asset, while having a keen understanding of the needs of running a profitable business. Her expertise, insight, candor and humor have been a welcome addition to our team that we bring to the table time and time again. I have recommended her to several of my colleagues who have been equally impressed.
Holly Clarke
Sam Beni
Ann’s keynote at Tech Nation Future Fifty event was truly inspiring – informative and eye-opening, with engaging and thought-provoking delivery. Our attendees, CEOs of unicorns and the largest tech scale-ups, were blown away by the quality of her content and the uniqueness of her message, leaving them asking for more. We highly recommend Ann to any corporate team looking for an insightful and engaging speaker.
Jeanine Moiton
Ann participated in a Meetup Live event to discuss how to lead your career with purpose. She provided tangible advice that the audience was able to learn from and easily implement in their journey. Ann’s easy going nature paired with the many powerful anecdotes she shared from her personal journey made her relatable and resonated with the audience . Needless to say, the event was a huge success and we can’t wait to partner with her again. On a personal level, I can’t wait to apply all of the valuable nuggets she shared to my career path!
Juan Luis Hortelano
Ann Hiatt’s expertise, global experience and industry knowledge is second to none. Most powerfully, she was able to translate this into clear concepts, actions and best practices for our audience of 12,000 entrepreneurs and investors from 70 different countries making her a standout favorite in our programming. We look forward to continued collaboration between Ann and our 1500+ startup community.
Dr. Jochen Wallisch – Siemens
Ann Hiatt’s keynote speech at our Siemens training event brought together her 15 years of experience, memorable stories and key business insights from Silicon Valley and interpreted these lessons for our participants. Every attendee left the conference with enthusiasm and actionable steps to increase their impact.
The group was highly satisfied about her talk so that we immediately booked her to return in a few months. We look forward to our cooperation in the future!
Let's work together!
Ann’s CEO consulting clients are running rapidly scaling organizations who are facing all the challenges that come with massive success and rapid growth. Their organizations tend to be around Series A or B in fundraising, or a similar growth stage, where they are doubling year over year (in revenue, users, employees, etc) and the systems that worked to manage them as a startup are now starting to break. The needs to an organization growing from a startup to a scale up center around four areas: market, tech, team and financing. Ann specializes in The Team.
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Transformation
Consultancy
I activate forward-thinking leadership teams to reveal the possibilities of innovation, transformation and disruption for growth.
Keynotes, leadership summits and bespoke training
I thrive on speaking to audiences of highly motivated people looking to improve their leadership skills, gain confidence and respect, empower purposeful career development, and reverse engineer their wildest dreams into manageable steps.