Meet Anne
Anne started her small business coaching company in 2002. She works with owners throughout the U.S. and Europe as their confidential, strategic partner to help them grow and manage their businesses.
She is passionate about small business and how it can positively impact not only the owner, but also its employees, customers and community.
Anne advises clients in all areas of their businesses and especially loves sales and marketing and helping small businesses uncover the “diamonds in their backyard” so they can truly thrive, using proven strategies and the power of leverage. She also specializes in helping business owners with employee challenges (hiring, managing, firing).
What’s Anne Like?
She provides authentic (real) alternatives (choices) to business owners and executives so they can stop spinning their wheels and move forward with substantial, profitable business growth, personal satisfaction and bottom line control.
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Anne’s Continuous Learning So She Can Better Help You
Anne’s Continuous Learning So She Can Better Help You
In 2000 Anne received the International Business Broker’s designation of Certified Business Intermediary. As a business broker, Anne looked under the hoods of many businesses and gained additional insight into what makes a successful business.
In 2004 Anne completed her coach training through CoachU, a comprehensive coach training program. This is an officially accredited program with the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
In 2007 Anne became licensed with an international business consultancy with over 600 consultants worldwide, which provided additional and ongoing training as well as access on behalf of her clients to some of the best business minds on the planet.
In 2016, she completed training and became a Certified Growth Curve Specialist, a program which helps her be better able to identify the root cause of those problems and get to solutions quickly so that her clients can effectively manage the growth of their businesses.
What Her Clients Have to Say
“Anne helps me solve the most expensive problems in my business. She’s counseled me on hirings, firings, strategy planning, and crucial conversations with my partner and my team. I would recommend Anne without hesitation to anyone running a business — especially with employees or partners. Having Anne’s objective (and well-experienced) outside insight is what I’ve needed for a long time to gauge new ideas and gut-check my intuition.”
“Working with Anne was one of the best decisions I’ve made for my business. She’s helped me through all types of challenges, both day-to-day and longer-term. Doubled the size of our team since we started working together and can honestly say she was a big part of that. Every business owner needs an Anne!”
“Since I started working with Anne four years ago, my business has more than tripled and continues to grow. Anne has been an awesome and steady advisor the whole way as we tackled many issues including hiring a number of new employees, firing two toxic employees, new product development, many marketing promotions, and so much more. I can’t imagine running my business without Anne’s help!”
“I started working with Anne 2-1/2 years ago at a time when my business was really challenged. With her help and another specialist she recommended, I am now on top of cash flow, have reduced personal debt to near zero, cut corporate debt in half and have business booked out for many months. I’ve added employees and am excited about the future. Working with Anne has helped me in ways I didn’t even expect. Reaching out to Anne for help has increased the success of my business substantially. I encourage any small business owner to check out her services.”
Her Entrepreneurial Heritage – Newsweek Magazine
A former wartime pilot and Time magazine’s first foreign editor, my grandfather, Thomas J. C. Martyn, had a vision: to establish a weekly news magazine that would rival Time magazine, which in the 1930s was the only magazine of its kind in the United States. Martyn succeeded so resoundingly that Newsweek has prospered for 90 years, first as a stalwart of print media and now in the digital era, as well. Newsweek was Martyn’s brainchild, brought to life through his own perseverance and ingenuity.
Despite his herculean entrepreneurial effort, her grandfather was cheated out of his creation, as his memoir explains. (Thus I am no “trust fund baby” and have built up my own businesses just like he did.)
Read more here.
Thomas J. C. Martyn and granddaughter Anne Alexander, 1975
On a Personal Note…
Anne was raised in New England, and has lived in Switzerland, the Midwest, and Colorado and now lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. She got her entrepreneurial “gene” from her grandfather, Thomas J. C. Martyn, who was the founder of Newsweek. Anne is an avid hiker in the Smokies, the Rockies and beyond, a lover of all kinds of art (painting, sculpture, music), a natural healing fan, and constant reader. She plays piano and blues guitar, spends time in the woods, attends the occasional college basketball game and does target practice with her recurve bow. She is proud to have the same birthday as Vincent Van Gogh, Eric Clapton, and Tracy Chapman.
Anne’s Office Mascots!
ABBY
Abby is extremely social and huggable. She keeps everyone on the bright side of life.
CHARLIE
Charlie is a cute and energetic pup born in 2017. He loves to play tug, chase the tennis ball, and play with Abby, of course.
ARLO
Arlo was adopted along with her brother, Thibeault in 2022. She is a feisty and adventurous feline.
THIBEAULT
Thibeault is a little more mellow than his sister and quite the snuggler.
