Annette Andrews

Annette Andrews is a name that’s all too familiar with businesses looking to unlock the potential of their people. As a Senior Executive Coach, Mentor, Mediator, and Consultant, she leverages her extensive skillset to successfully foster excellence on all sorts of scales. From small businesses to corporations such as Lloyds Banking Group and Ford Motor Company, Annette has played a crucial role in building talent strategies, culture initiatives, and even major business transformations. Whether she’s focusing on creating harmony between performance and wellbeing or delving into how a business can improve their diversity and inclusion initiatives, she adopts a personal approach that’s designed to make a difference.

Beginning her journey in 1989, Annette managed various HR disciplines across the UK, European, and Global branches of Ford Motor Company. During this period, she’d consistently deliver actionable insights to both the motor and banking arm of the company. As a result, she was able to develop a detailed understanding of HR fundamentals, leading her into her career with Lloyds Banking Group. Initially starting out as Head of HR, she quickly ascended the ranks – from Head of the Group HR Integration Team, all the way to Senior Member of the HR team and Recruitment Director. Since, she’s been utilising her skills in various critical positions across the realm of human resources. Regardless of whether it’s her role as Chief People Officer at Lloyd’s of London or her position as Acaria Coaching & Consulting’s Founder, Annette proves that she’s mastered her craft.

Across the years, Annette has never faltered in drawing from every aspect of her career to inform and guide her clients. Through Acaria Coaching & Consulting, as well as her role as a Non-Executive Director and RemCo Chair for Foxtons and esure Group alike, she takes the time to sit down with leaders and really get to know them. In doing so, she’s able to develop solutions that are specific to certain leadership and team needs, removing the risk of painting each business with the same brush. This talent is further presented in her keynote addresses, during which she gives audiences tangible tips and tricks that they can take away and expand on.

Annette Andrews is a brilliant example of a HR expert who knows how to seamlessly blend strategy and wit to create compelling presentations that are known for resonating with upcoming trailblazers and industry leaders alike. One of the UK’s Top 50 Most Influential HR Practitioners, a seasoned mentor, and a standout in the leadership landscape, Annette is a woman who has dedicated her entire career to encouraging excellence. Hire her via Champions Speakers today!