Anna Bond is widely known as an expert in executive assessment and development, management due diligence, M&A due diligence, top team effectiveness and coaching. Much of her coaching work has centred on developing and coaching executives who face challenging situations, particularly around scale, transitions and pivotal points in their roles and careers. International in outlook and focus, she consults regularly throughout the UK and Europe, United States and Australasia. She brings over ~ 25 years’ of consulting and leadership advisory experience, with particular sector experience in financial (investors and alternative investments, banking, insurance) and professional services, consumer goods (including luxury), pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, technology, telecommunications, and fast-moving consumer goods. Over the past ~15 years, she has almost exclusively consulted to PE firms and investors, to help them maximise management performance across their portfolios. She also has a particular interest and experience in interpersonal and board dynamics. Anna was part of the founding team of ghSMART London in 2006, where for the next four years she was responsible for building and delivering client work within the UK and across Europe for some of the leading investment houses and their portfolio companies along with large, multi-national corporates. She continues to play a partnership role with them. Experienced in both the design and use of psychometrics, she was a founding member of RHR International's Objective Testing Centre of Expertise and brings an analytical and rigorous approach to her consulting. Anna led a pan-Europe/U.S. research study into private equity called ‘Human Capital in Private Equity’ and was instrumental in setting up RHR's Private Equity Practice.Anna holds British Psychological Society membership and Division of Occupational Psychology status and is a qualified Gestalt executive coach. She gained an MSc. in Industrial / Organisational Psychology (1st Class honours) from the University of Canterbury, NZ. She completed a post-grad course in Board Dynamics with The Tavistock Institute, London and holds a certificate in Systemic Thinking, Families and Beyond, from The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation, London. A mother of three, she also enjoys building various pro-bono work into her work portfolio.
