Anna Irani Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Bethesda, Md, Us

At NIH, I am the program manager for leadership development, manager development, and supervisory training for Office of Human Resources (OHR) staff.

I provide freelance coaching, consulting, and course leading, leveraging the following experience:• 16 years of teaching, course leading, training, and facilitation across diverse topics including, but not limited to strengths (CliftonStrengths and VIA), coaching, employee engagement, manager development, wellbeing, and emotional intelligence.• 6 years as a leadership and strengths coach, certified by ICF ACC and Gallup, with additional experience training coaches at Gallup, alongside 14 years in organizational and executive development consulting roles at Amazon, Ernst & Young, Gallup, and Guidehouse.

Washington, Dc, Us

At Totem, I supported leadership development, manager and employee training, and change leadership initiatives for federal government clients.

Seattle, Wa, Us

At Amazon, I supported leadership development and talent management for 35,000+ Amazon Devices and Services (D&S) employees, focusing on program management, strategic communications, and stakeholder engagement. My accomplishments included:• Program managed the Inclusive Leadership Summit for 300 executives, delivering 16 hours of training over 3 days, partnering with DEI specialists, third-party vendors, data scientists, and HR stakeholders.• Led CliftonStrengths workshops for Amazon teams, enhancing talent awareness and team development.• Developed a strategy for an Amazon 360 assessment program for D&S executives, covering research, assessment design, and implementation approaches.• Enhanced communication for D&S Talent Management (TM) by creating a Slack Channel reaching over 5,000 managers weekly and a toolkit supporting thousands in TM processes.

Mclean, Virginia, Us

At Guidehouse, I provided consulting, coaching, training, facilitation, and team development to federal government clients and internal Guidehouse employees. My accomplishments included: • Provided employee and career development consulting for FEMA, leading a survey administered to 21,000 employees with a response rate 4 times higher than the goal. Managed survey design, communications, deployment, analysis, and presentation. Developed strategies for increased participation rates and presented findings to senior leadership.• Conducted a half-day CliftonStrengths workshop for FEMA's human resources leadership team.• Led a Guidehouse business process improvement (BPI) team at FEMA, managing project management, process improvement, and consulting across five workstreams with daily coaching for Guidehouse consultants.• Coached Guidehouse employees and co-led the Leadership Coaching Community of Practice.• Provided Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) analysis support for TSA, focusing on measuring employee perceptions of organizational conditions.• Supported the design and development of a full-day course on gender and climate change for the Department of State by providing expertise in learning and development.

Washington, D.C., Us

At Gallup, I was the public face of the brand, bringing analytics and advice to life through compelling learning experiences and programs that increased performance, wellbeing, and organizational effectiveness. My accomplishments included: • Co-led the 4.5 day coaching course required to become a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, formerly called Accelerated Strengths Coaching. Participants who successfully completed this course earned professional credit hours from ICF (36 CCE hours: 19 Core and 17 Resource Development), HRCI (34 hours) and SHRM (36.8 hours).• Led over 18 courses, team sessions, and presentations for over 600 participants, including half-day courses on CliftonStrengths, performance management, and employee engagement.• Spoke in October 2019 at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Annual Leadership Symposium on behalf of Gallup and personally requested by CEO Jim Clifton; spoke about Gallup's research and book, It's the Manager.• Coached 50 individuals to increase individual and team development, performance, and engagement. • Applied Gallup’s selection research to administer and analyze nearly 150 hiring interviews. • Earned multiple certifications, including Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, CliftonStrengths Discovery Course Leader, and Gallup Professional Associate Interviewer.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

At Eagle Hill, I provided leadership and organization development support, led Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) initiatives, managed extensive taskings, and led employee engagement and organizational effectiveness workshops. While working full time at Eagle Hill, I also attended graduate school full-time and earned a Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP).My accomplishments included:• Led Eagle Hill’s D&I Core Team, conducting a current state assessment, developing the organization’s first D&I survey, and implementing a communications strategy that achieved 85% employee participation. Facilitated focus groups, analyzed data, and presented findings and recommendations to leadership.• Provided leadership development support for FEMA client in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environments. • Managed over 500 taskings a year for CBP client to ensure they were on time and needed limited revisions. Leveraged SharePoint and facilitated communication between the project management offices, front office, and staff. • Provided employee engagement support for CBP client, including Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) analysis, presentation, and communication. • Developed resources and workshops to help clients increase effectiveness. Designed and facilitated a training and created an interviewing tool that helped CBP client adopt a behavioral interviewing approach to hiring.• Designed, developed, and facilitated team building and employee engagement workshops for Eagle Hill and CBP that leveraged my positive psychology and organization development expertise.

London, Gb

At EY, I provided facilitation, talent management, change management, and other organizational effectiveness (OE) consulting expertise for all practices in National Tax and Human Capital (2,000+ employees).My accomplishments included:• Served as a skilled resource for change management consulting, training, communications, building high performing teams, organizational development and other OE consulting and support.• Provided implementation expertise and support for talent management initiatives, programs and processes, including (but not limited to): global engagement survey, diversity and inclusion (D&I) programs and initiatives, multi­rater feedback processes and facilitation, mentoring programs, performance management, talent development, and learning and development initiatives.• Provided individual and team coaching and training in areas such as career counselor support/training, mentoring, team effectiveness.• Assisted in implementation of the talent strategy and set priorities accordingly.

Miami, Florida, Us

• Designed, developed, and facilitated half-day Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) team session for the HR, IT, and Administration Department of 16 people.• Designed and facilitated an engaging "game show" seminar for staff called Jargon Jeopardy, which increased clear, concise and jargon-free writing within the foundation.• Developed surveys that assessed organizational effectiveness. Analyzed and presented findings to the client, which surfaced organizational needs.• Provided project management and change management support for the implementation of Concur, an online travel and expense reimbursement system.

Miami, Florida, Us

• Drove the project to update the foundation’s job descriptions, managing deliverables and timelines.• Analyzed the foundation’s strategy and departmental roles to identify role similarities and refine job families.• Conducted job and task analysis, including designing interview questions, conducting interviews, and facilitating data-gathering meetings.• Produced 30 consolidated job descriptions and job families, aligning roles with the foundation’s strategy and clarifying departmental similarities and differences.

New York, Ny, Us

• Selected from over 25,000 applicants nationwide to join the national teacher corps of 5,000 recent college graduates and professionals who commit two years to teach in under-resourced public schools. • Taught 8th grade science at a Title 1 middle school in Miami, FL for two years.• Participated in year-round professional development, covering instructional design and planning, classroom management, learning theory, literacy, and diversity training.• Completed intensive summer training program with Teach For America, including teaching in Atlanta, GA under the supervision of a faculty of experienced teachers.

Coral Gables, Fl, Us

Read essays written by first year undergraduates and coded them for performance goals or learning goals, which were used to predict GPA, depression, anxiety, and well-being.

Coral Gables, Fl, Us

Master Of Applied Positive Psychology (Mapp), Psychology

Master Of Science (Ms), Organization Development And Change

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Major In Psychology, Minors In Spanish And Anthropology

Fall Semester Abroad In Spain, Spanish, Anthropology, History, Marine Ecology