Dr. Annabel Beerel is a Leadership and Change Management Executive who works with senior executives to advance organizational effectiveness. She is also a highly experienced executive coach. Her assignments include one on one coaching as well as working with management teams to develop leadership capacity and improve decision-making. Annabel has also held a Chair in Ethics and has developed and taught a range of leadership development classes for MBAs and senior executives.
Prior to moving to the US, Annabel was the Founder & CEO of an international Artificial Intelligence company. She has also been a Senior Director, Corporate Financier and Investment Banker in the City of London where she was actively engaged in business analysis, fund raising, merger and acquisitions and strategic planning. She has held various senior executive roles with multinationals and has a great deal of expertise in finance and management information systems.
Annabel’s clients include Androscoggin Valley Hospital, Greater Seacoast Community Health, New Life Counselling Center, Northeast Delta Dental, BAE Systems, Barclays Bank, Citi Bank, Enterprise Bank, MFA, Monotype Imaging, General Dynamics, National Grid, Raytheon, Teledyne, Inc., the Defense Logistics Agency, and the US. Army.
More recently, Annabel founded the New England Women’s Leadership Institute, an organization that helps women advance in their careers and advises on organizational leadership capacity building.
Annabel comes from Johannesburg, South Africa. Since leaving in 1983, she has lived in Europe and the USA and worked in many countries. She has a passion for elephants, music, dance, cultures and education. She writes non-fiction books and poetry. When she can, Annabel works with international women and refugees to help them with self-esteem building and how to navigate in new environments.
Annabel has a PhD in Social Ethics, an MA in Transformational Psychology, a Master’s in Theology, has carried out advanced leadership training at Harvard University, has an MBA, is a qualified accountant and is a certified Meditation Instructor. She has written nine books on a variety of subjects. Annabel is also an active public speaker on a variety of topics.