About Us

Anne Wright, President

Certified Integral CoachTM, PCC, M. Planning, B. Soc. Sci.

Anne specializes in helping people and groups move "beyond their edge". She is a certified integral coach (Integral Coaching Canada ), facilitator, and planner. She serves as a lead faculty of Integral Coaching Canada (part time), and teaches the Fundamentals course and Module 1 Apprenticeship of the Integral Coaching® Certification Program accredited by the International Coach Federation. Anne also trains and mentors the Apprenticeship Module Phone Coaches and provides technical guidance to Certification Module students' coaching development through various modalities.

Anne's career has been focused on supporting community-based change initiatives – within organizations, partnerships and communities. She brings to this work over twenty years of experience in consulting to foster change and innovation in the human services sectors. She is also grounded in over ten years of study and practice of various spiritual practices (Kripalu yoga, Pathwork), and is a certified Kripalu yoga instructor.

Anne is a founding member of the Ginger Group Collaborative, (www.gingergroup.net ) a national integrally-informed "community of practice" of consultants committed to the art and skill of supporting multi-party ventures. She serves as the Managing Director with a focus on integrating Ginger's work in the world more fully with its learning and development focus.

A Master's in Urban and Regional Planning from Queen's University (1983) provided Anne with a systems view of factors that affect well-being and quality of life. After working at an executive level within municipal public health in the 1980's, she launched a small consulting business in 1990 (annewright.ca) focused on strategic planning. Throughout the 1990's she provided services to many complex multi-stakeholder ventures. Despite creative and varied types of interventions, she saw ambitious plans become stale and have the unintended side-effect of building cynicism and disappointment. That led her to train as a coach. Coaching enables her to help individuals accelerate their growth into the shifts required by the challenges they are facing. 

She now combines coaching with consulting to support groups to grow their individual and collective capacity while developing plans.

Anne is a Professionally Certified Coach (International Coach Federation).  Anne lives in Ottawa with her partner and 2 bossy cats and is the mother of a grown son.