Annie
Scaife

Who I help

Individuals. People leaders. Teams. Business leaders. SME’s. Large Corporates. State Organisations.

How I help

Learning & Development Interventions. Psychometrics. Coaching. Strategic Mentoring.

Sectors/ Support

Pharmaceuticals. Financial Services. Education. Tourism. Public Sector.

“With change comes opportunity”

Annie Scaife is a People & Culture Principal. Based in our Dublin office, she provides her clients with a wide range of Learning, Organisational Development Services and Coaching support.

Annie is driven by helping people to bring their best selves to work. She takes a holistic approach that is informed by a range of disciplines and empowers people to connect to a meaningful and sustainable sense of purpose at work.

Making a difference that makes the difference

“I work with a wide range of clients to help them find better ways to connect individuals and teams to meaningful and sustainable success. Our work together often includes a blend of carefully curated learning and development interventions, psychometrics, coaching and strategic mentoring.

Through careful listening, we explore what great looks like together. Working together enables us to identify any blockers or barriers to success and helps us to erase any limiting beliefs in the organisation.”

Organisations that have people at their core

“In a world of constant change, building strong relationships with clients is key. The clients I support are open and honest with me which is crucial to the work I do. They understand that I have their best interest and their organisations’ success at the core of everything I do. My work centres on helping people and teams to navigate uncertainty with confidence. How do I do this? By helping them to embrace the power of professional vulnerability.

I get to work with such a variety of people, yet they all have something in common- they are employee-centric and passionate about the well-being of their people. Knowing that going in helps me to work on creating the right solutions for them.”

Trusted Advisor

“I’m someone who is solution-focused- when a client comes to me with a problem, I will work to reach a conclusion with them that is authentic to who they are as a business and that is in their best interest. My aim is for them to think of me as a trusted thinking partner.

I’ll always make myself available for clients when they need me. I want them to be able to pick up the phone to me at any point because they know that even if I can’t help and don’t have the answer for them someone in the team or even in the wider group will be able to help and I will endeavour to get an answer for them.”

I focus on helping people to get comfortable with change and uncertainty. By learning (and then choosing) to look through the lens of optimism and possibility thinking, we frame our solution orientation from a starting question of – How might we? Getting clear and excited by a clearly defined outcome, works to connect people to experimentation, learning and growth.

Clients best interest at heart

“One of the most satisfying elements of working with clients for me is seeing the evidence of clients moving into learning and growth zones by breaking down limiting beliefs. When we can see the evidence of teams moving to sustainable levels of high performance by establishing their collective why and what matters most is so rewarding for me.

Getting to this place isn’t always easy. I promote an ethos of solution orientation and outcome focus which sometimes means telling clients things they don’t necessarily want to hear. What’s important about this, however, is that they need to hear it if they want to profess. Building trusting relationships with clients is essential here as they know that we always have their best interests at heart so even if it’s not what they want to hear they’ll know it’s coming from a place of us caring and wanting them to succeed.”

An amazing network of colleagues

“Being part of AAB People is great I work with some truly amazing people both in our team and across the wider AAB Group. The fact that we all bring to the table a wealth of knowledge and experience from different backgrounds is invaluable. It gives us an incredible opportunity to not only synergise but also collaborate. We can learn from each other and grow together. At the same time, we’re there as a support system for each other when times get tough.”