Meet Ann Farrell

Ann Farrell is a highly credentialed and experienced executive, business and leader success coach who facilitates a powerful alignment between people and organizations for accelerated success. Her passion for empowering people to fully step into their personal best is at the heart of her coaching. Ann leverages her outstanding experience as a successful executive where she remains the only women to have risen from entry level to the top of the house in her Fortune 100 Company's 150-year history, with coaching best practices for the benefit of her clients and her client companies. 

Based on her personal experience of what works, she has created powerful trademarked signature coaching programs for executive, leader and team success that are now being used by more than 40 Corporate Coaching firms.   She is the creator of "Coaching for Corporate", a program that provides certified coaches to effectively coach their clients to success in business and corporate environments. In January, 2009 Ann also launched "Your Corporate Success" a group program that makes executive coaching available and affordable to all. 

Ann comes to coaching after a highly successful 30-year career in the operations of a male-dominated industry where she held several executive positions. Her vast experience includes:

• Leading an $8 billion purchasing and logistics organization to breakthrough levels of profit contribution
• Leading an engineering / product development organization in driving a billion dollar program from concept to market
• Leading human resources, leadership development and cultural change for an organization of 5,000 as well as cross-functional assignments in finance, treasury, program management and supply chain functions.

In addition to her formal accountabilities, Ann has always been a passionate sponsor and leader in the community including:

• Serving as United Way Executive Champion for three years
• Launching and sponsoring several diversity councils and women's affinity groups and networks
• Currently serving on the Boards for Women of the World and Benedictine University's Masters In Leadership Program

Ann has been a both a mentor and a coach to many throughout her career. She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and is credentialed by the International Coaching Federation as a Professional Certified Coach, one of less than 1,500 coaches in the world who have achieved that credential. She is a member of the Cambridge Who's Who Honors Edition based on her achievements both in corporate and as an entrepreneur. She lives in Winfield, Illinois.

Since launching Quantum Endeavors, Inc. in 2006, her client's are: The Chicago Cubs Organization, General Electric (GE), Navistar International, Alcoa Corporation, Sara Lee, Allstate Insurance Company, British Petroleum (BP), Players Choice, the National Speakers Bureau, a list of wildly successful business owners as well as more than 40 Corporate Coaching firms who are now licensed and using Ann's trademarked signature coaching system to support their clients' to great results and success as well.