About Anne

Anne (she/her) is an experienced HR leader, working within this discipline for over 30-years and holding leadership positions for the past 25-years. Anne has experience in both for profit and not-for-profit organizations spanning a variety of industries including health care, publishing, branding/design, and senior living. With a strong HR generalist background and an instinct for organizational strategy, her work has focused on aligning an organization's culture and values with its “people” practices to best meet the demands of ever-changing organizational dynamics.

Anne’s expertise in HR and organizational dynamics includes strategic planning, talent acquisition, performance development and management, benefit and compensation management, communication and information flow, leadership/followership training and development, employee engagement, and career/leadership coaching for individuals and groups at all levels of the organization.

Anne has experience working with individuals at all phases of their careers and at all levels of the organization. Often, workplace strategists consult with only those at the top of an organization. Anne’s real joy has been building key relationships with those who do the work, those who manage others, as well as those who are leading others. In particular, Anne has an affinity to coaching and advising other Human Resources professionals, often somewhat invisible to the customer, but fundamental to the strategic direction of the business and influential to the well-being of its people.

Anne grew up in Maine and relocated to Vermont in 2001. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree, as well as a Master’s degree in Public Administration, from the University of Maine. She is certified as a Senior Human Resources Professional by the Human Resources Certification Institute (HRCI) and Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM), certified Executive Coach with the International Coaching Federation, and has earned certification as an Organization Development Professional (ODCP) by the Institute of Organization Development.

Finding the right workplace strategist to meet your needs is important. Here’s what Anne’s clients have to say:

Testimonials

“I am so glad I engaged Anne Levesque to support the development of our senior leadership team. Anne’s wealth of knowledge, ease of engagement with each of us, practical focus, and ability to tailor content and strategies took our work together to a new level. Our customized series reflected Anne’s perceptive listening, insightful questions, and commitment to the purposeful fun that leaders can have while learning. Our time with Anne has made us a stronger, mission-driven team with broader and deeper capabilities.“

-Laurie Quinn
Ph.D., President, Stern Center for Language and Learning

“Anne leaves a significant and lasting impact on everyone she works with. She’s my go-to for honest feedback and bridging the tactical with the strategic. It’s fascinating to see how she listens, assesses, and guides people through understanding and acceptance, whether working with frontline employees, executives, or corporate boards. There is good – and there is amazing - and there is Anne, who continues to be an honest-to-goodness unicorn.”

-Leslie Parker
Director of Environmental Services, Wake Robin

“The combination of Anne’s wisdom, knowledge, passion, and spirit is why she is so awesome to learn from and work with! She is calm yet enthusiastic, real yet thoughtful, fun yet genuine. As a start-up, we were challenged with many growing pains. While learning our culture, mission, vision and struggles, Anne guided and supported our team with HR organizational strategies and beyond valuable leadership skills to enable a transparent, communicative, and cooperative environment for every working moment and future. We gained not only professionally as a team but absorbed aspects that carried over into our personal lives.”

-Carey Strobeck
Founder + Creative Director, Fourbital Factory

“Anne brought an exciting and unique approach that helped us realize our core beliefs around the company culture and vision, and then began crafting HR as a vehicle to help support and continue that culture. All while keeping in mind the necessary elements that help foster a cohesive and positive work environment that continues to attract highly skilled and collaborative team members. Our company's success is due to the amazing people we have working here and Anne's ability to show how her approach can create a business that attracts and retains those people has put us in a very strong position for the future.“

-Erik Dalen
Founder and CEO, OnePoint Partners

“Finding leadership and what it means to lead in dynamic and challenging work is hard and requires endurance. I found myself not making time for reflection, not creating space for my ideas to fully form, for dialogue. In just a few coaching sessions with Anne, I felt supported and prepared with a stronger vision and clearer sense of what I need to carry momentum for the work and the team. In fast-paced and uncertain times like these, I am grateful for Anne's skillful way of helping me explore my creativity, challenges, solutions, and most of all, her radically kind yet firm reminders about the importance of creating space for my own personal growth and reflection.”

-Connie Beal
United Way’s Working Bridges Director

“Working with Anne has been a joy and a privilege. As an Executive Coach, her expertise and guidance is valuable, measurable, and specific to the work I do currently, and strive to do in the future. In nearly 10 years of working together she has helped me learn how to ground myself while in real life crisis scenarios, has mentored with compassion, and has been incredibly helpful in strategizing for both my personal future, and future of the organization I lead. Her masterful understanding of organizational structures and the human side of business processes makes her an asset as both a Coach and an Organizational Strategist. I continue to recommend her to anyone and everyone I know—she puts the person in front of her first, takes the time to determine their needs, and then she delivers again and again.”

-Erin Evarts
Executive Director, Lyric Theatre Company

“Anne Levesque has had a significant impact and influence on my life. As my Executive Coach, Anne sought to understand by actively listening to learn about my organization and my approach to leadership, which enabled her to share resources and wisdom that have become an invaluable part of my education and growth as a leader. Anne is a gifted listener. She capably distills what she hears into valuable insights that lead to self-awareness, self-management and have helped me define my own leadership style. Anne's approach is practical, useful, helpful, supportive, and fun!”

-Jason Farrell
Director of Operations and Compliance, Agewell