Ania Lichota
Ania’s masterful coaching transformations are rooted in her own evolution, shaped by two decades of navigating global executive roles in 17 countries, a wisdom gained from extreme adventures, and over ten years of guiding senior leaders through unprecedented self-reflective journeys.
In her executive career, Ania was renowned for leading organizational turnarounds, maturing leaders, bold visioning, and commercialising opportunities unseen by others. She recognized that ego, self-imposed limitations, habitual being, fear of being authentic and perceived failures hinder leadership expansion. Resilience, presence, purposeful communication, leading with purpose, soft power and a sense of freedom, she found, expedite organizational success.
Ania has:
- Worked as a Country Manager, COO, Senior Sales Director, Senior Integration Leader and Global Transformation Executive
- Built, restructured and grew businesses in 17 countries in four languages
- Climbed the highest peak on every continent including Mt. Everest
- Written a Top rated motivational book (despite her dyslexia)
- Chaired a large charity in London and served on the boards of The Attlee Foundation and diversity networks
- Built three schools in Nepal for over 450 children
- Received multiple international awards for her outstanding leadership and contribution
- Presented inspirational talks on TEDx and as a key-note speaker
Ania works with executives in a number of sectors globally. Among recent clients are: ACCA, Pernod-Ricard, Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC, UBS, Eaton, AMEX, Teleflex and Entrepreneurial CEOs as well as CEOs of various charities.
Areas of Expertise
- Shifting from ego to eco and re-regenerative leadership
- Vertical Mindset Growth
- Purposeful and impactful communication
- Unleashing female leaders’ potential
- Enhancing presence and charisma
- Listening to understand and enabling generative conversations
- Building synergetic and self-organizing teams to full leverage
- Reading the room and decoding teams, systems and power dynamics in matrixed organisations
- Leading as an ‘imposter’ and shifting ego states
- Business Mentoring
- Senior, C-suite and board-level transitions
Coaching Signature
Ania’s coaching style is compassionate yet direct, non-judgmental, present, and insightful. Her natural ability to connect deeply creates profound trust with clients and uncovers a unique approach to unlocking top leadership potential.
She inspires, challenges, and curates a safe space for meaningful conversations, where feeling stuck, pressurized, lonely and self-imposed complexity can be alchemised into a clear path of ‘what next’ and a liberated mental and emotional capacity for effective leadership and life.
Ania’s life philosophy and unwavering coaching conviction is: “You can only take others as far as you got yourself”.
Fuelled by passion she walks the talk and is a role model for freedom in authenticity, benevolence, unlearning, deep self-inquiry, de-mystifying mind-made fears, facing up to naivety and nurtures clients towards a balanced and successful life.
Education & Professional Qualifications
- Financial Times Non-Executive Director (NED) Diploma, UK
- Master Certified Coach, International Coaching Federation, US
- Diploma in Team Coaching Mastery, Executive Coaching Studio, UK
- Certified in Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centred Coaching, US
- NLP and hypnosis as an application of NLP, PPI, UK
- The In-Sight Program: Presence, Systems & Creativity, UK
- Professional Practitioner for Systemic Coaching in Organisations, UK
- PhD International Leadership, Rushmore University, US
- Three MSc degrees, US, UK, Poland
