Ann Farrell Hughes
Ann Farrell Hughes, a communication coach with Strathman Associates, Inc., since 1995, designs and facilitates individual and group learning to develop leaders and teams. She draws on over 25 years of management and leadership experience in coaching clients to build trusting relationships, demonstrate emotional intelligence, and improve service quality and productivity through aware and effective communication.
Expertise- Executive coaching and leadership development
- Team building and management
- Group facilitation
- Public speaking
- Interpersonal and cross-cultural communication
- Facilitation of Social Style℠, Blanchard's SLII® and Authentic Communicator℠
- Tracom's Adaptive Mindset for Resiliency℠
- Coached leaders in business, service industries and the public sector for over 20 years
- Designed integrated learning programs for major corporations
- Led team to adapt manufacturing team excellence model for State of Ohio
- Enabled international organization to significantly increase customer base and quality of service across a multi-state area
- Recognized for innovative approaches to management of off-site teams
- Designed, developed and managed public education programs about the courts which served as national model for U.S. Department of Justice
- Facilitator and speaker at regional, national and international conferences
- Master of Arts, Public Administration, The Ohio State University, with focus on human resources management, leadership and team building
- Graduate, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Leadership Education Program
- Post graduate work in group facilitation, mediation, behavior styles, Creative InterChange, whole-brain thinking and problem solving