Who's Anneli?

• Award-winning author and expert

• Human nature nerd

• Skilled parallel parker

• Hiking, salsa and jigsaw puzzle enthusiast

Every workplace runs on conversation.
The quick check-ins. The hard truths. The ideas shared… or not.
These moments shape culture more than any strategy document ever could.

Anneli Blundell has spent her career exploring this human heartbeat of organisations. Not the theories about leadership, but the lived experience of it: the silence in meetings that should be alive with ideas, the brilliant people who hold back because the culture doesn’t feel safe, the leaders who want to do the right thing but don’t yet have the skills or confidence to say the thing that needs to be said.

Anneli noticed early on that most workplace problems aren’t really performance problems, they’re conversation problems. People avoid, soften, hint, sugar-coat, and miss the moment to be clear and kind. Or they force, coerce or demand and control, and forsake the connection that creates trust.

Cultures drift from open to guarded, from trusting to tentative. Too ‘tough’ or too ‘nice’, but rarely finding the balanced blend of both.

So, she set out to change that.

Drawing on two decades of coaching, facilitation and leadership development, Anneli created a suite of practical, human-centred frameworks to help leaders balance care with courage, to both build trust and connection, and hold the challenging conversations that drive performance. Her work isn’t about scripts or corporate jargon. It’s about connection, clarity and the ability to calibrate the conversation to the person in front of you.

Clients describe her as the perfect blend of insightful and relatable, a thought leader with both backbone and heart. Her work is grounded in behavioural science but delivered with warmth, wit and real-world savvy. Whether she’s speaking on stage, coaching senior leaders or facilitating in the room, Anneli helps people feel safe enough to open up, brave enough to step forward and skilled enough to change the way they communicate.

Today, Anneli partners with organisations to build cultures where dialogue becomes a strategic advantage, where leaders talk honestly, teams collaborate deeply, and people feel able to contribute at their best.

Because when you fix the conversation, you fix the culture.
And when you fix the culture, you’re ready for the future.

This is space she likes to play in. What about you?

 And if you need the expected bits about awards, accolades and past clients, here it is…

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