Anne Martin’s transition from attorney to entrepreneur to career coach has served as a model of reinvention to many. Her story has been featured in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Beauty magazine, and the Pennsylvania Bar Association Journal. And you can hear about Anne’s reinvention on this October 2023 podcast. She has led reinvention workshops and has spoken on career transition, business reinvention, and Rescuing Your Dreams at numerous retreats and workshops. She also co-authored the book Inspiring Entrepreneurs, in which she relates the details of her journey.
Anne received her BA and JD degrees from St. John’s University in New York. She started her career as an attorney for the US Navy. Then moved to the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, where she co-authored several articles and reports on government software acquisition policy. This was followed by a move to a large national law firm where she practiced business law.
Her turning point came when she realized that, due to her demanding job, she was living on the fringes of her eight year old son’s life. This prompted her to reassess not just her career, but her entire lifestyle. She concluded that she was running on a treadmill to build a “lifestyle” instead of living a life. After discerning that a legal career was no longer a fit, she began exploring other career possibilities. She decided to go into sales and within a year of leaving her job, she had built a dynamic sales team and stepped into a leadership role as an independent sales director. During this time, she coached hundreds of people to reinvent themselves.
In 2008, Anne relocated to San Francisco and enrolled in several programs at Dream University® and became certified as a Dream Coach®, Group Leader and Workshop Conductor. When the economic downturn hit, she was intrigued by the ability of numerous Bay Area individuals and businesses to courageously reinvent themselves to adapt to the rapidly changing business landscape. She started to research how career reinventors think, communicate and behave. She combined her research with lessons from her own and others’ reinventions and her years of leadership experience, to create a unique career reinvention process.
As a certified Professional Performance Coach, her mission is to inspire and empower mid-career women to shift their thinking and be open to new, exciting possibilities about their career.
To contact Anne, please email her at anne@daretoreinvent.com.
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