Anne D'Arcy

Anne has over 30 years of cross-industry HR leadership, including 13 years at Google leading Business HR for 9,000+ engineers across EMEA and 11 years as a management consultant with Accenture. She brings a real-world understanding of leading people through hyper-growth, restructuring and large-scale transformation. Her corporate background includes designing and implementing the AI talent strategy for Google Search, Ads & Commerce and Geo Maps.

As a coach, Anne blends a champion-and-challenger style with a calm, pragmatic approach, working from a psychological foundation to enable lasting personal and team change. With individuals, she helps leaders gain clarity, challenge their thinking and grow in confidence. Her many years on senior leadership teams in both engineering and sales environments also give her a natural ability to help teams move beyond operating as a group of individuals to becoming a cohesive, aligned, high-performing unit with sharper strategic clarity and stronger working relationships.

Anne holds an MSc in Executive Coaching and Leadership (Distinction) from UCD Smurfit Business School and is an EMCC-accredited coach and team coach practitioner.

““Anne’s coaching has been an absolute game-changer for my leadership journey. She bridges the gap between broader corporate strategy, our division’s value add, and the critical human elements of leadership. By asking great questions, she challenged my thinking and created the space for me to truly grow. I still find myself asking, ‘What would Anne ask me at this moment?!’”
VP & General Manager, Large Global Tech Organisation.