ICF professional certified coach

Annelies M Gentile, MA, PCC is a Visionary and seasoned Professionally Certified, Integrative Life and Leadership Executive Coach, Speaker, Facilitator, Process Artist, Interfaith Minister and Author of From Chaos to Calm :: Leading Change from the Inside Out, an invaluable guide to resilience— sense, solace and sanity for our rapidly changing world. 

Through executive coaching, speaking and creative facilitation she helps leaders and those they serve; communities, congregations, and organizations, to develop awareness, embrace change, manage energy levels, and cultivate creative affluence for personal and professional thriving.

🔥 From eliminating burnout
🎨 to nurturing ideas, leadership and creative expression
💀 to tending grief associated with change, Annelies helps you navigate uncertainty with courage, creativity and grace. 

Annelies holds a Masters degree in Health and Wellness Coaching from the Maryland University of Integrative Health, plus holds an extensive list of certifications and trainings from mindfulness to creative process to transformative leadership. She's a Professionally Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation and brings 33 years collective career experience. 

Annelies is a unique creative strategist. Neurodivergence helps her think differently-- providing an enormous asset to those she serves, helping you think through change like an artist! Resilient, creative and free.

Influencing all levels of change from micro to macro, she coaches one-to-one, facilitates groups, leads retreats, and inspires many as a speaker, teacher and an artist.

She helps professionals across diverse fields of faith, government, healthcare, law, education, non-profits, arts, tech, science and sales. Leaders, budding leaders and soloprenuers from mid-life to end of life.

Client Highlights: IBM, GSK, SAS, NCSU, City of Raleigh, Wake County Government, NCDOT, Fidelity, Bank of America, Helm, Wake County Public Schools, Baptist Medical Center, Rex Hospital, UNC-Healthcare, Wake Forest Chamber of Commerce, Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, United States Center for Refugees and Immigrants, Center for Human-Earth Restoration, Wind River Foundation, Full Circles Foundation, Wake Forest Leadership, NC Leaders, Leadership NC, Pink Foundation, NC Bar Association, Campbell Law, Captrust Financial, Iron Mountain, Wake Medical Center, Spring Arbor, Temple Beth Or in Miami, OLLI, NAMI, Novo Nordisk and more.

Conduit for Change, LLC is a unique resource for creative transformation through which Annelies guides individuals, leaders, communities and organizations through change using an integrative approach that's experiential, intermodal and presence-based, ie: whole person/whole system. 

Services are custom-designed, unique to the needs of each client, and includes...
🌟 Executive Life and Leadership Coaching 

🌟 Creative Consulting 

🌟 Conference Speaker, Engaging Interactive Speaker Keynotes
🌟 Retreat Facilitation and Experiential Workshops

EXPERTISE: Integrative Health and Wellness, Resiliency, Transformative Leadership, Conflict Transformation, Imposter Syndrome, Change Management, Creative Process, Team-building, Positive Psychology, Mindset and Mindfulness, Spirituality, Grief and more.

EDUCATION: Master’s Degree in Coaching (Maryland University of Integrative Health), Creative Process, Conflict Transformation & Peacebuilding (European Graduate School in Switzerland), Transformative Leadership (Tai Sophia Institute), Landmark Leadership, Yoga and Mindfulness certified, ordained Interfaith Minister, InterPlay Leader, and trained in Positive Intelligence Coaching and other modalities.

One-to-one, for groups and from the stage she's helped thousands of leaders, entrepreneurs, C-suite executives and visionaries navigate change, focus and take bold brave action in their personal and professional lives with measurable positive results for all. From collaborations to conferences she works with individuals, and small to large groups, including family dynamics and partnership systems.

Her previous careers include working on Broadway, first national tours, film production, manager of Hard Rock Cafe in Dubai, regional educator for three global companies, and visual artist, photographer and designer. She’s worked closely with three NC governors consecutively including Bev Perdue for eight years. It was Bev who encouraged Annelies to pursue her career path of coaching. She calls this pivotal moment, "Bev's Blessing".

Annelies' board-leadership includes serving on the boards of the Art Therapy Institute, Center for Human Earth Restoration,  Triangle Art Works, and currently serves on the board of (BPW) Business Professional Women.

Having traveled 22 countries and 47 US states, Annelies discovered a universal truth most people seek the Same Three Things(c): to be heard, to feel safe and to hold a sense of belonging. She works from a place of inclusion to help you find peace, joy and trust in one another again. 

At the soul-level, Annelies is an artist. In her work, she is a teacher, leader and coach. To her clients, she is a mirror.

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Former governor Bev Perdue encouraged Annelies to become a coach. It's here, with "Bev's blessing" that she began her path of coaching leaders. For most of her career Annelies was a hair and make-up artist to the stars. Bev was her client for eight years. 

Working in theater and television production, management, corporate training and visual arts is where she frequently worked closely with high-performing, high-level professionals. 

She's also served high-achieving stars such as Bernadette Peters, Petula Clark, Andy Griffith, Tony Curtis, Sandra Bullock, Tom Selek, Jerry Lewis, Juliette Prouse, Patrica Neal, and political figures such as Brian Williams of NBC, President Barack Obama's inaugural Advisory Council member Eboo Patel, White House Advisory Council Syliva Jackson, Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, Senators Richard Burr, Bob Dole and so many more relied on her trusted gift of presence.

The leaders she works with treasure her insight, compassion and safety to be vulnerable in her presence. She consistently brings these values to her coaching practice today.

Annelies began work at age 19 way before the internet. Youngest ever hired by three global haircare companies. Matrix International, Zotos International and Paul Brown. She became regional educator for each company and worked her way up to even being featured at age 21 on the TV program 60 Minutes! 

She's a life-long learner and seeker. She senses everything in life is connected and believes in always asking good questions. Decades of continuing education in mind, body, spirit connection, consciousness, science and spirituality add to the complexity and depth of her wisdom, ability to serve and deeply listen. This includes extensive training in mindfulness, meditation and a Hatha YTT-200 yoga teacher certification. She's also a certified teacher of Laughter Yoga with Dr. Madan Kataria.

With a Masters in Coaching and a knack for poking in a good way, Annelies' gift of presence and loving interruption gently calls you “back to center”. Through leadership coaching, engaging keynotes, and inspiring retreats Annelies helps leaders face uncertainty with courage, creativity and grace. 

Annelies is also an Interfaith Minister and Spiritual Counselor helping individuals, couples and leaders communicate clearly with meaning and compassion. Presiding over life transitions from birth to death to honoring sacred celebrations, ceremony, weddings is another way she holds space for meaningful moments. She's ordained through CA Universal Life Church (2007) and NC Earthstar Spiritual Center (2021).

From chaos to calm, Broadway to blacksmithing, divorce, death and Dubai, Annelies is no stranger to change— making her great at helping YOU embrace life’s wild and wooly edges with gratitude, maybe even glee. 

Learn more about her COACHING at conduitforchange.com 

...and more about her ART at anneliesgentile.com