Fortune 10
Senior Leader

10+ years inside a Fortune 10 company and 5+ years operating in senior leadership.

Business School
Graduate

Freeman College of Management

Bucknell University

5–9 Creator

Building Leaders With Style alongside my corporate career.

Anne Odell portrait

Wife & Soon-To-Be
Girl Mom

Wife & Soon-To-Be
Girl Mom

Building a life I actually want, both in and outside of work.

Building a life I actually want, both in and outside of work.

Ambitious Introvert

Ambitious Introvert

I care deeply, think a lot and am most myself in a smaller circle.

I care deeply, think a lot and am most myself in a smaller circle.

Operator at Heart

Operator at Heart

I teach what I’ve learned from actually doing the work.

I teach what I’ve learned from actually doing the work.

ABOUT ANNE

I didn’t know how the game worked, so I learned it from the inside.

I didn’t know how the game worked, so I learned it from the inside.

I started my career managing people before I really understood what leadership was.

I was young, often the only woman in the room, and trying to figure out how to lead, make good decisions and build a career inside environments where nobody handed you the rulebook.

Over the next decade, I learned by doing.

Some lessons came from promotions.

Some came from mistakes.

Most came from sitting inside the rooms where the decisions about people, performance, opportunity and scope were actually being made.

That experience became Leaders With Style.

You shouldn’t have to spend ten years learning the unwritten rules by accident.

THE EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE POINT OF VIEW

10+

10+

YEARS INSIDE A FORTUNE 10 COMPANY

4

4

PROMOTIONS IN FIVE YEARS

5+

5+

YEARS IN SENIOR LEADERSHIP

1,000+

1,000+

PEOPLE LED

I have built teams, led large operations, worked across complex organizations and sat in performance and talent conversations where decisions about scope and readiness were being made.

I have been the person being evaluated.

And I have been the leader evaluating other people.

That is the perspective I bring to Leaders With Style.

A FEW THINGS I BELIEVE

01

Ambition is not something you need to apologize for.

Ambition is not something you need to apologize for.

02

A powerful career should create options, not consume your entire identity.

A powerful career should create options, not consume your entire identity.

03

Money matters.

Money matters.

04

Scope matters more than title.

Scope matters more than title.

05

You should understand the game you are playing.

You should understand the game you are playing.

06

Being needed is not the same as being senior.

Being needed is not the same as being senior.

07

Good leadership is transferable.

Good leadership is transferable.

08

Your team should become stronger because you led them.

Your team should become stronger because you led them.

09

You should know when a problem needs more effort — and when effort is not the problem.

You should know when a problem needs more effort — and when effort is not the problem.

10

You should be able to explain why you made the decision you made.

You should be able to explain why you made the decision you made.

THE PERSON BEHIND LEADERS WITH STYLE

A few things to know about me.

Leadership is a big part of my life, but it isn’t the whole story. A little more about the person behind Leaders With Style — what I care about, how I work and what I’m building.

WORK WITH ANNE

If the problem is not effort, but judgment, influence, communication or positioning, this is the work.

If the problem is not effort, but judgment, influence, communication or positioning, this is the work.

I work with ambitious professionals who are already good at what they do and want to operate at greater scope.

WORK WITH ANNE →

You do not need to become someone else to operate at a higher level.

You do not need to become someone else to operate at a higher level.

You need to understand what the level actually requires.

You need to understand what the level actually requires.