Ann Quinn:Professional Profile

Ann’s long and successful corporate career intertwined with her life-long experience in wisdom formation drew her to work where her passion meets the world’s needs --- at the integration of business, wisdom and conscious leadership.

Business Career

Academic Education
Masters in Business Administration (Finance),Adelphi University, NY,
BA in Economics, Susquehanna University, PA

Employers
1988—1998 Bristol Myers Squibb
1978-1988 JCPenney
1970-1978 Celanese Corporation

Responsibilities: Director of Business Development, Strategic Planning, and Communications. Ann's interpersonal and conceptual talents were adapted to diverse industries, business sizes and life cycle stages, from multi-billion dollar global markets to small consulting networks, from mature industries to start-ups. Representative accomplishments include:

Received President's Award for championing project team investigating home health care market for multi-divisional participation. Member of Bristol Myers Squibb Home Health Care Operating Committee and key player in creation of collaborative of culture and communication practices; business, marketing and sales strategy and tactics; and strategic alliances within and outside of BMS.

Directed annual Strategic Plan, Marketing Plan and Budgeting processes, from process design to supporting divisional plan creation, presentation to senior corporate management, and critique of process effectiveness.

Researched and worked closely with senior corporate or divisional management about customers, industry trends, competitors, best practices, new businesses, and special projects, resulting in improved alignment of management thinking; more effective organizational design, teamwork, communications and culture; business expansion; profitability; and overall strategic leverage.

Wisdom Formation And Experience

Ann's emotional intelligence and spiritual practices, which began seriously in the middle 1980's are extensive and honor many wisdom traditions.

Graduated from Shalem Institutes' Spiritual Direction Program. Spiritual Director in private practice as well as with Princeton Theological Seminary and the Vincentian Renewal Center.

Wisdom Traditions: Christian, including being an Associate of an Episcopalian Benedictine Monastery; Buddhism; Twelve Steps; Interfaith, including Trustee of Fellowship in Prayer.

Spiritual Practices: prayer, meditation, spiritual direction; body / energy centered practices including walking, Qigong, Reiki, yoga; philanthropy through Bread for the Journey, Princeton (founding Board member); and appreciating and playing classical music.

Psychological traditions: counseling psychology / therapy, including graduate study at Rider University, Debbie Ford's Integrative Coaching.

Diverse Life experience: living / working in many settings (rural Germany, New York City, the New Jersey "country", and now a small town); traveling extensively (for business, pleasure, skiing and pilgrimage); and family life (from living single, divorcing, and then marrying and being widowed).

“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“Speaking with Ann is always a gift. Just by being who she is (a wise, spiritual, business-savvy and compassionate human being), I find myself able to align with my highest Self, to live and work from a more powerful and loving place.”

Career Management & Executive Coach

“Problems cannot be solved at the same level of consciousness that created them.”

Albert Einstein

“My career has been blessed with many wonderful opportunities and overwhelming challenges, the greatest of which is fostering the “other” part of my life: my marriage, my friendships, my self. Ann helps me strip away the “should’s” and “shouldn’ts” so I can better honor my work and my life. I am achieving much more personally as well as professionally than I was able to alone.”

Sr. Director, Pharmaceutical Company

"Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation www.Shalem.org

"Spiritual Direction, sometimes referred to as spiritual guidance or spiritual friendship, is an on-going relationship in which one person (the directee), desirous of being attentive to his or her spiritual life, meets with another person (the director) on a regular basis (approximately once a month), specifically for the purpose of becoming more attuned to God's Presence in order to respond more fully to that Presence in all of life."

Spiritual Directors International www.sdiworld.org also has perspective on this ancient practice and its relevance to our lives now. "