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Anne Collier, MPP, JD, PCC, serves as the CEO of Arudia, a pioneering firm dedicated to catalyzing personal and professional growth for individuals and organizations worldwide. With a relentless commitment to guiding individuals towards exceptional leadership, Anne leverages her extensive expertise and diverse background to empower clients to embody greatness in their respective roles.
With over two decades of experience following an illustrious 11-year legal career, Anne is a seasoned professional in leadership development and executive coaching. Armed with certifications in numerous proven assessment tools, including the Actualized Leader Profile (ALP), the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory (KAI), Anne tailors bespoke coaching programs aimed at elevating confidence, resilience, and performance in the face of uncertainty and challenge. Through her visionary leadership, Anne has cultivated a comprehensive suite of resources, including the Arudia Leadership & Management Academy (ALMA), offering immersive training experiences designed to foster enduring success in today’s dynamic business landscape. Whether facilitating transformative workshops or delivering keynote addresses, Anne remains steadfast in her mission to nurture thriving cultures, foster meaningful collaboration, and inspire impactful leadership worldwide.
Arudia is a premier training and development firm committed to enhancing culture, collaboration, and communication within organizations. With over two decades of experience, we offer customized solutions tailored to address the unique needs of individuals and businesses alike. From executive coaching and leadership development to specialized programs such as the Arudia Leadership & Management Academy, we collaborate closely with clients across various sectors including legal, healthcare, government, and non-profits to drive meaningful change and deliver tangible results.
Susan Kleiner: Hello and welcome to the Women’s Roundtable podcast, powered by the Think Factory, where we learn how women think big and grow their business. My name is Susan Kleiner and I’m a partner with Outside General Counsel Solutions, and I’m the host of today’s episode. I’m happy to have here with me today Anne Collier. She’s got her JD, her MPP, and she’s a professional certified coach and the CEO of a Rudy, a firm dedicated to improving culture, collaboration and communication and spent seven, seven years and 11 years, I think, in a legal career and then turned to her true calling, acting as a leadership coach and and her team work with clients in a range of fields, including legal, behavioral health, health care, corporations, governments and nonprofits. She’s a published author and an experienced keynote speaker, and she’s certified in over a dozen proven assessment tools, including the actualize leader profile and KPI, which measures problem solving style and is enthusiastic about everything that she does inside and outside of work. And we are enthusiastic to have her here with us today. So welcome and to the podcast.
Anne Collier: Susan, thank you so much for having me. I am truly excited to be here. So thank you.
Susan Kleiner: Well, we’re so happy to have you. So just start off. Can you tell me a little bit about Arudia and your team? Tell me a little bit more.
Anne Collier: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So people ask me where the name comes from. I wanted to ask you that. Yeah. So it’s a made up word. But here’s the thing. Like any former lawyer and by the way, I’d like to refer to my law practice as 11 very long years. But notwithstanding, I loved the skills that I got, the critical thinking skills, the writing skills as a lawyer. But Arudia of the name comes from the combination of Latin words to teach and to support. And so what we do here at Urrutia is teach our clients to help them learn about themselves, how to help them discover more about themselves, their strengths, their weaknesses, and and how to become more self-actualized. And then we support them in that journey. Wow. So what a perfect name for what you do. So I had a I spent some time reading some of your stuff and I thought it was so enlightening and empowering. So I’m excited to get a chance to talk to you about it here today. So one of the things that I read, you wrote that post pandemic, we are experiencing a historic moment of change in terms of the workplace. Can you tell me a little bit more about what you meant by that? Yeah. Well, first of all, I think many would agree that the pandemic accelerated the work from the we were headed towards work from home. But I think what people haven’t truly called out yet is the fact that wellbeing has been elevated well-being and retention So the appreciation of the impact of leadership on others, including the lowest, you know, the lowest person in the hierarchy and and truly the impact on everyone. My experience with my own clients and I’m also involved in a number of volunteer activities, including, you know, the American Bar Association, the Women’s Bar Association. I have board positions. I’ve got I’m leading the leadership in management lawyer committee of Law Practice for the ABA. But the focus on being well is, is really profound, which is we haven’t been there before, I don’t think. I have to agree. And I think there’s so much more to it. So like how does wellness impact company culture? Well, if you don’t have a well culture, you don’t have retention and client, this is another thing. The articles that I write when I write about retention, people reach out to me. I mean, more so in much greater numbers than any of the other articles, because everybody’s trying to solve that problem. There’s the it’s not just the quiet quitting, it’s the actual quitting. And the retention is a direct function of your culture, which is a function of leadership. So in 2012, right before the pandemic, who knew? Even then, I would say I have measures to say how much leadership affects culture. So, for example, if you use, hey, I’d recommend that you work at this place, Suzanne, because it’s great and we use that as a proxy for retention. What we know is that when you’ve got that like 50% more people will stay at an organization, that’s a huge number. So just again, focusing on on retention just a moment, because I’m all of my clients are struggling with getting good people. Everything costs more. They’ve got to pay more. They’re struggling with budgets. They’ve still got to provide excellent client service. You know, people who are not taking care of themselves are not providing great service. But then there’s that there’s a struggle about how do you how do you do that? Provide service, timely service, and make sure that your employees are well taken care of. And my theory there, I’ll just jump in again. My theory there is that, yes, well-being is about having having vacations and time off and, you know, getting a massage every once in a while. But it’s actually really about having a, well culture, going to work and feeling really valued and enjoying the work and finding it fulfilling.
Susan Kleiner: So I read somewhere that company culture, you know, you could compare it to the underlying personality and collective emotionality. I think maybe I took that from one of your articles. So do you agree with that? Like, it’s the personality and you know, it’s how everybody is feeling is what the culture is.
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