Hello!
I'd like to reintroduce you to my Boss, my Marketing and Communications Department, my Head of Strategy, Chief Financial Officer, Shitty Committee, my Admin Assistant and my Chief Magic Maker.
And yes, they are all me - Annelie Wambeek Consultancy!
I have been on this entrepreneurship journey 🎢 for the last 2 years, and every day I feel privileged to be doing work that is so intertwined with my identity. I am my business, and my business is me.
Anyone who knows me personally can probably guess that I get a lot of energy from working with other humans, and I feel lucky saying that this journey has been anything but lonely 🙏🏽. I'm part of incredible communities, I intentionally work with other trainers who inspire and challenge me, and my clients are from diverse fields all over the 🌍 . I work (training, facilitating and speaking) around the themes of belonging and inclusion, identity, power, depolarisation, decolonisation, intercultural competencies and more. All of which are a big part of my lived experience - and I don't take it for granted how special and fulfilling that is.
A big part of what I do is creating and holding space for the 'hard' discussions, maybe topics others would avoid. I thrive in the grey area. The world isn't black and white, and complexity is what makes us human... I encourage clients to be vulnerable - and that means I want to do the same. The amazing Selina Barker recently introduced me to the notion of our 'Shitty Committee' - or that inner saboteur voice in your head - and boy have they been loud! My Marketing Department has been frozen since my last post over a month ago - but that doesn't mean that I haven't been busy.
I've been delivering training in person, and creating experiences - 2024 is shaping up to be a very exciting year. BUT - I haven't felt 'right' posting about this. A lot of you can probably relate (let me know), but I'm having a hard time separating the horrific world events that we are seeing unfolding live. I stand firmly with all my colleagues on #DEIagainstoccupation.
So I'm sharing this with you. My Head of Strategy is painfully aware that people need to know what I do, why, and that I'm good at it - but I hate self promotion. Posting a photo of myself makes me uncomfortable, which is why I'm doing it now.
If you've made it this far, thank you. Next week I'll be sharing what I do (and what my 90 year old Granny thinks I do). My Communications Department is back in business - slowly. One step at a time, they say.
