Anne-Marie Sorrenti is a leadership consultant and certified executive coach whose practice focuses on leadership for knowledge specialists and high potential talent. She works with professionals, executives and teams to improve organizational vitality and individual performance levels. Her supportive, inclusive, authentic, values-based approach encourages both the celebration of leadership strengths and the honest identification of areas for development.
Anne-Marie holds a Bachelor of Arts (summa cum laude) from McGill University, as well as a JD and a PhD, both from the University of Toronto. She was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2001 and practised corporate and entertainment law at Heenan Blaikie. While pursuing her doctorate, Anne-Marie taught courses in the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto. Her coaching credentials are recognized by the International Coach Federation and she is a registered coach with the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Coach and Advisor Network. She is an invited presenter and coach in both the Faculty of Law and in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Toronto. She has completed Mobius trainings in team coaching with Alexander Caillet and Systematic Intelligence. In addition to being an advanced EQi-2.0® and EQi-360® consultant, she is also a licensed practitioner of the Birkman Method® (a comprehensive personality inventory assessment). She is fluent in Italian and is currently regaining her fluency in French.
A dedicated volunteer with charitable organizations that support diversity and high potential leadership development, Anne-Marie is a founding Board Member of Girls E-Mentorship, an organization that matches motivated high school girls facing multiple barriers with professional female mentors. She is also an application assessor, interviewer and scholar coach for the Loran Scholars Foundation. She supports Canadian vets through her coaching and mentorship work with the True Patriot Love Foundation, with whom she recently designed a mentorship program that matches Canadian business élites with veterans in transition.
Anne-Marie lives in Toronto with her husband and 2 teenagers. In her spare time, Anne-Marie enjoys hot yoga, Italy, reading poetry and being in the mountains.