LIGHTHOUSE STUDIO

CREATIVE, PURPOSEFUL & SUSTAINABLE LEADERSHIP

THE IMPACT

  • "Anamaría is an exceptional coach. In fact, she may well be the smartest, most discerning, most fun coach in London"

    S Greene | Writer | UK

  • "Anamaría has a phenomenal ear and a gift for speaking to the right parts of me, opening up issues that once seemed impossible to solve"

    Uli Haase | Project Manager | GERMANY

  • "Six months on I feel like a new person. I have been recommending her to all my friends. I don't think many people in our society appreciate how rewarding this sort of work can be"

    Francis Pacheco | Head of Insights | UK

  • "ANAMARÍA is an inspiring human being who throws herself wholeheartedly into every project. I can’t recommend her highly enough. Thank you, AnamarÍa"

    Sion Lewis | CEO | UK

  • "Anamaría has the ability to make you see your biggest fears and face them, and despite sounding terrifying, she turns this road into an incredible path full of wisdom and magic"

    Helena Bardera | Psychologist | SPAIN

  • "How do you put into words how much someone has impacted your life? Once you start working with her, you’ll never want to stop!!"

    Hayley Summers | Funder & Coach | UK

  • "Anamaría is exceptional at bringing out the authentic leader that lives within everyone"

    Finlay Clark| Revenue Director | UK

  • "My experience with Anamaría has been exceptional. I have worked through crucial blockages and arrived at a profound understanding of my values and authentic desires"

    Amy H. | Migration & Human Rights Consultant | FRANCE

  • "...Then a friend told me about AnamarÍa and how it had been life changing for her... it has been one of the best personal decisions in my life"

    J.C. Puig | Engineer| UK

  • "This is a process that changes lives!!! I really recommend Anamaría 100%"

    Anna Barrera | Psychologist| UK

THE IMPACT

  • "The coaching process with Anamaría has been one of the most significant and important experiences of my life"

    Paula Riera | Communications Supervisor | UK

  • "Anamaría has been a key person in my life. At this point of my journey, with her at my side, I can say that the world makes much more sense than when I started"

    Mónica Baro Tomas | Marketing | UK

  • "Hand on my heart. Anamaria is the best coach I ever had. I was reading through the testimonials from others about Anamaria thinking I have experienced all of this. My coaching journey with Anamaria has been transformational"

    Veena Aaradhya | Director | UK

  • "I met Anamaría through a friend who was also working with her, and her personality and way of working immediately sparked trust in me."

    María Bandellós | Account Executive | SPAIN

  • "Anamaría enabled me to open my eyes and look to the future with excitement, focusing on the things that I enjoy in life while beating down the walls that stand in the way"

    Pryana Shah | UK Director Tax Manager | UK

  • "My coaching sessions with Anamaría have been eye-opening in many ways. I loved Anamaría’s energy and immediately had a sense of connection with her"

    Wouter Van Dingen | L&D Programme and Operations Manager | ITALY

  • "The change has gone much more smoothly than I would have anticipated"

    Annie McDowall | CEO | UK

  • "I never imagined that you could awake the sleeping lion that was inside me"

    Gianna Ripanti | Engineer | SPAIN

  • "Working with Anamaría through the Beyond the Shore Leadership Programme has been a transformative experience. I wholeheartedly recommend Anamaria to anyone seeking meaningful change, whether in leadership, lifestyle, or personal growth"

    Claire Williams | COO | UK

  • "The biggest change happened when I started waking up in the morning by feeling motivated, grateful for who I was and smiling independently to the relation I had with work. I can say that there was a Claire before and after AnamarÍa"

    Claire Trochez | Communication and Advocacy Management | SWITZERLAND

FULL STORIES

"Hand on my heart. Anamaria is the best coach I ever had.

I was reading through the testimonials from others about Anamaria thinking I have experienced all of this. My coaching journey with Anamaria has been transformational.

The combination of tools, frameworks, her intuition, positive energy, humanity and the way she connects with people is incredible. I have now realised my core values and making every attempt to live them on a daily basis. Success is fantastic but significance is more important. My coaching journey is making me realise that my future is not unpredictable. My future is simply the choices I am going to make. This could not have been possible without Anamaria.

Anamaria has been with me during every emotional state I’ve been through in the last 6 months. If you ask me right now how my life is? I would say, it couldn’t be better!!

Thank you Anamaria for the gift of your time."

– Veena Aaradhya | Director

"How do you put into words how much someone has impacted your life? Annie is an incredible coach. She creates a very safe and comfortable environment which allows you to truly open up and explore where you are in your life and also allows you to dream BIG about where you want to be. Annie is supportive, kind, honest and gently fearless when it’s called for – exactly what you need in a coach. Annie has been my little secret weapon through certification. She has amazing knowledge of the CTI model and principles which has been threaded through our sessions and helped me really embed the knowledge myself. Her Coach the Coach sessions have been hugely helpful in my preparation for the oral exam too. I can’t recommend the CTC sessions enough. They have been fantastic for feedback and building my confidence as a coach. Once you start working with her, you’ll never want to stop!!"

– Hayley Summers | Funder & Coach

"I left my deeply ingrained cynicism at the door and benefitted from an informative, insightful and compelling programme, combining personal insight and genuinely positive behavioural change with improved Exec team alignment and relationships. Anamaria is a positive force of nature, and I wouldn't hesitate in recommending both her and the programme."

– Phill King | Sales Director

"I’ve had the pleasure of working with Anamaria several times over the past five years, most recently with my entire leadership team at Ciphr. We’ve set out to build a leadership culture that is authentic, resilient, confident, and humble—one capable of driving our exceptional team and company forward. While I had already found the right individuals, I needed support to quickly foster an environment rooted in trust and clarity—where leaders genuinely collaborate, solve one another’s challenges, and share opportunities. In the past, building this kind of culture has taken me years. With Anamaria, it happened in months. She is an inspiring human being who throws herself wholeheartedly into every project. I can’t recommend her highly enough. Thank you, Anamaria."

– Sion Lewis | CEO

“Anamaria is exceptional at bringing out the authentic leader that lives within everyone. She was very quick to spot the patterns in my thinking - the helpful thoughts as well as the limiting beliefs holding me back - and we really worked on these in my programme to ensure how I handle these moving forward. One of her many qualities is she has an uncanny ability to listen to you talk about yourself for two mins and magically condense that into a one word value that describes you and how you see the world. She is incredibly warm and had the knack of saying the right thing to me at exactly the right time; she could see when I needed a supportive nudge, but wasn't afraid to give me a shake when I was getting in my own way. She gives you a real "power-up" feeling when she's coaching you, challenging you in the right way to life your life according to your own values. I can't recommend her highly enough.

Anamaria - the biggest compliment I can pay you is that sometimes when I'm in conversation in my own mind, (or with Johanna now) I will suddenly think something like "if Anamaria was here she'd point out that that's your own limiting belief talking!" When you told me your Starbucks story about learning English for the first year or two it really resonated with me, we have so much to be thankful for and you have given me a new found belief and a set of tools that will stay with me for a long time. Thank youuuuuu.

And I laughed a lot too - who knew?!”

– Finlay Clark | Revenue Director

“Coaching was more than establishing ‘a plan’ or ‘goals’ for me. It was, in fact, the opposite: a liberation from ‘expectation,’ and a way to connect instead with evolution. I’ve recognised my own resilience, which has made me confident – even fearless. I don’t think coaching will be a one-off for me – I think Anamaría can expect a call from me whenever I’m at a crossroads.

I came into this process completely unsure of what I wanted from the next chapter of my career, desperate gain a sense of agency and control over my work life, and to align that work life with my own interests and values. I wanted a career that was made up of things that I wanted to do, not simply that I could do.

I found that, and more, thanks to Anamaría and her skilful, magical guidance – and, I could not thank her enough. Her coaching helped me discover strength through a new sense of purpose, enabled my creativity through newly-gained headspace, gave me energy and drive through understanding the value of my work to others and to myself, and – most importantly – connected me to a sense of joy through the relief of so much undue pressure and anxiety.”

– David Michon | Creative & Funder

"Anamaría has the incredible ability to uncover hidden parts of your personality and through effective questioning will help you not only get to know yourself better, but also change the relationship you have with yourself. I started working with Anamaría at a very uncertain time in my life and through the course of the programme not only re-gained confidence in myself and my abilities, but also a much better understanding of who I am and what I want to dedicate my life to.”

– Johhana Gerhold | Brand and Comms Director

"The Beyond The Shore process which Anamaria ran for us was an engaging and reflective process which forces us to think how we show up as individuals and how that impacts team dynamics. For those wishing to learn more about why things are rather than what they are, and to understand how that can be modified, while remain true to personal core values, this process will do that and you will come out of the other side of it with a much greater appreciation of the dynamics."

– Ray Berry | CFO

"Working with Anamaria has been a reset moment that has benefited myself, my time with family, and my team. From enabling you to step away from auto-pilot and reconnect with yourself and your purpose; through to understanding what's important, what it looks like, and how to get there, Anamaria is a reassuring and encouraging coach whose sessions have a long lasting benefit."

– Andrew Stevens | CTO

“Career coaching was an eye opening experience for me. I was in complete darkness over where my career was supposed to be headed over the next 5-10 years’ time. 3 months and 9 sessions later I have clarity over what my path will look like and it’s completely different from what I thought it would be. I’ve gained new motivation, objectives, energy and most importantly, a new perspective for my career plan.

The sessions with Anamaria, have helped me to get to know myself better, to identify strengths, skills and passions that lie beneath the obvious to me. Her warm and empathetic nature along with her ability to read people incredibly well, she brought about an“aha” moment in almost every session.

She continuously helped me to structure my thoughts and surface answers I didn’t know I had. I learned how to go about decision making and, most importantly, Anamaria encouraged me to look past the current horizon and pursue possibilities I had tucked away as “impossible”. It has been a journey of learning how to break down invisible and visible barriers and see the big picture.

Thanks to Anamaria I now know exactly where I want my career to be in 10 years’ time and I’m embarking on this journey equipped with new-found self-confidence and a toolbox that will help me to get there.”

– Christina Raftis | Publisher Development Manager

“How can you sufficiently describe and recommend someone who has completely transformed your life for the better? This has been my experience with Anamaria. I cannot sing her praises enough, but I can attest to the fact that she helped me find my inner strength and spirit again. Whatever your goal is, professional or personal, Anamaria has the skills and passion to guide you to your own success.”

– Daisy Galvan | Product Privacy

"Anamaria gave me the confidence to believe in myself again. She created a safe space for me to explore painful feelings and emotions that I needed to accept, understand and process, so that I could go on to discover my inner happiness and authentic confidence.

It has been a life changing growth experience that has given me the confidence to want to get back on the roller coaster of life, and enjoy the ups and downs of the journey.

I understand myself, my values, what I want from my next career move and how to authentically sell-myself in interviews. Anamaria’s calm, caring and supportive nature throughout the last six months, made it the most rewarding and enriching experience, that I know, will only go on, to positively shape and craft future decisions and challenging times ahead."

– Claire Perry | Operations Manager

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away”

– Pablo Picasso –

If these words from others spark a recognition in you, I’d be glad to help you find your own. The horizon is waiting