Walking Partnerships is a collaboration between myself, Anni Townend and Lucy Kidd. United by our love of the outdoors and our professional experience we created Walking Partnerships.
Walking Partnerships offers group events designed to immerse participants in the natural environment and use walking to support transformative journeys.
Walking Partnerships is available across the year on our specially created days that anyone can attend.
We also offer Walking Partnerships activities to groups and teams who want to work together in a different way to build relationships and tackle topics important to them. Each event is created to meet the team’s requirements.
Anni Townend
Anni Townend is a Leadership Partner and Executive Coach to senior leaders and their teams, a Facilitator, Speaker and Entrepreneur. With more than 25 years’ experience, Anni has built a strong reputation of driving culture change and unlocking leadership capability and performance in organisations across various markets.
Anni is an author and has written extensively on the topics of Assertiveness and Diversity in the workplace. In addition she is the podcast host of 'Leaders in Conversation' a series in which leaders share their personal inspirational leadership stories.
Anni passionately believes in the power of communication and empowering individuals and teams through courageous conversations so they can co-create ‘cultures of care’ in which people feel valued, trusted and enabled. She helps people to be at their best, to learn and grow, and to contribute to team performance.
For many years Anni has incorporated the 'walk and talk' into her work with leaders and in collaboration with Lucy Kidd and Natalie Shering has formed Walking Partnerships.
Most recently Anni co-created the Collaboration Equation with Lucy Kidd, a collaborative leadership framework that helps senior leaders to harness the power of positive leadership and open conversations through practising curiosity, care and courage as a foundation for creating psychological safety and enabling inclusive dialogue whilst nourishing diversity of thought to drive collaborative edge.
Lucy Kidd
Lucy Kidd is an Executive Leadership & Team Coach who partners with leaders to create inclusive cultures of care and connection as an enabler to delivering business results. She is on a mission to spark more meaningful connections and conversations at work - human to human. Lucy is a firm believer that amazing things can happen when people feel seen, heard, understood and valued, AND are also clear on the meaningful contribution they make to the organisation’s success.
Lucy’s background is in Business Psychology with over 20 years international experience coaching and developing senior leaders and teams across all sectors. She has recently moved back to UK after living and working for 8 years in her childhood home of Dubai where she created Barefoot Beach Walks as a ‘coaching conversation in motion’ for leaders and teams. This has now evolved into her Talk the Walk coaching programme for individual leaders and teams built around a series of outdoor walks drawing on the natural environment to both deepen connection and inspire new perspective.
Lucy has recently co-created The Collaboration Equation with Anni Townend and this approach lies at the heart of all her work inviting curiosity, care and courage as a foundation for creating psychological safety and enabling inclusive dialogue whilst nourishing diversity of thought to drive collaborative edge.
