About Ani Naqvi
Executive transformation advisor helping senior leaders evolve how they
think, respond, and lead under pressure.
Who is Ani Naqvi?
Ani Naqvi is a former C-suite executive and BBC broadcast journalist, a globally recognised speaker, and a best-selling author. She brings a rare combination of commercial leadership experience, media expertise, and executive coaching and mental fitness training to leaders and organisations operating in demanding environments.
Her perspective on leadership under pressure is grounded in extraordinary lived experience. After surviving the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Ani stayed clear-headed despite her injuries, contacting the BBC to help secure evacuation support and assisting others before she was airlifted to safety herself. Her response during the disaster led to her being featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Today, Ani works with senior executives, founders, leadership teams, and organisations ready to move beyond pressure-driven performance.
She is the author of Tsunami: The Wave That Saved My Life and Can Save Yours, a book that has helped carry her story to more than 100 global media outlets. Beyond her writing, she has worked with and spoken for organisations including Publicis Groupe, Salesforce, and Disney.
"Thanks to her I am now able to stay balanced and calm in stressful high-pressure situations and thus drive better outcomes and solutions for my team and company."
Johannes Moeschl
Senior Director
Tekion Corp
"I've had a dozen executive coaches throughout my career, but Ani is the first coach who works with me as a whole person."
Nancy Dolan
Executive
Government
"I cannot recommend Ani enough… whatever your challenge she will help you through it."
Vicky Nisbet
Senior Area Vice President
Salesforce
Executive transformation from the inside out.
At senior levels, the greatest constraints are not always strategic. They are often the unseen patterns shaping judgement, communication, energy, relationships, and decision-making.
Ani creates a confidential space for leaders to step back and examine what is really driving their behaviour, so they can lead from intention rather than habit and show up as the leader they want to be rather than the one pressure has made them. The deeper aim is to lead through complexity without losing themselves in the role.
Her work helps leaders build the self-awareness, emotional steadiness, and clarity to do exactly that. Through executive advisory, workshops, keynote speaking, and organisational programmes, she brings the same approach to whole teams, changing not just how leaders think, but how they show up for the people they lead.
Strategic. Intuitive. Deeply human.
Ani brings together senior executive experience, accredited coaching expertise, and a multidisciplinary understanding of mindset, mental fitness, mindfulness, NLP, Ayurveda, yoga therapy, meditation, and hypnotherapy.
That range is what lets her work on two levels at once. She can address the strategic challenge a leader is facing and the mental and physical patterns driving it in the same conversation, rather than treating them as separate problems.
Ready to evolve how you lead?
Whether you are a senior leader seeking confidential advisory support, or an organisation looking to develop high-performing leaders and healthier leadership cultures, the first step is a conversation.
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