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Executive Management Consulting

ANNA
PLEKHANOVA

Strategy  ·  Transformation  ·  Continuous Improvement  ·
Performance Management

Senior advisor to executive leaders in the energy sector.
Strategy grounded in the whole business. Change that outlasts the engagement.

30+
Years International
Experience
300+
Delivered
Projects
1,000+
Practitioners
& Leaders Trained
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Anna Plekhanova
Middle East UK & Europe
Lean Six Sigma
Master Black Belt
About

THE VIEW FROM
INSIDE THE BUSINESS

Built inside Shell and its major joint ventures — Oman LNG and Salym Petroleum Development — in Russia, Oman, and the UK, and since then as an independent advisor to clients including QatarEnergy. Upstream, LNG, and refining. Not advice from a distance: hands-on work inside the business, across functions and cultures, ensuring continuity of work and sustainability of results. The rigour of a Master Black Belt. The judgement of a Board member.

Trusted by C-suites and senior leadership teams to shape strategy, lead transformation, and build internal capability that delivers lasting results. The kind of advisor who has sat at the table where decisions are made — and knows what it takes to implement them.

Shell Group — career across the UK, Russia, and Oman
QatarEnergy — strategy framework and enterprise CI deployment
Kaizen Institute — Senior associate
English & Russian — fluent in both languages and cultures
More About Anna → How She Works →
$200M+
Value Delivered
Across Career
50%+
Average Efficiency
Improvement Rate
$2B+
P&L Responsibility
as Board Member
180
People Led as
Director & Board Member
Services

FOUR AREAS. ONE VIEW OF THE BUSINESS.

Too many problems, no clear starting point. A transformation that feels too complex to begin. Improvement initiatives that didn’t hold last time. Most of these problems sit between functions, not inside them. What you need is someone who has worked across those interfaces for most of a career — who sees how a strategy is read from each part of the organisation, and moves the business, technical, financial, and people dimensions of change together, driving clarity, commitment, and ownership at every level.

Each engagement is tailored to the organisation, the leadership, and the moment. No templates. No generic programmes.

01 ·
Strategy
Direction that holds. Execution that delivers.
Strategic process, end to end
Coherent direction from the top
Enterprise lens on priorities
Constructive challenge & alignment
Strategy-to-execution link
02 ·
Transformation
Change that serves the vision. Change that lasts.
Transformation framed for the business
Technical and behavioural change, together
A balanced view across the change
Integration and momentum, in parallel
03 ·
Continuous Improvement
Built into the business — for sustainability of results.
CI deployment, end to end
Improvement programmes, driven by value
The right method, in the right combination
CI capability, built at every level
Improvement, measured and proven
04 ·
Performance Management
Making data speak. Making decisions move.
Reliable, ready data
The right information for the right decision
One view across the silos
Performance information that drives the business
Areas of Expertise
Strategy Development & Planning Strategy Deployment & Execution Support Strategic Advisory to Leadership Teams Transformation Strategy & Leadership Change Management Strategic Facilitation Performance Management & KPIs Continuous Improvement Deployment Kaizen Agile Risk Management & Compliance Finance, Controlling & Treasury Budgeting & Cost Optimisation Supply Chain & Procurement Digitalisation SAP / ERP Coaching & People Development
Delivered Results

FROM DIRECTION TO MEASURABLE RESULTS

Every engagement starts from strategic intent and is built to last beyond delivery. Ambitious targets. Data as the foundation. Capability built into the organisation from day one — so the results hold when the engagement ends. That is the standard.

Case Study · 03 · Energy Sector
FROM SAYING YES TO EVERYTHING, TO DELIVERING WHAT MATTERS

Requests arrived from every part of the business, with no shared way to weigh one against another — and ~85% of projects landed late, over budget, or with scope changes after commitment. The IT function built the discipline to size, weigh, and sequence the business’s requests against enterprise-wide value.

~58%→~92%
On-Time Delivery of
IT Project Milestones
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02
When planning slips, the business pays
Planning Compliance · Major Jobs · Maintenance
13%→~85%
Major jobs ready
for execution, on time
07
The conversation takes an hour. Earning it takes a year.
People Performance Cycle · Objectives · Managers
~20%→~80%
People beginning the year with
clear, measurable objectives
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Speaking

SPEAKING TO EXECUTIVE AUDIENCES

Anna speaks to conference and leadership audiences on strategy, data, and the decisions behind performance.

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Insights

INSIGHTS FROM PRACTICE

Drawn from extensive practice, through successes and mistakes. On the strategy beneath the strategy, the people who carry it, and the systems that make results last.

The Strategy Beneath the Strategy
Our strategy is realistic. Is realistic the same as right?

Strategies are built with care, from what the business knows and does well. That is a large part of the answer. It is not all of it.

Episode 01→
The Strategy Beneath the Strategy
Our strategy workshop is planned. Who is in the room will shape it more than its goals.

Senior people, careful preparation, a full agenda. And still, the outcome depends on who prepares it, who attends, and what each of us brings.

Episode 02→
The Human Margin Series
Entering a strong team

Where leaders rotate every few years, the strongest teams learn to carry on without them. The first challenge for a new leader is becoming relevant to people who are managing perfectly well already.

Episode 01→
Work Together

READY FOR A DIRECT CONVERSATION?

If the challenge is real and the ambition is serious — reach out directly.

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