Welcome.

A career worth having.
A life worth living.

Helping professionals build successful careers and lives that feel as good as they look.

SPEAKER | COACH | AUTHOR

HI, I'M ANN-MARIE GOODBODY

Speaker, Coach & Author

I know what it takes to build a successful career in a demanding professional world and I know that success is about far more than what it looks like from the outside.

With more than 25 years’ experience working in and alongside leading law firms and professional services organisations, I understand the pressure, pace and ambition that come with high-performing careers.

Alongside my professional career, I am a speaker, coach and author, helping professionals think differently about success how we perform, how we work, and how we create lives that have space for more than work.

My approach brings together business, performance and wellbeing not as competing priorities, but as essential parts of a successful and sustainable life.

Because a great career shouldn’t come at the expense of a great life.

Success shouldn't cost you your life outside work

You’re doing well. Trusted, capable, respected.

But a successful career can quietly become the thing everything else has to fit around.

You may recognise this:

Work follows you home, even when the laptop is closed
There’s always something competing for your attention
You’re present, but your mind is often somewhere else
Life looks good on paper, but doesn’t always feel as good

You don’t want less ambition or to walk away from a career you’ve worked hard to build.

You simply want success to leave room for a life.

That means protecting your energy, creating space for what matters and being more deliberate about where your attention goes.

A successful career should be part of a great life. Not the price you pay for one.

Build success that works for your whole life

How you manage your time, energy and priorities shapes how you perform and how much you have left for everything else.

My coaching gives you space to step back and look at the bigger picture your career, your ambitions and what you want next.

Practical, thoughtful and grounded in the realities of demanding professional lives.

Because the goal isn’t simply to perform better at work, it’s to build a life that works better for you.

Finally Awakened

When pushing through no longer works.

What happens when the life you worked so hard to build suddenly stops working for you?

Finally Awakened is my personal story of ambition, illness, recovery and rebuilding and what I learned when sheer determination was no longer enough.

Part memoir, part practical guide, it explores what happens when we stop measuring success by achievement alone and start paying attention to how our lives actually feel.

Sometimes the wake-up call isn’t telling you to give up on ambition, it’s asking you to build a better way to live.

Client reviews

"Rarely do we see this much enthusiasm after a talk. There were queues outside my office afterwards. It was one of the very best we have run."

"Ann-Marie is an exceptional coach. She is dedicated, empathetic, and provided intelligent and fresh perspectives on issues. She has great EQ, and is very talented at enabling her clients to arrive at solutions themselves. I would highly recommend her services."

“Being coached by Ann-Marie has been such a brilliant experience. She helped me see things through a different perspective. She is so easy to talk to and made me feel instantly comfortable. She is a brilliant coach and I 100% recommend anyone use her to help achieve their goals.”

“Ann-Marie is truly magical! She was clear, committed, supportive, fully understood where I was in my life and was able to provide practical and achievable advice and goals, which I will be able to apply and feel like they will help me to succeed. I would highly recommend her.”