ActionCOACH : Anu Khanna Leaves IKEA and GM for an ActionCOACH Franchise

In this ActionCOACH UK franchise-owner profile, Anu Khanna — a coach with two decades of senior corporate roles at IKEA and General Motors behind her, lived in five countries, fluent in five languages — describes why she chose to leave the corporate track and become an ActionCOACH business coach. Her framing is direct: she wanted contribution at a bigger scale than serving a single organisation could deliver. ActionCOACH gave her a platform to make personal impact across many business owners' lives, not just the businesses themselves. Khanna is candid about her expectations entering the franchise: coming out of IKEA and General Motors, she set the bar low. The reality has exceeded those expectations — she points specifically to the ActionCOACH coaching community and the level of operational support as extraordinary. As a former global coach at IKEA, she also brought an existing toolset into the role; pairing that with the ActionCOACH coaching toolset, in her words, makes the combination quite strong. Her advice for business owners considering coaching mirrors the philosophy she now applies as a coach: be open to growth, embrace opportunities as they come, and enjoy the journey because the results follow naturally. She works most effectively with business owners who hold those orientations — the metrics improve as a by-product when the underlying mindset is in place. For prospective ActionCOACH UK franchisees, Khanna's profile illustrates the brand's appeal to senior corporate operators looking for personal contribution at scale, and the value of joining a coaching community with a strong shared toolset. Her closing quote — Peter Drucker's "the best way to predict your future is to create it" — frames the title of the watch page video and signals the orientation she brings to her coaching practice.