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How far you grow is how far your business grows

Master your self-leadership, empower your team, and embed high performance across your organisation with this three-part leadership development programme.

For the driven leader

Let me guess, you possess an undeniable drive to evolve. You’ve built your life and career by continually pushing your own boundaries, sharpening your thinking, and demanding more from yourself than anyone else ever could. Settling for average has never appealed to you - in your health, sense of purpose, or the impact you're here to create.

But operating at such a high personal standard can be a solitary pursuit that can quickly drain your energy. You know you have another gear to reach, but perhaps you find yourself constantly balancing your own personal growth with the energy required to lift, guide, and hold space for everyone around you.

Performance Pathway gives you somewhere to put that drive, with an experienced partner beside you the whole way. Through this three-part leadership development programme, you level up your personal focus, equip your team to lead, and lock in high standards across the entire business - so that reaching your next gear lifts everyone with you rather than drawing from you.

Performance Evolution

Lead Yourself

You’ve leveled up your business again and again. This time, you level up you.

1:1 strategic coaching across 90 days to shift from self-doubt to instinctual, confident execution across your life and leadership.

Performance Reset
Lead Your Team

Give your team the standard you already hold yourself to.

90-day team programme to build an autonomous team that takes full ownership, makes sharp decisions, and executes without constant reliance on you.

Performance Partnership

Lead Your Organisation

You’ve built the standard in yourself and your team - now embed it permanently.

6-month strategic partnership to keep sharpening your thinking, elevating your senior leaders, and raising your organisation’s standards.

Nice to meet you

Hi, I’m Annie Canning.

I’m the founder of Canning, and your coach through the Performance Pathway.

For 8+ years, I’ve been coaching business owners, CEOs, and leadership teams who are ready to break through their personal ceiling and build a high-performance culture that lasts.

I don't do generic templates, surface-level advice, or hands-off theory. My role as your coach is to sit directly in your corner - stress-testing your biggest decisions, pushing you past your edge, and helping you translate your personal standards into measurable capability across your entire team.

When we work together, you get a dedicated strategic sounding board who stays fully invested in your growth long after the initial breakthrough.

What you'll achieve across the Pathway

Performance Evolution: Yourself

  • Map your five-year vision across life, wealth, and career

  • Install mindset tools for peak performance

  • Build a personal accountability structure

  • Set measures to define success on your own terms

  • Gain clarity on your purpose and legacy

  • Develop a framework for fast, confident decisions

Performance Reset:
Your team

  • Embed leadership and performance frameworks across the business

  • Equip your leaders to think strategically and decide under pressure

  • Build ownership and accountability at every level of the team

  • Surface problems early, instead of too late

  • Transition from reactive people management to proactive strategic leadership

Performance Partnership:
Your organisation

  • Elevate your senior leaders every quarter

  • Drive vision, KPIs, and team development forward

  • Raise your organisation's standard

You're in the right place

Performance Pathway is for you if:

  • You are an ambitious owner, CEO, or director running an established business

  • You refuse to settle for average in your work, health, or personal purpose

  • You are tired of being the sole bottleneck for every strategic decision

  • You want real capability across your team, not generic corporate templates

  • You want your senior leaders to take full ownership and solve issues proactively

  • You recognise that scaling your organisation starts with mastering your own self-leadership

Your investment

Performance Evolution

Best for: The business owner who's built everything around them and is now ready to build the same standard into their own life - energy, health, relationships and purpose, not just performance at work. Stage one of the pathway.

Format: 1:1 coaching over 90 days, blending in-person and online sessions, with support between sessions to keep momentum.

Price: $7,000 + GST

Performance Reset

Best for: The leader who's raised their own bar and is ready to stop being the bottleneck - building a team that thinks, decides and delivers without needing you in the room. Stage two of the pathway.

Format: 90-day programme delivered with the business owner and/or leadership team, combining in-person and online sessions.

Price: $12,000 + GST

Performance Partnership

Best for: The leader who's built the standard in themselves and their team, and wants a permanent strategic partner to keep raising it - not a coach who disappears once the programme ends. Stage three of the pathway.

Format: Ongoing strategic partnership, beginning at six months and renewing as your organisation grows.

Price: $15,000 + GST (initial six months)

How far you grow is how far your business grows

Book a free call to see if Performance Pathway is the right fit for you and your team today.

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Your questions, answered

How is this different from generic executive coaching?

Most coaching stays with one leader, in isolation. Canning builds one standard that cascades - from you, to your team, to your organisation - so your change doesn’t stay personal. Every stage is built around your business, not a generic template.

What’s the time commitment?

Evolution and Reset each run 90 days, blending in-person and online sessions with support between sessions to keep momentum. Partnership is an ongoing six-month relationship. The exact session rhythm is tailored directly with Annie to fit your schedule.

Do I have to complete the whole pathway?

Yes. The pathway is purposefully designed as an interconnected progression. Each stage builds directly on the clarity and capability established in the previous phase - ensuring that personal growth naturally translates into team capability and organisational performance rather than falling flat.

Is this for me personally, or my whole leadership team?

Both. Performance Evolution focuses directly on you as the leader. Performance Reset brings your senior leadership team into the fold to align standards. Performance Partnership spans the entire organisation to embed high-performance capability long-term.

Where are the sessions held?

Annie is based in Rotorua and works with leaders nationwide. Sessions are delivered through a flexible combination of on-site deep-dive workshops at your business and virtual 1:1 strategy calls.