Ann Andrews
Ann Andrews CSP is a seriously inspirational entrepreneur and team specialist who teaches organisations and individuals how to learn, unlearn and relearn so they can face any change and any challenge likely to hit their lives or their business.
Ann’s early experience in the military exposed her to astounding leadership skills. From there a career in corporate HR led to the development of her effective system for creating self-managed teams.
For the past 20 years Ann has passed on those skills to some of the largest corporates in New Zealand, showing them how a simple change in thinking can massively change their world and their results.
A seasoned conference speaker, Ann is regularly invited back to challenge people with her infectious humour and firm guidance by getting her audiences out of parent/child thinking and into the adult/adult work practices modern organisations need. One organsiation has had her speak at their conference 5 years running!
She has presented at conferences around the world, including Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Belgium and Australia and has been invited to speak in London.
Ann is a past National President of the National Speakers’ Association of New Zealand, and was the recipient of The Spirit of Excellence Award in 2000 and again in 2009. This is an award which recognizes excellence in speaking and services rendered to the professional speaking industry. She is the only speaker in NZ to have received the award twice and is one of only five CSPs (Certified Speaking Professional) in New Zealand.
Ann has authored four books, two are NZ best-sellers and one is currently being translated into Arabic and Russian. She has also co-authored 5 books.
Her latest project has been the development of The Corporate Toolbox (www.thecorporatetoolbox.com) – an online resource for businesses, speakers, trainers and HR professionals. Each product is carefully selected to ensure that individuals and business can afford to invest in their growth no matter the state of the economy.
Keynote topics
The following topics are ideal as the opening session to a conference; as a respite between highly technical sessions or for the sleepy after lunch period. All the keynotes are designed to give the audience real-life tools and strategies for dealing with the challenges of the modern workplace in a humourous way….
• The Space Between Trapezes (Overcoming fear and resistance to change)
• The 4 ‘E’s’ of business in a ‘wired’ world: Efficiency, Effectiveness, Entrepreneurship and E-commerce
• The Future is Coming Ready or Not (leveraging a business through technology)
• Computer Says NO! (Dealing with ‘feed me – feed me’ attitudes in the workplace; particularly in recessionary times)
• Boiled Frogs and Faulty Guillotines (Constantly being willing to look for creative ways to do things)
• I’m Still Standing (Persistence – overcoming perceived failure or loss and finding the learning from the event)
• How to turn Challenging groups into High performing Teams
• I know I’m Here to do Something Great if I could Only Work out What it is (Finding your passion). Particularly popular with women’s conferences
• How to Motivate the Late, the Lazy and the Terminally Uninspired (dealing with less than fabulous performance)
All of Ann’s presentations are humourous; full of real-life stories, are interactive and yet deal with the many tough challenges of doing business in the real world. Attendees never fail to leave one of her sessions challenged yet inspired.
All of these topics can be run as keynotes, break-out sessions, 2-4 hour workshops, or even all day sessions.
More information
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