Ann Andrews is an International Speaker, Human Resources Consultant, facilitator and author of four books: Shift Your But, Finding the Square Root of a Banana, Did I Really Employ You? and My Dear Franchisees.
She is also contributor to ‘You don’t make a Big Leap without a Gulp’ by Becksford & Fitzsimons; Best of the Best – NZ Entrepreneurs and The A-Z of Interview Questions and Mum’s the Word.
During her career in Personnel and Human Resources, Ann became involved in setting up Self-Managing Teams. Once she saw the results that working this way could achieve, Ann became totally committed to working with teams.
For the past 15 years, Ann has worked as an independent Consultant to some of the largest organisations in NZ, showing them how to set up high performing teams and achieve results they had only dared dream of. She recently franchised her Team system under the banner – Teams. From Woe to Go.
Ann has three aims:
To free up valuable management time by a minimum of 30% so they can be working ON the business not IN it…and to show them why that is important.
To show employees they need to think like owners.
To set up self-sustaining teams – so that no matter who joins or leaves, the results are not adversely affected for too long.
Ann is the Past National President of the Speakers’ Association of NZ and was Speaker of the Year in 2000. She is one of a handful CSP’s (Certified Speaker Professional) in New Zealand.
She is a regular speaker at conferences, where she brings a humorous, interactive and thought provoking approach to the challenges of what she calls ‘getting out of parent/child behaviours and into adult/adult work practices.’
Keynote topics (Half to one hour duration)
All the keynotes are designed to be funny and interactive – to get the audience laughing. These sessions are great between the more technical sessions or for after lunch. But these keynotes also give the audience real-life tools and strategies for dealing with the challenges of the workplace;
The Space Between Trapezes (Overcoming fear and resistance to change)
Boiled Frogs and Faulty Guillotines (Constantly being willing to look for creative ways to do things)
There’s No Such Word as Can’t (Finding creative solutions to everyday business problems)
Doing Whatever it Takes (Daring to be different; to stand out from competitors)
I’m Still Standing (Persistence – overcoming perceived failure or loss and finding the learning from the event)
I know I’m here to do something great if I could only work out what it is (Finding your passion)
My Dear Franchisees (Motivating franchisees to get past bought-a-job thinking)
How to Motivate the Late, the Lazy and the Terminally Uninspired (Dealing with less than fabulous performance)
Milestones
Past National President of the National Speakers’ Association NZ
Awarded ASM (Accredited Speaking Member) 1999
First woman in NZ to be awarded APS (Accredited Professional Speaker) 2000
Speaker of the Year – NSANZ 2000
Nominated for Business Woman of the Year by Her Business 2002
Created ‘The Light-bulb Café’ – a forum dedicated to problem solving and idea generation 2002
Nominated for The International Ambassador’s Award for NSANZ 2002– only one person per country is nominated.
In 2003 gained CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) accreditation. There are only three people in NZ with this designation.
Unanimously voted ‘Best Paper’ at the 10th National Organisational Development Conference, Auckland, 2003
