Anne Grady

Best-Selling Author, Two-time TEDx Speaker, Inspirer, and Contributor to Entrepreneur & Harvard Business Review

Expert on

  • Communication
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Leadership
  • Motivation
  • Resilience
  • Mindset

Fee Range

$20,000–$30,000

Travels from

TX, US

Biography

Anne Grady is not your typical motivational speaker. She is a best-selling author, two-time TEDx speaker, trainer, survivor, optimist, inspirer, and a truth-bomb dropper.

Anne has a master’s degree in organizational communication and has spent the last twenty years working with some of the largest organizations around the globe. She has become known as a leading expert on communication, leadership, emotional intelligence, and resilience, contributing to Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, FOX Business and many more.

Audiences love her raw honesty, edgy humor, authenticity, and insight. Anne shares inspiring personal stories, cutting edge, research-based content, and implementation tools to transfer learning into real life to improve relationships, navigate change, and triumph over adversity. And she’ll make you laugh while she does it.

In her first book, “52 Strategies for Life, Love & Work,” Anne provides practical strategies to improve relationships, increase productivity and reduce stress. In her most recent book, “Strong Enough: Choosing Courage, Resilience and Triumph,” Anne draws from her personal life experiences that touch the hearts and minds of audiences helping them use adversity as a catalyst to grow “strong enough”.

Speaker Videos

RESILIENCE RESET: IT'S YOUR TURN TO THRIVE!

The ability to successfully navigate change, rise above adversity, and triumph in our lives boils down to one word: RESILIENCE.

When faced with challenges, ambiguity, and adversity, those who practice resilience refuse to let fear hold them back, and they break through the barriers keeping them stuck to not only survive difficult times, but thrive as a result.

Learn how to cultivate courage, improve resilience, and triumph over adversity, obstacles, and setbacks.

Session Goals:

  • Practice strategies to manage stress and balance priorities
  • Build grit to overcome self-defeating habits
  • Utilize brain-based strategies to improve emotional regulation and attention
  • Create a mindfulness and gratitude ritual in under 5-minutes a day
  • Take advantage of risk, change, and adversity to get back up faster and stronger

LEADING THROUGH INFLUENCE: MAXIMIZE PERFORMANCE AND POTENTIAL

Learn research-based, bold strategies to improve relationships.  Leadership is the art of positively influencing the attitudes, behaviors, and skills of others.  Regardless of title, a leader is someone who builds trust and credibility, communicates effectively, and knows how to leverage the strengths and motivators of themselves and others. Rather than react to problems, great leaders develop strategies to proactively minimize them.

Session Goals:

  • Crack the code to effective communication and influence
  • Catapult your emotional intelligence to build credibility and trust
  • Capitalize on your unique leadership strengths and the strengths of others
  • Communicate clear expectations to gain buy-in
  • Create engagement and tap into human motivation

FAIL FASTER: BUILDING RESILIENT LEADERS!

Agility, grit, and resilience are the new leadership currency.

Have you ever thought about all the massively successful products, creations and innovations we enjoy today because their inventors/creators were able to consistently bounce back and overcome failure?

Failure is a hot topic in the business world today. That’s because we are starting to recognize that failure is information, and it comes with valuable lessons, if we can shift our viewpoint to see and embrace them.

Session Goals:

  •  Identify and overcome self-defeating habits
  • Build emotional intelligence and agility
  • Proactively identify and manage stress triggers
  • Adopt a growth mindset which will transform the way you approach challenge and adversity
  • Gain clarity on priorities, goals, and values
  • Develop research-proven strategies to build grit and grow resilience

BALANCE IS BULL$#@!: DEFINING PRIORITIES TO FIND PEACE OF MIND

With all the discussion about how to achieve work-life balance, we have overlooked a big problem with this idea: our lives are not supposed to be balanced with equal time for everything. When every priority claims itself as the most urgent, and there always seems to be more to do than time to do it, maintaining focus on your top priorities can be difficult.

Can you be the executive who thrives at business, the parent who volunteers at their child’s school, the friend who maintains an active social life, and yet still remain fit and fun? Maybe for a short time, but it certainly isn’t sustainable.

There is really no such thing as work-life balance. It’s BULL$#@! and we are making ourselves crazy trying to find it amidst the overload of information that characterizes life today.

Session Goals:

  • Kick out the guilt about not being “balanced”
  • Identify your priorities by looking at the areas of your life that matter to you
  • Regain control and focus
  • Develop a personal and professional goal setting model
  • Devote yourself to what matters