Anne Bonney

Igniting Your Courage to Embrace Change

Nancy's Note:

“Anne is like a lit firecracker, shooting off nuggets of wisdom right and left, providing actionable steps audience members can use right away. I can count on her to deliver in a big way every single time.”

Anne Bonney

Igniting Your Courage to Embrace Change

Nancy’s Note
“Anne is like a lit firecracker, shooting off nuggets of wisdom right and left, providing actionable steps audience members can use right away. I can count on her to deliver in a big way every single time.”

Anne Bonney

Igniting Your Courage to Embrace Change

Nancy’s Note
“Anne is like a lit firecracker, shooting off nuggets of wisdom right and left, providing actionable steps audience members can use right away. I can count on her to deliver in a big way every single time.”

Expertise

Change, Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Communication, Courage, Attitude, Youth, Emcee

Travels From

Traverse City, Michigan

Speaking Style

Exuberant, Positive, Relatable

About Anne...

An authority on change management, courageous conversations and emotional intelligence. An energetic emcee too!

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Presentation Topics

Change is hard.  Factor it all in: new ideas, organizational change, industry evolution, technology modernization and even personal changes, business (and life) can get overwhelming. The problem is, change isn’t going away! The only constant in business IS change, especially in today’s fast-paced business environment. Having the tools to overcome and adapt to the challenges that transitions bring will improve your effectiveness as an employee and as an organization.

In this engaging (and fun!) presentation, Anne Bonney, Change Management authority and author, will spark your courage with the ground-breaking concepts from her red-hot book by the same name, GET OVER IT!  You’ll have to turn up the AC for this high energy, “bring the heat” keynote.  Your participants will leave armed with strategies to extinguish the burning inferno that transition has caused in your organization.

Key Takeaways:

  • Immediately impact your culture to one of acceptance and engagement, increasing productivity
  • Reduce “water cooler” talk that negatively influences attitudes within the workplace
  • Alleviate the burden of stress that change has caused in your organization

This program is perfect for:

  • ​Organizations and individuals undergoing transition.
  • Senior to Front-Line Managers who need to lead through change and maintain KPIs and a positive work environment.
  • Professionals experiencing the discomfort of change in their workplaces who want some skills to help deal with it more effectively.

Having tough conversations isn’t fun for anyone, and when they go wrong, relationships are damaged, and the problem that’s being addressed doesn’t get solved.  This makes many leaders avoid these conversations, reducing their team’s effectiveness and their own success.  Fortunately, you can quickly learn to rise in these challenging interactions so the problem will be solved, while trust and respect increase.  This workshop will help you get there!

During this rapid-fire skill building (and fun!) presentation, change management authority and communication aficionado Anne Bonney will ignite your courage in these conversations to have productive difficult dialogue when you need it.  Empowered with the spark to start the conversation on the right foot, you’ll also learn a structure to keep the exchange moving in a constructive direction, teaching an approach for rescuing the conversation before it turns into a towering inferno!  Once you put these techniques into play, motivation will crackle, collaboration will sizzle and a culture of positive accountability will blaze hot within your organization.

Key Takeaways:

  • Immediately impact your culture to one of accountability and engagement, increasing productivity and ultimately results 
  • Reduce problem behaviors and conflict while improving individual attitudes and team motivation
  • Talk in a way that entices people to listen

This program is perfect for:

  • ​Leaders who want motivated team members.
  • Professionals who rely on relationships to build and maintain their business.
  • Teams struggling to maintain a positive and collaborative environment.
  • Organizations that need their customers to feel valued so they come back!

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is a huge buzzword these days, and it’s a good thing, because studies have shown that it is the number one predictor of success on the job.  To develop high potential talent in your workforce, the skill of emotional intelligence can be improved to build up leaders who are role modeling the behaviors of success.    

In this high-energy, interactive workshop, Change Management Authority and Leadership expert Anne Bonney lights up the concepts of EQ in a simple way.  She fuels your employees fire with immediately applicable tactics to ignite the EQ of your team to improve interactions with their co-workers, executives, and your customers.  In this content-rich and engaging presentation, your team will be challenged with techniques to regulate their reactions in the midst of difficult situations so they will want to give you their all!  What follows? Goals achieved and results secured.

Key Takeaways:

  • Up-level your employee engagement for increased productivity and net results in times of transition
  • Empower your workforce to be even more competent and capable in today’s fast-paced, change-scorched business environment
  • Upgrade empathy and patience for improving the quality of constructive, results-oriented conversations

This program is perfect for:

  • ​Leaders who struggle with giving feedback to their teams.
  • Professionals who want to be more effective in their communication during difficult times.
  • Teams who wish to build a collaborative environment through honest, tactful communication.

You need to be savvy to leading teams in today’s modern workplace. You’ve got different generations with varying levels of experience, cultural assumptions and the never-ending change happening in your industry, organization and team.  Your best bet for success is to be the kind of leader YOUR people want to follow.

In this engaging (and fun!) presentation, Change Management Authority Anne Bonney will ignite your leadership with skills that will heat up your team’s motivation and performance.  Teaching connection, communication and delegation to get even better output from your team; Anne will bring you rapid-fire content to reduce turnover, increase engagement and productivity directly impacting your in a culture so positivity and collaboration catch fire, and create an inferno of goal achievement and satisfied customers.  Who doesn’t want that?

Key Takeaways:

  • Immediately impact your culture with greater engagement, collaboration and motivation, resulting in increased productivity
  • Reduce “water cooler” talk that negatively influences attitudes within the workplace
  • Improve individual performance and reduce unwanted behaviors

Fun, funny, energetic and intelligent Emcee with the ability and focus on making your event a success.  Anne works closely with the Client to create a meaningful and memorable experience for everyone in attendance.

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