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Anne Bonney
Change Management
Courage
Resilience
Anne Bonney helps organizations lead through change, build resilience, and strengthen emotional intelligence. A CSP-certified change speaker, professional emcee, and podcast host with over 20 years of leadership experience, she is known for her high-energy, engaging keynotes.
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Anne Bonney, CSP, is a keynote speaker, emcee, and workshop facilitator known as a leading voice on resilience through change. After two decades in corporate and nonprofit leadership, she now speaks internationally on navigating uncertainty, organizational change, and difficult conversations.
Anne is the author of Get Over It and Get Them Over It, and she hosts the Dancing in the Discomfort Zone podcast, alongside work delivering virtual, in-person, and hybrid keynotes for corporate and association audiences. Her sessions combine humor, storytelling, and practical tools drawn from experiences that include running marathons on every continent, climbing Kilimanjaro, and performing for troops overseas.
Drawing on decades of leadership experience, Anne translates complex workplace challenges into practical approaches people can apply immediately. She helps leaders navigate uncertainty, improve communication, strengthen accountability, and create teams that adapt more effectively when priorities, technology, or business conditions shift.
Audiences leave sessions with concrete strategies for leading through organizational change, strengthening self-awareness and emotional intelligence, and approaching tough conversations with more confidence and less overwhelm.
Book Anne for teams and leaders who need to face change directly, build resilience, and communicate more effectively, delivered by someone who has led through exactly the kind of change she speaks about.
Topics, sessions and talks
Change rarely announces itself politely, whether it arrives as a reorganization, a new technology, or a personal transition, and the uncertainty it brings can leave people frozen. Anne Bonney draws on her book Get Over It and her own experience to show audiences how to step into the unknown with more courage. She delivers practical tools for building resilience, alongside high energy and a healthy dose of humor. Attendees leave ready to treat change as an opportunity rather than a threat.
Miscommunication at work rarely comes from bad intentions. More often, people misread tone, take feedback personally, and burn energy decoding each other instead of solving problems. Anne Bonney opens with the foundation of emotional intelligence: self-awareness and self-accountability. Using humor, relatable stories, and interactive moments, she shows how tuning into one's own reactions changes how people communicate and handle friction. Attendees come away better equipped to own their impact and collaborate with less overwhelm.
Avoiding a hard conversation rarely makes the problem go away. It usually erodes trust, stalls collaboration, and leaves the underlying issue unresolved. In this fast-paced workshop, Anne Bonney gives participants concrete tools for approaching difficult dialogues so they stay productive even when emotions run high. The session focuses on real workplace scenarios rather than abstract theory. Participants leave with skills they can use immediately to build trust and keep communication open under pressure.
Mental toughness is not something people either have or lack, it can be built with the right strategies. In this interactive session, Anne Bonney breaks down the traits that make someone resilient under pressure and shows participants how to develop them. Drawing on her own experiences facing setbacks, she keeps the tone light while covering serious ground. Attendees leave with actionable tactics for building resilience, reducing overwhelm, and holding steady when life throws a curveball.
Emotional intelligence separates good performers from great leaders, yet it rarely gets the structured attention it deserves. In this interactive workshop, EQ expert Anne Bonney breaks emotional intelligence down into its four core elements and shows participants how to strengthen each one. The session is built around practical application rather than theory, so people leave with skills they can use immediately. Attendees walk away better equipped for stronger relationships, communication, and results at work.
Anne Bonney pairs 20+ years of corporate and nonprofit leadership with a CSP credential, giving her change and resilience content real operational grounding. For clients navigating reorganizations, leadership transitions, or team morale challenges, her practical, humor-driven approach lands as immediately useful rather than aspirational.
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Anne Bonney structures sessions around real workplace scenarios and relatable stories drawn from her own leadership experience, pairing these with interactive moments and practical tools participants can apply immediately.
Anne Bonney's sessions address navigating change and uncertainty, emotional intelligence and self-awareness, and difficult workplace conversations. She holds the Certified Speaking Professional designation and is the author of Get Over It and Get Them Over It, with two decades of corporate and nonprofit leadership underpinning her work.
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