Anne Ditmeyer's biography
- Designer and creative coach specialising in creative problem solving
- Author of OVERRIDE! What If There Was Another Way?
- Workshop facilitator for prestigious brands like LVMH
Anne Ditmeyer is a designer, creative coach, and workshop facilitator who helps individuals and teams override conventional thinking patterns through playful, strategic approaches to problem-solving.
As author of OVERRIDE! What If There Was Another Way? and creator of signature programs like Mapping Your Path, Anne has collaborated with organisations including Airbnb, Adobe, Moët Hennessy, My Little Paris, and IDEO. Her work has been featured in Forbes and Psychologies Magazine.
Anne blends her unique background in graphic design, anthropology, and UX to create intentional, human-centered experiences that address modern workplace challenges. Her workshops provide practical tools for navigating uncertainty, fostering team alignment, and unlocking creative potential when organisations face stagnation or transition periods.
Always the "quiet one" growing up, Anne's personal experience has deeply informed how she creates inclusive and psychologically safe environments today — places where everyone has a voice. She often finds herself facilitating in international rooms with a mix of cultures and nationalities to create a shared sense of belonging.
Participants in Anne's sessions gain concrete frameworks for reimagining challenges from fresh perspectives, practical techniques for integrating play into strategic thinking, and renewed confidence to pursue what's possible. Her signature "banana mapping" exercise (as featured on CreativeMornings) shows how unexpected approaches can lead to breakthrough insights.
Book Anne when your team needs to break free from outdated patterns and discover innovative pathways forward with clarity and purpose.
Anne's showreel and videos
Topics, sessions and talks
Turning Uncertainty Into Possibility Through Creativity
In this keynote, Anne Ditmeyer reveals how creative constraints can actually become catalysts for reimagining what’s possible. Drawing on personal stories and the surprising legacy of her grandfather’s moonshot work, she invites audiences to embrace experimentation and lead with curiosity in times of uncertainty. This keynote is ideal for teams facing rapid change, decision fatigue, or complex challenges, offering a hopeful and strategic reframe to unlock forward momentum.
Leading With Imagination And Impact
Based on her book OVERRIDE!, this talk introduces a powerful framework designed to help leaders take aligned action toward meaningful change. Through supportive reframing, imagination, and creative prompts, attendees learn how to make space for possibility and lead with more clarity, courage, and purpose. This keynote is ideal for leadership teams, HR professionals, and forward-thinking organisations looking to evolve how they lead from within.
Creative Strategies For Navigating Change
In this interactive keynote, Anne Ditmeyer introduces mapping as a creative strategy for navigating change. Through personal reflection and visual thinking, participants learn how to uncover what matters most, clarify next steps, and make more intentional decisions. As a playful highlight, they’ll even map on a banana to connect in unexpected ways and shift perspective. This talk is ideal for teams in transition, kicking off a strategic offsite, or looking to reignite momentum.
Co-Creation As A Competitive Advantage
In this keynote, Anne Ditmeyer explores the legacy of her grandfather, Charles Stark Draper (born in 1901), a pioneer in inertial guidance systems. Drawing from her background in human-centred design, she highlights how collaboration, trust, and curiosity drove innovation. Through reflective exercises inspired by her grandfather's work with gyroscopes, Anne explores co-creation as a competitive advantage in today's AI-driven landscape. Attendees will learn how to lead with humanity in a digital age, fostering innovation through meaningful connections and collaboration.
Workshops With Anne Ditmeyer
Anne Ditmeyer offers a range of workshops for your team, including: creative confidence, creative constraints and reframes, design thinking and ideation, cultivating curiosity, asking better questions and active listening, think like a storyteller, Mapping Your Path™, OVERRIDE!, reimagining leadership, navigating challenges, creative safaris, walking workshops, team check-ins, and train-the-trainer (workshop development).
Why we recommend booking Anne
Anne Ditmeyer empowers teams to break free from conventional thinking through her playful yet strategic workshops. She has collaborated with organisations such as Parsons School of Design and International Flavors & Fragrances to help them think differently, build team connection, and navigate challenges. Book Anne for practical frameworks and renewed confidence to discover innovative pathways forward with clarity and purpose.
Anne led the development and facilitation of a three-day workshop of 21 people from different corporate functions, levels, and countries. Throughout the design process and on-site execution of the workshop, Anne’s approach and style centered on creating connections that allowed people from different background to learn, share and co-create work plans to drive sustainability progress across our 20 global locations. She helped ensure we met workshop outcomes, pivoted and adapted in the moment when topics inevitability needed more time for exploration and resolution, and helped create powerful moments of breakthrough thinking. She infused creative moments in a fun and approachable manner for a more traditional corporate environment. This invited connection, helped build trust, new pathways of thinking and collaboration. With her support we laid a solid foundation to move towards an enterprise mindset rather than a view of only our function or country, and improved our ways of working by learning and practicing different communication styles. Finally, the creation of tools and processes during the workshop fostered a sense of belonging and common purpose. These continue 14 months post-workshop and importantly it remains a positive memory for attendees and reminder of the power of creating better together.
Kim Frankovich
Global VP – Sustainability
Anne is a facilitator who meets the moment. In a business world full of noise and surface-level creativity, she brings tools that are playful on the surface but powerful underneath. I’ve watched her guide a group of strangers to meaningful insight, deeper trust, and sharper thinking—all through a creative process that feels engaging, not forced. Her tools may appear simple—even delightfully unexpected, like banana mapping—but they unlock real results.
David Pearl
Keynote Speaker
I’ve had the opportunity to experience Anne in action across very different settings—as a facilitator of her 3-month Mapping Your Path (online) program, as a creative collaborator in a custom-designed workshop in London, and leading a full-day session for aspiring business students preparing for their academic and professional journeys. Across all formats, Anne brings a rare ability to engage participants, spark meaningful reflection, and shift people out of their day-to-day mindset. Her sessions are refreshing, relevant, and designed to help people think differently—something every organization could benefit from.
Eric Boggs
Story Strategist & Experience Designer
