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Ann Keil Dux
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Leadership Development
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Build executive presence with Ann Keil Dux, speaker, Emmy Award-winning journalist, and creator of the GO-TO YOU methodology. Ann works with executives, founders, and senior leaders to close the gap between what they know and how they land under pressure, drawing on a career where clarity was never optional and there was no second take.
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Ann Keil Dux is an executive communication coach, Emmy Award-winning journalist, and creator of the GO-TO YOU methodology, a repeatable communication operating system designed for high-stakes moments. She works with executives, founders, and senior leaders to close the gap between competence and presence, helping them land with the clarity and authority their experience deserves.
Ann's career in investigative journalism took her to disaster zones, Capitol Hill, and breaking news environments where there was no opportunity for second takes and no room for imprecision. That foundation shapes everything she brings to her coaching and keynote work today.
A cancer diagnosis, weeks before her wedding, further sharpened Ann's understanding of what it means to communicate from a place of truth rather than expectation. She was treated at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, the same institution where her later work as a communications leader helped secure their first U.S. News and World Report top 50 ranking, generating a media reach of 5.1 billion and 47.2 million dollars in media ad value.
Through GO-TO YOU, Ann works with leaders who are accomplished and well-prepared but still leave important rooms feeling like they left something on the table. Her clients have gone on to close funding rounds, command boardrooms, and deliver on national stages.
Ann holds an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential and is a Certified EQ-i 2.0 and EQ 360 Practitioner. She earned her Global Executive MBA from the University of Miami and serves on the board of Achieve Miami and the Executive Committee of Women United at United Way Miami.
Book Ann for your next leadership summit, conference, or executive workshop and bring the clarity, presence, and influence of the newsroom to your boardroom.
Topics, sessions and talks
High performers can know their material, prepare thoroughly, anticipate objections, and still walk out of the room feeling like they left something on the table. Ann Keil Dux names this the gap between competence and presence that no amount of preparation alone can close. Drawing on her Emmy Award-winning journalism career, where there was no second take and clarity was never optional, she pinpoints exactly where the disconnect lives: not in what leaders know, but in how they land under pressure.
Some leaders walk into a room and the audience knows, before a word is spoken, that this is someone worth listening to. That is Felt Authority, and it is not a personality trait. It is a skill. In this keynote, Ann Keil Dux shows professionals how to build the kind of presence that registers before they open their mouths and gives them a repeatable approach to executive presence that works in boardrooms, on stages, and in every high-stakes room in between.
The leaders who hold a room longest are not the ones with the smoothest path. They are the ones who know how to let their real experience show. Ann Keil Dux reframes every setback, pivot, and hard-won lesson as the foundation of credibility. Drawing on a career that took her from disaster zones and Capitol Hill to a cancer diagnosis and back to the stage, she shows leaders how to stop hiding the journey and start using it.
Under pressure, complex thinkers often say too much and land too little. Ann Keil Dux, who built her career in environments where there was no time to hedge and no room for noise, teaches the discipline of distilling complex thinking into one thing that moves a room. Attendees learn how to identify what actually needs to be said, cut everything that does not serve it, and deliver it with the conviction that makes everybody stop and listen.
The most credible voice for any mission, brand, or cause is rarely the organization itself. It is the people who have lived it, funded it, or been changed by it. Ann Keil Dux shows stakeholders and relationship-holders who already carry influence how to close the gap between what they know and what the room actually hears, so the message lands with the weight it deserves.
Ann brings the instincts of an Emmy Award-winning journalist to every boardroom, stage, and high-stakes moment. Through her GO-TO YOU methodology, she works with executives, founders, and senior leaders who are accomplished and prepared yet still leave something on the table. She doesn't just inspire. She closes the gap between what your people know and how they land under pressure, equipping them with the tools to drive influence, command any room, and deliver when it counts.
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Email ann.keil.dux@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Ann's availability and fees. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and a bit about your audience.
Ann Keil Dux structures her sessions around a proprietary framework called GO-TO YOU, a communication operating system she presents as a repeatable method for high-stakes moments. She anchors this framework in direct parallels drawn from her investigative journalism career, using the conditions of live broadcast reporting — no second takes, no imprecision — as a concrete reference point for the communication standards she teaches.
Ann Keil Dux speaks on closing the gap between competence and presence, building felt authority as a learnable skill, and using personal setbacks as a foundation for credibility. She is an Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist whose reporting career spanned disaster zones and Capitol Hill, where precision under pressure was non-negotiable.
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