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Anne Grady

Anne Grady

Adaptability isn't a soft skill — it's a survival skill.

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Anne Grady

Adaptability isn't a soft skill — it's a survival skill.

In-Person Fee Range:
$15,001 - $20,000
Fee Details
Virtual Fee Range:
Inquire for Fee
Traveling from:
Texas

Why Book

  • You can’t control the pace of change, but you can build your capacity to adapt faster, recover stronger, and lead more effectively. Anne Grady is a best-selling author, two-time TEDx speaker, and leadership expert who blends humor, science, storytelling, and insights you can use at home, work, and everywhere in between. You’ll laugh, you’ll learn, and you’ll leave with practical tools you can use immediately.

Biography

Anne Grady is a best-selling author, entrepreneur, and an expert in building resilient teams, leaders, and organizations. She is a two-time TEDx speaker, trainer, survivor, optimist, and inspirer.  

Known for her unique blend of humor, science, and storytelling, Anne has spent more than two decades helping organizations, and the people in them, navigate change, build emotionally intelligent leaders, and create thriving, resilient cultures.

She shares inspiring personal stories, cutting edge, research-based content, and implementation tools to transfer learning into real life. And she’ll make you laugh while she does it. 

Anne has a master’s degree in organizational communication and works with some of the largest organizations around the globe, including Microsoft, Dell, Lockheed Martin, Johnson & 
Johnson, and the Department of Defense. She contributes to news and media outlets including Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fast Company, and more.

Anne is the author of EvolvAbility, Mind Over Moment, Strong Enough, and 52 Strategies for Life, Love & Work. Her TEDx Talks and media appearances have reached millions, and her programs are used by leaders and organizations worldwide.

A passionate advocate for mental health, Anne donates a portion of all book proceeds to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Anne has two children and lives outside of Austin, Texas, with her husband, 4 cows, 2 donkeys, 1 dog, and a riding lawnmower named Marilyn Mon-Mow.

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Programs

EvolvAbility: Growing Forward When Life Goes Sideways

The world is changing faster than ever. Economic shifts, global crises, and daily disruption have become the backdrop of modern life. 

But just because the world is in flux doesn’t mean you have to be.

EvolvAbility is more than a session or keynote. It’s a wake-up call (with fewer alarm bells and more “aha” moments) that delivers science-backed strategies, inspiring personal stories, and practical tools to help you grow forward — especially when life goes sideways.

FEEL IT: Chang isn’t just a logistical process—it’s an emotional one. Learn to read, recognize,and respond to emotions to improve relationships and stay grounded under pressure.

  • Strengthen self-awareness and uncover blind spots.
  • Improve empathy, communication, collaboration, and trust.
  • Lower anxiety, manage stress, and improve clarity in high-pressure situations.

FRAME IT: Values shape decisions, guide behavior, and influence how we show up. Define what matters most and use it as a framework to make better decisions and build stronger teams.

  • Clarify values that drive your priorities, decisions, and behavior.
  • Translate values into observable behavior.
  • Create shared expectations and accountability.

FUEL IT: Optimize the limited resources of time, energy, and attention to protect well-being, improve focus, and sustain high performance without burning out.

  • Reduce cognitive overload and decision fatigue.
  • Build daily habits to manage energy and maximize time.
  • Identify high-payoff activities and eliminate low-value drains on energy and focus.
RESILIENCE RESET

Resilience isn’t something you’re born with—it’s something you build. And in today’s high-pressure, always-on world, it may be the most critical skill you can develop. Without the ability to reset, adapt, and recover, stress doesn’t just slow performance—it quietly erodes health, focus, decision-making, and effectiveness over time.

This powerful keynote blends science-backed insights with laugh-out-loud stories and deeply relatable moments to show why resilience matters more now than ever. You’ll walk away with real tools for real life.

Learn how to take back control, make stress work for you, and cultivate a resilient mindset, skill set, and the ability to reset.

MINDSET – Understand your brain, habits, and belief systems that support and sabotage resilience.

SKILL SET – Learn to cultivate positive emotions, make stress work for you, and engage in activities that proactively build resilience.

RESET – Step out of reactivity to focus on what is most important, resetting your nervous system, priorities, and perspective.

BUILDING RESILIENT LEADERS

Building Resilient Leaders is a high-impact, laugh-out-loud keynote that blends cutting-edge research in neuroscience and psychology with inspiring personal stories and practical tools leaders can use immediately. Resilience is a set of learnable skills, beliefs, and behaviors that help leaders navigate uncertainty, build trust, and sustain performance over time.

MINDSET: Create the ideal environment for high-performance and well-being

SKILLSET: Build daily habits to improve focus, performance, and well-being.

RESET: Shift the body’s response to stress in real-time.



Anne Grady Reviews

Anne’s vulnerable, relatable, and engaging style helps you let down your guard, and let the learning in. Anne’s humor matched with vulnerability is perfect. She combines data with real examples and practical tools that bring her content to life and cause her to resonate with all.

— Marriott International

You walk away from Anne’s speech feeling like you understand yourself, your children, and life better than when you sat down. You have more tools to deal with staff, students, family and self.  Anne is remarkable.

— College Station ISD

Anne Grady and team were amazing! This event exceeded our expectations. Our staff have not stopped talking about Anne’s presentation and the powerful messages she shared. We are expecially grateful for the very applicable tools/strategies our team walked away with to strengthen resilience and positive mental health.

— United Regional Healthcare

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