Anne Harbison

Dr. Anne Harbison is an executive leadership educator known for helping some of the world’s greatest leaders transform themselves, their teams, and entire organizations through expert coaching, facilitation, and strategic consultation.

Beginning her career in Brand Management at Procter & Gamble, she then served as a management consultant specializing in organizational change and learning. Anne was a Principal Strategic Consultant in Gallup’s executive leadership practice, working domestically and internationally in the healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and government sectors.

She received her doctorate from Harvard University researching and teaching on best practices for leadership success and how we can thrive through times of great change and transition.

Anne’s been a featured speaker at the Brookings Institute, The Academy of Management and the Association of Talent and Development, as well as Fortune 100 companies such as Best Buy, Cargill, Toyota, Boeing among others.

A native Kentuckian, Anne lives in Minneapolis with her husband and three children, and continues her work in exploring how to thrive during crisis through her book, Never Waste A Crisis, and her community, Surviving & Thriving Together.

The Power of Leading from Within Workshop: Building Sources of Confidence, Credibility and Connection

The Power of Leading from Within Workshop: Building Sources of Confidence, Credibility and Connection

As a leader, true power comes from your ability to authentically connect with others and inspire them to action. Instead of ”power over” (which may come from formal authority or a commanding presence), true leadership requires us to cultivate “power with” the important networks, clients, and communities we serve. To create lasting impact, influence is just as important as authority for long-term success and career satisfaction. Beyond your title, education, or formal authority, true influence is an outcome of internal confidence with external credibility. There’s no “one size fits all” when it comes to being a powerful leader. This workshop helps identify your individual “power equation” through the lens of confidence, credibility, and connection. Participants learn how to “get out of their own way” as they seek greater levels of leadership effectiveness and reach. Inspirational, educational, and actionable, Dr. Harbison’s workshops are specifically tailored to senior leaders striving to increase their contribution, impact, and legacy within the organizations and communities they serve.

Women Thriving Together: Naming and Claiming Our Work in the World

There are key differences between men and women as organizational leaders, and given the right resources, women pose a future-forward advantage for building more diverse, connected, and mindful winning teams.

An inspiring, enriching day of diving deep and reaching wide, Anne provides the perfect opportunity for your women’s leadership group to elevate its vision, talent, and impact in concrete and actionable ways.

Anne is an author, Harvard Doctorate, and executive leadership educator for some of the world’s top organizations and thought leaders. She’s known for her real-life stories of dynamic and authentic leadership, and for captivating audiences through the spectrum of full human emotion. She knows the ins and outs of women’s leadership from over 20 years of experience with top organizations, and leads her audiences today with heart, courage, and purpose.

The Achiever’s Dilemma – Are you driving your Achiever or is your Achiever driving you?

Working harder, longer, faster may be the way to climb the first part of your career ladder. But is there an end in sight? Decades of drive can easily turn into a grueling treadmill of effort and exhaustion. That’s a dangerous place to be in the middle of times of upheaval. Now is the time to purposely navigate, not mindlessly execute.

Never Waste A Crisis – Surviving and Thriving Through Life’s Tightropes, Turmoil, and Tragedy

Any unexpected change can knock us off our game. The rules that existed before may no longer apply. We may be held to standards of success that we didn’t design or chose. Relationships that used to flourish are shaken; typical strategies for overcoming obstacles are no longer relevant. Yet, we still need to show up with our professional best – even when the ground below us is shaking.

The good news is that even the most difficult crises can be the catalyst for profound growth and renewal.  Change we would never have asked for can force us into new approaches, new depths of understanding our professional and clients, and new confidence in building skills for communicating our value.

For over 20  years, Dr. Harbison has been researching, teaching, and consulting on how to navigate transition and change.

When tough times hit, we have a unique opportunity to look up and reach out, to reinvent ourselves and our organizations.

In fact, some of the greatest inventions, companies, and stories of personal triumph emerge from tumultuous times.

Now more than ever, the world needs expert, compassionate guidance on how to not only survive but actually thrive together during difficult times.