Anne Riches - Leadership & Change  
 
 
 
About Anne

What does Anne do?

Anne Riches speaks, writes and consults about how to lead and how to change ourselves and our organisations. Read more ...

 

Why choose Anne?

Anne’s background as a senior academic and her involvement and deep understanding of cutting edge neuroscientific discoveries ensures that her content is fascinating and compelling. Read more ...

 

Who is Anne?

Anne brings credibility and leadership experience from her senior corporate roles in strategy, as a change expert and as a human resources director. Read more ...

What does Anne do?

Anne Riches speaks, writes and consults about how to lead and how to change ourselves and our organisations.

Anne explains what happens in our brains to make us and others behave the way we do at home and at work and play.

This almost always results in 'ah ha' moments, fresh insights, clarity, for the audience.

Then with Anne's expertise and practical experience, they think about different paths they can take to lead and particiapte in a more productive, cohesive and enjoyable working environment and a better, more fulfiliing and less stressful life for themselves.

Anne is the creator of The Almond Effect®, a powerful concept that uses up to the minute neuroscientific research to explain human reactions to facilitate behavioural change.

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Why choose Anne?

Anne’s background as a senior academic and her involvement and deep understanding of cutting edge neuroscientific discoveries ensures that her content is fascinating and compelling.

Added to this Anne shares her personal experiences in stories that illustrate the scientific content and principles.

Anne’s style is warm, interactive, empathy based and truly insightful.

Anne is internationally recognized as a leader in translating neuroscientific research and knowledge into practical, accessible tools and understanding. These result in organizational growth and change through improved people engagement.

Anne is retained by organizations looking to develop sustainable change capabilities and leadership qualities in executives, managers and team leaders. Her material is tailored to address the organization’s specific objectives. It can be delivered as a presentation or workshops for small or large groups.

Anne’s work makes a significant contribution to improving staff performance, reducing friction and politics and creating a positive culture of personal responsibility rather than blame. These are the reasons many clients repeatedly book her services.

Her clients report that it is the powerful combination of this multi-layered, in depth approach that delivers lasting impact and value for participants who experience Anne’s presentations and workshops.

She is in demand because she convincingly presents this grounded, serious and complex material in a meaningful and easily understood way. Many participants describe it as a life changing experience.

Anne works with some of Australia’s largest organizations including Qantas, AMP, Fosters, Challenger, KMart, Simplot and governments at state and federal levels together with many international clients.

In 2010 Anne was the Recipient of the Nevin Award, the highest honour bestowed by the National Speakers Association of Australia for excellence with service.

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Who is Anne?

Anne brings credibility and leadership experience from her senior corporate roles in strategy, as a change expert and as a human resources director responsible for leveraging the people resource to deliver the organization’s strategic outcomes.

Initially Anne was a barrister and a senior lecturer in law at Sydney University. But she then moved on to lead several challenging start-up and change agent roles in the private and public sectors.

Anne has been a member of several boards and held numerous leadership positions including President of the Women Lawyers’ Association of NSW and State and Territory Councillor of the Australian Human Resources Institute.

The calibre of Anne’s keynote speaking engagements has earned her Certified Speaking Professional status, which is the only internationally recognized speaking accreditation.

Anne holds two degrees with honours in law and two postgraduate qualifications, one in jurisprudence, the other in change management.

If you are interested in the postnominals, here are Anne's: BA (Hons) LLM (Hons) Dip Jur GCCM FAICD FAIM FAITD FAHRI CSP

She is the author of one book, has co-authored four others and written over 200 publications including articles, papers and e-books on a range of subjects including neuroscience and leadership, organizational change, leadership and human resources management, organizational development and a variety of ethical and legal issues.

Anne is also certified in the best practice Prosci Change Management Process Methodology and to use DiSC, TMS, EQ Map and TalentSmart Emotional Intelligence assessments.

And on top of all that, she is a passionate scuba diver and adventurer!

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