Speaking, Workshops & Leadership Training
Transforming How Leaders Think, Decide, and Lead
Delivering the Leaderwired™ methodology to audiences nationwide
Anna Barnhill brings Fortune 500 leadership expertise to stages, boardrooms, and training rooms across the country. As an ICF Master Certified Coach, MIT learning facilitator and Forbes contributor, she delivers keynotes and workshops that don't just inspire - they equip leaders with frameworks they can apply immediately.
Three Ways to Bring Leaderwired™ to Your Organization
Keynotes & Speaking
High-impact presentations for conferences, leadership summits, and corporate events. 30-90 minutes.
Interactive Workshops
Hands-on sessions that build specific capabilities through experiential learning. Half-day to multi-day formats.
Leadership Training Programs
Comprehensive development curricula for leadership teams and high-potential talent. Modular or integrated delivery.
Keynotes & Speaking Engagements
Anna delivers keynotes that challenge assumptions, shift mindsets, and leave audiences with actionable frameworks—not just inspiration. Her presentations draw from two decades of working with executives at Google, PayPal, Cigna, and the Federal Reserve, translating complex leadership research into practical strategies audiences can apply immediately.
Flagship Keynote
Leaderwired™: The Upgrade
Rewiring How Leaders Think, Decide, and Lead in the AI Era
The leadership approach that built your career is now creating friction. Today's complexity demands an upgrade across three dimensions: the mindsets that shape how you see challenges, the skillsets that determine how you respond, and the systems that scale your impact. This keynote reveals why leaders plateau despite their best efforts, and introduces the framework that separates those who thrive from those who struggle to keep up.
What Audiences Will Experience:
- Understand why the leadership operating system that built their careers may now be limiting their effectiveness
- Identify which of the five critical mindset shifts represent their highest-leverage development opportunities
- Recognize the patterns that create the "knowing-doing gap"—knowing what to do but struggling to actually do it
- Leave with practical frameworks for beginning their upgrade
Format: 45-90 minutes | Ideal for leadership summits, annual conferences, executive retreats
Additional Keynote Topics
The Five Mindset Shifts: Rewiring How Leaders Think
A deep dive into the cognitive upgrades required for AI-era leadership: from Certainty to Curiosity, Control to Orchestration, Expertise to Learning Velocity, Risk Avoidance to Intelligent Experimentation, and Individual Decisions to Collaborative Intelligence. Audiences leave with practical strategies for each shift.
The Five Skillset Upgrades: Capabilities AI Can't Replicate
As AI handles analytical work, five human capabilities become premium: cognitive flexibility, emotional intelligence at scale, human-AI collaboration design, strategic sensemaking, and exponential thinking. This session builds each capability through Strategic Discomfort™ exercises and deliberate practice.
House of Empathy™: Building Cultures That Drive Performance
Individual upgrades don't scale without supporting systems. This framework creates team environments founded on trust, psychological safety, and shared purpose—where empathy becomes competitive advantage. Based on the methodology that transformed the Law Enforcement Unit of a Federal Financial Institution, earning formal recognition and Challenge Coins from from deputy chiefs.
Strategic Discomfort™: Why the Best Leaders Run Toward Tension
Breakthrough leadership requires intentional tension—the willingness to confront difficult truths, make uncomfortable decisions, and have the conversations others avoid. This keynote explores why leaders who master productive discomfort deliver 47% higher returns to shareholders and provides frameworks for developing this critical capability.
"Anna possesses a rare ability to captivate every audience she engages. Her presence is immediate and magnetic; when she speaks, she commands the room with authority, clarity, and warmth that leaves participants energized and ready to act." — Holly Harrison, Director, Amentum, Space & Critical Infrastructure
Interactive Workshops
Our workshops apply the Leaderwired™ methodology through experiential learning—building capabilities through practice, not just presentation. Each workshop combines cutting-edge content with hands-on exercises, ensuring participants leave with skills they can apply immediately.
From Conflict to Confluence™
Convert Team Tension into Collaborative Advantage
Organizations waste tremendous energy when teams engage in unproductive conflict. This workshop helps leaders transform disagreement into creative problem-solving, establish psychological safety that encourages constructive challenge, develop protocols for making decisions despite differing perspectives, and build stronger relationships through productive tension.
Format: Half-day, full-day, or 2-day intensive | Ideal for leadership teams, project teams, cross-functional groups
The Emotionally Effective Leader
Develop the Emotional Intelligence to Lead Through Complexity
Research shows that 90% of top performers demonstrate high emotional intelligence. This workshop helps leaders make better decisions under pressure by managing emotional responses, build stronger connections with team members during challenging times, recognize and address emotional dynamics that block performance, and use empathy as a strategic tool for driving engagement and innovation.
Format: Half-day or full-day | Ideal for managers, emerging leaders, high-potential talent
Strategic Leadership: Cultivating Innovation and Adaptability
Build Adaptive Organizations That Thrive on Change
This workshop equips leaders to create environments where innovation flourishes under pressure. Participants learn to foster psychological safety and intellectual honesty within their teams, balance emotional intelligence with assertive communication, transform constructive conflict into a catalyst for creativity and productivity, and lead with confidence during times of uncertainty and disruption.
Format: Full-day or 2-day | Ideal for senior leadership teams, change leaders, innovation teams
House of Empathy™: Driving High Performance Through Empathetic Leadership
Create Sustainable Performance Through Human-Centered Leadership
This workshop transforms how leaders balance high performance expectations with human-centered approaches. Participants learn to build workplace environments founded on trust, appreciation, and shared purpose; develop empathetic leadership practices that enhance team engagement; and connect organizational excellence with individual fulfillment and growth.
Format: Full-day or 2-day | Ideal for organizations focused on culture transformation, engagement improvement
Leadership Training Programs
For organizations seeking sustained leadership development, we offer modular training programs that can be delivered as comprehensive curricula or standalone sessions based on your specific needs.
Executive Leadership Excellence
A comprehensive program for senior leaders focused on strategic thinking and execution, leading organizational transformation, building high-performance leadership teams, and developing enterprise-wide influence.
Emerging Leader Development
Accelerate the growth of high-potential leaders through essential leadership mindsets and behaviors, team leadership and collaboration skills, change leadership capabilities, and strategic communication and influence.
Modular Training Topics
Individual modules can be combined into custom programs or delivered as standalone sessions:
- Emotional Intelligence Mastery
- 7 Levels of Leadership (Energy Leadership Index)
- Leader as Coach
- Effective Communication for Leaders
- High-Performance Team Building
- Authentic Leadership
- Values-Based Leadership
- Innovation and Change Management
The Leaderwired™ Approach to Group Learning
Every speaking engagement, workshop, and training program is built on the Leaderwired™ methodology—the framework behind Anna Barnhill's forthcoming book, Leaderwired™: The AI-Era Leadership Playbook for Transforming How You Think, Decide, and Lead.
The approach develops three integrated capabilities: the mindsets to see clearly under pressure, the skillsets to act decisively with incomplete information, and the systems to scale what works across your organization.
The Foundation: Strategic Discomfort™
At the heart of every Leaderwired™ engagement is a principle most development programs avoid: Strategic Discomfort™. Breakthrough leadership requires intentional tension—the willingness to confront difficult truths, make uncomfortable decisions, and have the conversations others avoid.
While others promise painless transformation, we deliver breakthrough results by developing your leaders' capacity to lead through discomfort—not around it.
Why Organizations Choose Anna
Executive-Level Expertise
Anna holds the ICF Master Certified Coach credential (top 1% globally), serves as MIT learning facilitator for Leadership and Innovation program, is a Professional Fellow at McLean/Harvard Medical School, and contributes to Forbes. She's worked with executives at Google, PayPal, Cigna, and the Federal Reserve—bringing real-world credibility to every presentation.
Content That Translates
Anna doesn't just inspire—she equips. Every keynote and workshop delivers frameworks, tools, and strategies participants can apply immediately. The content is grounded in evidence-based methodologies including cognitive behavioral approaches, emotional intelligence frameworks, and neuroscience research.
Proven Impact
- 788% average ROI from leadership development engagements
- 42% improvement in leadership effectiveness
- 38% increase in employee engagement
Serving Organizations Nationwide
Anna delivers keynotes and workshops to organizations across the country, with in-person availability throughout Southern Oregon and virtual delivery options for any location.
In-Person: Medford, Ashland, Grants Pass, and the broader Rogue Valley region
Travel: Available nationwide for conferences, corporate events, and leadership summits
Virtual: Interactive webinars and virtual workshops for distributed teams
Bring Leaderwired™ to Your Organization
Ready to transform how your leaders think, decide, and lead? Let's discuss how keynotes, workshops, or training programs can be tailored to your organization's specific challenges and objectives.
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