Anne Helps Audiences Navigate Change and Build What's Next.
Keynote Speaker · Author of All Who Wander · Communications Strategist
Drawing on 20+ years advising technology and travel leaders through high-stakes moments, Anne delivers keynotes, workshops, and panels grounded in the Choose Adventure Mindset™ — a practical five-step framework built from dozens of in-depth interviews with people navigating change, and featured in her book All Who Wander. Audiences leave with tools to reframe fear as curiosity, communicate with intention, and move forward with confidence.
Keynotes That Help Audiences Choose Adventure
Keynote Topics: Navigating Change, Leadership, Communication, Motivation & Innovation.
When Everything Is Changing, Choose Adventure
Signature keynote
AI is reshaping how we work and lead — the question isn't whether change is coming, it's how we respond. Drawing on dozens of interviews with people navigating major career and life transitions, plus two decades advising technology leaders through transformation, Anne shares the Choose Adventure Mindset™: a research-based framework for reframing fear as curiosity and leading through uncertainty. Audiences leave with practical strategies to adapt, stay curious, and build what's next together.
Best for: Corporate conferences · Leadership events · Company offsites · Technology conferences · AI transformation initiatives
Building Trust and Communicating Through Change
Keynote or panel discussion
When AI is accelerating how companies are built and how fast markets move, clear communication becomes a competitive advantage. Anne — the person busy executives call before high-stakes moments — shares practical strategies to build trust and alignment with employees, customers, and investors during rapid change. Audiences leave with tools to communicate across teams and stakeholders, demonstrate value, and make confident decisions in uncertainty.
Best for: Enterprise teams · Corporate leaders · Founders · AI transformation initiatives · Leadership offsites
Nurturing What's Next: For Women Navigating Seasons of Change
Keynote or interactive workshop
For ambitious women standing between what was and what's next — a new opportunity, an empty nest, a transition they didn't choose. Through honest stories from Anne's interviews with women navigating career transitions and reinvention, plus a hands-on Core Values assessment, Anne creates rooms where women reconnect with what matters most and leave with a five-step framework and real momentum.
Best for: Women's leadership conferences · ERGs · Professional associations · Alumni networks · Retreats
The Research Behind the Choose Adventure Mindset™ Framework
The Choose Adventure Mindset™ grew out of dozens of in-depth interviews Anne conducted on her podcast, All Who Wander, with people navigating major life and career transitions. She identified the common themes across their stories and distilled them into a five-step framework anyone can use:
Create Space for the Nudge
Clarify Your Core Values
Reframe Fear as Curiosity
Trust and Build Momentum
Build Your Adventure Crew
She shares many of their stories in her book, All Who Wander: A Guide to Finding Your Path in Seasons of Change. When Anne speaks, audiences aren't getting one person's journey. They're seeing themselves in the framework and in the stories of dozens of others she’s interviewed.
Book Anne For Your Next Event
Anne Taylor Hartzell is a keynote speaker, author, and communications strategist who speaks on navigating change, leadership communication, and women's leadership. She is available for keynotes, workshops, panels, and half-day leadership experiences — in person or virtual — for corporate offsites, technology and founder events, women's conferences, ERGs, professional associations, and university programs. Every talk is customized for your audience, industry, and event goals.
Author, All Who Wander, and creator of the Choose Adventure Mindset™ — built from dozens of in-depth interviews on navigating change
20+ years advising corporate leaders, founders, and teams on high-stakes communication
Featured on TODAY, with national, local broadcast and on-camera experience
Founder, Hip Travel Mama, with brand partnerships including Expedia, Disney, and Alaska Airlines
