Choose Adventure.
A mindset your audience will remember and use long after they leave the room.
Keynote Speaker · Author of All Who Wander · Creator of the Choose Adventure Mindset™
Choose Adventure: The Next Brave Step Starts Here.
Change can create some of our biggest opportunities for growth. It can also make us want to play it safe. Choosing adventure helps us get curious instead, see what’s possible, and take the next brave step.
Anne Taylor Hartzell brings more than 20 years of experience advising leaders through high-stakes moments to the stage, combining powerful stories with the Choose Adventure Mindset™, her practical five-step framework for putting that idea into action.
Your audience will leave with a fresh perspective on change, practical tools they can use right away, and a memorable question to take with them: What’s my next brave step?
Anne speaks on choosing adventure, navigating change and reinvention at work and at home, and building the trust that brings people together.
Signature Keynote: When Everything Is Changing, Choose Adventure
(Customized to your business or audience needs)
Change can create some of our biggest opportunities for growth. It can also make us want to play it safe.
Whenever Anne stands at the edge of something new, she tells herself two words: choose adventure. She said them again outside her daughter’s dorm room, realizing her family life was about to change. That moment sent her looking for what helps people move forward, interviewing dozens of leaders, founders, and creatives who had launched, pivoted, and started again.
In this energizing keynote, Anne brings those stories and lessons together in the Choose Adventure Mindset™, a memorable five-step framework that helps people get curious, work through fear and friction, and take the next brave step.
Audiences leave with a fresh way to see change and practical tools they can put to work immediately.
Best for: Corporate conferences · Leadership events · Company offsites · Technology conferences · Teams navigating change
Communicating Through Rapid Change
(Keynote, workshop, or panel discussion)
AI is accelerating how companies are built and how markets move. Founders and leaders who can communicate through constant change build trust, alignment, and momentum faster. Drawing on 20+ years advising startup CEOs and executives through launches, pivots, and acquisitions, Anne shares the communication skills it takes to build and scale when everything is moving fast.
Audiences learn how to:
Build trust with investors, customers, employees, and stakeholders
Stand out and communicate value in competitive markets
Keep their team aligned through pivots and rapid growth
Building What’s Next: Reinvention for Women Who Lead
(Panel discussion, workshop, or fireside chat)
Many accomplished women have spent years being the one with the answers. Now they’re facing a question without one: a role being reshaped by AI, a career that no longer fits, a business ready for its next version, or a family season that’s shifting.
Anne has reinvented her own business through every wave of change in media over 23 years, and she’s doing it again now with her podcast, book and business. Drawing on in-depth conversations with leaders, founders, and creatives who started again, she shows women how to make their next move and choose adventure over fear.
Best for: Women’s leadership summits · Executive women’s networks · Corporate women’s ERGs · Professional associations · Alumni networks · Retreats
The Research Behind the Choose Adventure Mindset™ Framework
The Choose Adventure Mindset™ was born out of dozens of in-depth interviews Anne conducted on her podcast, All Who Wander, with people navigating major life and career transitions. In her research, she identified the common themes across their stories and distilled them into a five-step framework that leaders, teams, and individuals can use:
Create Space for the Quiet 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 and author who speaks on choosing adventure, building trust, and bringing people together. 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 CEOs and C-suite leaders through company and product launches, acquisitions, IPOs, layoffs, and leadership transitions
Creator of sold-out community events produced with venue, PR, and hospitality partners
Founder of her own integrated marketing firm for 23 years
Featured on TODAY, with national, local broadcast and on-camera experience
Founder, Hip Travel Mama, with brand partnerships including Expedia, Disney, and Alaska Airlines
