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Barbara Annis' Bio
Barbara Annis is a recognized leading expert in Inclusive Leadership and Gender Initiatives. Barbara and her associates are dedicated to removing organizational and leadership barriers by bringing the latest research and thinking on Leadership, Gender Diversity and Inclusiveness into the workplace, so that organizations can turn gender diversity into a powerful technology of success. Over the last 20 years, Barbara Annis & Associates has facilitated over 3,000 corporate workshops, keynotes, and executive coaching sessions on Gender Intelligent Leadership to Fortune 500 Corporations, including Deloitte & Touche, IBM, Smith Barney Citigroup, UBS, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Intel.
Barbara is Chair of the Women’s Leadership Board at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (www.hkswomensleadershipboard.org). Her extensive studies have included work with exceptional thinkers such as linguist Dr. Fernando Flores at Berkeley, neuroscientist Ruben Gur at the University of Pennsylvania, psychologist Virginia Satir, Dr. W. E. Deming, and Dr. Willis Harman, Founder of the Noetic Sciences Foundation and The World Business Academy. She was recently awarded the International Alliance for Women Word of Difference Lifetime Achievement Award.
Barbara is also a recognized author – her first book, Same Words, Different Language, uncovers groundbreaking insights and tools for creating powerful win-win relationships between the genders, and provides ways to break through gender barriers. Her new book, Leadership and the Sexes, published last month by John Wiley, reveals the latest brain-based research on gender differences in leadership, and shows how to maximize the innate talents of both genders in the workplace and in the world.
Barbara’s Career Achievements
Past and Present Organizations
- Chair of Women’s Leadership Board, Harvard University’s Kennedy School
- Member of the Gender Leadership Team, Deloitte & Touche
- Co-Chair of the Advisory Board for the Task Force of an Inclusive Public Service, Treasury Board
- Co-Chair, World Business Academy
- Subject Matter Expert and Member of the Advisory Board, Social Context & Gender Equality Initiative, Department of Justice
- Member of the Advisory Board, Gender Integration Project, Department of National Defense
- President, Canadian Women Entrepreneurs
Public Speaking at Corporations
- Deloitte & Touche Partners Summit
- Accenture Global Diversity
- IBM Leadership Conference
- Microsoft Annual Diversity Conference
- UBS Investment
- HSBC Financial
- CIBC Wood Gundy
- Greenburg Traurig Shareholders Event
- Disney
- RBC Financial
- EDS
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Prentice Hall
- Pearson Education Global Diversity Conference
- Xerox Leadership Conferences
- General Motors Leadership Conference
- Oliver Wyman Leadership Conference
- Federal Business Development Bank
- Electrolux Leadership Conference
- Scotiabank
- Goldman Sachs
- Nissan
Public Speaking at Conferences
- Women’s Leadership Board Conference, Harvard Kennedy School
- Words of Wisdom Series
- NATO
- United Nations
- Global Diversity Summit – Geneva
- Conference Board
- Women of Influence Luncheons
- World Business Academy Global Retreat
- Pentagon, Women in Non-Traditional Roles
- Department of National Defense National Diversity Summit
- UK Women’s Summit
- Law Society Annual Summit
- National Women’s Business Owners Conference
- AHLA – American Hotel & Lodging Associate CEO Summit
- Women in Capital Markets
- CWC – Canadian Women in Communication