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Barbara Annis' Bio

Barbara Annis, Founder and CEO of Barbara Annis & Associates, Inc. (BAA), is a world renowned expert on Inclusive Leadership, Cultural and Gender Intelligence advocating the value and practice of this new type of Leadership in Fortune 500 companies and numerous organizations worldwide. BAA’s 51 associates have pioneered a transformational shift in cultural attitudes across the globe on the importance of gender unity to organizational success.

Over the past twenty years, Barbara Annis & Associates has facilitated over 8,000 corporate workshops, keynotes, and executive coaching sessions and has introduced breakthrough research on the practice and benefits of gender diversity and inclusiveness leadership.

Today, BAA offers their diagnostics, workshops, and coaching sessions on site, online, and through DVD-based training programs.

Barbara Annis is Chair of the Women’s Leadership Board at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and was recently conferred the International Alliance for Women, Lifetime Achievement Award. Her extensive studies have included work with exceptional thinkers such as famed psychologist Dr. Virginia Satir, Dr. Fernando Flores, director of the PHD program in Linguistics at Berkeley University, and Dr. Willis Harman, Founder and President of the Noetic Sciences Foundation.

Barbara’s first book, Same Words, Different Language offers ground breaking insights and proven methods for breaking through gender barriers. Her newest book, Leadership and the Sexes, reveals the latest in brain-behaviour research on gender differences. Her upcoming book, The Gender Intelligent Organization, co-authored with Dr. Keith Merron, is the culmination of 20 years of gender-based research and global practice that uniquely applies cutting-edge brain-based research to the workplace offering leaders the mindset and means by which to bridge the gap between men and women and create a more inclusive and productive organization.

Barbara’s upcoming 2012 book, Gender Intelligence: Mars & Venus Working and Winning Together, in conjunction with John Gray, author of the best-selling Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, exposes and debunks the blind spots that lay at the very heart of our miscommunications, misunderstandings, mistrust, resentment, and frustrations at work.

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