Ann Andrews

Ann Andrews is an International Speaker; Human Resources Consultant; facilitator and author of three books; Shift Your But; Finding the Square Root of a Banana; Did I Really Employ You?.
During her career in Personnel and Human Resources, Ann became involved in setting up Self Managing Teams. Once she saw the results that working this way could achieve, Ann became totally committed to working with teams.

Previously, Ann has worked as an independent Consultant to some of the largest organisations in NZ, showing them how to set up high performing teams and achieve results they had only dared dream of. She recently franchised her Team system under the banner - Teams. From Woe to Go.

Ann has three aims:
- To free up valuable management time by a minimum of 30% so they can be working ON the business not IN it...and to show them why that is important.
- To show employees the need to think like owners.
- To set up self-sustaining teams - so that no matter who joins or leaves, the results are not adversely affected for too long.

Ann is the Immediate Past President of the National Speakers Association of NZ, and was Speaker of the Year in 2000. She is a regular speaker at conferences, where she brings a humorous, interactive and thought provoking approach to the challenges of what she calls 'getting out of parent/child behaviours and into adult work practices.'

Keynote topics
- The Space Between Trapezes (Overcoming fear and resistance)
- Boiled Frogs and Guillotines (Constantly being willing to look for new ways to do things)
- There's No Such Word as Can't (Creative solutions to problems)
- Doing Whatever it Takes (Daring to be different)
- A Walk on the Wild Side (Bringing fun into the workplace)
- I know I'm here to do something great if I could only work out what it is (Finding your passion)