ANESE CAVANAUGH
Experiential Keynotes, Workshops and Events
Engagement is the Past. Energy Is The Future.
Get to the heart of key topics and experience honest, human approaches and actionable solutions to real-time People, Leadership, and Innovation challenges.
Is your organization focused on the right things to create true cultural transformation, leading innovation, and high-performing teams?
You can not innovate, build trust, and create your best work in a culture of burnout. Friday Happy Hours, 90-minute workshops, and measuring “engagement” won’t solve your people, retention, leadership, or innovation problems.
What will? A culture of accountability, understanding, and engaging the energy of your workforce.
ANESE HAS BEEN FEATURED ON SOME OF THE MOST PROMINENT
CONFERENCE AND CORPORATE EVENT STAGES
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EXPERIENTIAL KEYNOTES
DYNAMICALLY
DIFFERENT
Our sessions are custom-crafted for
your event and ideal for chief people
officers, chief learning officers, chief
innovation officers, and other top
leaders who have a vested interest in
being ahead of their competitors when
it comes to being the market leader in
innovation, people, and impact.
Customized sessions tailored for your event, your goals, the energetic transformation you want to inspire, and the specific challenges and opportunities that your organization/audience is facing.
A Keynote Tailored To Your Needs
Let’s work together to support your workforce and optimize your organizational culture.
Experiential Keynote
45-90 minutes
Best for opening or closing your conference
Experiential Keynote + Executive Session
Best for when your executives need change to happen quickly (and sustainably)
Experiential Interactive Talk
60-120 minutes
Best for a smaller room for discussion and intimate Q&A
To get started, please fill out this Virtual Event EPQ or this Live Event EPQ and we will reach out to schedule a call with you. Read below to find out more about these sessions. You can also email us at info@activechoices.com.
“The application of Anese’s work with the IEP Method® and the impact of her presence
continues to grow and is absolutely contagious.”
KEYNOTE TOPICS
These sessions are custom-crafted for chief people officers, chief learning officers, chief innovation officers, and other top leaders who have a vested interest in being ahead of their competitors when it comes to being the market leader in innovation, people, and impact.
Your Presence IS Your Impact
Activate Your Intentional Energetic Presence® to Be the Leader
Your Life & Organization Needs Now
Recent Gallup research shows that disgruntled employees cost US companies an estimated $1.9 trillion in lost productivity last year. Low engagement and disconnection deeply impacts your workplace culture and your organization’s bottom-line results. Change and shifting priorities may be an inevitable aspect of business. Yet for your workforce, changes during uncertain times can feel incredibly stressful and unstable — which can be a recipe for disengagement and burnout if not addressed. In a world of change and ambiguity, how we show up is more important than ever now.
In this session, Anese shares the power of using intention, service, and self-care as leadership skills, how to use the IEP Method® and your Intentional Energetic Presence® (IEP) to create impact, and provides frameworks for up-leveling your resilience, leadership presence, and (positive) contagiousness.
- Available Components: Keynote, Group Resource for Follow-Up, Executive Session
- Companion Book: Contagious You
*Alternate subtitles based on audience/goals:
- Showing Up for Leadership to Create More Impact in the World
- Using the IEP Method® to Create Impact, Resilience, and Leadership Growth
Engagement is the Past, Energy is the Future
Activate Your Leadership and Workforce for Greater Innovation and Performance
Year after year, organizations spend billions of dollars on company engagement initiatives and training and development programs, and lose billions more in disengagement, lack of trust, and dropping retention rates. To truly create a healthy organization that sustainably fuels innovation and results, leaders must step off the hamster wheel of ineffective initiatives and culture quick-fixes, and think differently to take action and develop deeper trust, transparency, and collaboration.
In this inspiring session, you’ll learn a future-focused approach with the IEP Methodology that shatters the status quo and creates sustainable culture change. Learn to think like a culture strategist and get real-talk on how to approach the culture and innovation blind spots you don’t even know you have.
- Available Components: Keynote, Conference Breakout, Group Resource for Follow-Up, Executive Special Session
- Companion Book Options: Contagious Culture, Contagious You, The Leader You Will Be (to be determined based upon venue, desired impact, and audience).
Contagious Culture
Activate Your Workforce to Unlock Authentic Positivity and Sustainable Resiliency
Most might think that culture change can happen through strengths assessments, learning frameworks for feedback, or a 90-minute workshop on emotional intelligence. We call this an ‘outside-in’ approach, and the majority of the time it doesn’t create sustained behavior change or actual culture transformation. True culture transformation has everything to do with an ‘inside-out’ approach: How you are showing up every single day, and the Intentional Energetic Presence® (IEP) you embody.
In this inspiring session, you’ll learn how to create a positively contagious culture (starting with ourselves first), the collaborative impact of energy accountability through the IEP Method®, and powerful transformative tools and frameworks for improving collaborations, opening communications, implementing changes, building trust and resilience, and setting your culture up for success.
- Available Components: Keynote, Group Resource for Follow-Up, Executive Session
- Companion Book: Contagious Culture
To get started, please fill out this Virtual Event EPQ or this In-Person Event EPQ and we’ll be in touch with next steps.
Hear About the Experience
Anese’s contribution to our main annual event was unusual, and it’s the unusual part that really made it stand out. Her presentation included a captivating performance of a soliloquy that captured our attention, first, because it was a unique form of delivery, but also because of how transparently it captured our shared humanity. Our event was so much more meaningful because of her keynote presentation.
Anese on a stage is the embodiment of her message: intentional, energetic and completely present. She is leadership personified. Captivated and inspired, you will leave thinking ‘I can do that!’
Anese Cavanaugh captivated a group of managers and line level employees at my company with her talk about the infectious nature of energy in an organization. She’s any company’s secret weapon for achieving profound, permanent results from the inside out.
We’ve experienced Anese’s keynote at our Executive Summit as well as working privately with our executive team, and I highly recommend her. Anese brings to any stage a blend of effervescence combined with tangible impact and immediately actionable principles and frameworks. She authentically creates safeness and intimacy in the room — no matter how large or small the audience.
Anese is the person to bring in if you want to create an immediate shift in the field of your experience and create a greater level of impact that will carry forward way beyond the event. Her presence on stage and with our audience members throughout our event brought an extra level of energy, intentionality, and care, and inspired a greater level of presence in the room for the entire day. And even from her short time with our executive team, we are already seeing the ripple effects in our workforce. Her devotion to her work, her commitment to the audience, and ensuring that the event is not just a ‘motivational talk’ or a ‘quick fix’ is impressive and deeply appreciated.
Anese gave the opening keynote during our DEI week at Ford Motor Company. Having the IEP Method® shared across our company and skill teams shows how multifaceted it is, and how it can help us realize that we have more similarities than differences.
I have used many different frameworks for leadership coaching and training throughout my life. The IEP Method framework is one that I continually use, day to day to set my intention and do an energy check — even on vacation! It has helped me navigate through difficult situations, meetings and conversations both professionally as well as personally. Working with Anese and her team was an absolute delight.
Our team at EOS Worldwide recently had the privilege of participating in a live and experiential session of Anese’s IEP Method® (Intentional Energetic Presence®) conducted virtually for our team. This session was transformative! It provided our team members with an immediate and practical understanding of the core components of the IEP Method® that they could apply in their daily lives, not just professionally but personally, too.
Throughout the session, participants learned how to reboot their energy and presence, and walked away equipped with tools to enhance their well-being, leadership, and relationships. The time together was customized to our group, ensuring that the content was relevant and impactful.
Two keynote themes we explored were Contagious Culture and Positive Energy Workplace, each resonating deeply with our team. Anese and Jenny carefully and thoughtfully worked with our team through pre-planning calls to help us ‘put the love into it’ and ensure genuine care and concern for the wellbeing of our team members.
If you’re looking to boost your team’s energy, presence, and overall effectiveness, I highly recommend the IEP Method® virtual session. It is an invaluable investment in your people and your organization.
I have been practicing the IEP Method® work for more than a decade, and brought Anese’s work into a private client event that focuses on Health, Wealth and the Future of Work. The group consisted of CEOs, Authors, Millionaires and Billionaires, Entrepreneurs and Doctors, that ranged from Wall Street to the streets of India — with Sadguru being a recent speaker.
Anese spent time with these game changers and quickly was able to get leaders of capital (both human and financial) to understand the criticality of how we show up, the energy we bring to every interaction, and how intention impacts outcomes to the experience and to the bottom line for a company.
She engaged the group authentically within moments, and afterwards had several leaders asking to engage her team for their company. This isn’t optional work, this isn’t soft skills and this isn’t about what some people need. These are mission-critical skill sets for every individual to succeed in work and in life.
ClubVMSA contracted with Anese Cavanaugh to present her IEP Method® to a group of over 60 Global Procurement and Talent Acquisition professionals on March 30, 2023 in Ft. Lauderdale.
Prior to the event, Anese and her staff were extremely professional in taking the time to understand our membership audience and their specific needs and mindsets. She graciously interacted with our members in a professional manner to gain insights into how she could fine-tune her presentation to the audience. During the event and her presentation, Anese captivated the audience and engaged them in full participation. The feedback we received has been positive and moving for many of the attendees, especially the realization that their leadership skills were in their hands and that they had the power to ‘step up their game’
I highly recommend Anese and the IEP Method to any organization that desires strong leadership and action from their executives.
Anese Cavanaugh’s session and the IEP Method® proved to be an exceptional fit for our needs, and the experience surpassed our expectations in several significant ways.
We are intentional about fostering interactivity and self-reflection in our meetings, encouraging full team participation. Anese’s engaging style and the IEP 5-step model seamlessly aligned with our approach, creating a highly interactive and introspective environment. As a people-first culture, we prioritize tools and concepts that promote holistic growth, and the IEP Method® did just that, resonating deeply with our team members.
Anese facilitated an atmosphere where our group felt comfortable being vulnerable, which significantly strengthened our connections.
During the session, our group was highly engaged, displaying a keen interest in the content. Following the session, numerous team members expressed their enthusiasm for the material, particularly noting its applicability in their personal lives.
The most impactful part of the meeting was Anese’s use of real-life examples to illustrate the concepts. This approach made the material relatable and actionable. Overall, Anese Cavanaugh’s keynote session was transformative for our team. Her energy, expertise, and the practical insights provided by the IEP Method® have left a lasting impression, equipping our workforce with valuable tools for personal and professional growth.
Anese’s keynote session for the Los Angeles County Office of Education was in the morning on day 2 of our convening. The prior day, our group addressed areas of need each district had via low performance. Although the point was improvement, looking at this data can be a little depressing, so the energy coming into the second day was solemn. Despite the initial somberness of the group, Anese soon had everyone up and excited and the room was a buzz! Plus, the energy did not leave when Anese was finished, it carried through the day and the conversations around the room were full of ideas and hopefulness. Our leaders were ready to go back and share with the staff and focus the energy on possibilities!
Anese’s presentation teaching the IEP Method® really brings to light the need to take the steps needed to focus your energy in a positive and purposeful way. Leading schools is extremely complex and often overwhelming, and leaders often feel the weight of the entire school on their shoulders. If you don’t take care of yourself or focus on the energy you bring, leaders can become almost paralyzed under the pressure. In working on yourself through the IEP framework, you become a more effective leader and the weight is lifted.
Anese’s message brought us out of the darkness and gave everyone the motivation and a sense of “we can do this” by bringing up the energy.
We had been following Anese’s work for years and were impressed with her positive energy and charismatic ability to motivate and lead others. Learning about Intentional Energetic Presence® (IEP) and the IEP Method® was a really different topic the Institute For Entrepreneurial Excellence had not experienced before, and her session was refreshing to business leaders who have grown tired at the same old seminars!
After the session, my customers started to have more awareness of their energy, and how it impacts others. We saw how leaders were bringing IEP to their entire teams and experiencing more positivity in their company cultures. They saw first-hand how a positive, engaged, energetic attitude can be contagious to others, and to be mindful in concentrating on how you feel and your energy level. Practicing self awareness and keeping yourself at your best really can have a positive influence on others!