$20,001 - $30,000
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California
Anne Marie Anderson is a three-time Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, keynote speaker, and author who has spent more than three decades inside the most competitive rooms in the world, with unmatched access to the greatest athletes and coaches of her generation.
She interviewed Kobe Bryant more than 40 times across his career. She sat down with Tiger Woods at the peak of his dominance. She covered Serena Williams, LeBron James, Phil Jackson, and the architects of championship organizations in the NBA, NFL, MLB, and beyond. She has called 1,500-plus live events for ESPN, ABC, NBC, FOX, and TBS and produced ESPN SportsCenter coverage across six Olympic Games, the Super Bowl, NBA and MLB playoffs, heavyweight title fights, and golf’s majors. She was the only female broadcast partner Basketball Hall of Famer Bill Walton ever had.
That kind of access changes how you see leadership. Through decades watching the best in the world perform under pressure, lose everything, rebuild, and win again, Anne Marie noticed a pattern.
The best in the world had something beyond talent. The trained ability to read a situation as it actually is, not as it was or as you wish it were, and move decisively before the window closes. That insight is the spine of her keynote, The Agility Advantage, and the framework she brings to corporate teams, C-suites, and leadership conferences worldwide. Her book, Cultivating Audacity: Dismantle Doubt and Let Yourself Win, debuted as Amazon’s #1 New Release in Business Diversity and Career Growth. She has been featured in Forbes, on Good Morning America, and across the ESPN family of networks. Anne Marie is a mother of three and a lifelong athlete. She still calls live events for ESPN, and she is still in the room.
THE AGILITY ADVANTAGE: Read the Moment. Make the Call. Change the Game.
Every decision has an expiration date. Today’s leaders aren’t rewarded for solving yesterday’s problems. The very best leaders read the moment for what it is, not what they hoped it would be, then make their move before they become predictable.
During more than three decades working for ESPN, three-time Emmy Award-winning broadcaster Anne Marie Anderson was in the locker rooms and boardrooms of the most successful teams and organizations in sports. Along the way, she noticed a pattern. The leaders and teams who consistently outperform everyone else aren’t necessarily the most talented. They’re the most agile.
Drawing on more than three decades of front row access to the world’s highest pressure moments, including more than forty interviews with Kobe Bryant and conversations with Tiger Woods, Serena Williams, and other elite performers at the height of their careers, AMA explains the decision making patterns that separate leaders who react from those who consistently outperform under pressure.
It isn’t the first decision. It’s what they do the moment that decision stops working.
Markets shift. Priorities change. The strategy that won the room in Q1 stalls out by Q3. The leaders who separate themselves aren’t the ones who commit hardest to the original plan. They’re the ones who can release it the instant the moment demands something different, without losing credibility, momentum, or their team’s trust.
Through her signature framework, The Agility Drill®, Anne Marie gives leaders and teams a practical, repeatable approach for reading a room, responding with precision, and releasing what no longer works, so they can re-enter the moment sharper than before. Rather than another leadership theory, it’s a system they can apply immediately, in the boardroom, on the retreat stage, and in the decisions that shape a quarter, a culture, or a career. Because yesterday’s playbook won’t solve today’s challenges. Agility will.
Audience Takeaways:
- Read the moment with precision.
- Communication that lands.
- More adaptable teams.
- Greater trust when it matters most.
Agile Sales: The Sales Advantage Nobody Trains For.
Every sales pitch has an expiration date. Today’s top producers aren’t rewarded for running the perfect script. The very best ones read the buyer for who they are in that moment, not who they were on the last call, then adjust before the deal goes cold.
During more than three decades working for ESPN, three-time Emmy Award-winning broadcaster Anne Marie Anderson was in the locker rooms and boardrooms of the most successful teams and organizations in sports. Along the way, she noticed a pattern. The sales teams and leaders who consistently outperform everyone else aren’t necessarily the most talented. They’re the most agile.
Drawing on more than three decades of front row access to the world’s highest pressure moments, including more than forty interviews with Kobe Bryant and conversations with Tiger Woods, Serena Williams, and other elite performers at the height of their careers, AMA explains the decision making patterns that separate sellers who freeze up when a deal shifts from those who close it anyway.
It isn’t the first pitch. It’s what a seller does the moment that pitch stops landing. Buyers change their minds. Budgets move. The objection that closed easily in Q1 stalls the whole deal by Q3. The sellers who separate themselves aren’t the ones who push hardest on the original pitch. They’re the ones who can read the shift, adjust in real time, and close anyway, without losing trust or the relationship.
Through her signature framework, The Agility Drill®, Anne Marie gives sales teams a practical, repeatable approach for reading a buyer, responding with precision, and releasing a pitch that no longer fits, so they can re-enter the conversation sharper than before. Agility isn’t a trait some reps are born with and others aren’t. It’s a system, and it can be built by design, not left to instinct. Because yesterday’s pitch won’t close today’s deal. Agility will.
Audience Takeaways:
- Spot buying signals sooner.
- Pivot with precision when deals go off script.
- Improve close rates.
- Build teams that stay composed under pressure.
Agile Audacity: Know What the Moment Requires. Have the Courage to Act.
What if the biggest risk isn’t making the wrong move, but waiting too long to make one? The best leaders know that success is not just about having the right strategy or the right talent. It is about recognizing when the moment has changed and having the courage to change with it. Agility is knowing what the moment requires. Audacity is having the courage to act on it.
In Agile Audacity, three-time Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and author Anne Marie Anderson draws from three decades inside the highest-pressure moments in sports, where the difference between winning and losing often comes down to what happens when the original plan no longer fits the moment.
The most successful leaders and teams do not cling to what worked before. They read what is happening now, respond with precision, and have the audacity to move before certainty arrives.
Agility is the skill. Audacity is what allows you to use it.
Through unforgettable stories from championship locker rooms, live television, and her own unconventional career, Anne Marie shows audiences how to:
- Read the moment and recognize when changing circumstances require a different move.
- Respond with precision instead of relying on yesterday’s playbook.
- Release the need to be right, loosening your grip on what no longer serves the outcome.
- Act with audacity, making the bold move before certainty, permission, or perfect timing arrives.
Because recognizing the right move is only half the equation.
Audacity is what gets you to act once agility tells you what the moment requires. Agile Audacity gives leaders and teams a practical way to navigate uncertainty, make stronger decisions under pressure, and move when the window is open instead of realizing afterward that it has closed.
Audience Takeaways:
- A practical framework for reading changing circumstances
- responding decisively
- releasing what no longer works
- having the audacity to act when the moment demands it
Cultivating Audacity: Dismantle Doubt and Let Yourself Win
ANNE MARIE ANDERSON
California
$20,001 - $30,000
Keynote fee falls within this range. For exact fee, please contact us.
Anne Marie Anderson is a three-time Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, keynote speaker, and author who has spent more than three decades inside the most competitive rooms in the world, with unmatched access to the greatest athletes and coaches of her generation.
She interviewed Kobe Bryant more than 40 times across his career. She sat down with Tiger Woods at the peak of his dominance. She covered Serena Williams, LeBron James, Phil Jackson, and the architects of championship organizations in the NBA, NFL, MLB, and beyond. She has called 1,500-plus live events for ESPN, ABC, NBC, FOX, and TBS and produced ESPN SportsCenter coverage across six Olympic Games, the Super Bowl, NBA and MLB playoffs, heavyweight title fights, and golf’s majors. She was the only female broadcast partner Basketball Hall of Famer Bill Walton ever had.
That kind of access changes how you see leadership. Through decades watching the best in the world perform under pressure, lose everything, rebuild, and win again, Anne Marie noticed a pattern.
The best in the world had something beyond talent. The trained ability to read a situation as it actually is, not as it was or as you wish it were, and move decisively before the window closes. That insight is the spine of her keynote, The Agility Advantage, and the framework she brings to corporate teams, C-suites, and leadership conferences worldwide. Her book, Cultivating Audacity: Dismantle Doubt and Let Yourself Win, debuted as Amazon’s #1 New Release in Business Diversity and Career Growth. She has been featured in Forbes, on Good Morning America, and across the ESPN family of networks. Anne Marie is a mother of three and a lifelong athlete. She still calls live events for ESPN, and she is still in the room.
THE AGILITY ADVANTAGE: Read the Moment. Make the Call. Change the Game.
Agile Sales: The Sales Advantage Nobody Trains For.
Agile Audacity: Know What the Moment Requires. Have the Courage to Act.
