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Annie Gibbins is a 5× CEO, Grand Stevie® Award winner and #1 bestselling author. Founder of Nexus Leadership, she helps boards, CEOs and founders run the right organisation properly — through the AI transition and beyond. Author of AI for Association Leaders. Sydney.
Annie Gibbins is a 5× CEO with 15+ years leading Australia's peak bodies in healthcare and education — ASUM, Glaucoma Australia, the Australian Traditional Medicine Society and others. She is a Grand Stevie® Award winner (2023), #1 bestselling author of AI for Association Leaders, and host of Women's Biz Leaders on Ticker News.
Annie is the founder of Nexus Leadership — Association Management, Business Management, Practice Management and Consulting — practical training and advisory businesses for boards, CEOs, practice owners and founders navigating AI, governance and growth. Author or co-author of 20 books. Three Literary Titan Gold Awards. Based in Sydney.
Annie Gibbins is a 5× CEO, Grand Stevie® Award winner and #1 bestselling author. Across 15+ years she has led some of Australia's largest health and education peak bodies — including the Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine, Glaucoma Australia and the Australian Traditional Medicine Society — driving structural transformations including 67% revenue growth, $6.7M in confirmed bequests, and national reach into 12 million Australians.
Annie is the founder of Nexus Leadership — Association Management, Business Management, Practice Management and Consulting — practical training, courses and advisory businesses for the boards, CEOs, practice owners and founders running the organisations Australia depends on. Her signature framework, Annify™, is the operating model behind every CEO role she's held: unlimited mindset, can-do culture, smart systems, innovation as a habit, and exponential value that serves the people the organisation exists for.
She is the author of AI for Association Leaders, a #1 Amazon bestseller now operating across the Australian association sector, host of the AI With Heart podcast, and host of Women's Biz Leaders on Ticker News. She is the author or co-author of 20 books, including eight co-authored anthologies that have produced multiple #1 Amazon bestsellers and three Literary Titan Gold Awards. She co-founded two national colleges with her husband James, and previously founded Women's Biz Global, the international leadership coaching practice for which she won her Grand Stevie. Annie earned three degrees while raising five children, including two sets of twins 26 months apart. Based in Sydney. Nanna to three granddaughters. Married to James for nearly four decades.
For journalists, podcasters and producers, these are the topics I'm currently most active on. Each comes with verifiable credentials and real cases to draw from.
How boards and CEOs are implementing AI in 2026. What's working, what's failing, what every board should be asking. Author of #1 bestseller AI for Association Leaders.
15+ years inside Australia's national peak bodies. Member dynamics, board-CEO boundaries, financial sustainability, sector advocacy. The real operating challenges.
Healthcare and allied health perspectives: ultrasound medicine, ophthalmology, traditional medicine. Working with regulators, professional colleges, and government health agencies.
The five decisions every leader must make before 2030. The strategic foresight required to lead through technology shifts without losing the team that got you here.
The unconventional route to the top. Imposter syndrome as data, not destiny. The structural barriers women face, and the practical moves that get past them.
The publisher chapter: putting other authors' names on covers as a leadership intervention. Eight co-authored anthologies. Multiple #1 Amazon bestsellers. Three Literary Titan Gold Awards.
Selected magazine covers, podcast appearances, and editorial features. Full media history available on request.
Featured on David Koch's flagship business programme as CEO of the Australian Traditional Medicine Society — the iconic financial journalist's Entrepreneur in the Spotlight segment profiling Australia's most interesting CEOs and operators.
Empowering the Next Generation of Women in STEM. Women's Biz Leaders dives into the world of female entrepreneurship and leadership on Ticker News — Annie interviews remarkable women across business, health, science, sport and the public sector, hosted in her capacity as CEO of Women's Biz Global. An ongoing series running since 2023.
Selected guest appearances on leadership, association and practitioner podcasts. Full podcast guest history available in the press archive above.
A conversation on the practical realities of leading associations through the AI transition. What's working, what's failing, and how peak body CEOs are bringing their teams along without losing the human element that makes member work matter.
A three-part guest series spanning career story, branding, and operational scaling for practitioners. From "How Annie Built a CEO Career Against All Odds" to systems, financial confidence and sustainable practice. Over 110 minutes of dedicated content.
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