Can the keynote be tailored to our industry or audience?

Always. Every booking starts with an alignment call so the examples, language and case studies fit your sector — whether that's an association AGM, a corporate leadership summit, or a health and allied-health conference. No generic deck gets delivered twice.

What are your speaking fees?

Fees depend on format, location and whether a workshop or masterclass is added. Get in touch with your event details and you'll have a straight answer, not a runaround.

Do you travel outside Sydney, or internationally?

Yes. Annie Gibbins is based in Sydney and speaks nationally and internationally — ADONZ's 2025 conference in Christchurch is a recent example. Virtual and hybrid delivery are available when travel isn't practical.

Is this suitable for a non-technical audience worried about AI?

Yes, that's most audiences, and it's exactly what the AI With Heart™ keynote was built for. No coding, no jargon — the framework is plain-language and grounded in twenty years of actually running organisations through change.

What's the difference between a keynote and MC booking?

A keynote is content — one of the five signature talks, delivered to make a specific point land. MC work is different: Annie runs the room for the full event, holds the energy between sessions, and keeps things moving. Some events book both.

Do you offer workshops or a longer format, not just a keynote?

Yes. Most keynotes run 45–90 minutes, and several are also available as a full-day masterclass for boards or leadership teams who want to go deeper than a single session allows.

What technical setup do you need?

A lapel or headset mic, HDMI feed to the venue's projection system, and a confidence monitor if the stage layout allows it. Full technical requirements are confirmed ahead of the event once the format is locked in.

Can we see you speak before booking?

Yes — a speaker showreel, a video from Annie's NSW State Library book launch, and footage of her winning the Grand Stevie Award are all available on the Speaking page.

Speaking · Annie Gibbins, Leadership Keynote Speaker

01 · The Story Keynote

The Unconventional Route

Format 30–60 min keynote · Q&A optional

The story behind the Grand Stevie. Nurse to 5× CEO across Australia's national peak bodies. Two sets of twins. Three degrees. One Grand Stevie plus six others in one night at the Marriott Marquis. This is the keynote that decides the ceiling is higher than they told you, and shows your audience how to lift theirs.

What your audience walks out with

The four moves that turn imposter syndrome into operational momentum
How to build a career when the orthodox path isn't available to you
The leadership permission slip most people have been waiting for
A framework for deciding which mountain is worth climbing next

Best for: Awards galas, leadership conferences, professional association events, university graduations, milestone celebrations, women's leadership programmes.

02 · The Culture Keynote

The Drift Diagnostic

Format 45–90 min keynote · or 3-hour board offsite

Every organisation drifts. The high-performers detect drift early and reset before it shows in the numbers. This is the 90-day diagnostic I've run inside every CEO tenure — the same diagnostic behind 67% revenue growth, $6.7M in confirmed bequests, and national reach into 12 million Australians at one turnaround alone. Culture, capability, and clarity: finding what's slipping before the board does. Practical, structured, and refreshingly free of motivational performance.

What your audience walks out with

The six signals of cultural drift most leaders miss until it's too late
A diagnostic framework you can run on Monday morning
The real numbers behind one turnaround: 67% revenue growth, $6.7M in bequests, 12M reach
How to reset without burning the trust you've built

Best for: Board offsites, executive leadership retreats, peak body conferences, organisational strategy days, change-leadership programs.

03 · Flagship

AI With Heart™

Format 45–90 min keynote · or full-day masterclass

The keynote behind my #1 bestseller. AI isn't the bottleneck. Humans are. This is the governance-grade framework for embedding AI into the operating model without losing the people, the culture, or the trust that made your organisation worth scaling in the first place. The most-booked keynote of the 2026 cycle.

What your audience walks out with

The Annify AI Operating Model: what to automate, what to keep human, what to retire
The five governance moves every board must make before mid-2026
How to roll AI through your team without losing your best people
The honest economics: what AI actually costs, what it actually delivers

Best for: Industry conferences, AI summits, peak body annual events, C-suite forums, board AI briefings, government and association sector events.

Also delivered as: AI With Heart™ — The Trust Edition, re-cut for membership bodies, customer-facing service businesses and organisations where the relationship is the product. Twenty years running peak bodies and businesses built on retention taught me exactly where AI strengthens trust, and where it quietly erodes it. Best for membership AGMs, retail and hospitality leadership, franchise conferences, and patient-experience teams.

04 · Financial Sustainability

The Membership Cliff

Format 45–60 min keynote · or strategy facilitation

Associations lose members even when engagement dashboards look fine. That's the cliff — the gap between "our numbers look okay" and "we're structurally unsustainable in five years." Built from the same turnaround that produced 67% revenue growth and $6.7M in confirmed bequests: the financial-sustainability playbook most boards never get told. Not a trend talk. A balance-sheet talk.

What your audience walks out with

The three leading indicators of membership decline that predate falling numbers by years
Why "engagement is up" and "we're dying" can both be true at once
The revenue diversification model behind a real 67% turnaround
A board-ready framework for the sustainability conversation nobody wants to start

Best for: Peak body conferences, board strategy days, CEO forums, membership and revenue-focused events, association AGMs.

05 · General Audience

Human + Intelligent

Format 45–90 min keynote

Every business now faces the same choice: bolt AI on as a cost-cutting layer, or build it in as a force multiplier for the humans who actually run the place. The organisations that pick the second option don't just retain trust — they compound it. Deliberately broader than an association-specific talk: built for any conference where "AI and the future of work" is the stated theme.

What your audience walks out with

The Human + Intelligent framework: a 2×2 for mapping where AI amplifies vs. erodes trust
Why "AI-first" is the wrong goal, and what to aim for instead
The retention math connecting trust to revenue
A same-week action: one process to hand to AI, one to protect as irreducibly human

Best for: General corporate conferences, "future of work" themed events, cross-industry audiences, mixed-sector summits.