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Five keynotes. Built for the rooms that matter.

Customised for your audience. Anchored in 15+ years of CEO experience and seven Stevie Awards in one night. Delivered without a deck full of stock photography.

Annie Gibbins keynote speaking
What I Do On Stage

I'm a global health transformation executive and 5× CEO. I help leaders, boards and organisations deliver real outcomes through the AI transition, without losing their authenticity and purpose.

Founder · Nexus Association Management Grand Stevie® Award Winner #1 Bestselling Author Ticker News TV Host
Watch · Speaker Reel

See me on stage.

The stage is where the work meets the room. Below: a short highlights reel from recent keynotes, followed by a full keynote delivered at the State Library.

Selected highlights · keynote stages 2023–2025
Full keynote · State Library
The Five Keynotes

One framework. Five conversations.

Each keynote anchors to one of the five Annify™ pillars, the operating model behind every CEO role I've held. Every talk is customised to your audience, your sector and your stakes.

01 · The Story Keynote
The Unconventional Route
Annify Pillar · Unlimited Mindset
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
Annify Pillar · Can-Do Culture
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, looking at culture, capability, and clarity to find 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 conditions every can-do team needs (and what leaders accidentally remove)
  • 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™
Annify Pillar · Smart Systems
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.
04 · Strategic Foresight
The Five-Year Horizon
Annify Pillar · Innovation as a Habit
Format 45–60 min keynote · or strategy facilitation

Five decisions every leader must make before 2030, and the cost of waiting another year on each one. Built for boards and C-suites who are tired of trend slides and want a working framework for the decisions that compound. Innovation isn't a creativity exercise. It's a discipline of asking what your members will need next, then building it before they ask.

What your audience walks out with
  • The five strategic decisions that define the next five years
  • How to build innovation as a habit, not a department
  • A framework for identifying what your members will need before they ask
  • The questions every board should be asking, and rarely is
Best for: Strategic planning days, board offsites, sector innovation summits, government strategy forums, C-suite gatherings, futures conferences.
05 · Operational AI
The Quiet AI Advantage
Annify Pillar · Exponential Value
Format 30–60 min keynote · panel-ready

The AI decade won't be won by the loudest. It will be won by the leaders already running quiet operational excellence. The ones who compound value for the people they serve rather than chase the next trend cycle. A current argument for the rooms tired of 2018 talking points. Substantive, practical, and refreshingly free of performance.

What your audience walks out with
  • The three operational AI strengths the best leaders are already deploying
  • How to compound value in an AI-saturated market without the noise
  • The leadership style that wins the AI decade, and the one that loses it
  • A grounded view of where leadership goes in the next five years
Best for: Leadership conferences, C-suite forums, board strategy days, diversity and inclusion summits, women's leadership programmes, mixed-audience events seeking a current voice.
Beyond Keynotes

Four other formats I'm regularly booked for.

Many events need more than a 45-minute talk. These are the formats I run alongside the five keynotes. Sometimes instead of, sometimes in combination.

01
MC & Host

Full-event MC for galas, conferences, awards ceremonies and government forums. Ticker News TV host with thousands of on-air hours.

02
Panel Moderator

Boardroom-grade panel facilitation. Equally comfortable with C-suite, ministers, sector leaders, and clinical specialists.

03
Workshop & Masterclass

Half-day and full-day formats built around the Annify pillars. AI governance, board readiness, women's leadership cohorts.

04
Boardroom Briefing

Closed-door briefings for boards and executive teams. Confidential, direct, and structured around your specific decision pressure.

Recent Stages

The rooms I'm grateful to have been in.

From the Stevie Awards gala in New York to the AI for Association Leaders Summit. Sector summits, peak body conferences, corporate events, leadership stages. Every room teaches me something, and I bring it to the next one.

Annie Gibbins with Grand Stevie Award
Stevies Gala
Grand Winner · NYC · 2023
Annie Gibbins keynote on stage
AI for Association Leaders Summit
Keynote · 2025
Annie Gibbins in fireside conversation with Dr Talat Uppal on stage
Fireside Conversation
With Dr Talat Uppal · TWINS book launch panel
Annie Gibbins keynote at Strategic Board Series, Sofitel Sydney Wentworth
Strategic Board Series
Keynote · Sofitel Sydney Wentworth · 2026
Annie Gibbins on Ticker News broadcast studio set
Ticker News
TV Host · Broadcast Studio
Annie Gibbins on cyber panel at COSBOA National Small Business Summit, Park Hyatt Melbourne
COSBOA National Summit
Cyber Panel · Park Hyatt Melbourne
Recent & Featured Stages
United NationsScience Summit
Stevie® AwardsNYC
COSBOANational Summit
RANZCOAnnual Congress
PfizerLeadership
Ticker NewsTV Network
AssociationsForum

International

  • Stevie Awards · NYC
  • World Congresses
  • Thrive Global

Association & Peak Body

  • AI for Association Leaders Summit
  • Associations Forum
  • COSBOA
  • ADONZ

Medical & Healthcare

  • RANZCO
  • Australian Orthopaedic Association
  • ASUM · ATMS
  • Glaucoma Australia

Corporate

  • Pfizer · Alcon · Allergan
  • Specsavers
  • Ticker News
  • Pharmacy Guild

Women's Leadership

  • Women's Agenda
  • Women in Leadership Forums
  • Stevies · Women in Business
  • I Am Woman Global

Community & Service

  • Rotary
  • Lions
  • Probus
  • University Graduations
In Their Own Words

What clients actually say.

"Annie has a way of cutting through the noise and giving you absolute clarity. My association grew faster in 6 months than it had in the last 3 years."

Association CEO New South Wales

"Working with Annie helped me lead with more confidence, implement AI tools without overwhelm, and stay aligned with my purpose. And my revenue has doubled."

SME Founder Sydney

"I came to Annie for strategy but what I got was transformation. She's the mentor every heart-led leader needs."

Executive Director Member organisation
Beyond the Keynote

Not every engagement needs a stage. Some need a partner.

Keynotes and MC work bring the energy. The deeper work — the strategy days, the governance reviews, the AI implementation programmes, the executive education — happens through my two parallel businesses.

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Every room is different. Every audience deserves a talk built for them. Not pulled from a slide library.