Here is what event attendees have to say about their experience with Anne Marie:
“What a great keynote address with so many actionable takeaways! Thank you for starting off our conference with such a powerful message.”
Attendee, Embark Behavioral Health Leadership Conference
“Parents, teachers, administrators, athletes ALL need to hear Anne Marie speak about the importance, impact and life lessons school sports programs can bring to people’s lives.”
Attendee, IESA AD Conference
“This day falls in my top 10! What an amazing day. Our guest speakers were so inspirational. Thank you!!”
Attendee, Vermont Women in Leadership Conference
“I have been coming to this conference for 25 years and have never left the opening keynote as inspired as I am today.”
Attendee, Washington State Athletic Directors Convention
“She will make you laugh, tug at your heart strings and make you see the importance of the small things in life.”
Attendee, MoSBA Annual Conference
“Anne Marie Anderson was incredible! I left feeling excited, empowered, and ready to lead a life with an audacious mindset.”
Attendee, Vermont Women in Leadership Conference
“Anne Marie’s relatability to the audience allowed her to keep the audience engaged. Her message had purpose and hit the mark.”
Attendee, IESA AD Conference
“Anne Marie prompts a captivating conversation about how being audacious in your every day life can move mountains and catapult your team into arenas they did not know were possible.”
Attendee, Embark Behavioral Health Leadership Conference
“During the workshop I attended with Anne Marie at UCLA, I learned from her the process and commitment it requires to be the best. Not just good or great, but the best!”
UCLA Volleyball Athlete
“Before the conference, I told my wife that I was going to quit and go back to corporate. After hearing Anne Marie Anderson speak, I changed my mind. She inspired me to find new ways to fall in love with this job I have done for fifteen years. My perspective has changed and I’m not done yet!”
Attendee, California Educators Conference
“With Anne Marie you have someone who in a very short time, can create such a vulnerability with others that they can tangibly feel what she has gone through and then motivate people to acknowledge that fear exists, but you can still succeed in doing hard things if you put fear in its place.”
Attendee, Embark Behavioral Health Leadership Conference
“Anne Marie speaks from her heart and shares the wisdom she has gained from her years interacting with high performing athletes and raising her family. The best take away was her discussion regarding who we should have in our “front row”. As educators we need a strong front row to help us navigate the ever changing waters of public education.”
Attendee, MoSBA Annual Conference
“Anne Marie was one of the best keynotes I have heard in quite a long time!”
Attendee, Vermont Women in Leadership Conference
“She has wonderful experience, in life and professionally, to motivate leaders.”
Attendee, Embark Behavioral Health Leadership Conference
“Anne Marie’s message is key to those who work with young athletes.”
Attendee, IESA AD Conference
“I loved hearing about her experiences with ESPN. The story she told us was so touching! I felt as though Anne Marie was able to relate with all that comes with being an Athelic Director!”
Attendee, IESA AD Conference
“I loved Anne Marie’s energy. It all makes so much more sense and I can see my future now. I’m determined to make time for what’s important and not let urgent rule all. It is the new audacious me!”
Attendee, Vermont Women in Leadership Conference
“She demonstrates the epitome of fighting to reach for your goals and having to deal with adversity head on. Love how she shares personal stories and her experiences”
Attendee, Embark Behavioral Health Leadership Conference
“Anne Marie’s message was motivating, clear and concise, and from the heart. The message of living audaciously stuck.”
Attendee, Embark Behavioral Health Leadership Conference
“My biggest takeaway from the workshop I attended with Anne Marie is to learn how to live with audacity, have no regrets, and learn how to speak to yourself. You are your greatest advocate and the way you talk to yourself matters!“
TCU Volleyball Athlete
“Anne Marie Anderson, I took notes I have read and re read. You were fantastic – inspiring, motivating, enlightening. Thank you.”
Attendee, Embark Behavioral Health Leadership Conference
“Her personal experience with her child shows what a positive impact good educators, coaches, and other students can have on an individual, allowing them to feel a part of something and resulting in self-worth.”
Attendee, MosBA Annual Cnference
“Anne Marie was able to captivate me as a person with little interest in sports, but high interest in helping people be their best in difficult times. She made me laugh and cry, then want to do better for kids.”
Attendee, IESA AD Conference
“Anne Marie, thank you for sharing your life experiences in such an authentic and inspiring way. You are wonderful and I am honored to have had the opportunity to hear you speak.”
Attendee, Embark Behavioral Health Leadership Conference
“She is a riveting speaker, her life experience is inspiring.”
Attendee, Embark Behavioral Health Leadership Conference
“Anne Marie She truly reminds you of your why!“
Attendee, MoSBA Annual Conference
“If not now, then when? Thank you inspiring us all with your vulnerability to dream BIG!”
Attendee, Embark Behavioral Health Leadership Conference
“Anne Marie has excelled personally and professionally and knows how to teach others to do the same. She is engaging, confident, assertive, and compassionate. She is a great storyteller. She has integrity, meaning she has lived what she is teaching.”
Attendee, Embark Behavioral Health Leadership Conference
“I loved hearing about overcoming hurdles as a woman in sports broadcasting. I enjoyed the stories about her interviews & interactions with sports legends, but I most appreciated the real life, mom life, emotional imbalances & struggles to help raise our kids to find connections with other people & activities.”
Attendee, MoSBA Annual Conference
“Anne Marie shared very interesting stories from her journalist years and did a great job relating them to how these lessons could be used in my every day profession (front row). I think as a new Athetic Director, it was so empowering to hear her son’s story and their family’s perspective on how athletics can help save our young people.”
Attendee, IESA AD Conference
“Although known for her involvement in sports newcasting, she has a pleasant style that would appeal to all in the audience. Her vitality, truthfulness, and family situation draws you in and you totally understand her frustration solving a school and very personal issue that was heretofore not in her normal routine or probably not experienced by those in the audience – but you had to cheer how it was resolved!”
Attendee, MoSBA Annual Conference
“Anne Marie used humor and vulnerability, along with an entire career’s worth of great stories, to show why scholastic sports are important beyond wins and losses or college scholarships. She provided a concrete example of how sports can help us meet some of our students who are at the margins and let them feel success that they might not see in the classroom.”
Attendee, IESA AD Conference