ABOUT US

Ann Andrews | Director
Dip Bus (Pmer), CSP

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• Team facilitation
• Dealing with poor performance
• Succession planning and career development 
• Conference keynotes
• Conference break-out sessions

Ann Andrews is an International Speaker; Human Resources Consultant; team facilitator and author of four books:

• Shift Your But
• Finding the Square Root of a Banana
• Did I Really Employ You?
• My Dear Franchisees

She is also a contributor to:

• You Don't Make A Big Leap Without A Gulp
• Best Of The Best - A Book Of NZ Entrepreneurs
• The Powr of More Than One
• Mum's The Word

During her career in Personnel and Human Resources, Ann became involved in setting up self-managing teams.  Once she saw the results that working this way could achieve, Ann became totally committed to working with teams. For the past 15 years, Ann has worked as an independent consultant to some of the largest organisations in New Zealand, showing them how to set up high-performing teams and achieve results they had only dared dream of.

Ann is a Past National President of the National Speakers' Association of New Zealand, and was Speaker of the Year in 2000. She is a CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) one of only four people to have achieved this standard in New Zealand.  She is a regular speaker at national and international conferences, where she brings a humorous, interactive and thought provoking approach to the challenges of what she calls getting out of parent/child behaviours and into adult/adult work practices.

Just some of Ann's credentials:

• A Past National President of the National Speakers' Association of New Zealand.
• First woman in New Zealand to be awarded APS (Accredited Professional Speaker) 2000
• Speaker of the Year NSANZ 2000
• Nominated for Business Woman of the Year by Her Business 2002
• Nominated for The International Ambassador's Award for NSANZ 2002 - only one person per country is nominated
• In 2003 gained CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) accreditation.  
• Unanimously voted Best Paper at the 10th National Organisational Development Conference, Auckland, 2003

Ann is also the founder of The Corporate Tool-box a unique website with online training resources businesses large and small.