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Ann Handley
Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of Everybody Writes | World's First Chief Content Officer | Partner at MarketingProfs | Digital Marketing Pioneer
Speaker Ann Handley is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, the world's first Chief Content Officer, and one of the most respected voices in content marketing. As partner at MarketingProfs and author of Everybody Writes, she helps senior marketers cut through noise with clearer thinking, sharper writing, and content audiences actually want to read. Her keynotes mix warmth, humor, and tools teams can use the next morning.
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Ann Handley biography
Marketing speaker Ann Handley is a digital marketing pioneer, Wall Street Journal bestselling author, and the world’s first Chief Content Officer. Speaker Ann Handley advises brands of every size on how to use clearer thinking and ridiculously good content to grow business in noisy markets.
She is partner and Chief Content Officer at MarketingProfs, the marketing training and education company, where her work reaches more than 600,000 marketers each month. Her newsletter, Total Annarchy, has over 50,000 subscribers. IBM named her among the seven people shaping modern marketing, and Forbes has named her the most influential woman in social media.
Books, Newsletters, and the Power of Plain Language
Her bestselling Everybody Writes, now in a fully revised second edition, has become a standard reference for marketing teams, agencies, and writers who want to produce content that actually gets read. She also co-authored Content Rules, and her writing has been translated into 19 languages and featured in Entrepreneur, Inc., and the Huffington Post. Her fourth book is on the way.
Before MarketingProfs, Ann co-founded ClickZ.com, one of the earliest and largest sources of interactive marketing news and commentary. Today she advises Fortune 500 marketing teams, startups, and creator-led brands on the craft of content and the strategy behind it.
As a speaker, Ann Handley brings rare combinations to the stage: warmth and rigor, humor and discipline, big ideas and practical tools. Senior audiences leave her keynotes with a sharper editorial eye, a clearer brand voice, and the confidence to make their marketing meaningfully better. Learn more at annhandley.com.
Ann Handley Speaking Videos
Ann Handley - The importance of email in digital marketing
Ann Handley - Good Content vs. Good Enough Content
Ann Handley Keynote Topics
Most marketing writing is mediocre. The teams that learn to write better, clearer, sharper, more human, get more attention, more trust, and ultimately more business. In this keynote, Ann Handley walks audiences through her signature frameworks for editing, structure, and voice, drawn from the second edition of her bestseller Everybody Writes. Expect practical tools, lively examples, and a renewed enthusiasm for the writing your team actually has to do tomorrow morning.
In a world that worships speed, urgency, and constant publishing, Ann Handley makes the counterintuitive case that the most valuable marketing today is slow: more considered, more useful, and more rooted in a real point of view. She uses examples from brands of every size to show why patient, deliberate content compounds, and how to build a content operation that protects depth without sacrificing momentum.
Average content has never been more invisible. In this energizing keynote, Ann Handley pushes marketing teams to leave their comfort zones and build content programs that are bigger in ambition, bolder in voice, and braver in point of view. Drawing on case studies across B2B, B2C, and nonprofit sectors, she shows what 'quality' really means in modern marketing and how to motivate teams to produce it.
Markets are noisier and stranger than ever, and the old playbook for brand storytelling no longer fits. In this keynote, Ann Handley lays out the seven elements modern brand stories must include, the traps that flatten most marketing narratives, and the structural shifts every senior marketer needs to understand. Audiences leave with a clearer, more confident way to tell their company's story in the world as it actually is.
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FAQs on Booking Ann Handley
Why Ann Handley?
Ann Handley is one of the most respected voices in modern marketing because she earned that respect the hard way: as a working writer, a digital marketing pioneer, and an operator who has built and led content teams for decades. Her bestselling book Everybody Writes set the standard for marketing writing, her newsletter reaches more than 50,000 readers, and IBM has named her among the people shaping modern marketing. Her keynotes give senior teams a sharper editorial eye, clearer thinking, and the courage to be different. Book Ann Handley through Aurum Speakers Bureau to bring credible, useful, joyfully smart marketing wisdom to your next event.
Who is Ann Handley?
Ann Handley is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, the world's first Chief Content Officer, and a partner at MarketingProfs. She is best known for her book Everybody Writes, now in its second edition, and her widely read newsletter Total Annarchy. Earlier in her career, she co-founded ClickZ.com, one of the first major sources of interactive marketing news, helping to define the digital marketing field as it emerged.
What is Everybody Writes about?
Everybody Writes is Ann Handley's guide to creating ridiculously good content. It teaches marketers, founders, and teams the craft and discipline of writing for business: how to think clearly, structure ideas, edit ruthlessly, and produce content audiences want to read. The second edition is fully revised with new examples, updated frameworks, and chapters on the evolution of content marketing in an AI-saturated era.
Which audiences benefit most from booking Ann Handley?
Ann Handley is booked by senior marketing teams, content leaders, B2B and B2C brands, agencies, and creator-led businesses that want to raise the quality bar on their writing and storytelling. Her keynotes work as well for a 200-person sales kickoff as for a 5,000-person marketing summit. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to bring Ann Handley to your event as a keynote speaker, workshop leader, or fireside chat guest.
How to book Ann Handley as a keynote speaker?
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How much is Ann Handley speaking fee?
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Yes, Ann Handley is available for virtual keynotes and webinars. To book Ann Handley for a virtual event, please complete the contact form or send us an email to inquire about the special fees for virtual engagements.
