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Father of Modern HR | Thinkers50 Hall of Fame | Rensis Likert Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan Ross | Co-Founder, The RBL Group | Bestselling Author of 30+ Books
Anne Morriss
Leadership Coach & Entrepreneur | Executive Founder, The Leadership Consortium | Co-Author of Move Fast & Fix Things | Co-Host of the Fixable Podcast
Anne Morriss is a leadership coach, entrepreneur, and bestselling author who believes meaningful change can happen fast and almost everything is fixable. Executive Founder of The Leadership Consortium and co-author of Move Fast & Fix Things, her TED talk reframing "move fast and break things" has struck a chord worldwide. On stage, she gives leaders a practical, one-week playbook for solving hard problems and building trust.
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Anne Morriss biography
Anne Morriss is a leadership coach, entrepreneur, and bestselling author driven by an infectious belief that meaningful change can happen fast, and that almost everything is fixable. Over the past two decades she has built and led mission-driven enterprises and coached leaders ranging from early-stage tech founders to Fortune 50 executives to public-sector leaders working to build national competitiveness.
Leadership speaker Anne Morriss is the Executive Founder of The Leadership Consortium, a first-of-its-kind leadership accelerator created to help more, and more varied, leaders reach senior roles and thrive there. Earlier in her career she was the founder and CEO of GenePeeks, a company that tackled the urgent need for better personal health information. Her TED talk, “5 steps to fix any problem at work,” reframes the Silicon Valley mantra “move fast and break things” into something more powerful, a practical, one-week playbook for leading through change while building trust.
Everything Is Fixable
With her collaborator and wife, Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei, Morriss is the co-author of three influential books, Uncommon Service, Unleashed, and Move Fast & Fix Things, and co-host of the popular TED Audio Collective podcast Fixable, where the pair help callers untangle real workplace problems in a single conversation. Where Frei often works from the front of the room, Morriss is known for the intimate, one-to-one coaching that helps leaders find the agency and power they already have. Together their work challenges a false trade-off at the heart of modern management: the idea that organizations must choose between moving quickly and taking care of their people.
As a speaker, Anne Morriss delivers a practical, playful, and deeply human message: hard problems can be solved with urgency, and change doesn’t have to take years. She speaks on leading change, building trust, solving problems fast, and unleashing the potential of the people around you. Audiences leave with a concrete, step-by-step approach they can put to work immediately, along with the confidence that the status quo is never as fixed as it seems.
Anne Morriss Speaking Videos
5 Steps to Fix Any Problem at Work | Anne Morriss | TED
Uncommon Service | Frances Frei & Anne Morriss | Talks at Google
Anne Morriss Keynote Topics
Based on her widely viewed TED talk, Anne Morriss offers a practical, playful, one-week playbook for leading through change, one step per day. She shows audiences how to accurately diagnose the real problem, have the courageous conversations that surface the truth, build trust, harness diverse perspectives, and use storytelling to bring people along.
Drawing on her book with Frances Frei, Morriss dismantles the belief that speed and doing right by people are at odds. She lays out the essential steps leaders can take to solve their hardest problems with urgency while making employees, customers, and shareholders better off, turning "move fast and break things" on its head.
Most of us default to solving hard problems over months or years. Morriss argues that most problems deserve a far more urgent response, and that leaders at every level have more agency than they think. This talk helps audiences shift their metabolic rate for change and act on what matters now.
As a coach who has worked with founders, executives, and public leaders, Morriss knows leadership is ultimately about empowering others. She shares how leaders can build the trust and belonging that let people do their best work, and how to lead effectively from any seat in the organization.
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FAQs on Booking Anne Morriss
Why Anne Morriss?
Booking Anne Morriss brings audiences an energizing, refreshingly practical voice on leadership and change. A leadership coach and entrepreneur who has spent two decades building mission-driven companies and coaching leaders from startup founders to Fortune 50 executives, she pairs real operating experience with an unusually human approach to solving hard problems. Her TED talk reframing "move fast and break things" has resonated with audiences worldwide, and her books and hit podcast Fixable, created with Frances Frei, have made her ideas part of the global leadership conversation. Warm, funny, and relentlessly optimistic, she leaves audiences with a concrete playbook and the belief that change can happen now, making her an ideal speaker for leadership events, corporate conferences, and organizations navigating transformation. To bring Anne Morriss to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Who is Anne Morriss?
Anne Morriss is a leadership coach, entrepreneur, and bestselling author, and the Executive Founder of The Leadership Consortium, a leadership accelerator designed to help more and varied leaders thrive in senior roles. She previously founded and led GenePeeks, a personal-health-information company. With Frances Frei she has co-authored three books and co-hosts the TED Audio Collective podcast Fixable, and her TED talk on fixing problems at work has been viewed widely around the world.
What is Anne Morriss's "move fast and fix things" idea?
Anne Morriss challenges the famous Silicon Valley mantra "move fast and break things," arguing that speed and care for people are not opposites. Her alternative, "move fast and fix things," holds that leaders can and should solve hard problems with urgency while strengthening trust with employees, customers, and stakeholders. She lays this out as a practical, day-by-day playbook for leading meaningful change in about a week.
What topics does leadership speaker Anne Morriss cover?
Anne Morriss speaks on leading change with urgency, building trust, solving hard problems fast, and empowering the people around you. Her keynotes suit leadership summits, corporate conferences, and organizations navigating growth or transformation, where audiences want practical, immediately usable tools delivered with energy and warmth. To book Anne Morriss as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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