Anne Grady

Resilience Expert, Keynote Speaker, and Author

Meet Anne
Meet Anne

Anne will challenge you to get out of your comfort zone, inspire you to break through barriers keeping you stuck, and help you build actionable strategies that you can use immediately to build resilience.

Anne Grady Resilience Expert Stage

Anne began studying the brain and neurodevelopment to find answers while searching for treatment options for her son after he was diagnosed with severe mental illness and Autism. After being diagnosed with an avocado-sized tumor in her salivary gland in 2014, she had to lean on the tools she learned with her son to help her through this difficult time.

With a master’s degree in organizational communication, Anne shows people how to harness the power of resilience to break out of reactivity so they can communicate, lead, and live on purpose.

Anne is recognized as a leading expert in the fields of leadership, communication, and resilience by Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur, Inc., Fast Company, FOX Business, CNN, and more.

Described as “authentic, hilarious, inspirational, and a ‘dropper of truth bombs!’”, she quickly connects with audiences, sharing inspiring personal stories, cutting edge, research-based content, and implementation tools to transfer learning into real life.

She is the author of 52 Strategies for Life, Love & Work: Transforming Your Life One Week at a Time and its best-selling follow-up book, Strong Enough.

Her newest book, Mind Over Moment: Harness the Power of Resilience and the companion journal, delivers a collection of actionable, practical, and timely takeaways for the challenging world we find ourselves in today.

Anne is a passionate mental health advocate and a portion of all her book proceeds go to the National Alliance on Mental Illness Central Texas (NAMI).

Meet the Team

Jay Grady

Vice President

Jay spent 20 years in customer support, operational and marketing roles at tech companies. He brings a wide range of experience to help run the business.

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Amy Taylor

Keynote Sales & Marketing

Amy is an entrepreneur, booking agent and marketing strategist focused on placing the best speakers in the world.
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Kevin Karschnik

Trainer & Facilitator

Kevin is a speaker, course developer, and corporate trainer. He educates and encourages audiences, and empowers leaders & business professionals to become effective communicators.

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Tiffany Simpson

Executive Trainer & Facilitator

Tiffany’s experience spans years in Fortune 100 companies leading efforts in talent & leadership development, succession planning, performance management, team intervention, and more.

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Melissa Hereford

Trainer & Facilitator

Melissa Hereford is a facilitator, consultant, writer and business coach with 24 years teaching corporate professionals for Fortune 500 companies, including Cisco, Owens Corning, Honeywell, UPS and many others.

Virginia Chalk
Virginia Chalk

Executive Ninja

Virginia assists the team with behind the scenes coordination to make your event a success.

Resilience Expert, Author, Keynote Speaker Anne Grady
Anne Grady

Chief Resilience Officer

Anne Grady is a Speaker, Author, and #TruthBomb Dropper.

Anne shares practical strategies that can be applied both personally and professionally to improve relationships, navigate change, and triumph over adversity. And she’ll make you laugh while she does it. Anne is a two time TEDx speaker, and her work has been featured in numerous media outlets, including Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Fast Company and Inc. magazines, CNN, ESPN, and FOX Business. She is the best selling author of Mind Over Moment: Harness the Power of Resilience52 Strategies for Life, Love & Work, and Strong Enough: Choosing Courage, Resilience and Triumph.

Jay Grady

Vice President

Jay spent 20 years in customer support, operational and marketing roles at tech companies. He brings a wide range of experience to help run the business.

Headshot - Amy Taylor
Amy Taylor

Keynote Sales & Marketing

Amy is an entrepreneur, booking agent and marketing strategist focused on placing the best speakers in the world.
Headshot - Kevin Karschnik
Kevin Karschnik

Trainer & Facilitator

Kevin is a speaker, course developer, and corporate trainer. He educates and encourages audiences, and empowers leaders & business professionals to become effective communicators.

Headshot - Tiffany Simpson
Tiffany Simpson

Executive Trainer & Facilitator

Tiffany’s experience spans years in Fortune 100 companies leading efforts in talent & leadership development, succession planning, performance management, team intervention, and more.

Headshot - Melissa Hereford
Melissa Hereford

Trainer & Facilitator

Melissa Hereford is a facilitator, consultant, writer and business coach with 24 years teaching corporate professionals for Fortune 500 companies, including Cisco, Owens Corning, Honeywell, UPS and many others.

Virginia Chalk
Virginia Chalk

Executive Ninja

Virginia assists the team with behind the scenes coordination to make your event a success.

“AGG knocked it out of the park!
They had amazing insight, gave us ways to apply it, and they were hilarious!

GIVING BACK!

Did you know that 1 in 5 adults struggles with some form of mental illness? Anne is a strong and vocal supporter of NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness.  A portion of all book proceeds are donated to NAMI Central Texas. Anne Grady Group is proud to support a number of local charities including: Texas CASA, For The Children, and GenAustin.
Anne & Kirk Watson NAMI Walk Austin (2017-09-23)
Anne Grady Group is WBENC Certified WBE!

WBENC Certified WBE!

WBENC is short for the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, the most widely recognized certification for women-owned businesses in the United States.

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2023 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD

Anne was honored to be nominated and accept her alma mater’s Distinguished Alumni Award, which is presented to alumni who have demonstrated long-time and successful commitment to their careers and communities. Past award recipients include actress Eva Longoria and Charter Communications President John Bickham.