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Would results improve if your people were:

• More resilient?
• More adaptable?
• More resourceful?
• More positive?

Anne Barab is rumored to be the lost love child of Mark Twain and Lucille Ball for her wit and wisdom. Her richly interesting programs teach people how to craft resilient, robust, juicy lives of significance. Her core message helps people learn how to:

• Balance work, home, and relationships;
• Thrive in times of change;
• Put stress in the past tense;
• Think like a leader.

Anne’s business experience is wide-ranging. She worked her way through college in telecommunications (that’s fancy-speak for being a telephone operator) then moved into insurance, banking and financial services. She busted the glass ceiling when she became the first female Chief Operating Officer of a $1 billion mortgage bank.

Along the way, Anne branched out into public policy-making as an elected official when she served three terms on the board of a large school district in Dallas, Texas. Her very diverse district was named one of the Top 100 school districts in the nation in a study conducted by The Wall Street Journal. She earned the Master Trustee designation from the Texas Association of School Boards leadership program and completed over 450 hours of board training.

In her ten year membership in Toastmasters she has earned Distinguished Toastmaster and is only the 11th woman in the world to achieve the Accredited Speaker designation. She was the first Toastmaster in over 25 years to give the closing keynote at the 2007 Toastmaster International convention in Phoenix, Arizona. Subsequently she’s spoken to Toastmasters and their companies around the world.

Ten years ago Anne accepted her calling to become a motivational and inspirational speaker for audiences around the world. She’s written two books and numerous articles about education and family living. However, her greatest claim to fame is being:

• married for 37 long years to the same engineer,
• having three children who are not currently in jail, and
• being voted Best Smelling Mom by her son’s first grade.