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Key Points for Anneli Blundell
- Anneli Blundell advises senior leaders and executive teams on influence, engagement and impact, helping organisations build cultures where dialogue drives results in the room, in teams and across the organisation. Her work spans everything from small leadership teams to large-scale behaviour change programs, with clients including Mercedes-Benz, Daimler, EY, Australia Post, Chemist Warehouse, JB Hi-Fi, Victoria Police, ANZ and more.
- Anneli is a highly awarded professional, including L&D Professional of the Year (AITD), Female Entrepreneur of the Year Gold Winner (Stevie® Awards), multiple national book awards (including Book of the Year), and HR Service Provider of the Year (HRD).
- She is the author of five books exploring leadership, gender and human behaviour, including Developing Direct Reports, The Gender Penalty and When Men Lead Women, widely used by leaders to navigate complexity, performance and inclusion at work.
- A Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) and former National Board Director of Professional Speakers Australia, Anneli is recognised nationally and internationally for excellence in professional speaking. She is also a lifelong learner, investing heavily each year in deepening her expertise in human behaviour, communication dynamics, power and influence.
Topics for Anneli Blundell
- The leadership lens: How perception shapes performance
How leaders’ unseen assumptions shape behaviour, trust and performance and what shifts when you change the way you see your people. - Breaking the sound barrier: A leaders guide to creating containers of conversational safety
How leaders create the conditions where people speak up, contribute and challenge rather than stay silent. - Leading women: The invisible forces that shape women in leadership
A practical look at the everyday systems, habits and double binds that shape women’s confidence, opportunity and progression at work. - The power of presence: amplifying authority in moments that matter
How small communication behaviours shape credibility, confidence and influence in high-stakes moments.
Testimonials for Anneli Blundell
Anneli was fantastic to work with and really hit it off with our C-suite execs. She was able to articulate and contextualise her information mining to produce the best keynote delivery for our audience. Well done, Anneli!
Office of Industrial Relations (OIR)
Anneli tailored her presentation to our audience of kindergarten teachers and educators so well. She asked the right questions and was interested in what would appeal to our audience. Anneli was very responsive in the lead up to the conference while we were organising last minute details and arrived early to ensure everything was set up and ready to go. We've heard so much good feedback from our teachers and everyone who attended our conference day, including that she was entertaining, engaging, and communicated her message brilliantly, that we need to open our minds, ask questions so that we can connect and collaborate - and make a difference in young children's lives. She is brilliant.
Sparkways
Anneli delivered a dynamic and interactive presentation that really resonated with the audience. Her ability to develop content that not only spoke to common-sense principles but also had tailored focus on relevant key messages, was an absolute winner. I haven’t been this happy post-presentation from a speaker, fantastic work! Thanks Anneli.
Communications and Events Manager
National Mortgage Brokers
The question time was incredibly engaging and on point with what the audience needed.
People & Community Development Projects Coordinator
Gardiner Dairy Foundation
Anneli is such a dynamic, engaging speaker. Her unique style and delivery was exemplary. By combining humour, examples, and an informal but highly focused presentation, she demonstrated her command of the topic and gave her audience immediately useful take-aways. I would highly recommend Anneli.
Conference Project Manager
Salvo Global
At DeakinCo. we look for opportunities to share thought leadership with our valued clients and the broader learning community. While these events are always insightful, with Anneli we also got engaging and entertaining – a compelling trilogy that was appreciated by all who attended.
CEO
DeakinCo
Anneli was a stand-out speaker at our National Congress. I knew right away I wanted her for our next conference as well. She was engaging, interactive and informative. The delegates loved her style and the substance of her message with comments including, “fantastic and engaging” “very honest and compelling"
"loved the real life stories and excellent content”. Over all she was really well received, a pleasure to deal with and we look forward to her presentation at our next conference.
Program Director
Intrepid Minds
I had the incredible pleasure of having Anneli present at a business event I hosted last week and my clients are still raving about her. It is difficult to find sufficient superlatives to describe Anneli, but I will try. Not only was she engaging, funny, inspirational and thoroughly thought provoking, her content found the perfect balance between pushing people's thinking and yet giving them immediate, simple and actionable take aways that they could apply tomorrow.
But perhaps what stood out to me the most about Anneli is how she completely embodied her message. In a world where congruence and authenticity seem harder and harder to find, Anneli didn't just talk about how to make you present your expertise in an engaging and considered way, she delivered it in spades.
Thank you Anneli, you were amazing!
Technology speaker, author, mentor and trainer
Digital Communications Club
Very authentic and engaging presenter who, through the art of storytelling evokes emotion to create change.
Operation Manager
BSH
To say Anneli’s presence was a high point of the conference is an understatement. Over the past ten years I seen over 500 presentations and Anneli’s was definitely above the 95th percentile. Anneli was very well prepared, extremely knowledgeable and highly engaging. The response from delegates was very positive. We would gladly have Anneli speak at one of our conferences in the future. I would also like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank Anneli and her team - they were a joy to deal with.
Head of Digital
CommStrat
Anneli was recommended to me when I put a call out to my network regarding a speaker for an event that Women in Banking and Finance was hosting, and she was certainly the right woman for the job. Before a large crowd of bankers, she relayed very practical and logical strategies for them to deploy in an array of scenarios, from personal agendas to complex commercial pitches. She is an articulate presenter with solid content that resonates well across a diverse audience, although I feel it was her ability to make each participant feel that she was offering personalised advice to them that really hooked them in. I can recommend Anneli for teams or individuals looking to shift their results up a gear.
CEO
WIBF
As the current Managing Director of the largest professional association for Coaches in Australia and New Zealand and the former Director of Learning and Development for AIG & AIA, I have developed an extensive network of high calibre speakers, trainers, coaches and facilitators.
There are many professionals in the network who excel in one or more of these modalities, but there are few like Anneli who are able to excel across all of these areas.
I invited Anneli to provide a keynote presentation at our recent National Coaching Conference and she was a standout highlight amongst her peers and a clear top-of pack leader against the other 21 speakers at the event.
Anneli Blundell is a leader in the industry. She is the ultimate professional and a delight to work with.
Managing Director
ANZI Coaching
Anneli presented recently at an internal forum. She was engaging, motivational and thought provoking; most importantly it was behaviour changing. Her messages were delivered with humour and without compromising on relevance. Anneli is delightful and I would highly recommend her.
Local Government Segment Manager
Melbourne Water
Thank you for delivering such an engaging and useful change seminar for some of our leaders. I’ve had several of the attendees reference content from the session and have seen them share it with others – such a great result!
General Manager, Talent and Culture
Peninsula Leisure
Anneli’s session on credible communications was highly relevant, engaging and interactive. Anneli teaches what should be taught at schools and universities. The room was buzzing with energy and enthusiasm. She understands the audience and can work a room. She knows her topic and can communicate it!
CPA Australia
It was indeed a privilege to be involved in Anneli's outstanding presentation on Critical Conversations. Enthusiasm, a proactive approach and her ability to understand the reality of our scenarios engaged all network principals and teaching and learning coaches immediately. Providing both the 'will' and the 'skill' made complete sense and along with a simple, yet highly effective framework to develop our conversations within, empowered all of us. Anneli certainly left her footprint, building our abilities in such a crucial area and thus strengthening our capacity as instructional leaders. Thank you for such a brilliant presentation Anneli.
Principal
Dandenong Ranges Network
The feedback I received after your session has been extremely positive, with many comments focussing on your engaging and enthusiastic style, the highly relevant materials and anecdotes that you used and the practical and honest pointers that you offered to the group.
General Counsel & Company Secretary
Ford Motor Company of Australia Limited