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 Annette Simmons is a successful keynote speaker, consultant and author of four books: The Story Factor named as one of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time, followed by Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins , A Safe Place for Dangerous Truth and Territorial Games: Understanding and Ending Turf Wars at Work first published in 1997.
Annette received a degree in marketing from Louisiana State University in 1983. Moving to Australia in 1984, she put her business degree to work for international companies, Ericsson, and J. Walter Thompson. Noticing destructive patterns that plagued group decision making, she returned to the United States to study social psychology and adult education. With a Masters Degree (1994) from North Carolina State University she continued to research and test training/interventions while teaching leadership to business executives at Farr Associates of Greensboro, NC.
She founded Group Process Consulting in 1996. Many clients found that Annette’s presentation of the ten territorial games dramatically decreased infighting and turf wars by removing plausible deniability and highlighting the cost of game playing. Annette’s facilitation of formal dialogues with groups at impasse has helped many clients alter the norms of group communication from avoiding “truth-telling” to welcoming alternative points of view as an opportunity to create innovation and solve conflict.
Annette discovered the power of storytelling as a group intervention during graduate school. Attending workshops and hiring professional storytellers as coaches she refined her storytelling skills and studied the psychological impact of stories. She delivered her first course in storytelling in 1998 as a leadership training course for government executives through the Office of Personnel Management. Annette continues to provide leadership training, keynote speeches, and web delivered training in the areas of storytelling, dialogue and overcoming turf wars. She also accepts a limited number of engagements facilitating dialogue with intact groups.
You can see and hear samples of Annette's appearances on CNBC’s Power Lunch, NPR’s Market Watch, etc. A frequent guest on talk radio and web podcasts, she has been quoted in Fortune, Working Woman, Harvard Business Review, The Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and dozens of other respected publications. In addition to English her books have been published in Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Norwegian and German.
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