When companies want help reaching their most ambitious goals, they call Anne and Frances to accelerate progress.
Anne and Frances are best-selling authors and among the world’s most influential thinkers, speakers, and advisors. Their clients have ranged from Fortune 10 companies to tech founders to political leaders working to build national competitiveness. They are working to democratize access to ideas and unleash the full potential of individuals and organizations.
ABOUT ANNE
Anne is driven by an infectious commitment to help people realize their full potential as leaders and changemakers. She is an entrepreneur, leadership coach, and founder of The Leadership Consortium, a first-of-its-kind leadership accelerator that works to prepare emerging leaders for senior leadership. She has spent the last twenty years building and leading mission-driven enterprises. Anne has worked with organizations around the world on leadership, culture, and transformational change. Her collaborators have ranged from early-stage tech founders to public-sector leaders working to build national competitiveness.
ABOUT FRANCES
Frances is a professor of Technology and Operations Management at Harvard Business School. A global thought leader on organizational change, Frances is widely recognized for her dynamic teaching style and breakthrough insight into how to move fast and fix things. Her research investigates how leaders create the context for organizations and individuals to thrive by designing for excellence in strategy, operations, and culture. Frances regularly works with companies embarking on large-scale change and organizational transformation, including embracing diversity and inclusion as a lever for improved performance. In 2017, she took a leave from HBS to serve as Uber’s first senior vice president of leadership and strategy to help the company navigate its very public crisis in leadership and culture.
Things We Do
Authors
Anne and Frances are best-selling authors of Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business (2012), Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You (2020), and Move Fast & Fix Things: The Trusted Leader’s Guide to Solving Hard Problems (2023). Learn more >
Podcasters
Anne and Frances are hosts of the breakthrough podcast Fixable, a leadership advice podcast from the TED Audio Collective. Every week, Anne and Frances help callers solve hard problems and spark change in their workplace. Learn more >
Speakers
Anne and Frances are world-renowned speakers, educators, and facilitators. They are known for captivating and inspiring audiences and have each delivered viral TED Talks.