Ann Gomez

Ann Gomez

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Toronto, Ontario

Hybrid Workplace, High Performance & Team Collaboration Thought Leader

Ann Gomez is a keynote speaker & executive coach who is the founder of a global training organization & helps teams manage health & stress for peak performance. She is the best-selling author of The Email Warrior and is passionate about helping people do their best work. Ann leads engaging and inspiring keynote addresses and interactive workshops. She is also an active blogger and media spokesperson. She helps audiences turn obstacles into opportunities, negatives into positives and help their mindsets to become stronger, tougher, and clearer.

ANN GOMEZ BIOGRAPHY

Ann Gomez is an inspiring speaker, a USA Today bestselling author, and the founding president of a global consulting and training organization. Ann is passionate about helping people do their best work at all stages of their careers and has 20 years of experience delivering compelling and practical talks about productivity, collaboration, mindset, and well-being.

Ann Gomez is a 2x bestselling author of The Email Warrior and Younger Self Letters: How Successful Leaders & Entrepreneurs Turned Trials Into Triumph. She has been featured in The Globe & Mail and has appeared on CBC Radio, Global TV and BNN, and other major news outlets and online platforms, including Huffington Thrive Global.

She is an active blogger and media spokesperson and is the 2021 winner of the Women Business Enterprises (WBE) Canada Leader Award. Ann is also a recurring faculty member at the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management Initiative for Women in Business.

Ann Gomez and her team work with people around the world and across industries to help busy people make the most of their time. Ann was a management consultant at A.T. Kearney. Earlier in her career, she was a pharmaceutical representative and research coordinator.

Ann Gomez has an MBA from Queen’s University where she was the President of the MBA class. She also has an Honours Bachelor’s Degree in Science (Biology & Psychology) from McMaster University.

Speaker and Author, Ann Gomez, is passionate about helping people make time for what matters most. As a former management consultant, entrepreneur, and mother of four children, Ann knows what it’s like to feel a sense of overwhelm and stress.

Her compelling and practical talks are designed to have an immediate impact and help people to boost productivity, deal with a high volume of work, build and contribute to a high-performance team, strengthen collaboration, cope with stress and build resilience to navigate challenges, manage energy and reclaim focus, and prioritize wellbeing.

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leading a hybrid team

  • Virtual PresentationKeynote PresentationWorkshop SessionHalf Day TrainingFull Day Training
  • We are entering a new era in how we work with hybrid teams. This program brings leading-edge thinking to help you cultivate a high-performance culture. We’ll build upon well-established teaming principles while addressing current challenges including retention and onboarding.

    In this talk, Ann shares practical strategies you can use to help your modern team thrive. She teaches about ensuring all team members have access to the same opportunities (wherever they work), expanding your influence to resolve issues and grow healthy relationships, encouraging accountability and engagement, identifying metrics to hold our teams accountable, and high-performance leadership habits.

secrets of high-performance hybrid teams

lean into fearless feedback

discover your thrive mindset

prioritize your wellbeing

how to overcome the prioritization crisis

reclaim the power of focus in a distracted world

habits - how to make the changes you want

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Ann Gomez has revolutionized the way I practice law and run my businesses. By applying her methodologies and productivity strategies for years, I have leveraged time and resources in a manner that has yielded measurable financial gains. Ann Gomez is truly the best in her industry – hands down.

Laura Williams

Founder & Principal
Williams HR Law

Loving your course and The Email Warrior methods have been life changing. I have looked at other systems and nothing compares to this in terms of managing my work and setting boundaries on my time. I don’t know how I would have gotten through this past year without the systems I learned from you.

Amy Sardnola

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I would attend any talk Ann Gomez gives. She is so motivating and provides so many things I can start doing today to elevate myself and my work. She had great energy and made her content relevant to our world.

Insurance Executive
Financial Services

Ann Gomez has so much energy and spoke with such poise and passion! I could have listened to her for hours! She is inspiring and always leaves me feeling motivated.

Insurance Executive
Finance industry

Ann Gomez was a wonderful speaker who engaged and educated her audience expertly. I could have listened to Ann Gomez for another hour. She brings news ideas and perspectives. It was very uplifting.

Insurance Executive
Financial Services

Ann Gomez is one of the best presenters I have ever heard. She provided amazing tools and tangible material to use on the job.

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Book Review: Workday Warrior by Ann Gomez

I've Read This

I’m currently reading my way through a few self-help books in anticipation of my January radio segment, focused on New Year's resolutions. It will likely have aired by the time I get around to posting this, but I just finished reading Workday Warrior by Ann Gomez and a few of her tips and tricks are still fresh in my mind, including ‘tackle your core priorities first’. Her advice is in reference to a day job, first and foremost, but I couldn’t help applying it to my side job of book reviewing too. It got me thinking about what I could pare down in my world of iv read this to make more room for what the core priority is.
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Longer hours. More emails. First-time projects. New tech. During the switch to remote, then hybrid work, these efforts enabled many teams to maintain or even improve their productivity. Now, with hybrid work being the norm at many organizations, how can teams ensure they continue to thrive? Here are some ways organizations can help teams cultivate a healthy, productive – and happy – hybrid culture. Watch out for these productivity drains Silos: Some of the biggest productivity challenges for hybrid teams occur when people operate in silos and are disconnected. Trust and connections require maintenance and effort. Without these crucial connections, teammates might not be sharing...
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How procurement can help create a diverse supply strategy and create value for underrepresented or underserved groups. Crazy. It’s the word Jessica Grey remembers using to describe her parent’s decision to leave Jamaica for a new life in Ottawa. And that was even before January’s frigid winds greeted her family on their first day in their adopted country. “They were driven by a quest for a better education and careers for themselves and their children,” recalls Jessica. “Canada was the gateway to those kinds of opportunities.” Access to opportunity Access to opportunity is something Jessica thinks a lot about nowadays as a leader on RBC’s global procurement team,...
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Workday Warrior: A Proven Path to Reclaiming Your Time
Workday Warrior: A Proven Path to Reclaiming Your Time
Life is busier than ever before. We are working longer hours to keep up with long to-do lists. Yet we’re experiencing more stress and seem to fall further and further behind. Our so-called leisure time is punctuated with interruptions, constantly pulling us back to work. We are led to believe we...
The Email Warrior: How to Clear Your Inbox and Keep it That Way
The Email Warrior: How to Clear Your Inbox and Keep it That Way
Are you overwhelmed by the number of emails you receive? Do you feel you could spend your entire day on email, with no time for anything else? Productivity expert Ann Gomez shares a practical and proven approach to help you clear your inbox in less than three hours - and keep it clear. In this...
The Younger Self Letters: How Successful Leaders & Entrepreneurs Turned Trials Into Triumph (And How to Use Them to Your Advantage) (The Younger Self Letters Series)
The Younger Self Letters: How Successful Leaders & Entrepreneurs Turned Trials Into Triumph (And How to Use Them to Your Advantage) (The Younger Self Letters Series)
USA Today Bestseller! Burn brighter, get stronger, tougher, clearer, fiercer, sharper and more determined than ever by learning to turn your obstacles into opportunities. Come along on this remarkable journey with 30 of the most successful leaders and entrepreneurs who have written personal and...

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