Barbara Annis
Barbara Annis, Founder and CEO of Barbara Annis & Associates, Inc. (BAA) is a world-renowned expert on Gender Intelligence, Inclusive Leadership, and Cultural Intelligence, advocating the value and practice of Gender Intelligence and inclusiveness in over 75 Fortune 500 companies, ten governments, and numerous educational institutions worldwide. The insights and achievements developed by BAA have pioneered a transformational shift in cultural attitudes across the globe on the importance of gender unity to organizational success.
Over the past twenty-seven years, Barbara Annis and her 51 global associates have facilitated over 8,000 corporate workshops and conducted thousands of leadership assessments and executive coaching sessions. BAA has introduced breakthrough research on the practice and benefits of inclusive leadership and gender diversity, and offers diagnostics, workshops, and coaching session’s onsite and online.
Barbara Annis is Chair Emeritus and Member of the Executive Committee of the Women’s Leadership Board at Harvard Kennedy School and was recently conferred the International Alliance for Women, Lifetime Achievement Award. Her extensive studies have included work with exceptional thinkers such as famed psychologist Dr. Virginia Satir, Dr. Fernando Flores, director of the PhD program in Linguistics at Berkeley University, and Dr. Willis Harman, Founder and President of the Noetic Sciences Foundation.
Barbara’s first book, Same Words, Different Language, offers ground-breaking insights and proven methods for breaking through gender barriers. Her following book, Leadership and the Sexes, reveals the latest in brain-behavior research on gender differences. Barbara’s new book, released in May 2013, is entitled Work with Me: The 8 Blind Spots between Men and Women in Business, and is written in conjunction with John Gray, author of the best-selling relationship book of all time: Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. Barbara and John’s book exposes and debunks the eight blind spots that frequently result in misunderstandings and miscommunication, affecting men’s and women’s ability to find success and satisfaction in their work life as well as in their personal life.
Over the past twenty-seven years, Barbara Annis and her 51 global associates have facilitated over 8,000 corporate workshops and conducted thousands of leadership assessments and executive coaching sessions. BAA has introduced breakthrough research on the practice and benefits of inclusive leadership and gender diversity, and offers diagnostics, workshops, and coaching session’s onsite and online.
Barbara Annis is Chair Emeritus and Member of the Executive Committee of the Women’s Leadership Board at Harvard Kennedy School and was recently conferred the International Alliance for Women, Lifetime Achievement Award. Her extensive studies have included work with exceptional thinkers such as famed psychologist Dr. Virginia Satir, Dr. Fernando Flores, director of the PhD program in Linguistics at Berkeley University, and Dr. Willis Harman, Founder and President of the Noetic Sciences Foundation.
Barbara’s first book, Same Words, Different Language, offers ground-breaking insights and proven methods for breaking through gender barriers. Her following book, Leadership and the Sexes, reveals the latest in brain-behavior research on gender differences. Barbara’s new book, released in May 2013, is entitled Work with Me: The 8 Blind Spots between Men and Women in Business, and is written in conjunction with John Gray, author of the best-selling relationship book of all time: Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. Barbara and John’s book exposes and debunks the eight blind spots that frequently result in misunderstandings and miscommunication, affecting men’s and women’s ability to find success and satisfaction in their work life as well as in their personal life.
