Services
Bodies Before Business
Personalised coaching for professionals, high performers & business owners
who want to build success and AND a life they have the energy to enjoy.
You have worked hard to get where you are. However, trying to squeeze more into your day or work even harder, is not the long term answer to keep you at the top.
The answer is creating a way of living and working that you can actually sustain.
Together, we'll look beyond the diary and the to-do list and get under the hood of how you operate. Your energy, habits, boundaries, movement, recovery, fuel and the everyday choices that determine how you feel and perform.
Because when your body is constantly running on empty, eventually everything feels harder.
Work/life balance is a UNICORN!
What you need is a sustainable rhythm, that works
for YOUR body, YOUR work and the life YOU actually want to live.
Annie will help you find yours, so you can thrive personally and professionally.
Through Bodies Before Business coaching, you'll learn how to:
• recognise where your energy is going and intentionally restore it.
• create your own sustainable rhythm around movement, intentional recovery and fuel'.
• identify the habits that keep you running on the professional treadmill.
• establish boundaries that protect your energy without diminishing your ambition.
• notice your body's warning signs before exhaustion becomes your normal.
• make practical changes that work in your real life, including the messy, demanding weeks.
Build a life where professional success doesn't come at the expense of personal wellbeing.
Keynote Speaker
The life of a business owner or high-performing professional can be isolating. When life throws us something unexpected — a health crisis, relationship breakdown, workplace challenge or simply the pressure of carrying too much for too long — we don’t always want others to know we’re struggling.
Annie’s presentations challenge audiences to look at success, resilience and performance from a different perspective, while giving them practical tools to navigate what comes next. A former lawyer, business owner, educator, mediator and coach, Annie combines professional insight with lived experience, real stories and a healthy dose of humour.
Her presentations are engaging, relatable and ultimately optimistic — leaving audiences thinking differently about how they work, live and define success.
"An amazing, raw and heart wrenching Keynote. The students were absolutely blown away and kept saying to me afterwards "A perfect choice, Annie's speech was exactly what we needed and was perfect for our fundraising efforts." Thank you for giving so much of yourself to that audience today. You continue to amaze and inspire me.
Mudgee High School, Year 12 Head Teacher
“Annie’s Keynote was in essence inspirational. I was thrilled to have been there in person to hear it first hand. Thank you for sharing your impactful message."
Pearl Daly-Swords, Leadership & Career Coach Centre for Executive Development (CED)
"It was a beautiful event, and your message of strength, openness and courage was thought provoking. Thank you for sharing your very inspiring story."
Mudgee High School Year 12 parent.
Keynote Topics
THE SCRIPT I NEVER CHOOSE – When my successful life was suddenly not enough
A powerful keynote about what happens when the life you thought you were building suddenly changes. Through Annie’s experience of success, cancer and an unexpected second chance, The Script I Never Choose explores resilience, conscious choice and the courage to question the script you have been following. It leaves audiences with a simple framework. Notice. Question. Choose.
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTIVITY — Performing Well Without Running Yourself Down
A keynote for high performers and business leaders who want success that can actually be sustained. Sustainable Productivity shows how movement, intentional recovery and fuel drive the energy, focus and decision making behind better performance. Because healthy businesses need healthy people and sustainable performance starts with the humans doing the work.
The message is simple: Your body is your first business.
THE WORST BEST THING — Finding Opportunity in Life’s Hardest Moments
A keynote about mindset and resilience when life is at its worst. After being told she had 6–12 months to live, Annie was forced to reconsider everything she thought success and living well looked like. The Worst BEST Thing shows audiences how adversity can become a catalyst for change and why we shouldn’t wait for a crisis to pivot, make different choices and create the life YOU want.
You Matter. Speaking Out, Standing Strong
Annie explores the courage it takes to speak up, the strength it takes to keep going, and the resilience that grows along the way. Drawing from personal experience and professional insight, Annie shares the impact of domestic and family violence and challenging life events and how to not just to survive it, but to rise through it and thrive.
Workshops
The Productivity Paradox - Sustainability
Law firms measure billable hours, WIP, recoveries and profitability,
but rarely measure the human factors driving those results.
BODY → BRAIN → BUSINESS
When we support the body, we improve the brain’s capacity for focus, sound decision-making and sustainable productivity.
Better thinking creates better lawyers, stronger teams and healthier businesses.
Using Annie’s LIFE Metrics™ Life Movement + Intentional Recovery + Fuel = Energy, participants assess their current performance, learn practical evidence-based strategies and develop a personalised action plan.
The health of your lawyers determines the health of your law firm.
Facilitator
Success and greatness are ongoing journeys, not definitive outcomes. As such, they should be nurtured, guided, and continually evolving.
If you have a group of like-minded individuals or professionals in need of structure, focus, and progress during a training and development day, important business meeting, AGM, or group negotiation, Annie brings the skills, experience, and energy to keep everyone on track.
Annie’s goal is to ensure conversations are productive, decisions are clear, and meaningful outcomes are achieved.
Family
Annie creates a safe and neutral space where families can communicate openly, navigate challenges, and make decisions with respect and understanding. Her facilitation helps families move past conflict and design shared plans for the future that support stronger relationships and harmony.
Business
Annie supports business owners and teams to gain clarity, foster collaboration, and navigate difficult conversations. Through structured and constructive dialogue, she helps businesses make confident decisions, resolve tensions, and drive sustainable growth.
