ANNE GILLASPIE
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The longer story behind her keynotes, including why the dancing is not a gimmick and what planners should know before booking an activation instead of a talk.
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About Anne Gillaspie
Anne Gillaspie is a global keynote speaker, truth disruptor, and the creator of SHARE YOUR FEAR™, a movement making fear less scary and truth easier to tell.
Through provocative storytelling, unexpected dance, and radically human experiences, Anne challenges audiences to stop performing who they think they should be and start telling the truth about who they actually are. Her work transforms fear from something we hide into a catalyst for courage, connection, and meaningful change.
A 12-year entrepreneur, CEO and founder of Fix & Form, host of the top-ranked OnlyFounders podcast, and brand therapist to founders and executives, Anne brings the messy reality of being human into rooms where perfection and performance have dominated for too long.
She is insatiably curious about why people hide, perform, and stay inside lives they have outgrown. She does not treat fear as an enemy to conquer. She treats it as information, and she uses it as the doorway into honesty, connection and real change. Fear rarely announces itself. It shows up as busyness, as politeness, as a job someone has outgrown, as a conversation that keeps getting rescheduled.
Anne does not just speak to a room. She engages it. Through storytelling, humor, movement and live audience participation, she shifts the internal narrative people are operating from while they are still in their seats. Rooms that start as strangers end as something closer to a community.
Her keynotes do not give audiences another framework to remember. They create permission to get honest, get connected, and leave the room more human than they entered it.
Anne lives in Denver with her husband, three kids and their sheepadoodle.
- Creator of SHARE YOUR FEAR™, a movement built on the idea that the truth you are avoiding is costing you more than you think
- Twelve-year entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of Fix & Form, a brand strategy firm for founders and executives
- Host of the OnlyFounders podcast, a top-ranked show on the real experience of building a company
- Dance-infused live activations that move a room from performance into presence
- Speaker and facilitator for the SheSpeaks CEO Summit, BizLifeCon, Industry Icon, Wine Women & Wealth, Women RISE and Wildrock Trailblazers
- Based in Denver and available for events across the United States and internationally
Watch Anne In Action
Speaking Topics
Anne's signature keynote. 60 minutes, and adaptable to 45 or 75 minutes. Opening or closing. Ideal for annual conferences, leadership summits, women's events, founder gatherings, culture and wellbeing programming, and any room that has been performing for too long.
What if the thing you are most afraid to say is the thing that could change everything?
A provocative, radically human keynote experience about the fears we hide, the identities we perform, and what becomes possible when we are finally brave enough to tell the truth.
Anne walks a room through the fears people carry quietly, the versions of themselves they perform to stay safe, and the truth sitting underneath all of it. Fear does not usually look like fear. It looks like busyness, politeness, a role someone has outgrown, a conversation that keeps getting pushed to next week. Anne names it out loud, and then she gives the room a way to do the same.
This is not a lecture with slides. It is an activation, built with storytelling, humor, movement and live participation, and audiences leave having said something true out loud rather than having taken notes on someone else's framework.
Program Takeaways
- Name the fear that is quietly driving decisions instead of pretending it is not there
- Treat fear as information rather than as an enemy to be conquered
- Trade the performance of having it together for the freedom of being honest
- Say the thing that has been going unsaid, and see what opens up on the other side of it
- Build the kind of trust that only shows up after somebody goes first
- Leave the room more connected to themselves and to the people sitting next to them
Anne customizes the keynote to your theme and audience, and is also available for emcee work, facilitated workshops, fireside chats and moderated Q&A.
What People Say
Anne absolutely lit up the room. Her energy was contagious, but what impressed me most was how authentic, raw, and bold she was willing to be. She didn't just speak to our audience, she connected with them. She brought more than a presentation. She brought an experience.
Christi Milroy, Event Planner, Wine, Women & WealthWhat started as a room of strangers ended as a safe space for vulnerable truth telling and connecting. There were laughs, tears, smiles and most importantly, true connection. If you are considering tapping Anne for a speaking engagement, let this be your sign.
Meghan Nemechek, CFP®, Event Planner, Buzz BuildersAnne brings a rare combination of charisma, energy, and authenticity that creates an immediate shift in the atmosphere. It is one thing to hear a great communicator speak. It is another to experience someone whose delivery moves you beyond your seat and into a new perspective.
Ashley Petress, SheSpeaksCEO Summit | Founder & Executive DirectorHer message challenged me to recognize where I wasn't being completely honest, not necessarily with other people, but with myself. Months later, I am not just inspired by her words. I am living differently because of them.
Trish Phinney, SheSpeaksCEO Summit | Chief Operating OfficerI have interviewed literally hundreds of entrepreneurs, and Anne's approach stands out. She shares everything she knows with an audience in a way that is generous, inspiring, and actionable.
Brian Lofrumento, Host, Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur PodcastA true asset for any entrepreneur, creative, or business to have on their team.
Founder Client, Fix & FormSelected Stages
Where Anne Appears
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