ANNE GILLASPIE
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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
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Speaking Topics
Anne's signature keynote. 45 to 60 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
For leadership audiences. 45 to 60 minutes. Ideal for leadership summits, management development, culture and engagement programming, and organizations working on retention.
Today's greatest leadership advantage is not authority. It is authenticity.
Leaders are performing and teams are exhausted, and the culture feels off in a way nobody can quite name. It is not that people stopped caring. It is that they lost connection to themselves somewhere along the way, and most leadership content piles more frameworks on top of an already full week.
Anne goes at the root instead, which is personal truth. She challenges leaders to replace performance with presence, and makes the case that trust, engagement and retention are downstream of whether people feel safe being real at work.
Program Takeaways
- Recognize where performance has replaced presence on the leadership team
- Lead with honesty in a way that strengthens authority rather than undermining it
- Create the conditions where people say the hard thing early instead of quietly leaving
- Build trust that holds up under pressure and change
- Understand why people stay, and what actually makes a culture feel like home
For founders, entrepreneurs and marketing audiences. Keynote or facilitated workshop. Ideal for founder gatherings, entrepreneurship conferences, franchise and owner events, and marketing summits.
Anne has spent more than a decade as a brand therapist to founders, creatives and executives, helping them find what is actually true about their work before they try to market it.
The premise is simple. Nobody needs a cookie-cutter strategy, because the brand already exists. It is made up of everything a founder has lived, loved and learned, and the quirks and experiences most people edit out are usually the exact things that make the business memorable.
This session gives audiences a way to stop chasing someone else's positioning and start building from what is real, which is both faster and considerably harder to copy.
Program Takeaways
- Find the true story underneath the business rather than inventing one
- Use personal experience as a brand asset instead of editing it out
- Build trust with an audience faster through honesty than through polish
- Align what the company says with what it is actually like to work with
Anne customizes every keynote to your theme and audience, and is also available for emcee work, facilitated workshops, fireside chats and moderated Q&A.
What People Say
There were laughs, tears, smiles and most importantly, true connection.
Host, Four-Part Women's Event SeriesA true asset for any entrepreneur, creative, or business to have on their team.
Founder Client, Fix & FormSelected Stages
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