Anna-Lucia is a highly acclaimed educator, speaker, writer and consultant in the fields of Leadership, Emotional Intelligence and well-being, and Innovation. In 2012 she was recognised for her work as a finalist in the National Telstra Business Women's Awards and is now a Judge for the prestigious Telstra “Best of Business” awards.
Current work
As an Educator and Moderator for Harvard Business School, she is also an international speaker and the best-selling author of "The Four Mindsets - How to Influence, Motivate and Lead a High-Performance Team.
Anna-Lucia has been working in the field of Emotional Intelligence for 25 years and was one of the first people globally to introduce Emotional Intelligence into the fields of Business and Leadership. Today she works throughout Europe the Middle East and Australasia for many of the world’s leading companies and has published numerous
articles in national newspapers and business magazines.
Anna-Lucia is also Board Chair for Mercury Private and a Chairperson for the CEO Circle in Australia.
Previous experience
Educated in the United Kingdom, Middle East and Australia, over the last 20 years she has consulted, trained and spoken to many of the world’s leading corporations in human behaviour and performance, talent management, change management and mentoring.
Talking Points
How to Unlock Creativity, Innovation and Potential
How to develop and create The Innovation Mindset.How to Unlock Creativity, Innovation and Potential
The Innovation Mindset Model.
The core competencies required and where to start.
Understanding and maximising the Thinking Styles within your team - and how they will come together?
The role of intuition and how to develop.
Why most organisations are failing in innovation and creativity - and what you must do to overcome.
The role of emotional intelligence in creating new products, services and ideas.
Leadership Workshop
Update your managers in modern day management and leadership principles relating to effective leadership mindsets, Emotional Intelligence and the brain.Leadership Workshop
Provide an interesting and fun angle on how to increase communication effectiveness, how to manage and control perceptions more effectively, and how to read signals and cues in other people in order to better influence performance outcomes.
Further build on team work and collaboration in their own teams - and across functions.
Ensure a high level of knowledge retention due to a variety of learning and teaching methods used.
Ensure high engagement and an interesting session.
Typical Learning Outcomes:
Part 1: Leadership Today - it's all changed!
What it means to be an inspiring leader in today's business world.
What makes people, the generations - and teams tick today?
What is the role and impact of a manager and leaders mindset?
Emotional Intelligence what it is and why it is so important today in business?
What differentiates average from outstanding leaders?
The three must have competencies self awareness, self-management and empathy.
How to build skills in each the starting points.
Part 2: Leading and Communicating with Influence (incorporating Thinking Styles?)
How people think?
The Four Thinking styles.
How do you think and your team members think?
How does this relate to management, communication and teamwork?
How will this help you in all types of management and leadership conversations including coaching and mentoring?
Emotional Intelligence: The key factor to positive mental, wellbeing and stress management
Emotional Intelligence is the number one place to start for ALL mental health and well-being initiatives. It is critical to the future of your business and to those who work for you.Emotional Intelligence: The key factor to positive mental, wellbeing and stress management
Everything starts with a thought. The quality of this thought will then either induce a positive or negative emotion - and it is this emotion which will drive behaviour and actions.
Without emotional intelligence, people do not understand why they experience certain thoughts and emotions, and are less likely to truly understand those in others, and this results in an inability to control situations effectively - and even more stress.
Stress, burnout, and mental health issues all require a strong foundation in Emotional Intelligence so that we can effectively perceive, anticipate and manage day-to-day problems - and so we can become more resilient and effective in today’s new world.
Future Proof: Leading of the future, how to unlock performance, potential and creativity
Mastering our minds, thinking skills and the ability to influence and persuade are all critical to leadership and Future Proof: Leading of the future, how to unlock performance, potential and creativity
business success. Every future skills list for 2025, 2030 - and beyond - has human thinking skills at the top of the list.
More than ever before the ability to solve complex problems, ideate, create, and manage oneself - will absolutely determine your future - and the future of your business.
Understanding three critical human intelligence is essential to ensuring you continue to outsmart your competition and continue to give you the edge in sales, service, leadership, innovation and AI development.
Future Proof is designed to show you how to develop your teams and leaders and provide you with a clear pathway, with proven tools and techniques, to use along the way.
