Build the capability that compounds
Change used to arrive in waves you could plan around. It doesn’t anymore. AI is rewriting how work gets done faster than most organizations can absorb, and the old approach - train people on the system, then move on - builds competence with something that’s already changing. What organizations need now is the capacity to keep adapting, and that’s built in people, not in tools.
A keynote changes how leaders see. These change what they do. Each one applies Strategic Change Execution™ to work your teams are already accountable for, and leaves the capability inside the organization rather than on a retainer.
Four weeks after the program, the CEO wrote:
“A major result is the greater confidence that the whole team has in sharing their individual ideas and views, and a new norm of speaking to the difficult areas of communication that were often avoided before. I observed less reservation in offering clearer assessment of program intent and progress, and improved skill in working out conflictual issues of resource and shared management.”
- Michael Hartman, Former CEO, Lamoille County Mental Health ServicesAll programs are customized to the client team and can be delivered in person, virtually, or hybrid. Workshops run as a half-day or full-day intensive. Programs run as a phased series across weeks or an extended engagement up to six months, with practice applied to live work between sessions. Cohort size, sequencing and depth are set during the planning conversation.
Leadership Programs
Extended engagements that build capability the organization keeps.
NEWGRANGE CERTIFIED CHANGE LEADER
For: Project and program managers ready to lead change, not just deliver it
You can run a flawless project and still watch the change fail - and as AI reshapes how work gets done, more of what your team delivers depends on people being willing and able to work differently.
This program takes project managers through a complete change methodology and out the other side as change leaders: able to read an organization, engage stakeholders who don’t report to them, manage impact as it surfaces, and drive adoption that holds after go-live. Every participant builds a customized change playbook as they go, applied to a live initiative - so what they leave with is not a binder of theory but a working plan for the change they’re accountable for right now. Certification reflects demonstrated practice, not attendance.
Your organization gains change leadership it no longer has to hire in. Your PMs gain the capability that makes them harder to replace.
FLOW-DRIVEN LEADERSHIP
For: IT and leadership teams performing under sustained pressure
High performers don’t lose capacity because they work too hard. They lose it because nothing in the system lets them recover or reach flow - and the pace isn’t slowing.
Alternating capability-building and integration weeks give leaders the science and the practices to reach their own peak performance, and to build the conditions where their teams do their best thinking instead of just absorbing the next disruption. Participants experiment with a small number of practices between sessions and bring what they learn back to the group, so the habits are tested in real work rather than discussed in a classroom.
The capacity to learn, unlearn, and stay effective while the ground moves isn’t a personality trait. It’s built.
ASCEND BLUEPRINT FOR CHANGE-READY LEADERSHIP
For: Leadership teams carrying a major transformation
A transformation ahead and a team already at capacity - with more coming behind it. Most organizations treat each change as an event to get through, then start the next one from zero.
ASCEND builds the focus, energy, and adaptive capacity leaders need to perform through this transformation and be stronger for the next. It begins with the ADAPT Diagnostic™, which shows where the organization actually sits rather than where leadership assumes it does, and ends with capability the organization owns and can run itself.
The goal is not a successful transformation. It’s an organization that gets better at change every time it does it.
Workshops
Focused sessions that solve a specific problem in front of your team.
REWIRED FOR CHANGE
For: Executive teams and transformation sponsors
Your initiative is meeting resistance, and the usual answer - more communication, more training - isn’t moving it. Leaders diagnose the neural triggers driving resistance in their own rollout, then redesign the approach to work with how people process change instead of against it. They arrive with a plan and leave with it rewired.
The working session behind the Rewired keynote.
COMMUNICATING & ENGAGING TO LEAD CHANGE
For: Leaders and teams responsible for taking people through change
Most change communication adds to the overload it’s trying to solve - more announcements, less understanding. Teams leave with a communication architecture built for their actual initiative: what to say, to whom, through which channel, at what cadence, and how to tell whether it’s landing. Not a template. Their plan, built in the room.
6 PILLARS PROGRAM LEADERSHIP
For: Managers ready to lead the program, not just deliver the project tasks
Clarify, Connect, Communicate, Collaborate, Control, Confident - the six behaviors that separate managers who deliver a plan from leaders whose teams follow them through the hard parts. Managers leave with an honest read on where they’re strong, where they’re exposed, and the practices to close the gap on the project they’re running now.
“I learned many things about myself and how to better function for myself, my team, my family.”
- Division Director, Leadership Program“Annmarie is a very good presenter and provided great feedback throughout the retreat. She is direct and honest, which I appreciate.”
- Senior Manager, Leadership Program
From global stages to firehouses
Recent conferences and summits
PMI Global Summit - Los Angeles 2024, Phoenix 2025
Vermont Emergency Preparedness Conference, 2025
Maine & New Hampshire Professional Development Day, 2025
Champlain Valley PMI Symposium, 2024
PMI Virtual Experience Series / PMXPO - 10,000+ reached, 4,400+ attendee ratings
Organizations and teams
American Red Cross Regional Disaster Training
Shelburne and Williston Fire Departments
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
PMI chapters across the US and internationally
“I was honored to host Annmarie Curley as a featured speaker for the Southern New England Chapter of PMI. Annmarie delivered a powerful and insightful session on neuroscience-informed leadership and change management that deeply resonated with our audience.”
- Rick Caudill, MBA, PMP, Assistant Vice President of Programs, PMI Southern New England“Annmarie met with our fire and medical response team to work on operational resiliency and stress management. Our members witnessed firsthand the evidence-based neuroscience involved in the tools for managing stress in real time. We are grateful for the eye-opening presentation that Annmarie brought to our responders.”
- Aaron Collette, Chief of Department, Williston Fire DepartmentBring this to your people
Whether you’re building a conference program or a leadership team, the conversation starts the same way: what is this change actually asking of your people, and what would it take for them to come out of it stronger?
“I wholeheartedly recommend Annmarie as a speaker and facilitator for organizations aiming to strengthen leadership capacity, drive successful change outcomes, and empower teams to move from stress and resistance to confidence and peak performance.”
- Rick Caudill, MBA, PMP, PMI Southern New England