Stronger With Every Change
The pace of change isn't slowing down. The leaders pulling ahead have stopped trying to manage it better - they’re building the capacity to meet it.
Annmarie shows leaders what their transformation is actually up against. Not resistance. Not change fatigue. Biology. Then she shows them how to design for it.
CREATOR OF STRATEGIC CHANGE EXECUTION™ · ADVISING CEOs, CIOs, COOs & CHROs · TOP WOMEN LEADERS OF VERMONT 2026
Provocative. Evidence-based. Felt in the room.
Keynotes and workshops built so leaders feel the shift themselves. They leave able to name what’s happening in their own organization, and equipped to act on it.
Annmarie has taken the PMI Global Summit stage in Los Angeles and Phoenix, earning 5-star attendee ratings both years. She has held a room of nearly 200 leaders and a virtual audience of more than 10,000, who rated her 4.5 out of 5 across more than 4,000 responses, above the event average. She has taught first responders to regulate under pressure and advised CIOs on why their transformation is stalling.
Before founding Newgrange, she spent more than a decade in senior technology leadership at J.P. Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and Credit Suisse First Boston. She is certified in the neuroscience of behavior change and in resilience science, and her transformation work spans JP Morgan, UVM Health Network, Burton, Keurig, and Middlebury, Vassar and Wellesley Colleges.
“From the outset, Annmarie was professional, collaborative, and thoughtful in her preparation, making the planning process seamless. Her topic was both timely and highly relevant to our audience, and she tailored her content in a way that aligned perfectly with the goals of our event.”
- Susan Aznive, PMP, Planning Committee, PMI Maine & New Hampshire Professional Development DayIt lands in the body first. Then it changes how they think.
Annmarie’s talks draw on the same body of work behind Strategic Change Execution™, the Newgrange framework for diagnosing why execution breaks down under pressure and redesigning the system so it holds.
Audiences leave with practical frameworks they can apply immediately: to rewire how they respond to pressure, make better decisions under uncertainty, and build the conditions for sustained high performance.
“I plan to watch this entire presentation again. So knowledgeable, presented so clearly, and extremely relevant for me.”
– Attendee, PMI Global SummitFeatured Transformation Keynotes
Rewired: The Biology of Change
★★★★★ 5-Star Rated at the PMI Global Summit - Phoenix 2025
Most leaders discover their transformation is in trouble far too late - once indicators show up in the dashboard or the steering committee. Annmarie opens somewhere unexpected, with a moment that lands before the data ever does, and reveals a truth most transformation leaders have never been shown: execution risk is biological, and it’s visible long before anyone calls it resistance.
Audiences leave understanding change as something you engineer the conditions for - and why, in the AI era, the ability to adapt is the competitive advantage strategy can’t replace.
What audiences take away:
Why execution risk shows up in behavior long before it shows up in a dashboard
What resistance actually is, biologically, and why the standard response makes the next initiative harder
Why adaptive capacity is the advantage AI can’t replicate
Format: Delivered as a conference keynote, a breakout session, or a half-day workshop, in person or virtually. Length and depth are set to fit your program.
Ideal for: C-suite audiences, transformation sponsors, PMI and CIO conferences, and leadership summits
“She provided attendees with a new lens for understanding team dynamics, stress responses, and resistance not as barriers, but as predictable, manageable aspects of human behavior.”
- Susan Aznive, PMP, PMI Maine & New Hampshire Professional Development DayFrom Stress to Success: Neuroscience Strategies for Successful Leadership
★★★★★ 5-Star Rated at the PMI Global Summit - Los Angeles 2024
Under sustained pressure, the brain runs an operating system built for survival, not performance - and the capabilities a leader needs most quietly go offline exactly when the stakes are highest. This isn’t a talent problem; it’s a state problem. And state is trainable.
In an interactive session that lets the audience feel the shift for themselves, Annmarie shows leaders how to move themselves and their teams from reactivity back to clear, focused execution - on demand.
What audiences take away:
What happens to decision quality, creativity and collaboration under sustained pressure
How to recognize the shift from Performance Mode into Preservation Mode, in themselves and their teams
A technique they can use in the moment to return to clear, focused execution
Format: Delivered as an interactive keynote or a half-day workshop, in person or virtually. The interactive element scales with the time available.
Ideal for: Executive and leadership teams, PMI and operations audiences, and any group leading through sustained change
Also available
Your AI Is Ready. Your Nervous System Isn’t. - AI readiness and human adaptive capacity
Fast Isn’t Flexible: Why Going Agile Didn’t Make You Adaptive - why speed is not the same as adaptability
“Engaging, a strong speaker - just the right balance between the science and the practical takeaways.”
- Attendee, PMI Global SummitBuilt for your room, not off the shelf
CUSTOMIZED
CONTENT
The science stays constant. Everything else is built around your audience and the change they are living through.
FLEXIBLE
FORMAT
Keynote, breakout, half-day, or a phased series. The format follows your program, not the other way around.
ENGAGING
DELIVERY
Live exercises put the audience inside the science, so the insight arrives as experience rather than information.
VIRTUAL OR
IN PERSON
Sessions are built for the room they’re delivered in, whether that room is physical or not.
“I’m still amazed by people who have figured out how to be engaging in a remote setting. She did a great job holding my attention.”
- Attendee, PMI virtual conference