High-impact keynotes for today’s most demanding workplaces
For more than 25 years, Ann Gomez has helped professionals, leaders, and organizations navigate the realities of modern work with practical strategies that drive sustainable high-performance. A highly engaging speaker, author and business leader, Ann delivers actionable insights that help people reclaim time, strengthen teams, and perform at their best.
Speaking Topics
For more than 25 years, Ann Gomez has helped professionals navigate the realities of modern work, from overload and competing priorities to leadership, collaboration, mindset and sustainable high-performance.
Known for her practical approach, relatable stories, and actionable takeaways, Ann equips audiences with strategies they can apply immediately to create meaningful results.
Workday Warrior: A proven path to reclaiming your time
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Life is busier than ever before. We are working longer hours, with more stress and more priorities, yet we seem to fall further and further behind. Our so-called leisure time is punctuated with interruptions, constantly lulling us back to work. We are led to believe we can prioritize our way out of this, but prioritization is broken. In Workday Warrior, you’ll learn a fresh approach to smash today’s time challenges – too many priorities, too many interruptions, and too much complexity. We don’t need more willpower, discipline, or hours in our day. Instead, we need a straightforward approach to help us reclaim our time and upgrade our work habits.
The Workday Warrior is a proven solution, designed for the world’s busiest people. You’ll learn about three key tools to help you concentrate your time and energy on your core priorities and protect time for what you value most.
Find more time in your day so you can play at a higher level and feel more in control of your time. Your work will never be the same.
Secrets of High-Performance Teams
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High-performance team habits have never been more essential. Over the last few years, teams have experienced incredible disruption, massive industry shifts, and unprecedented turnover. Given all of this, culture is more important than ever. Learn what your team needs to thrive – as individuals and as a collective group. Building on long-standing teaming principles, this session focuses on how you can bring out the best across your team, regardless of where you work. Strengthen trust, foster connections, and drive engagement with frequent recognition, developmental feedback and equal access to opportunities. Learn how to balance autonomy with collaboration routines, while providing each team member with the meaning and purpose they crave. Collectively, your team is capable of outstanding results, and we all deserve to work in a culture where we can thrive.
Watch Your High-Performance Hybrid Team.
Your Thrive Mindset
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Thriving at work requires a specific mindset: a thrive mindset. Elite performers know success is an inside game, regardless of what is happening around us. Learn proven, evidence-based habits to build your resiliency and skillfully navigate stressful situations. Recognize setbacks and failure as learning opportunities. Build your confidence and improve your presence. Recognize and curate limiting beliefs. Revisit your goals and self-imposed limits, so you can rise to your full potential and beyond. Embrace a thrive mindset to perform at your best when it matters most. These key lessons – the ones we all should have learned much earlier in life – will transform how you work and live.
Prioritize Your Wellbeing
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Wellbeing is an essential foundation for our work and our life. Yet many people struggle to prioritize key behaviors such as sleep, exercise and eating well. Fostering healthy relationships, practicing gratitude, relaxation, and meditation are also crucial for restoring ourselves physically and mentally. This session will inspire you with practical strategies to prioritize your wellbeing. Even more importantly, we’ll cover the latest science in habit formation, so you can adopt the habits you crave. We know why wellbeing is important. It’s time we focus on how to prioritize the activities that matter most.
Your Custom Presentation
Every audience is different. That’s why Ann works closely with event organizers to understand their goals, challenges, and desired outcomes. The result is a customized experience that is relevant, engaging, and designed to create lasting impact.
Drawing from her expertise in productivity, collaboration, leadership, mindset, and sustainable high-performance, Ann can tailor keynotes, webinars, fireside chats, breakout sessions, and facilitated Q&A discussions to meet the unique needs of your audience.
Popular Topic Areas:
Productivity & Performance:
- Focus
- Prioritization
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Workday design
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Habits
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Email management
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Overcoming procrastination
Collaboration & Leadership:
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High-Performance teaming
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Leadership
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Creating trust
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Delegating
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Feedback
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Challenging conversations
Mindset & Wellbeing:
- Thriving under pressure
- Empowering beliefs
- Confidence & presence
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Prioritizing well-being habits
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Sustaining energy
Let’s Design the Right Experience for Your Audience
Whether you’re looking for a keynote, conference session, leadership retreat, client event, or executive discussion, Ann will work with you to create a presentation that aligns with your objectives and resonates with your audience.
“We have never worked with a presenter like Ann,
who took so much care to customize the content to our firm’s unique needs.”
Attorney Development Manager, Law firm
Your work and life will never be the same.
Ann has helped thousands of people, just like you, at all stages of their career and across industries to:
- Feel less overwhelmed and more in control
- Boost productivity and restore balance
- Use practical strategies to deal with a high volume of work, email, and meetings
- Strengthen collaboration, feel less isolated, and more connected
- Cope with stress and build resilience to navigate challenges
- Use purpose to fuel optimal performance
- Manage energy and reclaim focus
- Shift from surviving to thriving
- Prioritize wellbeing
Watch Ann on The Marilyn Denis show sharing practical tips to boost our wellbeing.
Ann’s speaking topics may be presented in-person, as well as live, interactive and engaging webinars.
For more videos of Ann, please visit the Clear Concept website.
Book Ann to speak at your next event
“Gomez empowers even the most successful people to use their time more effectively and accomplish more of what counts.”
— Steven Bushong, CEO, Bushong Media, and retired Senior Vice President, the Walt Disney Company
Learn more about Ann
Ann has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Globe & Mail, and has appeared on CBC Radio, and on national television. An active blogger and media spokesperson, Ann is a winner of the Women Business Enterprises (WBE) Canada Leader Award, and a nominee for RBC’s Women of Influence Canadian Women Entrepreneur Awards.
Ann is a bestselling author and her latest book, Workday Warrior: A Proven Path to Reclaiming Your Time, received an honourable mention for The Globe & Mail’s best management books. Ann is also the author of The Email Warrior and a contributing author of The Younger Self Letters.
Ann and her team at Clear Concept work with people across industries, including law, finance, insurance, healthcare, consumer goods, and automotive. Our practical workshops, coaching and online training are designed to help people at any stage in their career.
Prior to founding Clear Concept Inc., Ann was a management consultant at Kearney, and has an MBA from Queen’s University where she was the President of the MBA class. Ann also has an Honours Bachelor’s Degree in Science (Biology & Psychology) from McMaster University.
Outside of work, Ann and her husband love spending time with their four active children.
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What Audiences are Saying
Honoured to have presented to these thriving world class organizations:
Featured in:
CBC Radio Noon
September 18, 2024
Employers need to motivate RTO – not mandate
Listen for Ann @ ~36:48
Smith Business Insight
July 4, 2024
Why we keep checking our email on holidays
CPA Canada
June 24, 2024
4 strategies to change how you think about stress
Smith Business
Fall 2023
Smith magazine profile – Who has the time?
CPA BC Magazine
September 14, 2023
Optimize your workday with a proactive routine
Wall Street Journal
September 13, 2023
How a Timer (Not Your Phone’s) Can Help You Work Much More Efficiently
Chartered Professional Accountants
June 8, 2023
5 reasons to come into the office
The Marilyn Denis Show
April 2023
7 pillars of wellbeing | Workday Warrior
The Globe & Mail | Women's Collective
April 26, 2023
How to keep distractions at bay when working from home
Armed with a Book: Interview & key takeaways
March 26, 2023
Goodreads | Featured review
March 2, 2023
Homes & Gardens
February, 2023
How the one-touch rule can help you
CHCH News
January 31, 2023
Not enough hours in the day?
I've Read This
January 31, 2023
Rave reviews for Workday Warrior
CityNews Vancouver Bookshelf
January 15, 2023
Ann Gomez (Workday Warrior)
CBC Radio West
January 10, 2023
Listen for Ann at 41:00 min
Dundurn Press
January 5, 2023
5 reasons life is better as a Workday Warrior
The Globe and Mail
December 15, 2022
Prioritization is broken and you are suffering. To fix it, start by scrapping the to-do list.
The Globe and Mail
December 12, 2022
The best management books of 2022 (Honourable mention)
Practising Law Institute, PD Center
March 2022
Leading successful hybrid teams
Inside Scoop with Paula Rizzo
February 3, 2022
Secrets of High-Performing Hybrid Teams
Precedent Magazine
April 24, 2020
How one large-firm partner is balancing family with work during the pandemic
CBC Life
October 31, 2019
The go-to productivity tips of efficiency experts
CBC Radio
July 18, 2018
The shocking ripple effect of uncivil emails (and 7 ways to avoid this effect).
The Morning Show
January 18, 2018
Ann Gomez sits down with Global TV’s Morning show to discuss how to manage digital clutter and a mountain of unread emails.
CBC Radio
July 4, 2017
CBC Morning Radio: How to disconnect while on vacation
The Globe & Mail
April 24, 2017
The three Ds of disciplining your e-mail inbox
Written by Harvey Schachter
The Toronto Sun
April 11, 2017
It’s time to take control of your inbox
Written by Joanne Richard
