
Annem Academy is today’s trade school for tomorrow’s Leaders.
We founded Annem Academy to develop and support the next generation of leaders - those who lead others and those who lead themselves.
Let’s face it, the old-school, boring, rules-based approach to HR doesn’t work. Savvy employees will only continue to favor realness and transparency from their Leaders along with people practices that help them work smarter, not harder.
The future of work will continue to be dynamic and demanding, testing our boundaries, capabilities, and judgment. Companies and employees alike need credible and reliable guidance more than ever to stay focused and progress where it matters most.
Our purpose is to equip you to be the most grounded, courageous, and authentic stewards of your own human experience at work and in life.
We create bespoke development experiences for organizations who want to nurture courageous, authentic, and impactful leaders and teams. Leverage our off-the-shelf content or partner with us to build tailored content. Our offerings can be in-person or virtual and include traditional classroom experiences, tools and resources, coaching pods, and scale & sustainability strategies.
Prepare Your People Managers
Managers have the biggest impact on employee performance and engagement, but they often lack the skills to effectively lead others and scale their impact. Whether they are newly promoted individual contributors, experienced managers who never received formal manager training, or simply need to learn your company’s approach - prepare your managers to confidently lead and manager their teams.
Recruiting Your Team: Attract and assess talent to build a high-impact team.
Onboarding for the Long Term: Design an onboarding experience that sets your new hire up for long-term success.
Directing, Coaching, & Feedback: Provide the right level of support for each team member in each situation. Pairs with Managing Up.
Working Through Others: Set goals, delegate, manage execution, and run effective 1:1s.
Managing Underperformance: Understand the root causes of underperformance and navigate tricky performance situations with real conversations and performance plans.
Elevate Functional Leaders
Functional and mid-level leaders play a critical role in your business but there are few development initiatives built just for them. Elevate these leaders to be inspiring, courageous, authentic, and confident and be amazed by the return on your investment.
Inspiring Others: Set a vision that inspires your team to do their best work.
Leading High Performing Teams - Managing Managers: Provide support and autonomy that unlocks the potential in your managers.
Team Standards & Rituals: Develop standards and rituals that build your team culture and get results.
Org Design 101: Design an organization that will achieve your strategy - it’s more than boxes on an org chart!
Courage to Stand Alone: A peer coaching pod that builds your courage to navigate employee discomfort.
When Things Get Tricky: Turn around team engagement, contribute to investigations, effectively handle terminations, and more.
Equip Team Members for High-Impact
Your employees want to develop personal and professional skills that they will use throughout their career. Develop and inspire a high-impact team with training that include tools and resources they can immediately put into practice.
Feedback & Reflective Listening: Learn to give and receive feedback with reflective listening.
Goal Setting: Set SMART goals that are clear and motivating.
Project Management 1 & 2: Manage projects, including complex cross-functional projects.
Managing Up: Ask for the support you need. Pairs with the Directing, Coaching, & Feedback training.
Taking Charge of Your Career Development: Identify what you want from your career and have conversations that will help you get there.
Productivity & Prioritization (The importance of focus and making empowered trade-offs): Stop chasing business and start creating impact.
Building & Restoring Trust: Understand the foundations of trust and learn how to restore trust that is broken.
Growth Mindset: Build a growth mindset in yourself and model it for others.
Interview Training: Become an effective and compliant interviewer.
Wellbeing practices: We offer a variety of wellbeing practices that support emotional regulation such as group mindfulness meditations, breathwork, reiki, and vagus nerve conditioning.
Re-Inspire Your HR Team
Let’s face it - it’s not easy working in HR and traditional HR training doesn’t prepare people to navigate the new world of work. Develop a confident, credible, and inspired people (HR) team.
Designing Programs and Processes: Collaboratively build programs your employees and managers will love.
Leadership & Courage: Build confidence, influence, and courage through this hybrid classroom & peer coaching program.
Org Design 101: Design an organization that will achieve your strategy - it’s more than boxes on an org chart!
Handling Investigations: Manage investigations confidently and compliantly.
Change Management: Confidently and quietly guide your team through important changes.
Partner on Org Development
We know it is hard to execute new projects in the midst of the day-to-day. Partner with us on org development and change initiatives such as:
Consulting & needs assessment on culture & engagement
Extracting leadership/management principles
Creating and/or operationalizing values
Designing & implementing a Learning & Development Academy
360 performance management (or feedback) practices
Talent reviews and performance calibration practices
Org health monitoring & listening systems
Offsite Team and/or Leadership Experiences - Design & Facilitation