Redefining Speed And Trust: A Conversation With Frances Frei And Anne Morriss On Their New Book

Frei and Morriss have rewritten the playbook for change. With a clear plan for how to spend your Monday through Friday, they make it easy to keep it all straight. But what matters most is that you start today. Full of engaging stories and unexpected insight, Move Fast & Fix Things will not disappoint the growing number of fans of this amazing duo.

Morriss and Frei have a habit of blowing your mind with the most strategic insights while giving you practical, tangible ideas you can use in tomorrow’s staff meeting. I give this book to everyone in my life who’s trying to build organizations that will not only endure but also flourish and prosper in a future defined by speed, uncertainty, and limitless possibility.

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Move Fast and Fix Things

In this talk Anne reinvents the playbook for how to lead change—with a provocative approach that moves fast, builds trust, and accelerates excellence. When Facebook made "Move fast and break things" an informal company motto, it fueled the belief that we can either make progress or take care of people, one or the other. Throughout this dynamic, interactive keynote, Anne makes the case that the best change leaders solve hard problems with fierce urgency while making their organizations—employees, customers, and shareholders—even stronger. They move fast and fix things. Based on her work with fast-moving companies, Anne reveals the five essential steps to moving fast and fixing things. Audiences learn to:
- •	Identify the real problem holding you back
- •	Build and rebuild trust in your company
- •	Create a culture where everyone can thrive
- •	Communicate powerfully as a leader
- •	Go fast by empowering your team


Building and Rebuilding Trust
 
Trust is the foundation for everything we do. In this inspiring, hands-on talk, Anne shares battle-tested tools for building and rebuilding high-trust relationships with your most important stakeholders – not in a matter of weeks or months, but by making changes that lead to immediate results. Through both fast-moving discussion of provocative ideas and opportunity for individual reflection, Anne teaches audiences how to how to identify ways they’re undermining trust today, along with fast, actionable steps they can take to build more trust tomorrow. Audiences learn to:

- •	Increase self-awareness of your own trust “wobbles” 
- •	Strengthen the core pillars of trust: authenticity, logic, and empathy 
- •	Communicate more credibly and persuasively
- •	Lead inclusive teams where everyone can fully contribute
- •	Build more trust tomorrow than you did today


Creating the Conditions to Thrive

When leaders and aspiring leaders seek out advice, they're often told to try harder. Dig deeper. Look in the mirror and fix your deficiencies. In this inspiring talk, Anne offers a different worldview. She argues that this popular leadership advice glosses over the most important thing you do as a leader: build others up. Leadership isn't about you. It's about how effective you are at empowering other people—and making sure this impact endures even in your absence. Through provocative stories from Ancient Rome to present-day Silicon Valley, Anne makes a persuasive case that the origins of great leadership are found, paradoxically, not in worrying about your own status and advancement, but in the unrelenting focus on other people's potential. Audiences learn to:

- •	Unleash the full potential of the people around you
- •	Create work environments where other people can reliably excel 
- •	Lead in your “presence” by setting high standards and revealing deep devotion
- •	Lead in your “absence” by optimizing strategy and culture
- •	Increase your confidence and overcome self-limiting beliefs

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Anne Morriss is on a mission to help people realize their full potential as leaders and changemakers. Author of three best-selling books on leadership, Anne is among the world’s most influential thinkers, speakers, and advisors. She has worked with entrepreneurs, companies, and governments around the world on leading transformational change. Her collaborators have ranged from early-stage tech founders to public sector leaders working to build national competitiveness.

Anne has also put her own theory into practice: as Founder and CEO of GenePeeks, Anne built a computational genomics company developing breakthrough ways to identify disease risk. She is also the Founder of The Leadership Consortium, a first-of-its kind leadership accelerator that works to build inclusive executive teams and prepare emerging leaders for senior leadership. 

Anne’s work investigates how leaders create the conditions for people and organizations to thrive. In addition to countless articles and case studies, Anne is the best-selling co-author of Uncommon Service, Unleashed and the newly released Move Fast & Fix Things: The Trusted Leader’s Guide to Solving Hard Problems. Hailed as a “masterpiece on trust, leadership, and business,” Move Fast & Fix Things inspires readers to accelerate change while also taking care of their employees, customers, and shareholders. 

Along with her co-author, Harvard Business School Professor Frances Frei, Anne hosts the breakthrough TED podcast Fixable, a leadership advice show that helps guests solve workplace problems in a single, brave conversation. An in-demand leadership coach, Anne recently delivered a viral TED talk on “Five steps to fix any problem at work,” which has been viewed more than a million times. 

Anne serves on several not-for-profit boards, including the national Board of IGNITE, which works to increase the political engagement of young women. She received her BA from Brown University and MBA from Harvard Business School. Anne has been recognized repeatedly by Thinkers50 as among the world’s leading management thinkers. You can learn more about her work at anneandfrances.com.