SPEAKING + FACILITATION

Helping teams navigate uncertainty, spark creativity, and lead differently.

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🖋️ WHAT I DO

I help teams and organizations:

✅ Strengthen team connection, creativity, and collaboration
✅ Foster psychological safety and inclusive leadership
✅ Unlock fresh thinking and creative problem-solving
✅ Navigate change and uncertainty with confidence
✅ Build resilience and creative confidence in a world of constraints

Through interactive keynotes, creative workshops, and experiential tools, I invite participants to override default patterns and reimagine what’s possible.


✨ WHY THIS MATTERS

Organizations today face constant change, complexity, and pressure to innovate — yet many feel stuck in old habits and disconnected as teams.

My approach helps teams:
💡 Think differently, together
💡 Cultivate well-being & belonging
💡 Engage curiosity and creativity as competitive advantages
💡 Break through perfectionism & foster experimentation

BUSINESS IMPACT
Supports innovation, reduces stagnation, fosters pyschological safety, boosts relational intelligence, encourages collaboration, strengthens inclusive leadership, engages team (re)alignment, enhances change-readiness, improves decision-making,  increases employee engagement and satisfaction, helps navigate uncertainty, nutures creative confidence, leverages connections

— Build psychological safety & trust
— Unlock fresh thinking & creative confidence
— Strengthen team connection & retention
— Improve decision-making & readiness for change

Innovation & Change-readiness

  1. Psychological Safety & Connection

  2. Leadership & Decision-making

  3. Employee Engagement & Confidence

HOW I WORK

I design and deliver engaging experiences — from one-hour keynotes to multi-day offsites — blending:
🎨 Playful, analog creative tools (yes, even bananas!)
📍 Human-centered, curiosity-driven exercises
📝 Storytelling, strategic reflection, and creative constraints
🌟 Co-created sessions aligned to your goals

Available in-person worldwide or online:
Interactive keynote speaking | Workshops | Offsite & Retreat Facilitation | Quarterly Check-ins | Custom experiences


🧑‍🤝‍🧑 WHO I AM

Anne Ditmeyer is a Paris-based designer turned creative catalyst, workshop facilitator, coach, and author of OVERRIDE! What if there was another way? With 20+ years of experience across design, writing, strategy, and facilitation, Anne brings a cross-cultural, creative lens shaped by her own path of reinvention — and a knack for sparking connection and insight in others.

Trusted by brands and institutions including:
Louis Vuitton, Adobe, HubSpot, HP, Griffith Foods, My Little Paris, International Flavors & Fragrances, Parsons Paris, and more.


AUTHORITY

  • 20+ years of creative experience spanning design, writing, strategy, and facilitation across global contexts

  • Trusted by brands and institutions such as Louis Vuitton, Adobe, HP, HubSpot, International Flavors & Fragrances, My Little Paris, Parsons Paris, and more

  • Author of OVERRIDE! What if there was another way? a self-published, illustrated pocket playbook for possibility

  • Creator of Mapping Your Path, Write Your Own Rules, and Navigate Paris, experiential programmes designed to spark transformation through creativity and curiosity

  • American in Paris since 2009 (French since 2016), bringing a cross-cutural, creative lens shaped by constraint, reinvention, and lived experience as a multi-hyphenate entrepreneur

  • Grandfather got us to the moon and back

🎤 SIGNATURE TALKS & WORKSHOPS

Interactive Keynotes

  • Creativity as a Leadership Strategy: How to lead differently with the OVERRIDE! framework

  • Mapping Your Path™: A creative framework for leading through change

  • Human Creativity in the Age of AI: Your ultimate competitive advantage

Workshop Topics (customizable)

  • Banana Mapping: Break through perfectionism & unlock insights through playful mapping

  • Active Listening & Asking Better Questions: Build connection & curiosity

  • Think Like a Storyteller: Shape messages & transform challenges into opportunities

  • Creative Confidence: Build resilience, embrace constraints, & reimagine what’s possible

  • Team Safaris: Step outside the everyday to observe, connect, and discover fresh insights

💬 WHAT PEOPLE SAY

"Anne’s masterful and engaging facilitation uplifted our team’s energy and connection, and left them thinking differently about their work — with tools to generate creative ideas and solutions."
— Vanessa Barlow, Producer, Pearlworks

"There’s nothing like play to trick our minds into doing the hard work. Anne has found a way to dive deep into problem-solving and creativity with her banana mapping workshop."
— Workshop participant

"Anne’s thoughtful scaffolding and creative, warm presence made her workshop a breath of fresh air. I left feeling delighted, refreshed, and full of wonder."
— Exa Kutler, CreativeMornings Partnerships Coordinator

🍌 WHAT’S A BANANA MAP?

A banana map is exactly what it sounds like — a map, drawn on a banana.

Why it works:
✅ Disrupts routine thinking
✅ Overcomes perfectionism
✅ Fosters creativity & play
✅ Encourages collaboration & connection

A simple yet powerful way to shift perspective and unlock possibility.

COMING SOON…

+ What is banana mapping?

+ AIGA Maine Design Fest 2025 (Aug 2025)

+ CreativeMornings Paris (Nov 2025)

+ Book launch party
+ Messy Nessy book + banana mapping