Biography of Ann McGee Cooper

Dr. Ann McGee-Cooper has been called a visionary and a catalyst for the transformation of American business. The breadth of her experience is remarkable. She’s applied her understanding of the mind and its potential in her work with Southwest Airlines, TXU Corporate, GE, the Federal Reserve Bank, NASA, EDS, the Prudential, CIA and others. She has counseled national business leaders, governmental officials and college presidents on servant-leadership, team-building, team time management and creative problem solving. Her work has been featured in major publications such as the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and International Management. She has authored three books: Building Brain Power, You Don’t Have To Go Home From Work Exhausted!, and, most recently, Time Management for Unmanageable People, which is now available in bookstores as a Bantam trade paperback. In addition, she has completed a 30-minute video on time management, “Managing Time Your Way,” which is available through the American Management Association.

“Bold dreams” – those are the words frequently associated with Ann. She has followed them throughout her life and has become quite adept at helping others find and realize their own. Painter, gardener, architect, professor, consultant, lecturer, tap dancer, student, theologian, author, dreamer and brain engineer. You can’t spend time with Ann and not learn. She teaches by example. In her approach to the business of AMCA, Inc., she practices what we teach. Ann designed her team’s creative work space, “The Tree House,” and the water gardens around it. She describes it as a garden for the imagination. And, like all of Ann’s endeavors, it’s energizing, bright, fun, inviting and it works.