Annette Simmons

Annette Simmons is the author of four books: Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins (2006), The Story Factor: Inspiration, Influence,and Persuasion through the Art of Storytelling "2001, 2nd edition2005", A Safe Place for Dangerous Truth: Using Dialogue to Overcome Fear & Distrust (1999) and Territorial Games: Understanding and Ending Turf Wars at Work (1997). She is President of Group Process Consulting (Greensboro, NC) and combines public speaking, writing, consulting and constant research and development to serve organizations seeking to increase workgroup cooperation for bottomline results. Annette delivers keynote speeches, short interventions and training experiences that cause participants to rethink faulty assumptions that perpetuate faulty workplace behaviors. Clients include federal clients like NASA, IRS, NSA, large clients like IBM, Best Buy and Analog Devices as well as churches and small privately held clients. 

Annette is an entertaining storyteller and has been featured on CNBC’s Power Lunch, NPR’s Market Watch,talk radio programs, and quoted in Fortune, Working Woman, Harvard Business Review, The Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and dozens of other respected publications. In addition to English her books have been published in Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Norwegian and German.