Anne Ditmeyer
Transform creative problem-solving and reimagine possibilities with Anne Ditmeyer, speaker, designer, event & workshop facilitator. Anne works with organisations facing stagnation to override conventional thinking through playful, human-centered approaches. Featured in Forbes and trusted by HP, Adobe, and Louis Vuitton.
Paris, France
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As author of OVERRIDE! What If There Was Another Way? and creator of signature programs like Mapping Your Path, Anne has collaborated with organisations including Airbnb, Adobe, Moët Hennessy, My Little Paris, and IDEO. Her work has been featured in Forbes and Psychologies Magazine.
Anne blends her unique background in graphic design, anthropology, and UX to create intentional, human-centered experiences that address modern workplace challenges. Her workshops provide practical tools for navigating uncertainty, fostering team alignment, and unlocking creative potential when organisations face stagnation or transition periods.
Always the "quiet one" growing up, Anne's personal experience has deeply informed how she creates inclusive and psychologically safe environments today — places where everyone has a voice. She often finds herself facilitating in international rooms with a mix of cultures and nationalities to create a shared sense of belonging.
Participants in Anne's sessions gain concrete frameworks for reimagining challenges from fresh perspectives, practical techniques for integrating play into strategic thinking, and renewed confidence to pursue what's possible. Her signature "banana mapping" exercise (as featured on CreativeMornings) shows how unexpected approaches can lead to breakthrough insights.
Book Anne when your team needs to break free from outdated patterns and discover innovative pathways forward with clarity and purpose.
Topics, Sessions And Talks
Anne Ditmeyer offers a range of workshops for your team, including: creative confidence, creative constraints and reframes, design thinking and ideation, cultivating curiosity, asking better questions and active listening, think like a storyteller, Mapping Your Path™, OVERRIDE!, reimagining leadership, navigating challenges, creative safaris, walking workshops, team check-ins, and train-the-trainer (workshop development).
Anne Ditmeyer is an expert facilitator who helps teams navigate difficult conversations and create safe spaces for discomfort. She works closely with organisers to co-create gatherings that meet the unique goals and needs of each group. Anne’s sessions often include thoughtful warm-ups that help participants ease into deeper conversations with openness and trust. With a flexible approach, she can support a range of workshops and gatherings, always ensuring that participants feel supported, seen, and empowered to engage with confidence and compassion.
In this keynote, Anne Ditmeyer reveals how creative constraints can actually become catalysts for reimagining what’s possible. Drawing on personal stories and the surprising legacy of her grandfather’s moonshot work, she invites audiences to embrace experimentation and lead with curiosity in times of uncertainty. This keynote is ideal for teams facing rapid change, decision fatigue, or complex challenges, offering a hopeful and strategic reframe to unlock forward momentum.
Based on her book OVERRIDE!, this talk introduces a powerful framework designed to help leaders take aligned action toward meaningful change. Through supportive reframing, imagination, and creative prompts, attendees learn how to make space for possibility and lead with more clarity, courage, and purpose. This keynote is ideal for leadership teams, HR professionals, and forward-thinking organisations looking to evolve how they lead from within.
In this interactive keynote, Anne Ditmeyer introduces mapping as a creative strategy for navigating change. Through personal reflection and visual thinking, participants learn how to uncover what matters most, clarify next steps, and make more intentional decisions. As a playful highlight, they’ll even map on a banana to connect in unexpected ways and shift perspective. This talk is ideal for teams in transition, kicking off a strategic offsite, or looking to reignite momentum.
In this keynote, Anne Ditmeyer explores the legacy of her grandfather, Charles Stark Draper (born in 1901), a pioneer in inertial guidance systems. Drawing from her background in human-centred design, she highlights how collaboration, trust, and curiosity drove innovation. Through reflective exercises inspired by her grandfather's work with gyroscopes, Anne explores co-creation as a competitive advantage in today's AI-driven landscape. Attendees will learn how to lead with humanity in a digital age, fostering innovation through meaningful connections and collaboration.
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