ABOUT ANAÏS BOCK
Why should there be a gap between business and everything that feels good?
I’m all about bringing more realness into how we create, innovate, communicate and challenge the status quo. My work entails helping top leadership teams work together more effectively and transforming cultures to put human connection and possibility in the centre. I’m deeply invested in accompanying deep change processes and view every single workshop or keynote as an opportunity for magic. For being moved and moving people.
If you’re looking for someone who can dial up the warmth and captivate both large and smaller audiences in fluent English, Spanish and German, let’s talk.
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Official Bio
Anaïs Bock is a top team facilitator, leadership consultant and the founder of Let’s Work Magic. For the past decade, she’s worked with Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurs and speaks on international stages in fluent German, English and Spanish.
Anaïs is known for the four-part Purpose Diagram and the cheeky Bullshit Monster method that helps individuals and teams to name and transform their inner saboteurs.
Anaïs’ focus during her Master’s (MSc Organisational Behaviour Birkbeck, University of London) was the future of work and women in leadership. She has been researching purpose-driven business and everything that inhibits it since 2011. In 2022 she spoke to 1.000 female leaders to talk about what really needs to shift at the top for a world of work that works for everyone.
Anaïs Bock has lived in 7 countries and now divides her time between Munich and Berlin, Germany.
Speaker Reel
Topics to talk about
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My job is all about getting top leadership teams around one table to work on how they work together. Before we get to what they need and want t talk about (strategy), we always get them to experience how working together can feel (culture) and how to make that happen for everyone else.
I draw upon research on human connection to make this point in entertaining and punny ways — can also happen without breakfast metaphors for eggophobes.
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The purpose diagram (you might know it as ikigai) went viral after I put a very ugly picture on my very ugly Facebook page. Ever since, I’ve researched purpose and what stops us from it.
My keynote 2 cents: looking for purpose is like looking for happiness and makes you feel pretty miserable and purposeless.
According to my research with over 1.000 leaders and entrepreneurs, it makes more sense to get rid of everything that’s not in line with purpose, including all your internal sabotage patterns. (PS: that’s how the bilingual method and card deck Bullshit Monsters® was born.)
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VUCA: a scary-sounding, meaning-laden expression for everyrthing disorienting we fear. And you know what? That volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous future we used to be so scared of? It’s here and about to get exponentially crazier (just look at all the AIs spurting out of the ground!).
What this means for leaders is: you need to surf the waves and, above all, you need to know how and when to exude a sense of calm, grounding and provide orientation.
Top leaders today were socialised with “leadership styles” and “personality tests” and are often looking for the one “right way”. For a lot, there’s some unlearning to do. This can be done both scientifically and highly entertainingly. Your choice.
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Everybody is tired of that sense of guilt whenever someone says “DEI”. It is SO IMPORTANT and we’re so busy and so it tends to be on the overloaded desk of a volunteer peer group or added to HR responsibilities as though it’s some parallel universe to fix and then report back on… Or, in the case of events, there’s the famous side stage where female panels happen on what it’s like to be a woman in business.
We think it’s time for a new era. One in which the topic takes centre stage by becoming so fascinating that every white, cis-gender, hetero-sexual person in power drops their green smoothie to join the conversation.
Those are the kind of diversity discussions we want to have.
Backstage
ANAÏS’ STORY
In 2011 I left a management position in the hospitality industry because I was tired of wearing high heels and five-star smiles for 14 hours a day. I was yearning to reconnect with joy, to jump out of bed with the sense that I am making an impact.
I became self-employed while studying the overlap between our psychology and where the world is going (MSc Organisational Behaviour, Birkbeck University of London). Much of those first years was about sharing my own business know how not and asking “what if?”.
Today, I look I have the pleasure to work with top leadership teams and design both deep solo interventions and learning journey that move entire divisions.
I usually get called when the status quo feels sticky and fresh air, joy and inspired and committed action are needed. It’s not just about an inner journey (what’s our purpose?) but about grounding it in reality.
I do well on big stages and with large groups. I feel at home in board rooms or that transformed barn, working with executive leaders, senior consultants and internal changemakers in English, Spanish and German.
I am international, people-loving, and all for bringing together opposites. My work is research-driven, actionable and fun. I support people, projects, missions, and status-quo-changing ideas. And I always, always, always reserve a coaching slot for a woman entrepreneur I believe in.
Businesses I’ve worked with
