Annika Bevington – Speaker. Workshop Facilitator.
Annika Bevington is a sought-after speaker and workshop leader, frequently invited by businesses looking to motivate, inspire, and empower their teams. With over two decades of experience in the corporate world—including a leadership role at Google—and a powerful personal journey of resilience and transformation, Annika brings a rare combination of corporate insight and deep human connection.
Participants in Annika’s workshops and talks leave feeling energized and equipped—with practical tools, new mindsets, and a renewed sense of purpose they can immediately apply in their professional and personal lives.
In an era where AI and automation are reshaping the workplace, the true competitive edge for leaders and teams isn’t becoming more robotic—it’s becoming more human.
Annika offers in-person keynotes, virtual sessions, fireside chats, and interactive workshops tailored to your goals. Let’s connect to find the format that best supports your team’s growth .
“Great leadership isn’t learned from a book—it’s embodied through deep, intentional work that rewires the brain and transforms the way you lead.”
Lead with authenticity, emotional intelligence, and purpose.
Originally developed by Annika for her colleagues at Google, The Embodied Leader™️ is a transformative leadership programme designed to empower individuals to lead from a place of alignment, presence, and resilience.
This programme blends cutting-edge, science based leadership practices with embodied wisdom, supporting leaders to deepen self-awareness, improve communication, and inspire positive change in their teams and organisations.
Programme Format
The Embodied Leader™️ can be delivered as a full 8-part series or as stand-alone workshops, depending on your team’s needs. Sessions can also be tailored into one, two, or four 90-minute workshops. Ideal for groups of 10–15 participants, allowing for rich interaction and personalised exploration.
Core Workshops
1. Resilience Training
Bounce back stronger.
Learn to manage adversity, embrace change, and build inner strength with practical tools and mindset shifts.
2. Stress Management
Regain calm and clarity.
Identify stress triggers, reframe challenges, and cultivate habits that support well-being in high-performance environments. Be the solution, not the problem.
3. Cultivating Emotional Intelligence
Lead with empathy and insight.
Develop your emotional intelligence to better navigate relationships, manage emotions, and lead with compassion. You will see your teams thrive.
4. Self-Awareness Training
Know yourself to grow yourself (making the unconscious conscious)
Explore your reactions, unconscious thought patterns and blind spots to foster more conscious decision-making and leadership presence. How can you lead, if you don’t know yourself?
5. Empathic Communication
Speak with clarity. Listen with presence.
Learn tools for honest, constructive, and conflict-free communication—vital for collaboration and psychological safety.
6. Purpose & Vision Mapping
Align with what matters most.
Clarify your personal purpose and long-term vision. A powerful session for individuals in transition, post-reorgs or at kick-off events.
7. Fostering Psychological Safety
Speak freely. Thrive together.
Create environments where individuals feel safe to speak up, take risks, and express themselves without fear of judgment or failure—a foundational element for team trust, collaboration, and innovation.
8. Confidence & Presence
Step into your power.
Build confidence in how you speak, decide, and show up. Practice embodying leadership with authenticity and impact.
Why The Embodied Leader™️?
This program goes beyond theory—it invites leaders to embody the qualities they want to cultivate in others, by learning how to re-programme their own brains. Transitioning from stressed-out to empowered leaders. Through experiential learning, practical tools, and a compassionate approach, participants:
Strengthen emotional agility and resilience
Deepen self-awareness and authentic presence
Communicate with clarity, empathy, and impact
Lead with intention, purpose, and courage
Join the 500+ Googlers, who have taken part in the The Embodied Leader™️ programme, today, by sending me an enquiry via the link below:
Annika is often invited to share her powerful story in an intimate, open setting—one that fosters honest conversations and deep reflection. This Fireside Chat is a safe space to explore life’s toughest adversities and how they can become catalysts for personal growth.
How did she do it? How did she find her way to the other side? And how does she live in deep gratitude despite the brutal violence her family endured?
Through raw insights and heartfelt reflections, Annika shares the lessons she’s learned from one of life’s greatest challenges—offering inspiration, hope, and a new perspective on resilience.
The session concludes with a guided exercise designed to spark self-awareness, curiosity, and a lasting shift in how we navigate life’s challenges. The Fireside Chat typically lasts an hour, with time afterward for personal reflections and questions.
Join in on a conversation that just might change the way we see our own journey.
Testimonials:
“Our company had the opportunity to listen to a lecture by Annika [on stress management for working parents], it was a very interesting, motivating, and important topic to talk about.
We were incredibly satisfied with Annika’s lecture and the way she got everyone involved and enlightened. Thank you for a great session!”
“A genuinely amazing session - Thank you Annika, I really appreciated your honesty, candour and vulnerability as well as the tools and strategies we can all use in our day-to-day work and personal lives.”
“Thank you for your profound session on The Embodied Leader during the Women@GCC meetup Annika. It was highly touching, personal and backed by neuroscience evidence which I always appreciate.
For me you will be our Google’s own Eckhart Tolle :) Thank you for bringing your knowledge to our community and helping us connect with ourselves and others through tools you’ve provided, to be better leaders.”
“I’d like to thank you very much from the EMEA Google Cloud Strategic Industries Leadership team for the Embodied Leaders session you delivered yesterday.
It was a very touching and inspiring session with clear tools and practices we could use to improve our growth mindset.
THANK YOU.”
“Amazing session Annika. Your session made a deep impact and inspired me to work on shifting to a more parasympathetic nervous system. ”
“Thanks again for the awesome talk on leading with heart, neuroscience style! Your personal stories and tips on sparking creativity and well-being in the team were spot-on. ”