About The Ann Holman Company

Ann Holman has been providing inspirational seminars and consultancy to organisations across the UK for the last 9 years and has gained an enviable reputation for delivering challenging, thought provoking and leading edge solutions that produce a return on investment.

Ann is renowned for her highly intellectual, future thinking approach and works closely with a small number of exciting clients in a very practical way each year. She has many years experience enabling her to provide a unique insight into the key issues that business faces in a constantly changing business world of social leadership, social media, social networking as well as customer experience development. Her thinking is considered as enlightening by her clients.

Ann is considered a leading authority on social business including social capital, social networking and leadership. She has advised companies and higher educational institutions around the UK on building business communities around brands by transforming their relationships with people both internally and externally from transactional to a more intimate, participative and trusting experience.

Ann spends her time researching the latest thinking on social business that can help organisations anticipate the future rather than just adapt to it. Ann also delivers speaking engagements where she is renowned for her energetic and inspirational approach, and has built an exceptional reputation for not only designing thought provoking and inspirational sessions that have a lasting impression but also delivering in an engaging and humorous manner.

As well as advising a wide range of organisations on the future of business, Ann writes extensively on her blog, for media140 and several other publications. She is the author of “Hang On” an eBook about the future of business behaviour and is the founder of OurThinkLAB, an intellectual think tank that discusses and publishes leading edge content on a variety of digital and social subjects. Ann holds an MA from Durham University, is a guest lecturer at several universities, a member of The Harvard Business Review Advisory Committee and about to start writing her second book called “The Delusion of Social Media.” Ann’s philosophy is if curiosity killed the cat……so be it. We’d rather be knowledge freaks than a control freaks!

Her clients include; Rodda’s Creamery, University of Gloucester, Handle with Care, University of Exeter, Met Office, Venuemasters, Media 140, Unlocking Enterprise Potential, Event Exeter, Toucan Design, Westwood Meters & Timers.