Anna Baird Keynote Speaker

Anna Baird is an accomplished business transformation leader drawing on her customer experience consulting and technology background. Anna has had multiple roles in Google, currently an Executive Advisor to Google for Innovation, Ethical AI and Work Transformation.

Anna’s previous roles have included an Executive Advisor role at Linkedin and a number of Director roles in consulting. She is also a Director for Cocoon Advisory Limited, a consultancy she built to drive support for scale and transformation in startup businesses. Active in a number of Diversity and Inclusion initiatives, Anna is an advocate for the UN’s HeForShe commitment and is a mentor with The Knowledge Society (TKS) aiming to help young builders and influencers as they build their out podcasts, books, programs and projects for tech, sustainability and healthcare among other industries.

Anna has been published on YouTube as a public face for Google’s DNA and for her approach to diversity and inclusion as the bedrock for business transformation frameworks to succeed. She is a featured alumna for PwC and has hosted multiple conferences and events including a recent Keynote for the Women in Data Science Conference, a Keynote for Masason Foundation in collaboration with The Knowledge Society, a North American Customer Success Conference as the Keynote Speaker on Innovation in CS and facilitating the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce Executive Breakfast series.

Anna’s mission is to help shape the way people and companies go to market to successfully drive growth and opportunity. She continues to apply her knowledge of customer experience and transformation strategy to next wave businesses evolving the way we live and work. She shares her startup experience in her public posts Soup for the UK Soul: My Startup Speed-Dating Experience.