Anita Sauvage helps teams and leaders better manage pressure, develop their emotional intelligence, and approach change from a new perspective.
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Top rated!What if performance and humanity could go hand in hand? Anita Sauvage, keynote speaker and expert in emotional intelligence and Mental Fitness, helps leaders and teams better manage pressure and change. As Chair of the Association for Coaching France, she draws on her experience in leadership, executive coaching, and a personal journey shaped by cancer and significant life transitions. Her keynotes combine reflection, human connection, and practical tools to overcome automatic thought patterns, see challenges from a new perspective, and move forward with confidence. Her goal is to provide audiences with fresh perspectives, renewed energy, and actionable insights.
How can we maintain high performance when pressure increases? How can we make thoughtful decisions in the face of uncertainty? And how can we regain momentum when our professional or personal lives take an unexpected turn?
Anita Sauvage explores these questions with one core belief: performance and humanity can go hand in hand. As a keynote speaker and expert in emotional intelligence and Mental Fitness, she helps individuals better understand their reactions and behaviors when facing everyday challenges.
As Chair of the Association for Coaching France, Anita Sauvage brings extensive experience in leadership, organizational development, and executive coaching. Her approach combines the knowledge gained throughout her career with a deeply human understanding of the difficulties people may encounter.
Through her keynotes, she offers a fresh perspective on familiar situations. Her ambition is to help audiences take a step back, identify new possibilities, and leave with practical insights they can use to approach challenges differently.
Anita Sauvage's personal journey brings a unique dimension to her presentations. Her experience with cancer and significant life changes has deepened her understanding of how we respond when the foundations of our lives are shaken.
These experiences shape an approach to change that acknowledges the importance of emotions, questions, and uncertainty. After all, some transitions fundamentally challenge our beliefs and force us to reconsider what we thought was possible.
Anita Sauvage invites audiences to explore what can emerge from these periods of transformation. Rather than always striving to return to how things were before, she encourages individuals to consider new ways of moving forward.
This perspective resonates with both professional transformations and personal transitions. It offers a more open and compassionate way to navigate moments when familiar solutions are no longer enough.
In organizations, pressure can quickly influence how people communicate, make decisions, and lead. Automatic reactions can sometimes take over, reducing our ability to step back and maintain strong relationships.
Anita Sauvage helps leaders and teams understand these mechanisms and develop a more intentional approach to leadership. Drawing on her expertise in emotional intelligence, she demonstrates how recognizing our reactions can help us regain control and respond more effectively in demanding situations.
Her keynote, "Leading Under Pressure: The Human Advantage," addresses this challenge directly. It encourages participants to move away from leadership driven by immediate reactions and toward a more conscious and thoughtful approach.
The goal is to preserve the human side of leadership while meeting performance expectations. This approach is particularly relevant for organizations facing growing responsibilities, ongoing change, or high-pressure working environments.
Our mental habits influence how we interpret events, interact with others, and respond to difficulties. Under pressure, these automatic patterns can limit our ability to consider different responses.
In her keynote, "Your Mental Fitness at Work: More Choice, Less Autopilot," Anita Sauvage encourages participants to recognize these patterns and better understand how they influence their everyday professional lives.
Her approach to Mental Fitness focuses on developing greater awareness of our reactions, allowing us to gradually replace habitual responses with more thoughtful choices.
She shares accessible perspectives and practical tools that participants can apply in their professional environments. The aim is to gain greater freedom in how we respond to challenges rather than remaining trapped by automatic reactions.
Major changes can reshape how we see ourselves, our work, and our future. When one chapter ends, returning to the way things were before is not always possible or even desirable.
In her keynote, "Coming Back Differently: Finding Your Way Through Change," Anita Sauvage explores this reality with sensitivity and pragmatism.
She encourages participants to move beyond the assumption that they must return to their previous circumstances and instead consider the opportunities that may emerge following personal or professional transformation.
Drawing on her personal experiences and professional expertise, she creates space for reflection on the beliefs we sometimes need to reconsider, the new paths we can explore, and how to rediscover the energy to move forward.
Her message speaks to anyone navigating a period of transition and seeking to approach the next chapter with greater clarity.
Booking Anita Sauvage as a keynote speaker means offering your audience an experience that combines professional expertise, personal insight, and genuine human connection.
Her presentations focus on three key themes:
Anita Sauvage speaks to leaders, teams, and individuals navigating workplace pressures or significant life changes.
Her keynotes emphasize practical ideas, fresh perspectives, and insights that can be applied in everyday life. Her goal is for participants to leave with a deeper understanding of their reactions, renewed energy, and the confidence that alternative paths are possible.
Invite Anita Sauvage to your next event to explore an approach to leadership, performance, and change that puts people at the heart of everything.
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“Thank you SO much for your session. So many people discussed it as they were leaving and thanked me for bringing you to our conference. You gave us all so much to think about. I then spent all of our days in Vienna, me and my man, talking with him about what you presented. A huge life lesson for us too.”
Tabby C, organiserOrion Corporate Pharma
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“Thank you very much for your inspiring talk at our conference. I’ve had a request to get some books on your subject following the conference which is great !!!Have you written one? »
Sarah, Head of HRWeslo
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“I just wanted to say thanks for yesterday’s conference. Everyone enjoyed it. Martin and I definitely did too. A few things made us laugh in terms of the challenges of personal communication too😄”
Susan RobertsonRobertson Associates
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“Your presentation was very much needed! Could you run it for doctors too?!!”
Marcella, nurseNHS Scotland
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“Your presentation was life-changing. I feel so much better about myself. The realisation that I’m responsible for the well-being of my patient, but not their choices was liberating”
Jane, nurseNHS Scotland
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“Anita’s enthusiasm for the subject is refreshing. There is a lot to think about. And I can apply some ideas immediately (eg importance of rapport)”
Julia N, OD ConsultantUniversity of Glasgow
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“Thank you so much for your talk yesterday, everyone really enjoyed it and seemed to take a lot from it.”
Kirsten FEdrington
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Anita is a highly experienced, skilled and professional Organisational Development consultant and practitioner. Over the 6 years that Anita and I worked together, I found her knowledge, insight and expertise invaluable. Anita is particularly skilled in helping and supporting managers work through organisational change; in developing and implementing programmes to support both organisational and cultural change; in providing thought leadership and facilitating discussions and in having those ‘difficult’ conversations with both managers and employees. I recommend Anita who is hard working and a dedicated and committed Organisational Development Consultant.
NHS HR Director
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I feel that I have come a long way forward and have the skills to go further which I will continue to do. I would also recommend both the coaching sessions and you Anita as an excellent coach.
NHS Director
Keynote by Anita Sauvage:
How we respond under pressure shapes how we lead, decide and connect.
From reacting under pressure to leading with intention.
Keynote Overview
Leadership is demanding. Difficult decisions, competing priorities and uncertainty can affect not only what leaders do, but how they listen, communicate and relate to others.
In this engaging, practical keynote, Anita Sauvage explores how Emotional Intelligence can help leaders recognise their reactions, understand their impact and make more considered choices. Through relatable examples and useful tools, she invites leaders to rethink familiar situations and explore how they can maintain trust and effectiveness without losing sight of the people around them.
Audiences
Corporate / Business leaders, HR and OD professionals, leadership conferences.
Audience Takeaway
People leave with a fresh perspective on their leadership, practical ways to respond more constructively and renewed motivation to lead with both clarity and humanity.
Keynote by Anita Sauvage:
Your Mind at Work: More Choice, Less Autopilot
Practical Mental Fitness for a world that won’t slow down.
From habitual reactions to more considered responses.
Keynote Overview
We cannot always control what happens around us. But we can learn to recognise how our habitual thoughts and reactions influence what happens next.
Anita introduces practical Mental Fitness techniques to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns, interrupt automatic reactions and regain perspective. With warmth, relatable examples and opportunities to reflect, she helps audiences explore how small shifts in the way they respond can make a difference to their decisions, relationships and wellbeing.
Audiences
Corporate and healthcare professionals, teams, wellbeing conferences and professional associations.
Audience Takeaway
People leave with a better understanding of their mental habits, tools they can practise immediately and a renewed sense of agency over how they respond.
Keynote by Anita Sauvage:
When moving forward doesn’t mean going back to where we were.
From trying to return to how things were to discovering what comes next.
Keynote Overview
We often talk about change as something to manage and recovery as a return to normal. But some experiences change us. They challenge our identity, our priorities and the expectations we have of ourselves.
Drawing on her personal experience of cancer and her professional work as a coach, Anita offers an honest, thoughtful and ultimately energising exploration of what it means to find a way forward when life or work does not go to plan. She invites audiences to reconsider what they want to carry forward, what they might need to let go of and where new possibilities could lie.
Audiences
Healthcare and cancer-related conferences, women’s leadership events, workplace wellbeing, organisational change and personal development conferences.
Audience Takeaway
People leave with a fresh perspective on change, space to reflect on what they want to carry forward and what they may be ready to let go of, and a few questions to help them explore what comes next.
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The question of sustainability I’ve been developing and perfecting my expertise in Emotional Intelligence (EI or EQ) for over 15 years. I can’t count how many times I’ve spoken about this incredibly valuable and necessary leadership (and personal) skill at conferences, seminars, team building sessio
