AnneMoss Rogers

AnneMoss Rogers

VA, US

Speaker on Mental Health who has turned her pain into purpose

AnneMoss Rogers is a speaker on mental health, and suicide prevention. She is an expert trainer and consultant. After her 20-year-old son, Charles died by suicide in 2015, AnneMoss chronicled her family’s tragedy in a newspaper article that went viral.  She is the author of the award-winning memoir, Diary of a Broken Mind and the best seller, Emotionally Naked: A Teacher’s Guide to Preventing Suicide and Recognizing Students at Risk with co-writer Dr. Kimberly O’Brien.


She has been a TEDx speaker, was featured in the New York Times, Variety Magazine, and was the first non-clinician invited to speak on youth suicide at the National Institute of Mental Health. A UNC-Chapel Hill alumna, Anne Moss currently lives in Richmond, VA. Her surviving son is a filmmaker in LA.


AnneMoss speaks at conferences, universities, and schools. She speaks to parents, educators, students, leaders, and employees at workplaces. 

AnneMoss Rogers is a speaker on mental health, and suicide prevention. She is an expert trainer and consultant. After her 20-year-old son, Charles died by suicide in 2015, AnneMoss chronicled her family’s tragedy in a newspaper article that went viral.  She is the author of the award-winning memoir, Diary of a Broken Mind and the best seller, Emotionally Naked: A Teacher’s Guide to Preventing Suicide and Recognizing Students at Risk with co-writer Dr. Kimberly O’Brien.


She has been a TEDx speaker, was featured in the New York Times, Variety Magazine, and was the first non-clinician invited to speak on youth suicide at the National Institute of Mental Health. A UNC-Chapel Hill alumna, Anne Moss currently lives in Richmond, VA. Her surviving son is a filmmaker in LA.


AnneMoss speaks at conferences, universities, and schools. She speaks to parents, educators, students, leaders, and employees at workplaces. 

Turning Pain into Purpose: The Power of Post-Traumatic Growth After Tragedy

Most popular keynote for business, education, and mental health conferences. 


Theme: An inspirational keynote speaker topic focused on post-traumatic growth after trauma or tragedy


Description:  When life shatters, what comes next? In this powerful and inspiring keynote, AnneMoss Rogers explores how the darkest moments can give rise to unexpected strength, clarity, and purpose—and how that growth is never...

InspirationalMotivationMental HealthBereavementSuicide PreventionResilienceEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changingHumorous / FunnyHuman ResourcesAssociations

Leadership Strategies for Workplace Mental Health: for Managers & Leaders

Audience: For workplaces and government agencies


Emotionally healthy employees perform better, are absent less, and are more likely to stay. This upstream commitment of workplace wellness is the foundation of a prevention culture that emphasizes connection and belonging.

Part of this initiative is building resilience and defining self-care strategies so employees have the tools and resources to manage anxiety, adversity, change, and future...

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Emotionally Naked ® Workplace Wellness

Audience: Managers, execs, HR & EAP leaders, safety managers, DEI leaders. Or as an employee wellness program minus #6 (Be a Leader not a Boss). Virtual, hybrid, or in-person.


Description: Emotionally healthy employees perform better, are absent less, and are more likely to stay. This upstream commitment to workplace wellness is the foundation of a prevention culture that emphasizes connection and belonging.

InspirationalMental HealthAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changingHuman Resources

The Mask We Wear to Work: Fighting the stigma of mental health in the workplace

Audience: Managers and leaders, employees at workplaces, corporations and associations.

 

Topic Description:
How did AnneMoss smile through the client cocktail party when her 16-year-old son was in jail in another state? How did she manage to get up and dressed, paste a smile on her grief-stricken face, and go back to work a week after her son’s death by suicide? Like millions, she did it because she had to because mortgages don’t...

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The Emotionally Naked® Truth About Suicide: Raising Awareness in the Workplace

Over 80% of those who die by suicide are of working age, so the workplace is an ideal place for creating a system for prevention and intervention. If your workforce includes parents, it’s likely many of them have children who are struggling so they are seeking answers and resources.


This presentation dispels common myths about suicide and substance misuse, while delivering a message of hope, and empowering regular humans with the skills to help prevent this threat to...

Mental HealthResilienceEducational / InformativeTechnical / SpecificInspirational / Life-changingHuman Resources

How to Raise Mentally Healthy Kids: Parenting tips for teaching kids how to cope

Audience: Company ERGs, Schools, Universities, Communities


Description: After trying to find help for her once joyful son and rap artist, including wilderness therapy and therapeutic boarding school, Anne-Moss’s son Charles met heroin, an addiction that led to a downward spiral that ended with his suicide on June 5, 2015.


This presentation is about what she has learned looking back on her journey to prevent other...

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Diary of a Broken Mind: Addiction, Depression and the Tragic Link to Suicide

AnneMoss Rogers and her husband tried to find help for their struggling son, Charles, a creative genius and rap artist. Desperate to escape the darkness of his depression, Charles turned to heroin and died by suicide in 2015 at age 20.


How common is suicidal thinking among those who are addicted?  How many start using to numb intense and painful feelings or to normalize a mental health condition? And how did AnneMoss find healing after the most devastating loss of...

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