Annette Stanwick

ANNETTE STANWICK, BScN

SPEAKER, AUTHOR AND FREEDOM FACILITATOR, COACH & HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL & LEADERSHIP CONSULTANT

With a nursing background, Annette Stanwick spent decades in executive positions in both public and private Canadian health care facilities. As a former health care executive and as an entrepreneur, Annette understands the challenges facing leaders today. She has a deep understanding of human behavior and the importance of relationships in everything we do.

She is an enthusiastic woman with a passion for living life to the fullest. Her life of contrasts has taken her from riding horses on the ranch where she was raised to riding her own Harley Davidson motorcycle through majestic mountain passes. The diversity of life has taken her from delivering babies in the mud huts of Ethiopia to delivering motivational and inspirational messages to audiences across North America and in Africa. Her professional career has taken her from the bedside of hospital patients to executive leadership and corporate boardrooms.

Her life, though exciting and full of challenge and achievement, hasn't always been easy. She nearly died of a deadly strain of meningitis in Ethiopia and had the terrifying experiences of being shot at and escaping a violent attempted abduction while living there. She is no stranger to trauma and tragedy. She overcame a nearly fatal automobile accident that resulted in numerous fractures, extensive internal injuries and many surgeries, along with months of hospitalization and rigorous recovery.

When her beloved brother was tragically murdered, she never dreamed she would feel led to publicly forgive his killer in the courtroom in Virginia. That experience was so profound and so freeing, she developed a passion to help others forgive and let go of their own painful experiences.

As a result, her award-winning and best-selling book, FORGIVENESS: THE MYSTERY AND MIRACLE is transforming lives and hearts of individuals from all types of backgrounds and all types of circumstances.

Annette's life lessons create a rich backdrop and reservoir of real life experiences that help her understand and relate to the needs and struggles of her audiences.

Her motivational and inspirational messages have touched and transformed audiences across North America and in Africa. Women, men, couples, business owners, leaders, corporations, professional associations, physicians, universities, schools, churches, prison inmates and addicts benefit from her dynamic and transformational messages. She and her husband Clay work together in presenting relationship seminars as well as seminars for prison inmates.