Annemarie Steen

Annemarie Steen

MA

Noord Brabant, NETHERLAND

Annemarie touches heads and hearts and creates memorable moments of connection, transformative learning, and actionable ideas for thriving in a fast changing world. Playful and Interactive.

Are you looking for an energetic and interactive speaker or moderator for your event that moves your audience and creates connections playfully?


Dutch speaker Annemarie Steen (1971) is a sparkling, creative & playful personality. Annemarie is Serious about Playfulness. She has a strong vision on the importance of Play in dealing with today's fast changing world and economic challenges. In her interactive talks, she explains the powerful relationship between play, playfulness, creativity and innovation and "why leaders should play more".


Annemarie's presentations and playshops are characterized by a high degree of playful interaction with the audience, resulting in connections and insights that 'stick'. She has a talent of engaging her listeners into meaningful and playful experiences, overcoming initial fear by most adults and show them a safe way to leave their comfortzone, because "it's outside of our comfortzone where the magic happens."


Annemarie is owner of SteenTrain, a dutch based (playful learning) training company, founder of PLAY-BREAK (a concept that emerged out of the Pandemic bringing Online Engagement and Connection), senior faculty at THNK, school of creative leadership, at The Core Story (Storytelling & Authentic Leadership) and lecturer on Leadership at the Estonian Business School. She was awarded Best visiting lecturer at the Estonian Business School for teaching Creative & P.L.A.Y.F.U.L. Leadership to MBA students.


Annemarie was invited to speak & play at 

Merck Oncology Summit (Spain) 

Boskalis Innovation Event (Netherlands) 

Gennex Digital (Switzerland)

EY Innovation Realized (Netherlands)

Meeting Professionals International (Netherlands)

Applied Improv Conference (France and UK)

Roche (Netherlands) 

Parnu Leaderhip Conference (Estonia 2x) 

Leolux (Netherlands)

Fontys (Netherlands) 

Hogeschool Utrecht (Netherlands) 

TEDxTallaght (Ireland, 2014)

Parnu Marketing Conference (Estonia)

Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (Singapore)

Divan Hotels (Turkey)

Are you looking for an energetic and interactive speaker or moderator for your event that moves your audience and creates connections playfully?


Dutch speaker Annemarie Steen (1971) is a sparkling, creative & playful personality. Annemarie is Serious about Playfulness. She has a strong vision on the importance of Play in dealing with today's fast changing world and economic challenges. In her interactive talks, she explains the powerful relationship between play, playfulness, creativity and innovation and "why leaders should play more".


Annemarie's presentations and playshops are characterized by a high degree of playful interaction with the audience, resulting in connections and insights that 'stick'. She has a talent of engaging her listeners into meaningful and playful experiences, overcoming initial fear by most adults and show them a safe way to leave their comfortzone, because "it's outside of our comfortzone where the magic happens."


Annemarie is owner of SteenTrain, a dutch based (playful learning) training company, founder of PLAY-BREAK (a concept that emerged out of the Pandemic bringing Online Engagement and Connection), senior faculty at THNK, school of creative leadership, at The Core Story (Storytelling & Authentic Leadership) and lecturer on Leadership at the Estonian Business School. She was awarded Best visiting lecturer at the Estonian Business School for teaching Creative & P.L.A.Y.F.U.L. Leadership to MBA students.


Annemarie was invited to speak & play at 

Merck Oncology Summit (Spain) 

Boskalis Innovation Event (Netherlands) 

Gennex Digital (Switzerland)

EY Innovation Realized (Netherlands)

Meeting Professionals International (Netherlands)

Applied Improv Conference (France and UK)

Roche (Netherlands) 

Parnu Leaderhip Conference (Estonia 2x) 

Leolux (Netherlands)

Fontys (Netherlands) 

Hogeschool Utrecht (Netherlands) 

TEDxTallaght (Ireland, 2014)

Parnu Marketing Conference (Estonia)

Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (Singapore)

Divan Hotels (Turkey)

Why Leaders should PLAY! more

A highly interactive and playful key-note in which Annemarie explains her strong vision on the importance of PLAY for Leaders in coping with a fast changing and complex environment. She actively invites her audience to experience the power of play in relation to being;
Present & Positive,
Leaping into it,
Adapting and
Yes ending for
!mpact.
Audience ActivityInspirational / Life-changing

Let's PLAY Innovation

In all phases of the Innovation Flow, a playful approach and playful learning activities create fresh perspectives and breakthrough insights (in Sensing), a big vision and creative ideas (in Visioning), rapid feedback loops (in prototyping) and possible Scaling tactics (in Scaling). Annemarie explains the correlation between play, playfulness, creativity and innovation. Annemarie invites her audience outside their comfortzone and into their playzone, to experience the power of play in...
Audience ActivityEducational / Informative

The PLAYFUL Leader

"In an hour of play you learn more about a person than in a year of conversation" (Plato) 

Annemarie delivers workshops and seminars from 90 min up to several days for participants to explore their PLAYFUL Personal Leadership skills, in her unique playful experiential learning methodology.

The PLAYFUL Leader leads with;
Presence
Listening deeply
Accepting &...
LeadershipAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Connecting People the playful way

As moderator, Annemarie knows how to invite the audience into short fun and playful activities that connect and energize them. Tell Annemarie your objective/theme or main message, and she will create and deliver playful learning interactions for your event that match that.
Personal DevelopmentAudience ActivityHumorous / Funny