Ann Varney

International Speaker · Entrepreneur · Author · Conscious Leadership Mentor

You can't lead a new future from an old identity.

Ann helps audiences spot the patterns that keep them playing small, take back their own authority, and turn that insight into courageous action. Scottish straight talk, 30+ years in business, and something people can actually use on Monday morning.

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  • 30+ years in business
  • International #1 Amazon bestselling author
  • Founder & CEO, Spiritual Awakening Academy
  • Shortlisted for 6 awards
  • Featured in BBC News & The Times

The speaking experience

This isn't just about inspiration. It's about what happens next.

Inspiration is lovely. It also tends to wear off by the car park. Ann's sessions are built for what happens after the applause: real stories, honest reflection and moments where the room actually does something. People leave with a decision, not just a good feeling.

Story

Honest, funny, unpolished stories from three decades of building, breaking and rebuilding businesses and a life.

Reflection

Guided moments that help each person see the pattern they've been living inside, without anyone having to overshare.

Action

A clear, practical next step that each person can actually take once the event is over.

On stage · Women in Business, LondonWalking on to her signature song, Simply the Best, to deliver “5 Steps to Success in the Heart”.

Signature keynote

You can't lead a new future from an old identity

Identity · Visibility · Leadership

Every new chapter asks for a different version of you. Most of us try to get there carrying old beliefs, protective habits and an identity that was built to keep us safe. This keynote shows how those patterns quietly run the show, and how to recognise them, reconnect with your own authority and start making different decisions.

Your audience will

  • Recognise the beliefs and protective behaviours holding their next chapter back
  • Understand why being seen feels risky, and how to lead visibly anyway
  • Leave with one concrete decision that reflects who they're becoming, not who they've been

Ideal for

  • Women's leadership
  • Entrepreneurship & business events
  • Personal development
  • Panels & podcasts

Signature keynote

Your energy leads: from inner alignment to courageous action

Conscious leadership · Reinvention · Implementation

Before anyone hears your strategy, they feel your state. This keynote explores the link between how leaders feel inside, how they see themselves, the decisions they make and the way people follow them. Then it gets practical about what to do when change gets uncomfortable.

Your audience will

  • Read their own internal signals before they turn into stress, burnout or poor decisions
  • Stay steady through the discomfort of change instead of retreating to old patterns
  • Turn insight into purposeful action, and keep going once the motivation fades

Ideal for

  • Conscious leadership events
  • Business & wellness retreats
  • Leadership teams
  • International networking events

Keynotes, workshops, panels and interviews. In person or online, and shaped around your audience, theme and event goals.

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Hai Van Pass, Vietnam

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Countries Travelled

A life of global exploration, cultural connection and lived experience.

Ann smiling in mirrored sunglasses on a seaside terrace, palm trees and ocean behind her
Lanzarote
Ann laughing, waving and kicking one leg out outside a beach bar
Ko Phangan

Meet Ann

30+ years of entrepreneurship. A life built through reinvention.

Ann Varney has been building businesses for more than thirty years. She started in the creative world as an award-winning bridal designer whose celebrity designs made front pages and double-page spreads. That turns out to be excellent training for reading a room under pressure.

Along the way she built, scaled and, more than once, burned out. After her third full-body burnout she walked away from the business, the home and the identity she'd spent decades constructing, and followed a pull to Southeast Asia. Years of study in ancient temple traditions, and a lot of honest self-examination, changed how she understood leadership, energy and change.

That rebuild became her work. Ann founded Spiritual Awakening Academy and created The Oracle Code™ practitioner training. Today she works internationally, mentoring coaches, healers, healthcare practitioners and entrepreneurs on identity, self-authority and building work that means something.

She's Scottish, direct and funny, with very little patience for advice that sounds good and changes nothing. Her conviction is simple: transformation only becomes real when you act on it.

Your energy leads.

  • Founder & CEOSpiritual Awakening Academy
  • CreatorThe Oracle Code™ practitioner training
  • MSc · DipBSoM · DipCHypAcademic & clinical training
  • IPHMExecutive Accredited Training Provider
Ann working on a laptop beside rice fields in Bali
Bali
Ann with arms outstretched in front of the pyramids at Giza
Egypt
Ann smiling at a beachside café in Thailand
Thailand

Books · Awards · Press

The experience behind the message

Published books

International #1 Amazon bestselling author, writing with the same straight talk she brings to the stage.

Ann's books on Amazon
Book cover: No B.S. Spirituality by Ann Varney, a white feather on deep blue

No B.S. Spirituality

Live by your own damn code. (With a few feckin' swear words.)

Book cover: An Empaths World to Freedom by Ann Varney

An Empaths World to Freedom

Step into your power.

Book cover: How To Become A Superhero by Ann Varney, with two cartoon children in capes

How to Become a Superhero

For children aged 5+ living with anxiety, anger, stress and low self-esteem.

Awards & recognition

Recognition for Ann's work in business, teaching and holistic practice.

Shortlisted

Shortlisted in six categories across two international awards

New Earth Business Awards
  • Global Leader
  • Changemaker
  • Inspirational As F*ck
Flamingo Awards
  • Global Business
  • Spiritual Leader
  • Ultimate Entrepreneur
  • Winner · 2025Holistic Therapist
  • Winner · 2025Excellence in Services
  • Winner · 2024British Business
  • Winner · 2024Holistic Therapist
  • Winner · 2023Spiritual Teacher
  • Winner · 2023Spiritual Coach
  • Finalist · 2023Female Entrepreneur
  • AccreditationIPHM Executive Accredited Training Provider

Press & stage

National press across two careers, plus recent professional training for the stage.

Ann at the Success Resources Train the Trainer Certification in Manila, standing with two event hosts and her certificate

Professional development · October 2026

Train the Trainer Certification

Completed with Success Resources in Manila, Philippines, 22–25 October 2026, as part of Ann's ongoing development as a speaker and trainer for live audiences.

A Life Lived Beyond Borders

From the stage to the world — living the message, not just teaching it.

I've built businesses, crossed borders, embraced reinvention and discovered that the greatest transformation doesn't happen when life goes according to plan. It happens when you have the courage to live differently.

I don't just speak about transformation. I live it.

A candlelit dinner table under a draped, fairy-lit pavilion at night
Bali
Ann smiling in mirrored sunglasses on a seaside terrace, palm trees and ocean behind her
Lanzarote
Ann with a companion on golden sand dunes
Vietnam
Ann smiling beside a palm-lined swimming pool
Mui Ne
A close-up selfie of Ann in oversized sunglasses
Malaysia
Ann laughing, waving and kicking one leg out outside a beach bar
Ko Phangan

Book Ann

Let's create a conversation that moves people.

Whether you're building a conference programme, a retreat, a podcast season or a leadership gathering, Ann brings depth, humour and something people can put to work. Every session is shaped around your audience, your theme and what you want people to walk away doing.

  • Conference & event organisers
  • Podcast hosts
  • Retreat organisers
  • Media producers
  • Leadership communities

Or email Ann directly at ann@theoraclecode.com

Your energy leads.

Your action creates change.

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