Annie Crawley Professional Keynote Speaker
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While creating a successful business, Dive Into Your Imagination, Annie Crawley, aka Ocean Annie, continues to travel and document the world focusing on life in our Ocean. She is uniquely qualified to speak about obtaining success by taking risks, living your dreams and creating your greatest life. Originally from Chicago and trained as a photo and broadcast journalist, Annie Crawley spent the past two decades living and working around the world. After learning to scuba dive and sail, she became a PADI Master Scuba Diving Instructor and a 100 ton US Coast Guard Boat Captain. She was named an SSI 5000 Platinum Pro Diver and inducted into the Women Divers Hall of Fame in 2010. Annie Crawley specializes in the Underwater Realm as an underwater photographer, filmmaker, field biologist and Ocean expert. As a producer, Annie Crawley created an award winning series of children’s ocean books, DVDs and lesson plans after being awarded four grants from the Save Our Seas Foundation. She has traveled and documented expeditions around the world including the SEAPLEX expedition with Project Kaisei to The North Pacific Gyre, more commonly known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Ocean Life Book and DVD published by Reader’s Digest Children’s Publishing, Annie Crawley’s first publication, has sold more than 100,000 copies. Dive Into Your Imagination under Annie’s leadership will be releasing another series of programs on ocean education and leadership including books, teacher/parent lesson plans and DVDS to change the way a new generation views the ocean, themselves and our environment.
Because of Annie Crawley’s success following her dreams, she relates the lessons learned growing up and traveling in a way that will empower, inspire and motivate any audience to go beyond what they believe they are capable. Annie Crawley believes in the principals of Conscious Leadership and that we have the power to create our lives.
“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do, than the ones you did. So throw off the bow lines, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain said that and he was right! What will you do with your moment in time? You get to create your life! Who are you and what dreams do you have stirring inside of you? It is time to explore and discover who you are!” Annie Crawley
Want to know more about Annie Crawley? Below is a longer bio. You can also read about the company she founded, Dive Into Your Imagination and her personal story.
Annie Crawley In-Depth Biography
Uniquely qualified to speak about obtaining success by diving into your imagination, taking calculated risks, living your dreams and creating your greatest life, Annie Crawley was born to inspire people. Drawing upon the past two decades of experience as an underwater expert, world traveler and entrepreneur, she uses Ocean metaphors, video and photography in many of her presentations. Creator of an award winning series, Annie Crawley worked around the world in the production and recreational scuba diving industries, before founding Dive Into Your Imagination, a company dedicated to changing the way a new generation views the Ocean. Annie Crawley, reaches thousands of people every year as a renowned inspirational and motivational speaker.
Empowering her audiences to live out of their vision of themselves, rather than their history, Annie Crawley delivers powerful programs tailored to your corporate, group or school’s needs. Utilizing her techniques, she helps you understand how to create a more fulfilling life and career by helping you change your thinking, and encourages you to embrace conscious leadership. Her presentations and workshops are unique because she uses the Ocean as a metaphor, teaching you to dive deeply into possibilities, breathe differently, face your fears, set goals, anchor your life, adapt to changes and focus on what is important today in order to reach your full potential. Annie Crawley gives you the power to believe in yourself as you dive into your greatness.
Annie Crawley Empowers Audience
Originally from Chicago, Annie Crawley spent the past two decades living and working around the world. Trained as a photo and broadcast journalist at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign, she explored and documented life on our planet through photography, video and writing. While travelling, she experienced scuba diving for the first time after graduating college. She became a PADI master scuba diver, PADI Scuba Diving Instructor, an SDI/TDI Instructor Trainer, and a 100 ton US Coast Guard Boat Captain. Because of her scuba diving experience, she has been named as an SSI 5000 Platinum Pro Diver and inducted into the Women Divers Hall of Fame, an elite group of women from around the world recognized for their contribution to the sport of scuba diving. Annie Crawley understands both the non-profit and corporate world as she worked as the Public Service Training Manager at The Field Museum in Chicago and her clients include fortune 500 companies.
Ten years ago, Annie Crawley changed the direction of her life. She wanted to combine her passion and skills to become an underwater photographer and filmmaker. Annie Crawley sold her car, bought underwater camera housings and began to document and travel the world as a field biologist and underwater photographer/videographer/filmmaker. You can view samples of her work throughout this site and at www.youtube.com/anniecrawley Annie Crawley’s work has been published and broadcast worldwide in commercials, documentaries, films, magazines and at museums and aquariums. She has worked on live aboard vessels including the Peter Hughes Diving and Aggressor Fleets and at resorts worldwide. Annie Crawley has lived and worked in Indonesia, Galapagos, Belize, Papua New Guinea, Australia, and India, plus many other destinations.
Hired as the Underwater Director of Photography for a large format film company (IMAX®) Annie Crawley returned to the United States. After 1.5 years, the company lost production funding and Annie Crawley was challenged to find a new direction. Annie Crawley understands the challenges of losing a job and being able to reinvent yourself both on the professional and personal level. The loss of her position motivated her to found Dive Into Your Imagination, deciding to create entertaining and educational products about the Ocean targeting children edutainment because there was nothing on the market combining real ocean and science in a fun, interesting and playful way. She has produced an award winning series of DVDS, books and lesson plans, and was awarded four grants from the Save Our Seas Foundation.
As a member of the Les Brown Platinum Speakers Group, Annie Crawley is a renowned inspirational speaker. Touted as one of America’s leading ocean-environmental speakers and educators for all ages, Annie Crawley, also known as Ocean Annie, transports students on an imaginary dive around the world and helps them learn life lessons about respect, responsibility, trust and character while engaging their imagination with images of sharks, turtles, coral reefs and kelp forests. Ocean Annie encourages students to face fears, express their imagination, breathe differently and think before acting. Ocean Annie builds confidence and self esteem combined with adventure and ocean education.
Ocean expert Annie Crawley delivers inspirational programs utilizing her underwater photography and video to groups, organizations and corporations too. Audiences of all ages will be taken around the world and beneath the sea as she shares stories of her adventures. Having studied her own experiences, expert storyteller Annie Crawley instills the seven words that have guided her: faith, courage, enthusiasm combined with patience, persistence, perseverance and passion. Sharing her stories of overcoming obstacles helps listeners face their challenges, dream big, take calculated risks and also how to deal with rejection. Annie Crawley weaves empowerment, environment, entertainment and education into her programs.
Annie Crawley documented the SEAPLEX expedition for Project Kaisei in which a group from Scripps Institution of Oceanography graduate students, leb by Miriam Goldstein, traveled to the North Pacific Gyre to study what the media has termed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This experience caused her to create a series of videos and articles to bring awareness to the problems of plastic and pollution to our environment. We have become a disposable society with a permanent material. Plastic lasts more than 1,000 years.
“Let’s talk trash! Everyone thinks trash is a dirty word, but we need to discuss it because 80% of the garbage in the Ocean comes from land. Our rivers and lakes lead directly to the Ocean. The Ocean is responsible for 70% of the oxygen our planet needs. With every breath we take, we are breathing Ocean. When you break it down this easily, we need a healthy ocean, and everything we do on land affects the Ocean. Our environment is a reflection of who we are.” –Annie Crawley
Annie Crawley’s principles have been built on love of the environment, family, friends and community. She specializes in cultural diversity having studied and lived in many different societies. She has also established a coaching and mentoring program for college students believing when you reach a child, you change history. Annie Crawley relates the lessons she learned growing up and traveling in a way that will inspire you to create your greatest life.
