Distance Bias: Eliminating the Out-of-Sight, Out-of-Mind Mentality in the Workplace

Anne DeAngelis guides business leaders on how to best reach one of their most important stakeholders: their people. With more than 20 years of global employee experience, Anne advises clients on internal communications during the toughest transitions they face, crafting employee experience strategies, change management, employer branding, recruitment communications, executive communications, and hybrid work dynamics. Her work touches nearly every aspect of a company’s voice, from media relations and brand management, to recruitment marketing and content creation, to advertising and digital. At Zeno Group, Anne’s clients include Hyatt, General Mills and Alcoa. She leads a team that keeps its fingers on the pulse of evolving workplace expectations, with learnings applied to both clients and the Zeno network at large. Prior to Zeno, Anne spent two decades at The Boeing Company, guiding the aerospace company’s leadership through critical events including CEO transitions, structural re-organizations and international crises. She led the company's talent acquisition marketing strategy team and developed the company’s first-ever Employee Value Proposition. Notably, she created and executed employee education plans during union negotiations. Anne earned a bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband and three children, where she enjoys walking her dog, reading, and traveling.