Anne Kreamer is the author of “It’s Always Personal: Navigating Emotion in the New Workplace” and “Going Gray: What I Learned About Beauty, Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity, and Everything Else That Really Matters.” Hew latest book, “Risk/Reward: Why Intelligent Leaps and Daring Choices Are the Best Career Moves You Can Make,” decodes what it takes to get ahead and achieve satisfaction in today’s unpredictable new workscape. 

Anne has also worked as a columnist for Fast Company and Martha Stewart Living, and has written frequently for Harvard Business Review. Her work has appeared in Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Real Simple, and Travel + Leisure. Previously, Anne was Executive Vice President and Worldwide Creative Director for the television channels Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite and part of the team that launched SPY magazine. As the Associate Director for the International Television Group for Sesame Workshop, she was integral to building Sesame Street into the pre-eminent global children’s brand.

 In 2019, with her daughter, Lucy Andersen, Anne launched Wild & Rare (wildandrare.com) an accessories business showcasing endangered wildlife. By shining a light on individual plants and animals, they hope that Wild & Rare products will function as miniature billboards, focusing our attention on the smaller, more manageable parts of the environmental crisis. 100% of the profits go to organizations working toward the same goal.

Anne graduated from Harvard College and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the writer, Kurt Andersen. 

3 words to describe Nature?

Grounding. Transcendent. Powerful.

3 things Nature taught you?

Humility

Patience

Resilience

3 most treasured Nature spots?

My Brooklyn backyard, touching the Dawn Sequoia I planted 20 years ago, now 100 feet tall. 

The Housatonic River, Connecticut 

Lucy Vincent Beach, Martha’s Vineyard

When you look at the ocean, it makes you feel…?

Clean and bright

When you see a forest, it makes you feel…?

Euphoric

When you see a volcano, it makes you feel…?

Awe-struck

When you see a sunrise or sunset, it makes you feel…?

Joyful

When you hear thunder, it makes you feel…?

Excited

When you hear the wind howling, it makes you feel…?

Anxious

Are you an Ocean, Mountain, Forest, or Desert person?

Forest

On a scale of 1 to 10, how important is Nature to your well-being?

10

Share with us a childhood nature memory?

Sitting on a bluff in the Flint Hills of Kansas with my father watching enormous thunderstorms roll into the Plains from Colorado. It was primal.