About ANN
Strategic Growth Advisor | Founder & CEO, Expert In You Media & Marketing Agency | 7 Businesses Built. 5 Sold. | 4× Author | Speaker | Podcast Host
Why Firm, Agency & Expert-Led Business Owners Turn to Ann Carden
Most established firm and agency owners, principals, and business experts are leaving an enormous amount of revenue, relationships, and opportunities on the table — not because they lack expertise, experience, or credibility. They need the strategy and systems to elevate their business to consistently produce high-caliber clients, premium referrals, and bigger opportunities.
Ann works with firm and agency owners, principals, consultants, and business experts who are ready to stop competing at the wrong level, break through revenue and profit ceilings, and start winning higher-caliber clients, generating premium referrals, and pursuing the bigger opportunities their expertise deserves.
Ann is the best with offering growth solutions. She really understands the market and helps clients develop awesome growth strategies”
Ann’s Story: Built From the Ground Up. Seven Times.
After a 13-year corporate career managing multi-million-dollar departments for a multi-billion-dollar national retail corporation, Ann stepped into entrepreneurship — not from comfort, but from conviction. She built her first business with limited resources and scaled it into the international market before the internet made that accessible to most.
Since then, Ann has founded seven businesses, successfully scaling and selling five of them and the current owner of two. That track record is not a footnote — it is the foundation of everything she brings to the owners she advises.
A Different Kind of Advisor
As the Founder and CEO of A. Carden Inc. and the Expert In You Brand, Ann works with established firm, agency, and expert-led business owners who are ready to elevate to higher-caliber clients, larger opportunities, and revenue their expertise should command.
Through the Expert In You Media & Marketing Agency, Ann delivers high-impact positioning and business development strategy designed to produce results proportional to what her clients have already built.
Ann is a 4× author — including a #1 International Bestseller. She is a speaker, globally ranked podcast host, and publisher of Expert In You Magazine, with thousands of hours on stages, podcasts, and media platforms worldwide.
Ann has been featured on affiliates of ABC, NBC, CW, and FOX, and her work has been published in Small Business Trendsetters, Business Innovators Magazine, Brainz, and Expert In You Magazine. She was named one of the top coaches in the world by Six Figure Coach Magazine and inducted into Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in America for Professional Women.
Books, Magazines and Podcasts
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Recent Podcast Episodes
Episode 347 – Why Your Speaking Isn’t Making You Money: 3 Gaps Costing Experts High-Ticket Revenue | Ann Carden
Episode 346 | From Speech Impediment to Keynote Speaker: How Mike Acker Built Influence Through Communication
