Anthony E. Tuggle
Author | Enterprise Transformation Leader | Culture, AI & Leadership Keynote Speaker
Anthony E. Tuggle is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TAG US Worldwide, a leadership and business transformation firm that partners with organizations to strengthen leadership, elevate culture, and drive sustainable performance in complex environments.
With more than 30 years of executive leadership experience, Anthony has led large-scale global operations, customer experience transformation, and organizational change. He previously held senior executive roles at AT&T, where he led organizations of more than 30,000 employees across over 200 locations worldwide. During his tenure, he delivered billions in annual revenue streams and managed multibillion-dollar P&L portfolios spanning customer operations, digital strategy, sales, marketing, technology transformation, and people development.
Anthony later served as President of Customer Operations at Afiniti, an Al-driven technology company, where he helped clients unlock billions in customer lifetime revenue through artificial intelligence, data-driven decisioning, and customer experience optimization.
Today, Anthony is fully dedicated to leading TAG US Worldwide, working with organizations, boards, and executive teams on leadership development, cultural transformation, workforce evolution, and Al-enabled customer experience. TAG delivers executive coaching, advisory services, cultural frameworks, and future-of-work strategy grounded in real-world execution.
As a kidney transplant survivor, Anthony is also a kidney patient advocate, advisor, and national speaker. He works with healthcare organizations, foundations, and patient communities to advance awareness, equity, and patient-centered care. This advocacy informs his leadership approach, emphasizing resilience, empathy, and responsibility under pressure.
Anthony is a Certified Executive Coach and holds a BA in Psychology and an MS in Management from Thomas Edison State University. He is a graduate of Emory University’s Executive MBA program and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Executive Education Program.
In addition to his executive work, Anthony has served on and advised numerous boards and organizations, including more than a decade with the National Kidney Foundation, where he also served as board chair, as well as Emory University Goizueta Business School, Mount Vernon School, Ignite Worldwide, National Sales Network, and The North Ridge Group.
As a keynote speaker and trusted advisor, Anthony blends executive insight with practical frameworks leaders can apply immediately. He is the author of I’m Better, Not Bitter and the creator of Mentoring Wednesday. His mission remains constant: strengthen the leader, strengthen the culture, strengthen the future.
Signature Talks
Unlocking the Power of You: Lead Authentically, Grow Intentionally, Impact Infinitely
True leadership begins from the inside out. In this high-energy, transformative keynote, Anthony challenges audiences to move beyond titles and position-based leadership and step into something far more powerful — leading from who they are. Drawing from compelling real-world stories and hard-won personal insight, Anthony guides attendees through a practical framework for identifying their unique leadership DNA, breaking through the habits and mindsets that keep them playing small, and showing up with the kind of clarity and confidence that inspires others to do the same. Whether leading a team, an organization, or their own life, audiences leave equipped to build cultures where people feel seen, valued, and empowered to give their best.
- Discover your leadership identity
- Build a culture of empowerment
- Reignite your why
Better, Not Bitter: How Adversity Forged the Leader I Was Always Meant to Be
What do you do when life hands you something you never asked for and never saw coming? For Anthony Tuggle, the answer came through one of the most humbling and harrowing experiences a person can face — a chronic kidney disease diagnosis that threatened not just his health, but his identity, his career, and everything he thought he knew about strength. In this raw, deeply personal, and ultimately triumphant keynote, Anthony takes audiences on a journey through the valley — the fear, the uncertainty, the moments of wanting to quit — and back out the other side with a leadership philosophy forged in fire. This is not a story about surviving. It’s a story about becoming. Anthony reveals how his greatest trial became his greatest teacher, reshaping how he leads, how he listens, and how he shows up for the people who depend on him. Through candid storytelling, hard-earned wisdom, and practical tools, he challenges audiences to stop waiting for easier circumstances and start building the resilience, empathy, and intentionality that turn adversity into an asset.
- Reframe your story
- Build unshakeable resilience
- Lead with radical empathy
The Human Connection: Leading in an AI Era Where People Still Need to Feel Seen, Heard, and Valued
As AI reshapes roles and workflows faster than leaders can catch up, the differentiator isn’t technology—it’s humanity. For twenty years, Anthony Tuggle led teams and exceeded every metric while privately living with kidney disease, until he stopped leading from performance and started leading from truth. In this powerful keynote inspired by his book The Human Connection Building a High – Performance Culture Where People Feel Seen, Heard, and Valued, he shows why the more AI automates, the more connection becomes a leader’s competitive edge—and how the courage to be real builds a culture no algorithm can replicate.
- Lead with authenticity in a workplace being reshaped by AI
- Build the psychological safety and trust that machines can't
- Use hope as a discipline that steadies teams through constant change
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