SPEAKING & MEDIA
Where Ambitious Humans Come to Restore Balance, Confidence, & Healing Through Creativity
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If You’re Ambitious Yet Exhausted, Accomplished Yet Anxious…
this is your space to breathe.
As a dynamic keynote speaker with a breadth of knowledge across industries, Amanda inspires organizations to re-center their purpose and their people, to excavate their deepest pain points and transmute them into their greatest assets—to look struggle in the eye and then grow to be even better and more successful than before, all while advocating for sustainable and equitable practices inside and outside of the workplace.
The Creative Intersection:
the Arts & Storytelling
The healing properties of storytelling are infinite, and Amanda has developed a number of proven techniques to help people see themselves and their own stories from a distance, so that they can find purpose in them. Whether she’s speaking to a small group of individuals, university faculty, students, or at a corporate meeting, Amanda’s message is that words matter, and so does how we use them.
As a renowned editor, writer, book coach, and artist, Amanda explores the revelations that storytelling has offered her—revelations that have pulled her out of hopelessness and into creative success. As a self-made entrepreneur, Amanda uses this keynote opportunity to serve as an example and as an advocate for the power of personal introspection through courageous storytelling.
Amanda’s signature talk promotes unity and inclusivity through storytellng—a universal message that’s important to us all. She also speaks at colleges and and writers’ conferences on the process of editing, literary structures, and about the publishing industry.
Empathetic Innovation:
authenticity is wellness & corporate culture
Your Organization’s Path to Sustainable Success is an Inside Job.
We see the same story every day in offices across the country, in companies big and small—the corporate wheel keeps spinning and team members feel like mere spokes, keeping a monotonous mission alive. But what if we trained our leaders to recognize innovation, to value the whole person of each team member, to allow for creativity and passion and new ideas to arise to the surface by digging more deeply into who they are—how much could our companies grow in meaningful, purposeful, and authentic ways, without having to look outside of themselves at all?
Empathetic Innovation asks us to empower teams by resourcing the intrapersonal work that surfaces healing and innovation.
Translation: Capitalize on your organization’s inherent value—the growth capital that is already sitting right in your office—and empower yourself and your team to do their greatest work.
Mental Health & Social Justice:
supportive alignment, vicarious trauma, resilience, and self-harm
Amanda is transparent about her family’s story of mental illness and substance abuse, which inspired her decade-long career in mental healthcare. Amanda was formerly CEO of Parity Health Services—a wrap-around service for at-risk youth—as well as a child advocate. She now speaks publicly and to private organizations about many difficult topics, including self-harm, vicarious trauma, and systemic injustice. Amanda has worked with previous U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin in an effort to declare mental health awareness and education a public health crisis.
Amanda is available to speak to mental health organizations, crisis response teams, as well as advocacy and consulting agencies and governmental bodies.
empowering you to thrive in work, life, and mind
IN THE MEDIA
YOUR NEXT STEP
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Whether you’re looking to infuse your creative space with inspiration and tools or harness your creativity in the boardroom, Amanda specializes in helping ambitious people execute big dreams and purpose-driven missions through their own ingenuity.
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Discover what’s possible when you book Amanda to speak at your organization or to collaborate with her in advocacy.
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Prepare to allow sweeping transformation evolve you and your team and for your audience to leave feeling inspired and with tangible action steps toward positive change.