Keynote Speaking
Lead your people through change without burning them out.
Resilience is the vehicle. Joy is the strategy. Transformation is what your team walks away with.
TEDx Berkeley speaker · Top 1% podcast host · Trusted by Google, Nike & Herbalife
See her command a room
Ninety seconds tells you more than a bio ever will.
Why she is on your stage
Amberly does not teach resilience from theory. She learned it on a hospital floor, through thirty-four surgeries, a pain they call the suicide disease, and her own road through recovery, when grit alone was not enough to keep her standing. Joy was. Now she hands that to every room she walks into.
What your audience leaves with
More than inspiration. A team that keeps going.
A team that stays connected through change
Joy is the thread that keeps people together when everything else is shifting. Your room leaves more bonded than it walked in.
Resilience that does not run them into the ground
Grit alone is just resilient resistance. Grit with connection is the kind that lasts past Monday.
A practice they use, not a talk they forget
Gratitude is alchemy. She hands your people a tool they can pick up the next hard morning, not a highlight reel.
A room that moves from why me to what is next
She does not describe the shift. She stages it live, so the whole room feels it happen.
Signature keynotes
Talks that move a room, and a business.
The one percent is the only number that matters when everything is on the line. I teach teams to find it, trust it, and move on it, together.
True Grit and Grace
Resilience as a daily practice.
How to keep digging when you would rather lean on the shovel. The 1% mindset, turning setbacks into the next step, and the difference between surviving a hard season and growing through it.
- Keep moving when motivation is gone
- Turn setbacks into momentum
- The thriver mindset, not the survivor one
Best fit: All-company gatherings, sales kickoffs, conferences
Joy Through the Journey
Joy as a business strategy.
Why gratitude is the fastest way to move a team forward, and how joy sustains performance through change instead of burning people out. Drawn from her book of the same name.
- Joy as an operating discipline, not a perk
- Sustain performance without burnout
- Soul care, not just self care
Best fit: Culture and HR teams, women's leadership, leadership offsites
Connection Is the New Currency of Leadership
Grit alone is resistance. Grit with connection is resilience.
How leaders build the connection that keeps their people through uncertainty, change, and pressure, so the team grows stronger together instead of quietly coming apart.
- Lead through change without losing people
- Build trust that retains talent
- Connection as a measurable advantage
Best fit: Executive teams, leadership development, change initiatives
Beyond the keynotes, Amberly speaks openly on recovery and faith as part of the same resilience story. Audiences consistently find her afterward to say thank you for saying it out loud.
The rooms remember her
What organizers and audiences say.
Amberly's talk made this the best Provisors meeting yet. I was moved to tears and definitely inspired.
Dita Shemke, EMBA
Shemke-Dixon Wealth Advisory
Your constant motivation and words of encouragement saved my life. I heard your voice in my head saying, do not give up.
T. Tyson
Audience member
Speaker after speaker came up and sang her praises in a way you do not typically hear at events about the host. She leads with such a spirit of love and compassion for others.
Karen Gray
Event attendee
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For the person booking
The questions planners ask.
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QWhat makes a keynote actually stick with a team?
A talk sticks when the audience leaves with a practice, not just a feeling. The research and the room both point the same way: stories create the emotion, but a simple, repeatable tool is what people carry back to work. The best keynotes pair a moment that moves the room with one thing they can use the next hard morning.
QCan joy really be a business strategy?
Yes. When a team finds joy through the journey, not only at the finish line, they grow more sustainably, connect more deeply, and perform through change instead of burning out. Gratitude is the fastest way to move a room forward, and it is the lane Amberly owns: joy as the operating discipline that sustains a comeback.
QHow do you keep a team motivated through constant change?
Motivation fades; connection lasts. Teams move through change without burning out when leaders pair resilience with connection and a sense of shared purpose, so people feel held rather than driven. Grit alone is just resilient resistance. Grit with connection is what sustains a team.
QWhat is the difference between a motivational speaker and a resilience keynote?
A motivational speaker lifts the energy in the room for a day. A resilience keynote changes how people respond to pressure after they leave, with a framework they can apply to real setbacks. The first is a spark; the second is a skill. The strongest speakers deliver both.
QWill Amberly customize the talk for our audience?
Always. She tailors the message to your people, your moment, and the change you are walking through, and she asks about your audience before she ever builds the talk.
QWhat formats does she offer?
Keynote, half-day workshop, fireside or moderated conversation, and virtual. The keynote becomes a workshop when a team wants to go deeper and put the practice to work.
QHow do we check availability and fees?
Send the details below. You will hear back from Amberly, not a queue.
She has run the room you are filling
She does not just speak in these rooms. She has run them.
For six years Amberly ran her own Unstoppable Success Summit, hiring and managing the speakers most planners only hope to book. She knows the AV, the run of show, and what it takes to make an audience feel held. That is why bookers trust her with the moment, and why so many of them book her again.
I know what you are carrying, because I have carried it too. For years I ran my own summit, so I know it long before the doors open: the AV and the sound that has to land, the catering, the green room, the speakers who need managing, the run of show, and the hundred small things you are holding so everyone else can just enjoy the day.
So when I step on your stage, I am not one more thing for you to manage. I know how much of you went into this. I show up early, I make your team's job easier, and I give your people something they carry home long after the lights go down.
Tell me about your event and the people you are doing it for. It would be an honor to help you make it the one they remember.
Amberly
Bring Amberly to your stage
Tell me about your event and your people.
Share a few details and you will hear back from Amberly, not a queue. If it is a fit, she will help you build the moment your audience remembers.
If there's even a one percent chance this is the room your people need, let's talk.
Change is possible, hope is available, and the choice is yours.