The last few years have taken their toll on everyone! Bathed in uncertainty about EVERYTHING, our physical, mental, emotion and spiritual wellbeing has been seriously impacted. Many of us are living with fear, unmotivated, anxious, stressed and feeling burnt out. This keynote is geared around the new skills required to rise up out of the exhaustion and fear and rediscover the joy of living. Simple, easy to do activities and ways to change our mindsets and perceptions will help everyone with resilience and leave them with an inner compass! 

This inner compass will be the way people can navigate their way back to feeling energized and enthusiastic about life again. Our inner compass can help us:

 • Re-calibrate relationships and re-imagine joy
• Re-energize and re-align your team
• Re-inspire, re-focus and re-store meaning
• Re-ignite confidence and enthusiasm
• Reconnect hearts - virtually and physically
• Stay sane and even thrive while navigating an uncertain future In these unprecedented times, mental health issues are on the rise, and fear and uncertainty are taking a toll on our well-being, work, and relationships. It's time to reconsider what JOY truly means.

I've crafted this material to address these pressing issues and help people regain a sense of control and establish the profound connections they yearn for.

This experience can be viewed as a time of devastation and despair, or as an opportunity for positive change. It's a chance to reimagine joy and:

• Reawaken our human potential and humanity.
• Infuse our lives with vitality.
• Engage fully in life's each experiences.
• Recreate the life we truly desire.
• Rediscover passion, meaning, and purpose, both at work and at home. The choice is ours.

This keynote equips you with the tools and mindset to choose wisely and embrace a brighter future

Staying sane in a crazy world is possible! Your brain can be rewired for joy, and this session teaches you how. It covers how to stop stress from killing you, how to be resilient, how to be your best version, and how to refocus on what matters while taking responsibility for your choices and behavior. Everything in business is about feelings—trust, empathy, confidence, cooperation, collaboration, leadership, and responses to change. These are just a few elements that create a great culture and team. This keynote aims to help people feel good about themselves, which changes how they interact with everyone else—colleagues, clients, and family.

Amanda presents profound concepts in an entertaining way that changes people's perceptions of themselves and others, engages and energizes, and gives them specific strategies to bust stress, lead more effectively, fear less, deal with change, and collaborate efficiently. Amanda will cover the latest sciences on stress, epigenetics, emotional intelligence, and neuroscience, which will not only show you how to reduce the impact of stress but also how to change your reactions to it permanently.

Did you know that what people believe about stress or stressful situations is the 15th biggest killer of humans in the USA? However, stress can be a source of great resilience, productivity, engagement, and courage when handled correctly. It’s time to get real about what is truly causing our stress.

Joyonomics—how joy changes culture, performance, and profit—reveals that by the time you were 7, your pure ‘operating system’ of love and joy was infected with viruses, malware, apps, and other people’s programs. Joy at work boosts sales by 37%, increases productivity by 31%, reduces errors by 18%, and increases chances of promotion by 40%. Seventy-five percent of people say their boss is the most stressful part of their job, and enjoying work is the number one factor for job and life satisfaction. Companies that prioritize happiness and well-being outperform the S&P 500. Joy matters!

This session is designed for leaders in charge of teams or those leading in their own lives. Now, more than ever, we must reshape our perspectives and equip people with the skills to navigate this ever-changing “new normal.” Maintaining team cohesion, motivation, and a sense of purpose is challenging, especially in a world where remote work, burnout, childcare concerns, and physical disconnection have become the norm. We’re doing more with less, working longer hours, all from our homes. While we may think it's better, we are losing out on real connections and the physical interaction that is so important for humans.

Discover ways to create a truly engaged, enthusiastic team, connect people, and help them feel better about themselves so they treat others well. A leader’s job is threefold: help people believe in themselves (as belief in your own ability is a better predictor of success than any level of skill), create an environment in which people can be their best—joy-filled and fear-free—and change people’s behavior, which can be done in a heartbeat when approached the right way.

Speaker Hall of Fame, Keynote Speaker of Year, Educator of the Year; CPAE, CSP

Joy is an Inside Job, You Can Be Happy

Multi award winning, speaker hall of fame, Author of 4 books; spoken to over 1 million people in 20 countries; expert on creating memorable engaging experiences, changing cultures, mindsets and leadership, expert in creating joyful experiences, cultures and people; high energy and interaction.