Amanda Gore

Imagine a workplace with empowered leaders, teams, and individuals who are connected through the heart of human interaction—caring, authentic communication. It boosts collaboration, engagement, and well-being in the workplace and beyond.

What’s It Like to Be Led by You?

People leave bosses, not jobs. So what is it like to work for you when the numbers are down and the pressure is up? This leadership keynote answers that question with warmth, practical skills and a lot of laughter. Amanda Gore shows leaders how their state, emotions, communication and energy spread through a team, and how that shapes trust, engagement and performance.

Then she gives them the skills to change it, with Amanda Gore JQ® tools to reset under pressure, move from fear and reactivity to clarity and connection, and build cultures where people feel valued, safe and ready to contribute. Engaged teams deliver 23% higher profitability and up to 51% lower turnover (Gallup). This keynote gives leaders the skills behind those numbers.

A recent Instagram post Amanda posted has had over 1.5 million views in 3 weeks – and Amanda says in it – “people leave bosses not jobs! IQ gets you hired. EQ gets you promoted and JQ makes you a great leader” Obviously it’s a popular concept!

Audiences walk away with: a clear picture of how their state spreads through a team; the F.A.R.K. principle to change state in seconds; simple ways to move a team from fear to trust, calm and connection; the neuroscience of leadership in plain English; daily habits that build cultures where people want to stay.

Ideal for: leadership conferences, management and executive meetings, all-company events and associations.

Imagine your organization filled with energized, engaged people who don’t just survive work—they love it. – whether hybrid or in an office.

Amanda doesn’t just speak; she catalyses change, leaving audiences inspired, optimistic, motivated, equipped, and ready to create lasting impact.

This keynote is about how to turn burnout into your organization’s greatest opportunity for growth and equips delegates with the tools and mindset to choose wisely and embrace optimism and a brighter future.

The last few years have taken their toll on everyone! Burnout seems an epidemic. Bathed in uncertainty about everything, our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing has been seriously impacted. Many of us are living with fear, unmotivated, anxious, stressed and feeling burnt out.
It’s time to reinforce the value of personal responsibility, connection and joy.

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 grow their resilience and leave them with an inner compass!

This inner compass will be the way people can navigate their way back to feeling energised and enthusiastic about life again and to help them:

• Rediscover passion, and purpose
• Re-inspire, re-focus and re-store meaning
• Re-ignite confidence and enthusiasm
• Stay sane and even thrive while navigating an uncertain future

And much more!

How Great Leaders Build Trust and Influence Without Saying a Word

Everything in business is about feelings. Trust, empathy, communication, care, confidence, cooperation, collaboration, leadership, responses to change – these are just some of the elements (feelings) that create a great culture, attract and keep great people and build a high functioning team.

Every leader has had it happen. You say exactly the right words, and the room hears something else entirely. People read your state, your face, your voice and your energy before your words land. Amanda Gore studied nonverbal communication and group dynamics with Michael Grinder for 30 years.

In this communication keynote she shows leaders what their people pick up before a word is spoken, and how to send the signal that builds trust and confidence. She also shows leaders how to prepare for difficult conversations and deliver difficult messages with presence and care, so people still hear what they need to hear, and trust grows from the conversation.

Audiences walk away with: how to read the room and adjust in the moment; the nonverbal signals that build trust and influence; how to get into the right state before an important conversation; how to listen so people feel heard; simple ways to keep a message clear under pressure.

Ideal for: leadership conferences, management meetings, teams going through change, customer-facing teams and associations.

In this dynamic, edu-taining session, Amanda Gore transforms perceptions, relationships, and workplace energy. It’s about shifting mindsets to foster personal accountability, enthusiasm, and authentic engagement.

Creating a Joyful Culture Where People Feel Seen, Safe, Valued and Inspired to Thrive

This science-backed, interactive workplace culture keynote shows leaders and teams how joy builds connection, and how connection builds psychological safety, accountability and performance. Amanda Gore focuses on the real kind of joy, rooted in the neuroscience of emotions, connection and performance.

Expect joy buddies, tiny ta-das and plenty of laughter. People leave knowing each other better, with simple habits that keep a team connected long after the event. Engaged teams deliver 23% higher profitability and up to 51% lower turnover (Gallup). Connection is how you get there.

Audiences walk away with: the science of joy, put to work for resilience, collaboration and performance; ways to rewire thinking patterns so trust and engagement grow; simple rituals that build psychological safety and personal accountability; a shared language for the culture they want. Attendees will learn skills and have insights into how to change their thinking, their beliefs and how to take responsibility for the way they interact with colleagues and clients, how to build resilience and psychological safety.

Ideal for: culture summits, association events, company-wide meetings, and teams coming together after change.

Culture is like the quantum field—everything and everyone is connected, often unconsciously. 95–99% of our thinking is unconscious, driven by hidden beliefs. These shape our stories, emotions, lives, and nonverbal cues, impacting team dynamics and performance.

People have not fundamentally changed for a thousand years but science has. The ‘operating system’ of a human is not binary based! It’s more like quantum computing and runs on feelings.

Learn new, neuroscience based practical skills and strategies to re-engage your sales force, leaders or team in a way that leaves everyone feeling recharged and resilient – and find out what the REAL AI is!

Using Amanda’s signature experience creating, humor loaded yet fact filled style, people will walk away thinking differently about sales, leadership and how they interact with others.
Transforming sales results begins with transforming our thinking, perceptions, actions and choices. Knowing precise ways to interact with others to prove that we are competent, trustworthy and safe (a feeling) is required for top performance.

Learn new, science-based ways to:

• Be resilient and keep yourself motivated and enthusiastic
• Elevate emotional intelligence and create psychologically safe spaces where sales, innovation and creativity flourish.
• Discover how self-awareness fuels better decisions, deeper connections, and authentic leadership.
• Develop a modern sales mindset and understand the buyer mindset
• Change the perception of customers
• Listen properly (hardly anyone does)
• Connect non verbally (instantly)
• Establish lifelong relationships (in a short time) that create advocates not just customers

In this keynote, Amanda Gore unpacks the science and psychology of influence, revealing how empathy, emotional intelligence, and nonverbal communication can elevate your ability to engage, inspire, and drive results. Through high-energy storytelling, humor, and actionable strategies, you’ll discover how to:

• Build instant rapport and trust that leads to lasting relationships
• Master the subtle cues of nonverbal influence that helps you understand how others are feeling
• Shift from selling a product to creating value and emotional connection
• Use storytelling and authenticity to make your message memorable
• Cultivate the mindset and energy that attracts success

People don’t buy products—they buy feelings, trust, and connection. This keynote will transform the way you sell, helping you influence with integrity and build a business rooted in loyalty, joy, and genuine human connection. Long before the proposal, the price or the close, buyers pick up how a seller feels: confident or anxious, curious or pushy, there to help or there to hit a number. Top performers know this.

They manage their own state, so buyers warm to them and trust them, and they read the state of their customers so they can adapt how they communicate. Drawing on 30 years of studying nonverbal communication with Michael Grinder, Amanda Gore shows sales teams what buyers pick up before a word lands, and how to send the signal that wins trust. Every salesperson hears no. Top performers reframe it, reset fast and walk into the next call ready to win. Positive brains are 37% better at sales (Shawn Achor).

Audiences walk away with: how to walk into every call in their best state and stay there; the nonverbal signals buyers trust; how to reframe no and bounce back faster; ways to build rapport and trust at every stage of the sale; a shared language top performers and new hires both use.

Ideal for: sales kickoffs, sales conferences, customer-facing teams, and franchise and dealer events.

In a world where feelings drive engagement, trust, and performance, perspective and social intelligence is redefining leadership, communication, and workplace success.

Same pressure. Different perspective. More possibilities.

Two people can face the same deadline, the same difficult client and the same bad week, and walk away with completely different mindsets. The difference is the lens they look through. Amanda Gore’s three pairs of glasses show people how the lens they’re wearing changes what they see, how they react and what they can do next: black glasses for fear, a fixed mindset and judgment; yellow glasses for gratitude and optimism; gold glasses for love, peace and joy. It’s the fastest way she knows to help a room reframe pressure, change and conflict, and it’s funny enough that people are still talking about their glasses months later.

Audiences walk away with: a simple way to spot which glasses they’re wearing in any moment; tools to reframe pressure, change and conflict in seconds; more options when a problem feels stuck; better conversations and more understanding of colleagues and clients.

Ideal for: leadership teams, teams facing change, conferences, kickoffs, and any organization working under pressure.

Social Intelligence (the power of influence vs. the old paradigm—the influence of power) is a competitive edge, redefining how we connect, communicate, and lead. It transforms business, sales, and relationships, helping us navigate work, life, and change more effectively by understanding the emotions and motivations that truly drive human behavior.

What if the key to skyrocketing productivity, retention and recruitment, innovation, and employee engagement isn’t found in data analytics or the latest tech, but in something profoundly human—JOY?

Picture a workplace buzzing with energy, creativity, and purpose—where people don’t just work harder, they work happier. Amanda doesn’t just deliver a speech; she ignites a movement that transforms mindsets and drives measurable results.

Research shows that joy at work can boost sales by 37%, increase productivity by 31%, reduce errors by 18% and turnover by 51%, and enhance creativity 300%.

Surprisingly, 75% of employees identify their boss as the most stressful part of their job, yet enjoying work is the top factor for both job and life satisfaction.

Companies that prioritize employee happiness and well-being consistently outperform the S&P 500. The impact of joy as a valuable asset in the workplace is undeniable!

This session is designed for team leaders and individuals looking to lead more effectively. Now, more than ever, we must reshape our perspectives and equip ourselves with the skills to navigate the ever-changing “new normal.”

Maintaining team cohesion, motivation, and a sense of purpose is challenging, especially in a world dominated by remote work, burnout, childcare concerns, and physical disconnection. We’re working longer hours, often from home, thinking it’s better, yet missing out on the real human connections that are vital for our well-being.

This keynote is designed to offer strategies for creating a truly engaged and enthusiastic team, fostering meaningful connections, and enhancing overall well-being.

• Harness the Economics of Joy: Understand how joy directly impacts performance, sales, collaboration, and the bottom line
• Specific Skills: How to create a joy filled, inspired, purpose driven, enthusiastic team
• Boost Motivation Through Meaning: Discover practical ways to create a culture where people feel valued, connected, and inspired to excel

Mastering the neuroscience of change gives us tools to shift mindsets, break habits, connect and thrive in fast-changing environments.

People with a growth mindset are early adopters of change and embrace it. People with fixed mindsets are terrified of change and resist it at all costs. Imagine a team of growth mindset people who are creative, adaptable, innovative, joyful and love the growth the comes with change. That’s what this keynote creates.

You are not your mindset – but your mindset creates your life!

Understanding mindsets and mindfulness literally changes wiring of your brain and improves performance, leadership, decision making, creativity; flexibility; reduces anxiety, stress, depression and reactivity; increases energy, wellbeing, makes you happier and more likely to embrace change.

This session will show you simple ways to mindful, be more present, more adaptable, more effective, more courageous – and more successful! It will deliver specific skills that will help attendees appreciate and handle change and see the value in it.

Being mindful is about becoming more conscious – and living more consciously – which is one of Amanda’s core themes. Science shows us we are unconscious and most of us are running on habits and patterns of thinking from our past! We don’t even know those patterns are subconsciously programming our present. The capacity to be truly present, in the now moment is a superpower in adapting to change!

The difference between a growth mindset and a fixed one is the difference between successful transitions and those that struggle, a joyful life and a stressed, unhappy one; between a joyful team and a dysfunctional one; a great culture or a toxic one.

Change is perpetual part of our landscape and learning the skills to navigate it and how to develop a growth mindset is possible and critical for future success.

Imagine standing in front of a group, presenting at a meeting, or engaging in a one-to-one meeting and feeling confident and calm. This workshop harnesses the magic of non-verbal communication – and gives practical skills on how to inspire, impact and ignite enthusiasm, build rapport and have others follow you!

Public speaking is listed higher than death as a stressor for many people! Amanda has been an internationally acclaimed speaker for 30 years by continuously studying and upgrading her group dynamic skills! She is one of 4 international speakers inducted into the speaker hall of fame in the USA.

When we speak – there are 2 levels to consider. One is the content which must be relevant, appropriate and interesting. The other – the magic – is the process. The process is the way in which the messages are delivered and it is the ‘difference that makes the difference’.

It’s the magic that makes the content memorable; it creates the experience and the environment that allows people to make the changes they want to. It inspires. It entertains. It is the difference between a speech that has a brilliant impact and a mediocre, forgettable one. Or the difference between a stand out success meeting or interview and not getting the contract/job/sale.

Learn some of this magic and practical skills to increase your influence when you deliver an idea or present; to improve how you deal with challenges and overcome objections non verbally; and to increase your confidence so you actually can enjoy presenting interviewing or interacting – no matter what size group.

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system, which doesn’t sound relevant to leadership – but as leaders and team members are humans, our nervous systems control pretty much everything in our bodies, so linking the two is important!

A leaders job is three fold:

1. To create an environment in which people can be the best they can be (linked to the nervous system which affects performance, creativity, innovation and happiness)
2. To help people believe in themselves
3. To change people’s behavior (and yes, neuroscience shows us it’s possible)

We might think the nervous system is just the brain – but the heart and stomach have millions of ‘brain’ cells (neurons) in them – so you ‘think’ and feel with your heart and gut as well! All leadership – or sales or customer service or teamwork or culture – is based on feelings. How you feel about yourself… and how you make others feel.

This session blends latest findings in neuroscience, epigenetics, emotional intelligence, positive psychology and some common sense in a really funny way – we promise you will laugh! But wait, there’ s more, it is full of relevant information and skills that will help you be a better leader – whether that role is part of your title or not!

Did you know that new research shows us what we believe about stress decides if our bodies react negatively or not. Our perceptions rule our reality and in part, create our environment. How we think about life balance also determines the physiological and psychological impact.

The Joy Formula is a simple and easy way to review important aspects of our lives and become aware of imbalances that then allows us to make a plan to improve that balance – or at least, make us feel we have a sense of control over our lives!

‘Busy-ness’ is the new ‘disease’ impacting almost everyone. Rushing and having the perception (and reality) of ‘too much to do’ can destroy mental clarity and physical health. Constant social media comparisons and addictions don’t help.

Understanding the 3 possible stress responses and channeling them in the right way changes everything! How we feel, how we respond to those events and how others in turn respond or react.

Amanda will discuss, The Life Pizza which is a simple and easy way to review important aspects of our lives and become aware of imbalances in what areas are most important to us and what areas we put most of our attention on – which then allows us to make a plan to improve that balance. It is also the way to introduce concept of resilience and teach them several ‘resilience strategies’. This is an engaging experience that sends people out of the room laughing and determined to balance their ‘life pizza’.