About Amanda Gore
When people feel different, they perform differently.
People work side by side, sit in the same meetings and scroll the same updates every day, and so many of them still feel unheard, unsafe and undervalued. Underneath every strategy and every new piece of technology sits a quieter problem: people feeling disconnected from each other.
What drives Amanda is helping people reconnect, with themselves and with each other. Her favorite moment is when a room of hundreds remembers that belonging is simple and human, and the whole place is laughing, motivated and feeling great about themselves.
Her story
It started with keeping people well.
Amanda Gore began her career in Australia with a bachelor’s degree in physiotherapy and a major in psychology. After 10 years of clinical practice, obsessed with keeping people well, she became a wellness consultant, working in ergonomics and occupational health. Along the way she grew more curious about something harder to measure: how people think, feel and treat each other, and the impact of stress on every part of work and life.
That curiosity turned into one question she has now spent 30+ years answering. What truly drives human behavior?
She still spends a third of every year studying neurolinguistics, neuroscience, emotional intelligence and quantum physics. Then she does the part most researchers skip: she turns the science into simple tools people can use at work and at home, starting that same afternoon.
People don’t change when they’re told to. They change when they feel safe and they understand what needs to change and why.
Amanda Gore JQ®
Joy, taught as a practical skill.
Everything Amanda has learned became Amanda Gore JQ®, her method for bringing joy into the way people lead, work and sell. At its heart is one simple truth: how people feel drives how they perform.
When leaders understand the emotional climate of their teams, and know what to do about it, trust grows, psychological safety grows, and people start to feel they truly belong. Amanda Gore JQ® has nothing to do with forced positivity. It creates workplaces where people feel safe enough, confident enough and valued enough to choose to be their best.
For organizations, that shows up where it counts. Engaged teams deliver 23% higher profitability (Gallup), and keeping good people gets a whole lot easier when they love who they work for.
Why now
Pressure isn’t going anywhere. How people handle it can change.
Change keeps speeding up. Artificial intelligence is reshaping how work gets done. Attention spans are shrinking, uncertainty impacts everyone, and emotional fatigue is rising in almost every sector. In today’s world, technical skill alone won’t carry a team. Self-awareness, emotional intelligence and a high Joy Quotient are what carry it.
When people feel psychologically safe and valued, they think more clearly, speak up sooner and take real ownership of results. That’s why Amanda’s work matters more now than when she started.
On stage
The heart and profit center of every business is how people feel.
Business has never been only about targets and click-throughs. It runs on perspectives: how people think, how they feel about themselves, and how they make others feel. How we feel about a relationship shapes every decision to invest in it, with customers, colleagues, clients and family. Trust is a feeling. We buy from people we like. We do business with people we like. We want to work with people we like. If you think about it, everything in business and in life is about feelings.
On stage Amanda is funny, engaging and completely interactive. People laugh while they learn new skills, and they leave feeling good about themselves, with a different belief about how rewarding their work can be and how to perform at their best.
Keynotes
Six keynotes, each built around your people.
As a leadership keynote speaker, Amanda creates a bespoke keynote specifically for your audience, your theme and the outcomes you need.
What clients say
Amanda is a wow of wows of speakers. She’s enchanting, captivating, brilliantly funny, tenderly charming, heartfelt, genuine, sincere and poignantly authentic, and yet she delivers a powerful message that we each want and need to hear. She’s unforgettable with her innovative audience involvement techniques… that will give you skills to take home, tell others and start using immediately to better your life, your relationships, your future and finances.
Co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series
Credentials, honors and recognition
Hall of Fame and professional designations
- CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame (Council of Peers Award for Excellence), National Speakers Association
- Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), since 1996
- Global Speaking Fellow, Global Speakers Federation, 2013, one of the first group selected
- Certified Virtual Presenter (CVP), eSpeakers
- TEDx speaker
- Bachelor of Physiotherapy (BPhty), major in psychology
- Master Practitioner of Neurolinguistics (John Grinder)
- Group dynamics and non-verbal communication: 30 years’ study with Michael Grinder
Fewer than ten people in the world hold the CPAE, CSP and Global Speaking Fellow designations together. Amanda Gore is one of them, and one of only a handful of speakers from outside the US ever inducted into the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame.
By the numbers
More than 1,500keynotes
More than 2 millionpeople in more than 20 countries
More than 20,000books sold
30+ yearson stage
Her Instagram video on why people leave bosses, not jobs, has been viewed more than 1.4 million times.
Recent recognition
- Speaker, MPI World Education Congress (WEC), 2026
- Opening keynote speaker, Influence 2025, the National Speakers Association’s annual convention
- Named one of the Top 50 Keynote Speakers in the World, Real Leaders magazine, 2022
- Named one of The Top 10 Leading Speakers to Follow in 2025, MSN.com
- Named one of the Top 10 Entrepreneur Disruptors to Watch in 2025, MSN.com
Awards from her peers
- Keynote Speaker of the Year, Professional Speakers Australia, 2009
- Educator of the Year, Professional Speakers Australia, 2021
- Life Member, Professional Speakers Australia, 2022
- Named in “Who’s Hot? 25 Men and Women Shaping Our Profession”, Speaker magazine, National Speakers Association, 2009
- Best Speaker, Planners’ Best Bets, Meetings Media, 2006, voted by meeting planners
- Named among the “Most Wanted” speakers on the circuit, Meetings & Conventions, 2006
- Named one of International Speakers Bureau’s Top 10 Favorite Speakers, 2007, voted by the bureau’s consultants
- Named a Top 5 Speaker in Motivation/Inspiration by Speakers Platform (Speaking.com), 2011, voted by the public
Clients
Amanda Gore has spoken for hundreds of organizations worldwide, including many Fortune 500 companies. Among them: Google, McDonald’s, Disney, IBM, American Express, Microsoft, Intel, Deloitte, KPMG, Wells Fargo, Verizon, Hilton, Hewlett-Packard, Novartis, Allianz, RE/MAX, Westpac, Commonwealth Bank, AMP, Flight Centre and MetLife. She has also spoken for more than 70 YPO chapters and more than 100 associations around the world.
Planning a leadership conference? See why organizations choose Amanda as their leadership keynote speaker.
Downloads
Everything you need to make the case.
A question people ask
What is Amanda Gore’s background?
Amanda Gore began her career in Australia with a bachelor’s degree in physiotherapy and a major in psychology, specializing in sports physiotherapy, occupational health and ergonomics. After 10 years of clinical practice, she became a wellness consultant, then moved into communication and performance. She has worked in wellness for 40 years. She completed her Master Practitioner certification in neurolinguistics with John Grinder, co-founder of NLP, and studied non-verbal communication and group dynamics with Michael Grinder for 30 years. She still spends a third of every year studying neuroscience, emotional intelligence and quantum physics.
