Burnout at the top
Senior leaders keep performing while privately running on empty, and the pressure to look strong makes it heavier.
Executive retreat speaker and facilitator
Executive Retreat Speaker & C-Suite Leadership Offsite Facilitator
Help senior leaders reset, reconnect and lead under pressure.
Because strategy only works when the leaders trust each other.
Amanda Gore joins your executive retreat as facilitator, presenter or moderator. She helps C-suite teams, boards and senior leaders reset from burnout, rebuild trust, communicate effectively under pressure and, in a safe environment, talk honestly to each other, with energy, real science and plenty of laughter.
Why Amanda Gore for executive retreats?
Amanda Gore is a CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame leadership keynote speaker and executive retreat facilitator. Organizations bring her into their own executive retreats, C-suite offsites and board meetings to open the retreat, close it, or guide the room through the agenda as facilitator or moderator. Her method, Amanda Gore JQ®, gives senior leaders practical tools to reset from burnout, rebuild trust, strengthen psychological safety and communicate clearly under pressure. She has spoken for more than 70 YPO chapters and six YPO universities, where the room is full of CEOs and company presidents.
Why now
Your senior leaders need more than another agenda.
Most executive retreats are packed with strategy, numbers, market pressure, AI conversations and plans for next year. All of that matters. The real work is often underneath it.
Senior leaders are carrying growth targets, faster change and rising expectations from boards, teams and customers. They look composed. Privately, many are running on empty. Conversations get careful. Trust wears thin. The honest conversation everyone needs gets saved for another day.
When leaders operate from stress and fear, it shows up everywhere: in decisions, collaboration, retention and results. Amanda helps senior teams deal with the human side of the strategy, safely, practically and with enough humor to let people breathe again.
Trust worn thin
Teams stay polite on the surface and save the honest conversations for later, so alignment stays on paper.
AI and change fatigue
Leaders are redesigning work at a pace that tests the most resilient teams, while their people worry about what AI means for them.
Leading from fear
Under pressure, talented leaders can turn controlling, defensive or distant without seeing the effect on the room.
Communication under pressure
Words are only part of it. Tone, timing, body language and what stays unsaid decide whether people speak up.
Retreats that fade
A great offsite feels like a turning point, then fades by Tuesday when everyone returns to the same pressures and patterns.
Feelings drive results.
People give their best when they feel safe enough to speak honestly, valued enough to contribute, connected enough to collaborate and clear enough to make brave decisions under pressure.
That’s the heart of Amanda’s work. Her method, Amanda Gore JQ®, teaches joy as a practical skill. Leaders learn to manage their own state, catch fear-driven reactions before they take over, and build teams where trust and performance grow together. Engaged teams deliver 23% higher profitability (Gallup), and keeping good people gets a whole lot easier when they love who they work for.
These are the human skills that decide whether a strategy gets delivered and is successful.
Why executive teams choose Amanda Gore
Amanda Gore is one of fewer than ten people in the world to hold the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame, CSP and Global Speaking Fellow designations. Senior leaders remember her for a reason.
A senior room needs someone who reads it fast, respects the intelligence in it and creates safety quickly, with energy and substance. Amanda brings 30+ years on stages in more than 20 countries, a background in physiotherapy and psychology, and 30 years studying non-verbal communication and group dynamics with Michael Grinder. She is a master practitioner of neurolinguistics, a sophisticated science of communication and influence. She can say the hard things in a way senior people can hear.
She has spoken for more than 70 YPO chapters and six YPO universities, where the room is full of CEOs and company presidents.
- Hall of Fame platform skill that holds a senior room
- A clear line from trust and emotional state to business results
- Safe for the most senior rooms: business language, and nobody put on the spot
- Tools leaders use the next morning: shared language, simple rituals and quick resets
- Funny, high-energy and backed by science
Your retreat, her role
You plan the retreat. Amanda brings the room to life.
Amanda joins executive retreats your organization is already running. You choose her role.
Open the retreat
A high-energy start that sets the tone, builds safety and gives the group a shared language for everything that follows.
Close the retreat
An ending with real emotional impact that turns your days together into commitments people keep.
Facilitate
Amanda guides sessions on trust, burnout and honest communication, woven through your agenda.
Moderate
She keeps panels and leadership conversations on track, human and candid.
Starting from a blank page? Amanda’s focus is the people in the room rather than venues and logistics. If you’d like her help putting a retreat together, ask. She’s happy to talk it through.
The Executive Reset
The Executive Reset is Amanda’s work with senior teams at their retreat. It helps leaders reset from exhaustion, rebuild trust, reconnect as people and leave with practical commitments that change how they communicate, collaborate and lead under pressure.
Best for: C-suite teams, senior leadership teams, boards, sales leadership teams and women executives.
What leaders experience with Amanda
Amanda changes the state of the room first. Then the real conversations can happen.
Opening energy
Amanda shifts the energy so leaders are present, open and connected before a single business topic comes up.
Feelings drive results
Leaders see how emotional state shapes behavior, decisions and results.
Pressure patterns
The group spots how stress and fear show up in leadership behavior, often without anyone noticing.
Quick reset tools
Simple tools to manage state under pressure and respond rather than react.
Trust and psychological safety
What builds safety, what breaks it, and how daily behavior rebuilds it.
Communication under pressure
Words, tone, timing, body language and listening beyond words.
F.A.R.K.
Amanda’s sixty-second reset: Focus and feelings, Awareness, Reframe, and Knowing, kindness and kudos.
Leadership commitments
Simple, specific commitments leaders take back into meetings and conversations.
What results can you expect?
The goal is a different way of leading after the retreat. Leaders leave with renewed energy, shared language, practical tools and clear commitments.
More self-awareness under pressure
Leaders see how their state affects the room, the team and the quality of decisions.
Faster resets
Senior leaders recover quickly from stress and fatigue, even in difficult conversations.
Stronger trust
People reconnect as human beings, beyond roles and titles.
More honest communication
Leaders listen better, speak with more courage and address what is really happening.
Stronger psychological safety
Teams know how to create the conditions where people speak up and challenge ideas well.
Clear commitments
Insight turns into actions leaders use in meetings, conversations and team culture.
A shared language
Amanda Gore JQ® gives the team words and symbols they remember, use and teach others.
Difficult conversations, handled well
Leaders learn to have difficult conversations and deliver challenging messages in a way people can hear, take in and act on.
Presence and influence
Leaders present with presence, influence with elegance and facilitate open, creative conversation, so people arrive at the ideas themselves and own them.
Leaders leave with tools they use in their next difficult conversation, their next team meeting and the next high-pressure moment.
What planners and executive sponsors can expect
An executive retreat is a high-stakes room, and your name is on it. Amanda arrives credible, flexible and fully aligned with your goals.
- A planning call first
- Amanda learns your objectives, who will be in the room, any sensitive issues and the outcomes you need.
- Built around your retreat
- Shaped around your theme and priorities, every time.
- Energy with care
- The room laughs, opens up and joins in, and nobody is put on the spot.
- Language for senior rooms
- Trust, burnout and psychological safety, in business language backed by science.
- A method, not just a feeling
- Leaders leave with tools they use the next day.
- She sits in
- Amanda likes to sit in on the sessions before hers, so she can weave them into her own.
- Extras if you’d like them
- A personal video before or after the retreat, a meet-and-greet, an ebook of everything she covered, and permission to film her session for internal use.
She makes you look good.
Is Amanda right for your retreat?
Amanda loves the extra time a retreat gives her. It means she can help people go deeper, reflect, take in new ideas and practice new skills.
Amanda is at her best at:
- C-suite and senior leadership retreats
- Board and executive alignment sessions
- Senior leadership offsites
- Culture and transformation retreats
- Sales leadership retreats and kickoff leadership meetings
- Women executives retreats
- HR and people-leader offsites
- Teams working through burnout, trust, AI and change, or a conversation that has waited too long
She’s the right choice when your leaders are ready to talk honestly, and you want an experience that is funny, practical and safe for the most senior people in the room.
Choose the format for your retreat
Keynote, up to 90 minutesOpening or closing the retreat with energy and a shared language.
Half-day leadership labMore interaction and practice on trust, burnout and communication.
Full dayA deeper reset around culture, trust, resilience and leadership behavior.
Woven through your retreatAmanda as presenter, facilitator and moderator across your days together.
Follow-up session, virtualKeeping the commitments alive once everyone is back at work, and reviewing the pulse results with the team.
How do you measure the value of a retreat?
A retreat should create more than a good feeling. It should create shared language and visible change in how leaders behave. Here’s a simple way to see it.
Before the retreat
Your team sends the leaders six short questions, each rated from 1 to 5. It takes two minutes, in any survey tool you already use.
Six weeks after
The same leaders answer the same six questions.
The follow-up session
In a virtual follow-up session, Amanda walks you and the team through what moved and what to work on next.
The six questions
- Our leaders feel safe to speak honestly.
- Our leaders communicate clearly under pressure.
- Our leaders see the effect of their emotional state on the team.
- Our leaders know how to reset when stress rises.
- Our leaders leave meetings clearer, calmer and more aligned.
- Our leaders are keeping the commitments they made at the retreat. (after the retreat only)
Rated from 1 (rarely) to 5 (almost always). Amanda sends you the questions ready to copy into your own survey.
What clients say
After seeing Amanda inspire our top performers at a recent rewards function, we thought her energy, passion and zest for corporate harmony would be just the recipe to get 120 leaders motivated about the future of our business. Amanda sent the group off on a high, ready and willing to embrace our business strategy and take it to their people. Amanda had the hardest to please leaving the forum with a better understanding of how important perceptions are, more skills in emotional intelligence and committed to changing their own, and their teams’ behaviours. The feedback from our leaders has been overwhelming with comments like ‘This was the best forum I have ever attended.’ Amanda is a fantastic corporate speaker and highly recommended.
I hired Amanda a couple of times for the purpose of energizing a large and global audience of senior executives and CEOs. She is absolutely fantastic, full of energy, focussed, and keeps the crowed fully engaged for the entire period. Her sessions are typically filled with laughter, audience interaction, and a general feel good atmosphere. The crowd also leaves the session with a clear direction on what the need to do in order to improve their personal skill sets. I highly recommend working with Amanda.
Congratulations on your high marks, and thank you for your help in making the IT Leadership Retreat such a success. Survey respondents gave your presentation an average score of 4.47 on a five-point scale, and your session ranked among the highest in value of the entire retreat.
Fresh out of a session Amanda facilitated with my finance team and the feedback from the team is fantastic. Amanda skillfully and engagingly reset the attitude of the whole team in one morning. Pure mastery at work. Looking forward to keeping the joy going with the tools Amanda left behind. Thanks and zoots.
I had heard it was possible, but until I saw a room full of Presidents linking hands and whistling through ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’ with my own eyes, I wouldn’t have actually believed it.
Amanda has been my ‘secret weapon’ to energise culture and connectivity in teams.
Questions planners ask about executive retreats
What does an executive retreat speaker do?
An executive retreat speaker helps senior leaders step away from daily pressure, reflect on how they lead, strengthen alignment and deal with the human side of performance. Amanda Gore focuses on trust, burnout, communication under pressure, psychological safety and practical changes in leadership behavior.
Can Amanda Gore facilitate or moderate our executive retreat?
Yes. Amanda joins your retreat as presenter, facilitator or moderator. She can open it with energy, close it with real emotional impact, lead sessions on trust and communication, or keep leadership conversations on track across the agenda.
Does Amanda organize executive retreats?
Amanda joins retreats that organizations are already running, and her focus is the people in the room. If you’d like her help putting a retreat together, ask. She’s happy to talk it through.
What problems does Amanda help executive teams solve?
Burnout at the top, trust worn thin, fear-driven leadership, communication that breaks down under pressure, AI and change fatigue, gaps in psychological safety, and retreats whose insights fade once everyone is back at work.
Is this a wellness session?
It’s a leadership experience. Amanda’s work is practical, science-backed and safe for senior corporate rooms, focused on trust, communication, resilience and results. She also has a 40-year background in wellness, so if you’d like a focus on wellness, she can easily provide it.
What is Amanda Gore JQ®?
Amanda Gore JQ® is Amanda’s method for bringing joy into the way people lead, work and sell. It helps organizations move from fear-based performance to joy-driven performance, where people feel safe enough to speak up, valued enough to contribute fully and clear enough to make good decisions under pressure. It’s a practical skill set, with tools leaders use in their very next meeting.
Can Amanda’s session be customized for our retreat?
Yes. Every session is built from a planning call about your goals, your leaders, your culture and the outcomes you need. No two are the same.
Does Amanda work with women executives retreats?
Yes. Amanda is a strong fit for women executives retreats, where leaders want to reset from pressure, communicate with confidence and build trust in rooms where authenticity and performance both matter.
How do we check Amanda’s availability?
Use the Book Amanda form with your retreat dates, location and group, email amanda@amandagore.com, or call +1 469 500 4045 in the USA or +61 414 282 218 in Australia.
Ready for a retreat your leaders will remember, and use?
Your senior leaders need space to reset, the courage to speak honestly, tools to handle pressure, and a shared language for leading differently when they get home.
Amanda Gore helps executive teams feel better, connect more deeply and lead with courage. When feelings change, behavior changes. When behavior changes, results change.
Reset the leaders. Rebuild the trust. Reignite the culture.
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