Radiate Joy: Be the Best Boss
They Ever Had
30+ years1,500+ keynotes2 million+ people20+ countries
Amanda Gore is a CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame leadership keynote speaker who helps leaders, teams and whole organizations change how people feel at work. Because how people feel is how they perform.
People leave bosses, not jobs. Every leader knows it. Far fewer know what to do about it.
Amanda Gore does. She is a CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame leadership speaker, one of fewer than ten people in the world to hold the CPAE, CSP and Global Speaking Fellow designations. For 30+ years she has shown leaders what their people actually experience, then handed them the tools to change it.
Her method, Amanda Gore JQ®, turns joy into a leadership skill. Leaders learn to manage their own state under pressure, build trust fast and create cultures where good people want to stay. The payoff shows up in the numbers. Engaged teams deliver 23% higher profitability and up to 51% lower turnover.
And it’s funny. Audiences laugh, sing and high-five strangers, then quote her lines back to her years later. That’s the point. People remember what they feel, and they use what they remember.
Planners ask for five things in a keynote speaker, and Amanda Gore brings all five: real interaction and engagement, stories people retell for years, science they can trust, humor that lands, and content people use the same day. She is an interactive keynote speaker in the truest sense. Everyone in the room takes part.
The leadership keynote
What’s It Like to Be Led by You?
Amanda Gore JQ®: The Intelligence That Makes Leadership Work
Every leader has a reputation they never get to hear. It’s the one their people talk about over dinner and in the group chat.
This keynote holds up the mirror, with warmth and a lot of laughter, and shows leaders what it feels like to work for them. Then it gives them the skills to change it, straight away.
Leaders walk away knowing how to:
Keynotes for leaders and the people they lead.
Amanda speaks to leaders, and to the teams, sales forces and whole organizations they lead. As a leadership speaker, she has no set speeches. Plenty of speakers say they tailor their keynotes. Amanda proves it. She builds every keynote from a detailed briefing on your objectives, your audience and the outcomes you need, then sits in on the sessions before hers and weaves what she hears into her keynote.
What’s It Like to Be Led by You?
Every leader in the room answers that question silently the moment they hear it. This keynote shows them what their people might be experiencing, and how to become the boss people stay for.
How Great Leaders Build Trust and Influence Without Saying a Word.
The communication keynote, including difficult conversations and difficult messages.
What every leader wants to know about beliefs, fears, perspectives and performance.
The skills Amanda has honed over 30+ years, for presentations, meetings and difficult conversations.
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.
I have been a member of MDRT for 29 years and have seen some of the best speakers in the world. None has ever received 3 standing ovations like Amanda Gore.
My personal thank you for the impact you have had on my development as a leader and for the seed you have helped me plant to inspire general managers and owners to success.
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Amanda Gore is a sought-after women’s leadership keynote speaker for conferences, networks and executive events. Women leaders carry a lot. Teams, targets, families, and the constant message to be more confident while doing all of it.
Amanda starts with the inside job. She gives women practical ways to manage their own state, back themselves in any room, and lead with warmth and strength at the same time. As one of only a handful of speakers from outside the US ever inducted into the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame, she speaks from experience about building a career on the world’s biggest stages.
Ideal for: Women’s leadership conferences, women in business networks, International Women’s Day events, women’s executive retreats and employee resource groups.
Amanda was hired as the keynote speaker for Executive Women International's Leadership Conference and Annual Meeting. She delivered a high energy presentation that had all 400 attendees on their feet. Her key message of embracing change resonated so well that we continually heard our members reciting key components, adding her signature song as their personal ring tones and imitating her actions throughout the rest of the conference. The results at our Annual Meeting were unprecedented. I would not hesitate to recommend Amanda to any conference organizer. So much fun and wisdom!
When leaders change how people feel, the numbers follow.
Engaged teams: Gallup Q12 Meta-Analysis, 11th Edition. Positive brains: Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage.
A Hall of Fame leadership speaker
CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame
CSP
Global Speaking Fellow
Top 50 Keynote Speakers in the World
Keynote Speaker of the Year
Educator of the Year
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.
Your opening sets the tone for the whole event. Your close decides what people carry home. Planners book Amanda for both.
As an opening keynote speaker, she gets the room connected in minutes. Strangers are laughing together before the first coffee break, and that energy carries through every session that follows.
As a closing keynote speaker, she pulls the whole event together. She arrives early, sits in on the sessions before hers and weaves them into her keynote. People leave with clear takeaways, the tools to act on them, and a smile they take home.
Your opening keynote session on day 1 of our conference really set the tone for the event, it was like everyone entered the room in one mindset, and left with another.
Amanda is absolutely amazing! I’ve attended a variety of international events over the years and Amanda is one of the best I’ve ever seen. The levels of energy & excitement she generates from the crowd is something I have never witnessed before. I would especially recommend Amanda to kickoff or close a conference starting or finishing on a high.
Planners want two things: a great keynote and no surprises. Amanda delivers both.
She builds every keynote from a detailed briefing on your objectives, your audience and the outcomes you need. She arrives early, sits in on the sessions before hers, and reads the room on the day. She’s flexible, easy to work with, and loves making her clients look good. If you have sponsors, she makes them look good too.
Every keynote comes with extras, if you’d like them:
Amanda Gore is a CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame leadership keynote speaker and one of fewer than ten people in the world to hold the CPAE, CSP and Global Speaking Fellow designations. Over 30+ years she has delivered more than 1,500 keynotes to more than 2 million people in more than 20 countries.
She makes joy a business advantage. Her method, Amanda Gore JQ®, gives leaders practical skills to manage their state, build trust and create cultures where people want to stay. She delivers it with science, stories and a lot of laughter, so it’s interactive, engaging, and it sticks.
Leaders, teams, sales forces and whole organizations, at corporate conferences, association events, sales kickoffs, incentive trips and celebration events.
Yes. Amanda is a high-energy opening and closing keynote speaker. She opens events by engaging and connecting everyone in the room in minutes, and closes them by pulling every session together into one clear message.
Yes. Amanda has no set speeches. Every keynote is built from a detailed briefing on your objectives, audience and outcomes. She also sits in on earlier sessions, or joins the day before, to gather event and company details she weaves into her keynote.
Yes. Amanda speaks at women’s leadership conferences, women in business networks and women’s executive events around the world.
Amanda Gore JQ® is Amanda’s method for making joy a skill. It helps people raise their Joy Quotient: how well they manage their state, connect with and inspire others, contribute and perform under pressure.
Yes. Amanda is a Certified Virtual Presenter (CVP) and delivers the same energy online as she does on stage.
“We had a live chat box going and everyone was discussing your concepts live, flabbergasted by your energy and saying this was even better than most in person speakers they had seen. Thank you for your authenticity and your enthusiasm. The team really loved it.”
Email amanda@amandagore.com or call +1 469 500 4045 in the USA or +61 414 282 218 in Australia. Or use the Book Amanda button on this page.
Amanda’s online course
It’s not what you say. It’s what they hear.
How to build trust and influence without saying a word.
An eight-week online course you can take at your own pace.
Be the leader people stay for.
Looking for a leadership speaker who will make your people laugh, think and lead differently? Book Amanda Gore for your next conference, kickoff or leadership event.
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