Culture and teamwork testimonials

The best thing for our business was that we committed to four-week holidays, and grew those out to three months. I was 41 then, had just taken over the family business, and those sessions set us up for success. Tell Amanda that EVERYONE at BIG4 still talks about her. I am not exaggerating to say that every time we get together, someone will certainly mention something from her sessions.

If you want a speaker that makes your people feel good after the speech, there are hundreds of good speakers out there to choose from; go get one. But if you want your people to be feeling good and making positive changes for weeks and months and years after, then Amanda Gore is your simple choice. In fact, ‘speech’ is hardly the word for what she accomplishes. She truly is someone who motivates your people to stop, think, analyze and change. She makes her life altering lessons easy to understand and terribly fun to execute. She leaves an incredibly uplifting impact on her audiences. Your people will truly thank you for bringing Amanda into their lives. So, you want a speaker? Go get one. But if you want a real catalyst for lasting, positive change, Amanda Gore is your clear choice! Zoots!

It has been my pleasure to invite Amanda Gore with her message of Joy to speak at several business sales meetings over the past decade plus and I'll invite her again when the situation is right. Her message is entertaining, high energy, engaging, motivational, thought provoking, and behavior changing. Her powerful message is delivered with humor but sprinkled with science. Her presentation will be a highlight of any meeting. People will be talking about her message for days. The first time I heard her I learned how to ‘build a bridge and get over it’. It works

I met Amanda Gore when I was in the Speaking Industry. I can't recommend Amanda highly enough. Her message (always so succinct and very close to her brief) always addresses the theme, her delivery is spectactular - so fresh and different, her content is always on trend and her presentations make the audience laugh. Amanda is always the perfect speaker. I have now been saying for 20 years that Amanda Gore is the best female speaker in Australia - and that fact hasn't changed. She only gets better and more vibrant as time passes.

Pure passion! Talk about an individual who gets her audience involved from the moment she arrives on stage! We have had her at our organization’s convention two times now and people are still talking about her! This firecracker has the unique ability to transfer passion to her audience and touches them at their core. She ignites enthusiasm within a group that you could cut with a knife. The message she delivers is not only thought provoking, it is action oriented and one that will be carried forward far into the future. Now that is IMPACT!

Amanda provided a motivating, uplifting and unique presentation with a team of our high performers at an employee conference. Since then our high achievers have 'zooted', 'hugged', 'built bridges' and continued to 'live out loud. Her style of coaching helped highlight the importance of a positive attitude, sense of humour and self belief in achieving personal and professional success. I would certainly work with Amanda again in the future.

Amanda Gore brings a level of energy, enthusiasm, humor, and intelligence far above the conventional ‘motivational speaker’ you may be seeking for your next meeting. If you want to make your meeting memorable, and I do mean memorable (attendees are still talking about her presentation and message), and send people home on a high note, Amanda is the speaker for you.

I have attended many leadership events and heard many keynote speakers. Sometimes their message resonates for the moment, sometimes days. Amanda’s message changes you and stays with you forever. Amanda clearly did her homework before addressing our group. She knew our weaknesses and our strengths, our challenges and our successes. I recommend Amanda without reservation or hesitation.

Amanda is the type of individual who you meet just once but her influence lasts a lifetime. Amanda's energy and enthusiasm to inspire people is second-to-none. She has the unique ability to get business professionals to 'let go' of their pretences and enjoy the thrill of communicating and networking with each other in a collective effort to promote personal, business and leadership improvement. She is a brand in her own right and judging from the scores of recommendations she has here, you can only assume that ‘so many people speaking well of Amanda can’t be wrong’. Best wishes and thank you for your positivity and influence on all those around you.

Amanda's strategies for dealing with stress are easy to follow and her concepts on communication are excellent - I would recommend Amanda to any organization wanting to improve their organizations motivational environment!

Amanda Gore was like a breath of fresh air for our gathering. Her very honest and humorous presentation had even the most reluctant participant laughing, singing, dancing and giving virtual hugs to the people around them. Amanda’s messages really hit the mark with our audience and she has been the talk of our office for weeks since her presentation. We would have her back any time.

You rocked our world, Amanda. No one has ever had such a deep, lasting impact on our lives. You’ve given us a timeless gift.

As soon as you mention Amanda's name people say great things! She is a fantastic addition to any conference event. Her audiences rave about her, she makes them laugh, engages them every time. Many years after she has spoken to an audience they can still recall her presentation and content. I highly recommned her for your next major event.

Surprisingly, every member of my group who attended the speech came to work today with an exuberance and freshness I have never seen. I can foresee that it will quickly lead to much closer group bonding and overall performance improvement.

I have 10 Community Directors who have became Tigger Ambassadors but more importantly, benefited and continue to benefit from your messages and your enthusiasm that is catching.

You touch so many people’s lives in such a positive way. You have left a lasting imprint on the lives, and businesses, of two close friends.

You would be very pleased in knowing the impact that you have already made on the organization, from the zoot-zoot to the ‘waving index fingers.’ You will have helped each of us make lasting changes to our lives.

You made a great impression on the WPOers at the Washington Conference. People were zooting each other in the heart and telling each other to ‘get over it’ constantly after your presentation.

There are really only a few lights that truly shine brightly in the world, and you are certainly one of them! Please know that your one hour with us last night will leave a lasting impression and change lives.

Thank you so much for breathing life into our opening breakfast. We were ‘building bridges’ all week and zooted all over Jacksonville!

This morning the office was full of zoot, zoots, magic wands, and other Amandaisms. I’m worried an innocent civilian is going to stumble into the office and be inundated!

You would not believe the change that has come over our office. My coworkers are walking around with smiles, wagging their fingers to say hello, thumbs up and EXCELLENT. There are zoots flying all over the place, your presentation has transformed them.

I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation at the APWA Congress in Kansas City. I am using some of your suggestions in our department meetings already.

My principal loved your video so much that she loaned it to our superintendent who also was inspired. We used Live Out Loud for one of our staff development meetings and did it ever help to relieve the tension around here.

I have received lots of unsolicited positive feedback. At work, the teams are doing a lot of ’bab and GOI.’ And last week I did 3 great ’give yourself a tada,’ which may be the most important thing I can do with my team to let them know I think they’re great.

Nearly a month later, there has not been a work day go by that something from Amanda’s video taped session hasn’t made its way into our daily conversations. All of us who attended these sessions received our own ’Fun Fairy’ wands and a finger puppet which are both proudly displayed in most all of our cubes and offices. It was simply too much fun and too enlightening not to share with others.

What a joy to finally meet you, and now that I’ve seen you ’do your thing’ I understand why everyone’s so crazy about you! You should see this place today, sparkles everywhere, dancing District Managers ta-da-ing everyone in sight.

You were the BEST! The zoots just continue. Since the convention I’ve had people call me and end with ’zoots to you.’ I’ve had so many folks contacting me asking how to book you. It’s wonderful.

Thank you so much, Amanda, for your recent presentation to our retailers. The feedback has been so positive from everyone who attended - they really didn’t know what to expect - but left uplifted, refreshed and motivated. They are still talking about Joy Buddies, Sparkly Bits and other concepts two weeks later, so it’s definitely stayed with them! It’s been a really tough 18 months, and this has given those who attended a really great mindset to move forward. Impactful delivery, great messages, and you had people laughing out loud, reflecting, learning and even dancing. Just fabulous, thanks again.

Amanda Gore can be summed up in one word Amazing! As a keynote speaker she has the power to move participants from laughter to tears and back again. Her ability to tell a story and engage an audience is incredible.... I first saw Amanda speak over 20 years ago - her message is timeless and delivered through a prism of the here and now. We recently invited Amanda to be apart of our live event series - Balance by Deborah Hutton - Reconnect and from the feedback we received her keynote was for many of our participants live changing. We look forward to having Amanda at our events again and again.

Amanda has been a lover of blossoming people around her for the 27 years I have known her .. she has it down to a fine (and funny) art!

Having been Key Note Speaking, Training and Facilitating in many countries and for hundreds of Corporate Organisations around the world for more time then I am willing to expose in print, I have had the very good fortune to have worked with, watched, studied, model and even at times co-presented with some very remarkable presenters, communicators, entertainers and educators. Many of whom I stand in awe of and marvel at their gifts, their talent, their craft, their art and their indefinable magic. I am deeply grateful to them all. Of all of those people their is one name, one remarkable human being who has been there from the start, who very early on provided me with a new reference point for what is possible and has continued through her devotion to her craft to show me and many others a new way and another level of presenting and relating to audiences for us all to follow and aspire to. She is Amanda Gore. Amanda’s capacity to continuously explore, refinement, challenge, create innovative ways to not only get the information out, across and to make it memorable in a way that people are still making references to her work and key messages years later, is truly unique and remarkable. I know nobody, any where in the world who makes their presentation both exciting, energising, entertaining, emotionally captivating, universally relevant, deeply memorable and hilariously funny. Most of us mere mortals strive to get some of these features into our presentation. Amanda gets all of them in every presentation, every time! I know no one else who does that. She brings new meaning to the words “UNIQUELY TALENTED”. Amanda has this uncanny ability to take the hardest, most complex issues and present them in the simplest, easy to understand manner that makes it possible for every one to “get it”. Of the many things that I have observed and admired for years, the thing that stands out in my mind that Amanda does at a level I have not seen any one do, is that she will put a very challenging idea or request out to the room, she reads the response and then starts enunciating the objecting thoughts that are going through the minds of the audience. That is, she verbalises the audience mind chatter and you can watch the audience nodding their head and smiling, confirming that she has caught them out and the audience laughs at itself and then does exactly what she asks them to do. Absolutely remarkable! Amanda Gore is truly, in my mind the Presenter’s Presenter, a master at her craft and a very special and gifted human being who transforms people’s lives for ever. Her presentations last an hour, the effect lasts a life time.

Amanda has spoken at one of our major client functions as a key note speaker, and I have also been to other industry conferences where she has presented. Amanda is without doubt one of the best motivational speakers out there. She is very humorous and entertaining, and combines great structure and content, with memorable take home messages during her presentations. Our clients laughed very hard for the entire session, but also took a lot away from it personally, both from a workplace and relationship/life balance perspective. They are still talking about it. A person with great vitality, wit and knowledge, perfect for any type of conference or team building exersize, I highly recommend Amanda. .

Amanda's enthusiastic, energetic and optimistic approach to life is contagious. At the end of her presentation to our 80+ team of leaders there was a real buzz that lasted for the rest of the day and everyone was talking about how much they enjoyed the presentation. There were many Ta Daaa's and We'll Done - Excellent" comments made and I'm sure a lot of joy will be spread around the office for many years to come. I would highly recommend Amanda to any organisation looking for ways to improve workplace engagement and help their employees to approach both work and life in a more positive and joyful way.

I first heard Amanda speaking at a Conference when I was at the Flight Centre and when I heard she was to be a speaker a couple of years later at a Financial Conference I just knew I had to be there! More recently I heard Amanda talking to a group at the Knowledge Gym in Christchurch...and I knew again I was not going to miss it, come what may! And once again Amanda fullfilled my expectations. She had the crowd in her hands...she's full of fun and knowledge, has a wonderful way of putting across her message and breaks down people's barriers. Be prepared to be on a buzz, smile all day and to remember for years to come. ZOOTS to you (you need to listen to Amanda speak to understand).

I highly recommend Amanda. At our speaker event in Invercargill - New Zealand she had high energy, enthusiasm, inspiration and provided us with a lots of laughs. Years later, we still celebrate our "ta da" moments and remember your key messages - thank you Amanda - you are an amazing lady!

We recently had Amanda deliver a keynote at our end-of-year event, and she was outstanding. Amanda has an incredible gift for bringing energy and laughter into the room, creating an atmosphere that was both engaging and uplifting. The impact of her presentation was felt enormously. Her messages of connection and joy will continue to resonate throughout our organisation for years to come. Thank you Amanda!

Amanda was a motivational guest speaker at our National Administrative Operations Conference in our general session. Her sense of humor, props and topics of discussion had 500 people engaged from the start to finish. Till this day, 7 years later I use her props and inspiration to keep work fun and positive! A must see!

Thanks Amanda for making our Hobart Conference such a fantastic success. Once again you demonstrated your fantastic ability to engage, excite and ignite the audience. Everyone came out of your session on an absolute high - and this didn't just apply to our staff members, but also their partners! The room was just abuzz with energy! The fantastic message you delivered in the "Amanda" style was just the perfect keynote address and finale to our conference. We're still getting feedback about your session - it certainly has left an indelible impression on all our delegates.

Thank you for the most phenomenal session our conference has ever experienced! Amanda was Superb! Our conference attendees were singing her praises and using her techniques throughout the remainder of the conference, which was another 3 days.

Last night at our board meeting, each of our departments reported our status from summer to present. The first thing out of the Director of Maintenance's mouth was how appreciative he and his guys (and ladies) were for ‘The Speaker’ at the beginning of the year. (We say that like we say ‘The Pope’ or ‘The President’ here... LOL). Anyway, he concluded his report with how much he appreciated what Ms. Gore did for his department and the guys just wanted to say thanks. It was so AWESOME!

I don’t think the impact you have had on our organisation can be measured in any formal way. There are no metrics. It’s in the hearts of those who met you and the majority of them are still with us and waiting for you to come back to do ‘Amanda, The Sequel.’

You'll be very pleased to know that your wonderful gestures and sayings have really caught on in my own department. I also overheard someone else ask the other ‘What's the Best Thing that's Happened to You Today!’ and they are all learning to ‘Build a Bridge and Get Over It’ when things happen and there's no sense in holding onto it! I'm sure the same thing is going on in our sales offices across the US! You are a gift that keeps on giving! You were right...it has given them another language to use that connects them and puts laughter back into the workplace!

I had a workshop straight after the breakfast with some of our Statewide senior directors and the feedback was fantastic. One I have to share - we have this very cynical senior leader that had a powerpoint presentation to do - and he kept doing ‘tada’ throughout. At the end he was zooting everyone!! So in a nutshell, I think you made a positive impact in fact I KNOW YOU DID.

I can say unequivocally that as a result of your presentation, our people are not blaming others for this market; they’re dealing with adversity the only way they can … with grit, determination, clear goals, daily work activities … and a good sense of humor. Thanks for helping us all press our internal GO buttons!

If the ever was a time for me to take a Ta Da its now, and your presentation was definitely a crowning moment of our conference. The messages you hit were perfect, and I cannot believe the changes I am seeing in the membership and our team. One of my staff dropped into a pharmacy yesterday afternoon to find the Pharmacist in floppy ears and the retail manager wearing the perky version. Who would ever believe it!

Your presentation to our group was absolutely fantastic, and the background chatter about Wellness still echoes around the walls. The feedback from many of the delegates has been absolutely overwhelming. In choosing the theme, I simply thought that it was very important to all of us - and for such an important theme we simply needed to have the very best presenter available.

Amanda is the consummate professional, uniquely equipped to capture an audience's attention, motivate change and lift their spirits. Having hired Amanda to open the National Convention of Australia's third largest real estate network, our members can't stop talking about her. They've adopted her turns of phrase, engaged in further discussion with each other using social media and are out there making a difference. What more could we hope for? Thank you Amanda. You lift our spirits and make our hearts sing!

Amanda provides thought provoking content and important self-care strategies, delivered in a way that the audience finds hilarious. I have seen Amanda speak three times now, and have engaged her to speak twice - all three times she had the audience in fits of laughter, and even provoked some tears. Amanda is intent on tailoring the session to her audience and will speak with you several times in the lead up to her speaking engagement. The participants loved that Amanda made references to things that were relevant to their profession. The ramifications of Amanda's keynotes have been very visible to me, even months later participants are still referring to the self-care strategies Amanda introduced and are still celebrating small achievements with a ‘Ta-da!’

Where do you start to talk about Amanda - you can start at the beginning or at the end or somewhere in between? No matter what you decide, the experience is exciting, inviting, inspiring, interesting and different that anything else you would have done before. If you want your people to think anything but seriously about change and culture, in a way that will deliver results, you have found your inspiration with Amanda.