Energetic. Educational. Inspiring. International Award-Winning Speaker on leadership, innovation & sales, AmyK shares how brilliant leaders get behaviors that drive businesses forward faster.

A former executive of a billion dollar global consumer products company and awarded the Vistage UK, International Speaker of the Year, (World’s Leading CEO Membership Organization) AmyK is a dynamic, energetic catalyst for driving businesses forward faster. With 100+ presentations per year, AmyK travels the globe sharing with executives, influencers and go-getters HOW to confidently & competently navigate their toughest conversations without saying something they regret, giving their power away or damaging their relationships. With humor, insight and experience she engages and inspires audiences to master The Power of Profitable Conversations.

With clients including The Home Depot, Starbucks Canada, AT&T, Expedia, Lockheed Martin, Securian Financial, IBM, Wells Fargo, Walmart, John Paul Mitchell Systems and hundreds more, AmyK travels the world helping senior executives lead and collaborate more effectively. On stage, AmyK is captivating in her humorous and relevant storytelling sharing practical, actionable tools for audiences to sustain a long-term ROI. Off stage, AmyK is for realz: approachable, down-to-earth and irreverent.

Fascinated by how the brain processes information and influences our behavior, AmyK developed simple & profound tools to help leaders raise the level of critical thinking, problem-solving and engagement with their teams. The result: tremendous buy-in for co-creating a more profitable future.

AmyK is a featured contributor for Entrepreneur magazine, and her latest book, The Secrets Leaders Keep, is an Amazon bestseller. AmyK received her M.S. from Johns Hopkins University, and has been a featured guest on numerous TV, print and radio networks including Bloomberg, USA Today, Inc., NBC, Fox and ABC for her brain-based commentary on business challenges and current events.

PROGRAM INFORMATION

THE POWER OF PROFITABLE CONVERSATIONS: LEADERSHIP
Format: 60-90 Minute Keynote

This program is perfect for:

Senior Executives
Mid-Tier Managers
Emerging Leaders
Any Leader Seeking Greater Buy-in, Engagement & Productivity from Their Teams
The audience will leave with:

Actionable Tools to Raise the Quality of Team Meetings
Actionable Tools to Facilitate Better Problem-Solving
The 2 Critical Elements Leaders Must “Sell” Each & Every Day
The 6 Questions Leaders Must Ask to Best Influence & Foster Productive Behaviors
How to Attract & Retain Top Talent
The 5 Questions that Drive a Healthy, High-Performing Culture
How to Avoid the Unintended Consequences & Pitfalls of Fast-Paced Growth
In this compelling and energetic program, leaders will be inspired and equipped to raise the performance & productivity of their teams. Through humor, insight and experience, AmyK provides real-world, straightforward tools that have immediate practical applications. AmyK shares with leaders how to ignite and harness the brilliance in teams in order to create unprecedented competitive advantages that will drive businesses forward faster.

THE POWER OF PROFITABLE CONVERSATIONS: CREATIVITY & INNOVATION
Format: ​60-90 Minute Keynote

This program is perfect for:

​Senior Executives
Mid-Tier Managers
Emerging Leaders 
Any Leader Seeking Brilliant Ideas & Solutions from Their Teams
The audience will leave with:

How to Overcome Barriers & Obstacles to Act on New Opportunities
How to Position Teams to Turn Disruption & Change into Competitive Advantages
A Tried, Tested and Proven Creativity & Innovation Model
Exercises for Each of the 5 Stages in the Model from Ideation to Going-to-Market
Greater Insight & Understanding on How Culture Influences Creativity & Innovation
The 9 Must-Have Elements for Driving & Sustaining an Innovative Culture
The Requisite Questions Leaders Must Ask to Propel Innovative Thinking
How to Cultivate the Mindset of an Innovative Leader
It’s time to THINK DIFFERENTLY! Does your company have the right skills to take on tomorrow? Do your people possess the behaviors necessary to create a culture that fosters innovation and generates long-term growth? What’s the secret to getting your next great idea?

In this provocative and eye-opening presentation, AmyK shares how to generate more creative ideas and how to take these ideas to market…fast!  Invite AmyK to deliver this highly interactive and engaging program and take a refreshing plunge into the boundless waters of Big Thinking.

THE POWER OF PROFITABLE CONVERSATIONS: SALES
Format: ​60-90 Minute Keynote

This program is perfect for:

​Senior Executives
Mid-Tier Managers
Emerging Sales Leaders 
Woolly Mammoth Hunters & Killers
Any Organization Seeking More Closed Deals & Greater Profits
The audience will leave with:

The #1 Most Effective Sales Conversation Framework
The 4 Mind Traits We All Share & How They Influence the Outcome of a Sale
The 5 Best Questions to Close Faster
The 4 Questions Every Prospect Must Be Asked Before You Ask Them to Sign
The 4 Most Profitable Messaging Techniques – Buying and Selling Styles
How to Create Thirsty Customers
8 Elements Your Elevator “Pitch” Should NOT Include
4 Elements Your Elevator “Connect” MUST Include
12 Critical Components for Every Sales Presentation
The Art and Science of Handling Objections
Sales Strategy – the Science of Mini-Must-Wins
Critical sales opportunity in your future? AmyK can help. In this interactive, roll-up-your-sleeves program, AmyK introduces sales tools and demonstrates exactly how to use them so audiences can quickly acquire “close-it-yesterday” skillsets and processes for moving sales forward faster.

AmyK’s humor and wisdom will demystify some of the most challenging sales scenarios and will ignite even the most experienced team member to nod and note-take about something novel to put into practice.

Incorporating the latest brain research, AmyK’s high-energy, fun and insightful sales strategies will motivate and inspire your team to increase the effectiveness of their sales pipeline from lead generation to check received. Whether a seasoned sales professional or someone brand new to business development – every participant will leave fired up and ready to take action knowing that sales happens one conversation at a time and they control the quality of these conversations.

THE POWER OF PROFITABLE CONVERSATIONS: STORY [EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE]
Format: 60-90 Minute KeynoteThis program is perfect for:

Senior Executives
Mid-Tier Managers
Emerging Leaders
Any Leader Desiring to Live to Their Fullest Potential So They May Leave a Bigger, Better, Bolder Life’s Legacy
The audience will leave with:

How the Most Successful Leaders Define Happiness
#1 Tool for HOW to Change Your Attitude, Thoughts & Stories
Proof that Energy, Not Time, Separates the Good from the Great
4 of the Biggest Secrets Leaders Keep: Imposter Syndrome, Self-Criticism Fixation, Likeability Malady, Comparison Condition
How to More Effectively Manage & Navigate Change to Build Resiliency
How to Challenge & Break-Through Limiting Stories & Beliefs Which Truncate Potential
2 Insightful & Revealing Tools for Stronger Alignment Between Desires, Purpose & Decisions
2 Most Common Types of Pain Leaders Experience & How to Heal Them
2 of the Biggest Fears Every Leader Faces & How to Overcome Them
In this life-igniting, goose-pimple-raising keynote, AmyK shares insights and tools critical for leaders to successfully face and conquer their biggest fears and challenges.

With over twenty-years’ experience working intimately with executives as a business strategist, consultant & coach, AmyK knows the secrets leaders keep – what makes their stomachs turn, their palms sweat and the thoughts that cause them to toss & turn at 3am. With humor, wisdom and powerful stories, AmyK sheds light on the fears leaders face, shares practical steps for choosing and crafting stories that drive better behaviors and busts the myth that it’s lonely at the top.

Learning to be driven not by circumstances and reactions, but by the core desires of our essential self, AmyK’s easy-to-use assessments and tools will help leaders re-write their stories for healthier, happier endings and more profitable results… both personally & professionally.

An ideal kick-off or closing to your event, AmyK will leave participants feeling energized, inspired, hopeful and accountable to themselves for creating a more brilliant and significantly meaningful future.