Communications and performance expert — one of four international speakers inducted into the US Speaker Hall of Fame
Amanda Gore is a communications and performance expert with over two decades of experience helping organisations create cultures of joy and engagement. One of four Australians inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame in the USA, she has worked with organisations including McDonald's, Westpac, AMP, Flight Centre, Google, Disney, Hilton, and the Million Dollar Round Table. Her work is grounded in the science of neuroscience, epigenetics, and emotional intelligence, translated into practical tools that audiences can act on the same day.
Amanda's central premise — that everything in business is about feelings — shapes an approach that is deliberately different from conventional leadership or performance speaking. She argues that the way people feel about themselves, their organisation, and their colleagues determines how they behave, how they spend their time and money, and whether they are willing to change. Her sessions are designed to create an environment in which people genuinely want to shift, rather than simply being told to. That distinction, between compelling people to change and leading them to want it, runs through all of her keynotes, which blend the latest science of stress, positive psychology, and growth mindset with storytelling and substantial humour.
Amanda is the right choice for conferences where the brief is to re-energise a team, shift culture, or address burnout and disengagement. Her sessions are highly tailorable and cover leadership, team performance, sales, resilience, workplace culture, change management, and emotional intelligence — she has delivered for sales conferences, leadership forums, health sector events, and annual company gatherings.
Amanda Gore is a keynote speaker based overseas who speaks on business strategy, leadership and mental health & wellbeing. Book through Executive Speakers Australia.
You were born with the capacity for joy! Science shows us that by the time you were 7, your pure ‘operating system’ of love and joy was infected with viruses, malware, apps and other people’s programs! Joy at work boosts sales by 37%, increases productivity 31%, reduces errors 18%, burnout 125% and boosts chances of promotion 40%. Joy matters!
Your brain can be rewired for joy. This session teaches you how. It includes how to stop stress killing you; how to be resilient; how to be your best version; how to re-focus on what matters, and take responsibility for your choices and behaviour!
Everything in business is about feelings. Trust, empathy, confidence, cooperation, collaboration, leadership, responses to change - these are just some of the elements (feelings) that create a great culture and team.
This keynote is aimed at helping people feel good about themselves - which changes the way they interact with everyone else - colleagues, clients and family.
Amanda Gore presents profound concepts, in an entertaining way that changes people's perceptions of themselves and others, engages and energises and gives them specific strategies to bust stress, lead more effectively, fear less, deal with change and collaborate effectively.
Amanda will cover the latest new sciences of stress, epigenetics, emotional intelligence and neuroscience - which will not only show you how to reduce the impact of stress, but also how to change your reactions to it permanently!
People have not fundamentally changed for a thousand years but science has. The 'operating system' of a human is not binary based! It's more like quantum computing and runs on feelings. Learn new, neuroscience based practical skills and strategies to re-engage your sales force in a way that leaves everyone feeling recharged and resilient.
Using Amanda Gore's signature experience creating, humour loaded yet fact filled style, people will walk away thinking differently about sales and how they interact with others.
Transforming sales results begins with transforming our thinking, perceptions, actions and choices. Knowing precise ways to interact with others to prove that we are competent, trustworthy and safe (a feeling) is required for top performance.
Learn new, science-based ways to:
• Be resilient and keep yourself motivated and enthusiastic
• Develop a modern sales mindset
• See customers as partners in business
• Listen properly (hardly anyone does)
Connect non verbally (instantly)
• Establish life long relationships (in a short time) that create advocates not just customers
Did you know that science shows us 95-99% of the time we are literally UN-conscious of our thinking and beliefs? Only 5% of the time are we present and really aware of what is going on inside us! The stories we tell ourselves i.e. what we are thinking literally creates our life, performance and relationships. This session teaches how to change your thinking/story - which changes the life you create - at work and home!
The major disruptor to collaborative teams, joy filled workplaces and high performance sales and service is ‘stinking thinkin’ as Zig Ziglar used to say! One energy sucker will bring the whole group down.
Beliefs, the stories we tell themselves about ourselves, our colleagues, customers, bosses and the company determines our feelings and behaviour. Our beliefs control our nonverbal communication which affect all relationships. Our beliefs determine the culture we create around us and the unconscious choices we are making every moment.
It's time to remember we control our thinking and we choose to make conscious choices or not.
This session can change perceptions, relationships, personal accountability, enthusiasm, engagement, energy and culture.
But wait - there’s more! It can also help people adopt a more positive approach to change. While they laugh.
You are not your mindset - but your mindset creates your life!
Understanding mindsets and mindfulness literally changes your brain and improves performance, leadership, decision making, creativity; reduces anxiety, stress, depression and reactivity; they increase energy, wellbeing and makes you happier. This session will show you simple ways to stop being mindless, be more present, more effective - and more joyful!
Being mindful is ‘waking up’ - about becoming more conscious - and living more consciously - which is one of Amanda Gore's core themes. Most of us are running on habits and patterns of thinking from our past! We don’t even know those patterns are subconsciously programming our present.
Think driving a car. How mindful were you in your first few lessons? Now, how often do you arrive home and you don’t even know how you got there - yet you were driving the car! This is a common theme with anything we learn - we are mindful in the beginning and then we become mindless!
The difference between a growth mindset and a fixed one is the difference between a joyful life and a stressed, unhappy one; between a joyful team and a dysfunctional one; a great culture or a toxic one.
Here are 3 things you can do to be mindful not mindless.
• Observe your thinking!
• Question rather than assume!
• Reframe and find gratitude.
As you may have read above, new research shows us what we believe about stress decides if our bodies react negatively or not.
Our perceptions rule our reality and in part, create our environment. How we think about life balance also determines the physiological and psychological impact.
The Joy Formula is a simple and easy way to review important aspects of our lives and become aware of imbalances that then allows us to make a plan to improve that balance - or at least, make us feel we have a sense of control over our lives!
'Busy-ness’ is the new ‘disease’ impacting almost everyone. Rushing and having the perception (and reality) of ‘too much to do’ can destroy mental clarity and physical health. Constant social media comparisons and addictions don't help.
Understanding the 3 possible stress responses and channelling them in the right way changes everything! How we feel, how we respond to those events and how others in turn respond or react.
Amanda Gore will discuss The Life Pizza which is a simple and easy way to review important aspects of our lives and become aware of imbalances in areas that are most important to us, and what areas we put most of our attention on - which then allows us to make a plan to improve that balance.
This is an engaging experience that sends people out of the room laughing and determined to balance their 'life pizza’!
Change and stress go hand in hand. Participants will learn about how the brain actually can and does change (neuroplasticity); that adults can learn more quickly than children; and that our brains need change to stay vibrant and alert. This session will transform the way people perceive change. Instead of being a stressor – Amanda Gore will demonstrate how change can be welcomed as an opportunity to grow and develop.
This is a fun session designed to:
• Address today’s tough economic climate
• Put things in perspective and;
• Have people refocus on what’s important.
Do you wonder if the opposite sex really does come from another planet? Are you frustrated because you have no idea how your partner thinks and there is no logic to what they say or do? Do you just wish they were just more like you?!
Amanda Gore will show you how to bridge the communication gaps between men and women - without wanting to slap them! Using science, experience and her mother's wisdom, Amanda will give you strategies that work - and make you laugh!
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system, which doesn’t sound relevant to leadership – but as leaders and team members are humans, our nervous systems control pretty much everything in our bodies, so linking the two is important!
A leader's job is three fold; to create an environment in which people can be the best they can be (linked to the nervous system which affects performance, creativity, innovation and happiness); to help people believe in themselves and to change people’s behaviour (and yes, neuroscience shows us it’s possible).
We might think the nervous system is just the brain – but the heart and stomach have millions of ‘brain’ cells (neurons) in them – so you ‘think’ and feel with your heart and gut as well! All leadership – or sales or customer service or teamwork or culture – is based on feelings. How you feel about yourself…and how you make others feel.
This session blends latest findings in neuroscience, epigenetics, emotional intelligence, positive psychology and some common sense in a really funny way – we promise you will laugh! But wait, there’s more, it is full of relevant information and skills that will help you be a better leader – whether that role is part of your title or not!
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.Million Dollar Round Table
Amanda was the most dynamic and insightful relationship speaker I've either hired or listened to. I would not have our first meeting of the Northeast Consulting Partners at Deloitte without her. We changed our dates so she could be with us.Deloitte USA
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.Westpac Group
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