Biography
A communications and performance expert, Amanda Gore Keynote speaker and CEO of The Joy Project, uses latest research in neuroscience, positive psychology, epigenetics, and emotional intelligence, to help business leaders achieve the results they need by getting people engaged in, enthusiastic about and aligned with conference and corporate goals and vision. Amanda will help you to create joyful workplaces that lead to better performance.
The Harvard business review is entitled "The Value of Happiness - how employee well being drives profits". It is the latest focus for corporations and countries worldwide - how to create flourishing workplaces.
If you want better leadership, change management, team performance, customer service, sales or bottom line, Amanda focuses on how to change people's behaviours, how to create environments in which people can be the best they can be and how to help people believe in themselves.
This is presented in an entertaining way that has the whole group interacting and involved. Amanda will create an experience and skill base that changes the whole group dynamics of your conference, and which people will remember for years.
For too long business has been paralyzed by it’s over analysis of data. People are 80% emotional and 20% rational - if we want them to change we have to tell them stories that touch their hearts! Facts and figures don't work - as Lou Gerstner found out as he turned IBM around.
Amanda will help people reconnect to what really matters - the energy and emotional layers that really drive performance, innovation, relationships, engagement and creativity in business and life.
Within a few short minutes, Amanda breaks down the barriers that separate people, and from that moment forward it’s a fun, invigorating, action packed ride towards self-discovery and ultimately, real and lasting change. Through funny, energizing presentations, based on decades of scientific discovery and personal experience,
Amanda believes success in business is always about feelings - the way we feel about ourselves, something or someone determines how we behave - and whether we do business with them or not - and the way we interact.
Our perceptions determine our feelings, which directly affect our behaviour. Until we change our perceptions, we won’t change our behaviour.
Amanda changes perceptions… and feelings.
Author of five books and several DVD and audio training programs, She devotes two months of every year researching and developing new material and keeping up to date in her fields of expertise in neuroscience, leadership, resilience, group dynamics and stress management.
Testimonials
Amanda had everyone on their feet and was the perfect way to kick off the start of our event - We will definitely have Amanda again in 2020 - The guests have raved about Amanda non-stop she absolutely brought to our event an injection of energy that set the tone for our event.
Easy Weddings
We could not have asked for a better closing keynote. There was so much laughter coming from the audience and Amanda had great engagement. To close the conference with 300 delegates singing and dancing was sensational.
Australian Bookkeepers Network Pty. Ltd.
When Amanda Gore was suggested as a speaker for our sales meeting, I had serious doubts. What could a woman with a physiotherapy background do with a male-dominated, demoralized, fragmented capital equipment sales team coming off a bruising competitive year?... We’ve used every type of speaker in the past, from star athletes to big-name motivational speakers. Inch for inch, pound for pound and dollar for dollar, Amanda Gore was the best speaking investment we ever made!
CEO
Hobart Kitchen
Amanda Gore was an inspiring, uplifting, informative delight that our members were discussing the entire remainder of the meeting. I cannot impress upon you enough how well she was received. Amanda’s presentation was the most audience - inspiring performance we have ever witnessed. I would extend my highest recommendation to Amanda Gore.
Executive Director
Aluminium Extruders Council
Meeting planners have to ask themselves if the speaker that they are looking to hire is worth what they paid. I am here to tell any meeting planner who wants to know, the answer is YES. Amanda is worth every penny and about $60,000 more! I have hired speakers who charge $40,000 and more and they did not leave the audience with a fraction of what Amanda did.
Business and Professional Women USA
You made such a difference. I spent most of this week out visiting the branches. Wow - it’s catching on! Everyone is using the tools you gave them. I make financial decisions every day about how to use our budget wisely. You were the best investment we have made yet. We will earn ‘dividends’ for a long time.
VP Wells Fargo Bank
Amanda Gore is without question the best investment our organization has made in the last few years, and her message helped connect all attendees with the vision of our hospital. She has an inherent ability to reach a wide variety of people, and this has had a profound impact on the culture of our hospital. We literally had employees wanting to attend her session on all three available days, as many of them said that Amanda’s session was the best thing they had ever attended.
SSM Health Care
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.
American Association of Diabetes Educators
I was lucky enough to experience Amanda at a conference I attended back in 1989 when I first started working in the media industry more than 20 years ago. She blew me away and since then has been one of the most memorable speakers I have seen to date (and yes I have seen a lot!). When I was charged with finding a keynote speaker for the Media Sales Summit I knew I had to track her down. And that I did. The group was a tough, cynical bunch, feeling a bit jaded with the plethora of conferences on at the time. I watched her shine as she brought them back to what really mattered, JOY. We had so much fun and through it learnt more about life and what it really is all about. Thank you Amanda, as always you are a much-needed STAR in this ever-changing world of ours. With Gratitude.
THINK SAY DO Corporate Training
As co-creator of the Conscious Club we have had some of the world's great orators grace our stage. Amanda Gore is easily one of the most talented and charismatic speakers I've seen. She is truly captivating and delivers a profound message that is marries leading edge scientific research, comic genius and crowd participation like you've not encountered before. I can't recommend her talents highly enough. Amanda is a national treasure!
The Conscious Club
I have worked with Amanda twice to have her speak at my Women in Technology conferences. She always gets the audiences laughing and yet she delivers an important message that make you more aware around interactions / communications both professionally and personally. She is a real pleasure to work with and graciously spent time with our audience after our event and I would highly recommend her as a speaker at any event!
Juniper Networks
Pure passion! Talk about an individual who gets her audience involved from the moment she arrives on stage! We have had her at our organizations convention two times now and people are still talking about her! This firecracker has 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!
Director Of Training
Express Employment Professionals
Amanda Gore, you are an inspiration! Verosol has never had a sales conference like this one. Despite all of the laughs, and metaphors, your messages were very clear and hard hitting. Success in business is strongly influenced by people and how they interact together. Amanda, your session set the scene for one of the most successful conferences we have ever had. Thank you so much.
Managing Director
Verosol (Aust) Pty Ltd
Yes, its sometimes tough measuring ROI on attitude and behavior. Please feel free to have any client call me and I'll be glad to talk with them regarding the impact that you had on us. There are many things that we still embrace of yours. Our employees seemed to (and continue to) take life a bit easier, not stress so much and enjoy their jobs.
Travis Credit Union
Amanda Gore is SENSATIONAL. Watching her wave her wand of magic across the whole conference room… positively igniting an energy of laughter and happiness is nothing short of miraculous. Amanda is the consummate professional – you absolutely know her presentation will be the showstopper for the event! And she is…. Every single time!
Conference Business Manager
Amanda’s session lifted the mood and left attendees energized to a point that they were literally singing and dancing in the aisles. We were greatly impressed by Amanda’s preparation and the effort she put in to understanding our business in order to adapt her presentation to suit our audience.
CEO, Hotondo Homes
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.
Nexstar
Audiences who heard Amanda more than 2 years ago...still talk about her and use principles from her presentations.
Sonic Corporation
Thank you for enabling a team building event to culminate in a group of people who were just beginning to warm up to one another, walking out of the room really caring for each other.
Director Organizational Development
GlaxoSmithKlein
What a delightfully refreshing talk you gave to our members last week. It is a long while since the hallowed halls of the Reserve Bank echoed to the laughter and experienced high jinks you brought forth from those present. You showed us highly sedentary bankers how to improve our health, appearance and mental outlook without necessarily becoming fitness fanatics.
Australian Institute of Bankers Inc.
... Every conference needs a session where people can laugh, have fun and learn at the same time. It was extraordinary and you were sensational.
Kwik Kopy Australia
... My sales force came away feeling better about themselves and well equipped to stay that way. Judging by the improvement in morale (and sales) this is proving to be good for business too.
Imagineering Australia Pty Ltd
.... Only one word can describe your presentation - WONDERFUL! You certainly are a true professional.
Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Australia
... Everyone's still talking about you and your message.... and practising it!" Esso Australia Ltd ".... Your presentation was the highlight of our seminar. I only regret that we did not have more time with you.
Australian Dental Association Inc.
Thankyou for the fantastic job you did as guest speaker. The feedback from the attendees was overwhelming.
Friends Provident
... I always learn from my time with you. Your energetic and committed approach energises me. Without fail, everyone commented on the value of this morning and wished they could have spent more time with you.
IBM Australia Ltd
... The comments from our staff that attended are so positive and glowing. Your skills and enthusiasm have been infectious for those involved and also beyond to their colleagues who did not even attend personally!
Illawarra Credit Union
Amanda Gore has a great message, one that RESONTED loudly with our audience, Terrific, Great and Awesome
Salesfest
A Sunday morning presentation immediately following a really big Saturday evening function is a tough gig at the best of times. Amanda Gore thoroughly invigorated all 450 attendees with her lively and spirited presentation setting the tone for the remainder of the day. Amanda, taunts her audience into submission in the nicest ways leaving them much more aware of the impact they have on people around them. Great value. I would confidently recommend Amanda to any conference organiser looking for a big lift for their audience
Eyecare Plus
Amanda always gets the audience engaged in her presentation … its thought provoking and requires active participation. The message she imparts sells the benefits of a happy work place and one that seeks to constantly improve by engaging with its people
SA Ambulance Service
