Amy Eliza Wong: Leadership Strategist

Award-winning author, keynote speaker, and leadership strategist transforming communication, clarity, and connection for leaders worldwide.

Quick Facts:

Highlights:
  • Award-winning author, leadership strategist, and communication speaker
  • Helps organizations build cultures of collaboration + growth
  • Works with leaders and organizations to transform how they communicate, connect, and lead
  • Over two decades of expertise in Silicon Valley mentoring CEOs, founders, and teams at some of the world’s leading corporations, including LinkedIn, Salesforce, and Berkshire Hathaway


Formats Available: Keynote (45–60 min), executive workshops, leadership retreats, and team strategy sessions.

Preferred Audiences: Corporate leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, HR professionals, and teams seeking to improve communication, trust, and team alignment.

Outcomes:
  1. Apply the Spotlight Shift™ to move from self-focus to team-centered leadership.
  2. Master science-backed communication tools to build trust and connection.
  3. Break free from limiting beliefs and lead with clarity, empathy, and purpose.
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  • Travels from: San Francisco, California
  • **Fee range: $20,001 - $35,000

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Keynote Topics:

Turn every conversation into a catalyst for trust, alignment, and decisive action.

What if every status update, Slack ping, or hallway chat could double as rocket fuel for collaboration? Amy’s work reveals a powerful truth: culture scales or sputters, one conversation at a time. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, and decades of coaching global leaders, she illustrates how curiosity-driven dialogue unearths hidden insight, dissolves defensiveness, and forges fast trust.

Amy shows that consistent micro-shifts in language compound like interest, creating cultures where ideas travel faster than hierarchy.

This isn’t theoretical inspiration; it’s a practical, field-tested framework anyone can master. Her central insight is simple yet profound: when leaders learn to listen to connect (not to reply) and speak to serve (not to impress), every interaction becomes a force-multiplier for alignment and execution.

Key Takeaways:

  • Elevate Conversational IQ: Identify and neutralize reflexes that sabotage listening and trust.
  • Spark Rapid Alignment: Guide teams from “who said what” to “what are we building together.”
  • Activate Psychological Safety: Embed conversational norms that invite candor and multiply innovation.
  • Accelerate Execution: Create shared realities through conversationally intelligent dialogue and shorten feedback loops and reduce rework.
  • Scale a Culture of Influence: Equip leaders to model dialogue that inspires engagement beyond their direct reports.

Release the parking brake you didn’t even know was on.

What if the biggest brake on your organization’s potential is a single word hiding in plain sight? Amy exposes how “should” is a symptom of pervasive unnecessary resistance, suppressing experimentation, and fueling burnout. Through riveting stories, Amy demonstrates that deleting “should” isn’t semantic trivia; it’s a neurological upgrade.

By shifting from obligation (“I should finish this report”) to vision (“I choose to finish this report because …”), leaders trigger dopamine-rich motivation circuits that expand creative problem-solving, resilience, and greater well-being. These micro-shifts compound like interest, snowballing into cultures where people act from purpose, not pressure; where decisions are guided by core values, not outside expectations. The result? Higher engagement, faster execution, and a workplace that feels electrifying instead of exhausting.

Key takeaways:

  • Drop Unnecessary Resistance: Identify and replace language that triggers shame and stagnation and eats up valuable bandwidth.
  • Boost Creative Capacity: Free teams to experiment without the weight of unmet “shoulds.”
  • Make Values Visible: Anchor decisions to vision and purpose, driving clarity and speed.
  • Fuel Resilient Engagement: Convert external pressure into intrinsic motivation that lasts.
  • Scale Authentic Leadership: Model transparent, choice-driven approaches that cascade through the organization.

Shift the spotlight, claim your stance, and turn the impossible into actual.

What if every constraint your team feels is simply a mindset waiting to be reframed? Amy’s work proves that limitations evaporate when leaders redirect the “spotlight” of their attention from self-protection to shared purpose. She illustrates this through vivid stories of clients who moved from quiet burnout to record-breaking innovation. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, and systems thinking, Amy unpacks a repeatable framework for transforming inward-facing focus into productive, life-giving momentum.

With a simple flip of a switch, hesitation gives way to wise clarity and bold action. Her core insight is simple yet profound: deliberate and intentional focus fuels professional courage, which in turn drives organizational breakthroughs. When every individual shines their light of attention off of self and onto an intentional we-centric stance, collective potential multiplies exponentially and the impossible becomes the possible.

Key Takeaways:

  • Replace fear with ownership: Quiet the threat response so teams move from hesitation to decisive action.
  • Adopt the Spotlight Framework™: A repeatable, four-step method to align personal growth with organizational objectives.
  • Build trust that scales: Micro-habits that create psychological safety and dismantle silos.
  • Turn feedback into fuel: Language that reframes discomfort as data, accelerating innovation.
  • Ignite a culture of momentum: Align every spotlight on the same target, driving measurable gains in engagement, retention, and revenue.

Flip the fear of rejection, replace imposter syndrome with grounded confidence, and watch performance soar.

What if the #1 inhibitor to your organization’s momentum is a 200,000-year-old alarm system? Amy reveals how the brain’s ancient need for tribe approval influences our habits of perception, interpretation, and action. Disguising itself as perfectionism, over-preparation, or quiet compliance, the fear of rejection subtly hijacks today’s meetings, sales calls, and career moves. Through stories and neuroscience insights, she demonstrates that fear of rejection isn’t a flaw; it’s a feature we can work with.

By harnessing the power of focus, Amy equips audiences with a repeatable switch that converts anxiety into agency and confusion to clarity. Small mindset shifts compound like interest, creating cultures where feedback feels welcome, risk-taking feels obvious, and imposter syndrome becomes a thing of the past. Her message is this: once you truly understand the neurobiology of rejection, you don’t have to be a victim of its silent effects – courage becomes your default setting and extraordinary results follow.

Key Takeaways:

  • Convert Anxiety to Agency: Channel the rejection reflex into decisive, value-creating action.
  • Defeat Imposter Syndrome: Replace self-doubt with clarity, courage, and ownership.
  • Boost Psychological Safety: Model language that makes bold ideas and honest feedback the norm.
  • Accelerate Innovation: Free teams to test, learn, and iterate without fear of judgment or failure.
  • Scale Courageous Culture: Ensure every leader’s bravery cascades through their teams and across silos.

Talent Short Bio

Amy Eliza Wong is a globally recognized keynote speaker, award-winning author, and leadership strategist who helps leaders and teams unlock transformative clarity, trust, and alignment. With over 20 years in Silicon Valley and a unique background in mathematics, transpersonal psychology, and design thinking, Amy blends analytical rigor with deep human insight.

She has guided executives and organizations including LinkedIn, Salesforce, Berkshire Hathaway, and PwC through internal shifts that amplify leadership effectiveness and team performance. Certified in Conversational Intelligence® and a mindfulness meditation teacher through UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, Amy also teaches at Stanford Continuing Studies.

Her signature Spotlight Shift™ framework empowers leaders to move from self-focus to shared purpose, creating conversations that inspire connection, empathy, and innovation. Her bestselling book, Living on Purpose, has been featured in The New York Times, Fast Company, Forbes, and Psychology Today, providing science-backed tools to break free from limiting beliefs and lead with intention.

Audiences consistently leave her sessions equipped with actionable strategies to transform communication, strengthen trust, and lead with empathy in today’s fast-changing world.

Amy Eliza Wong is an award-winning author, keynote speaker, and leadership strategist who helps leaders unlock transformative clarity, trust, and alignment. With a background in transpersonal psychology, mathematics, and design thinking, and two decades in Silicon Valley, Amy brings a rare blend of analytical rigor and human insight to the stage.

Her early technical work in enterprise systems and innovation at IDEO laid the foundation for her current work: guiding CEOs, founders, and teams at LinkedIn, Salesforce, Berkshire Hathaway, and PwC through the internal shifts that lead to exceptional leadership. She teaches at Stanford Continuing Studies, is certified in Conversational Intelligence®, and is a mindfulness meditation teacher through the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley.

Amy’s frameworks reveal how communication isn’t just about what we say, it’s about how we focus, show up, and win together. Her signature Spotlight Shift™ helps leaders move from self-focus to shared purpose, turning everyday conversations into catalysts for connection and high performance. Amy Eliza Wong award-winning book, Living on Purpose, offers practical tools to break free from limiting habits and self-sabotage, and has been featured in The New York Times, Fast Company, Forbes, and Psychology Today.

Audiences walk away with science-backed insights and immediately applicable tools to shift team dynamics, lead with empathy, and amplify impact. Whether addressing a room of leaders or an entire organization, Amy Eliza Wong empowers people to stop surviving and start creating on purpose.

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Talent Videos

Amy Eliza Wong – Living on Purpose: The Spotlight Shift for Exceptional Leadership

Discover how shifting focus from self to shared purpose transforms communication, trust, and leadership impact.

Summary

Amy Eliza Wong explores how great leadership starts with clarity and conscious communication. Drawing from her Spotlight Shift™ framework, she shows how leaders can move away from ego-driven conversations and instead create environments of trust and connection. By applying tools from neuroscience, mindfulness, and design thinking, Amy helps leaders recognize limiting patterns and reframe them into opportunities for growth.

She emphasizes that leadership today is not about titles or authority but about empathy, presence, and the ability to inspire collective purpose. Her approach is both deeply practical and inspiring, leaving audiences with a renewed sense of agency to stop reacting and start creating on purpose.

Key Moments

0:00 – Introduction: Why clarity and connection matter in leadership.
1:20 – The Spotlight Shift™: moving from self-focus to shared purpose.
3:15 – Breaking free from limiting beliefs and habits.
5:00 – Tools for building trust and psychological safety in teams.
7:00 – Leading with empathy and intentional communication.
9:00 – Closing: Living and leading on purpose.

Amy Eliza Wong shares transformative insights on clarity, connection, and conscious choice, showing leaders how to replace fear with trust and create impact-driven conversations.

Summary

In this keynote, Amy Eliza Wong explores how living “on purpose” begins with shifting our internal focus. She explains that most of us default to survival instincts — worrying about image, likability, or being right — but these habits often block authentic connection and growth. Wong emphasizes that clarity comes not from controlling circumstances but from choosing how we engage with them.

She introduces her signature concept, the Spotlight Shift™, which teaches leaders to redirect their mental “headlights” away from themselves and toward others. Instead of being consumed with self-focus, leaders can shine attention on connection, growth, and impact. This shift, she explains, is the foundation of psychological safety, innovation, and collaboration.

Wong stresses that conversation is the most powerful tool for transformation, yet it is also the most misunderstood. Breakdowns in marriages, meetings, or workplace teams rarely stem from malice; they arise because people assume understanding where none exists. By listening to connect rather than listening to reply, leaders create a climate of trust that encourages better questions, shared discovery, and innovation.

She also addresses the human fear of rejection, explaining that it is deeply wired into our biology. While we cannot erase this instinct, we can consciously choose not to let it control us. By intentionally selecting objectives like connection over protection, leaders unlock their ability to inspire alignment and unleash collective intelligence.

The keynote concludes with an invitation: reflect on the conversations you may be avoiding due to fear. With the right awareness and tools, these difficult discussions can shift from intimidating to inevitable — and in that shift, both leaders and teams find their power.

Key Moments

00:00 – Introduction to living on purpose.
01:15 – Why misunderstandings derail conversations.
03:00 – Fear of rejection and the survival brain.
05:20 – The Spotlight Shift™: redirecting focus outward.
08:05 – Listening to connect vs. listening to reply.
10:30 – How connection creates better questions and innovation.
12:50 – Choosing impact, trust, and growth over fear.
15:10 – Closing challenge: reframe avoided conversations.

Talent FAQ's

A: Leadership communication, purpose-driven performance, trust-building, team alignment, and breaking through limiting beliefs.

A: Yes. Amy works closely with organizers to tailor her frameworks and stories to each audience’s challenges and goals.

A: Absolutely. She leads workshops, executive off-sites, and immersive retreats that provide deeper application of her frameworks.

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