ABOUT AMY
I spent more than two decades learning how people perform under pressure. Then life forced me to ask a different question: What allows us to sustain it?
I'm Amy Leigh Looper, Founder of Resilient Growth™, keynote speaker, coach, enterprise sales leader, author, mom of two, and woman of faith.
For more than 20 years, I worked inside high-pressure enterprise environments where performance was measurable, expectations were high, and results mattered.
I became a 5× President's Club performer, contributed to more than $50M in career enterprise revenue, coached founders through Harvard Business School, and worked with leaders and teams navigating growth, change, and demanding performance expectations.
I learned a lot about what drives performance.
But eventually, both my professional experience and major disruption in my personal life led me to a different question:
What allows capable people to remain effective when the pressure doesn't let up?
Because I had seen the other side of high performance too.
Talented people pushing through exhaustion. Leaders carrying more because everyone knew they could. Sellers losing access to good judgment when the quarter got tight. Women becoming exceptionally successful while slowly disconnecting from themselves.
I had experienced some of those patterns myself.
And I began to understand that the ability to tolerate more pressure isn't necessarily resilience.
Sometimes it's simply becoming very good at overriding yourself.
That realization changed the direction of my work.
HUMAN PERFORMANCE UNDER PRESSURE
Today, my work explores what happens to our judgment, confidence, relationships, decision-making, and capacity under sustained pressure—and what allows people to remain effective without burning themselves out in the process.
I bring together three perspectives that don't often live in the same room:
Commercial performance.
More than two decades inside complex enterprise sales and high-performance business environments.
Human behavior and resilience.
Training in trauma-informed resilience, coaching, and the behavioral patterns that influence how people respond under pressure.
Lived experience.
My own experience navigating burnout, major personal disruption, and the process of rebuilding capacity and self-trust.
Together, those perspectives became the foundation for Resilient Growth™ and my work across speaking, leadership development, sales enablement, and coaching.
My goal isn't to teach people how to tolerate more.
It's to help people build the capacity to remain clear, connected, adaptable, and effective when pressure rises.
CREDENTIALS AT A GLANCE
5× President's Club enterprise sales performer
$50M+ in career enterprise revenue contributed
Harvard Business School Sales Coach
Founder, Resilient Growth™
Certified Trauma & Resilience Coach — Arizona Trauma Institute
Executive peer-group facilitator
Keynote speaker and workshop facilitator
Author, Leading Motherhood
100+ leaders and professionals coached and developed
Mom of two
ONE BODY OF WORK. MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS.
Through speaking, I challenge how audiences think about burnout, resilience, self-trust, and performance under pressure.
Through leadership development, I help organizations develop leaders capable of navigating pressure, uncertainty, and change.
Through sales enablement, I bring more than two decades of enterprise selling experience to the skills, coaching, and systems behind complex revenue performance.
Through Reclaim Coaching, I help high-achieving women recover from burnout, rebuild self-trust, and stop losing themselves in the pursuit of success.
Different audiences. Different applications.
One question continues to drive the work: How do we perform at our best without losing ourselves in the process?
