Your best people are burning out.
Amy Leigh Looper shows them how to perform sustainably and thrive through pressure, uncertainty, and change.
Amy brings 20+ years of executive sales leadership, a resilience-coaching certification, and the kind of lived authority that only comes from having been through the fire and choosing to lead anyway.
Every session is rooted in performance research and resilience science. Your audience won't just feel inspired, they'll leave with tools they can use before the week is out.
The Real Issue: Your highest performers are not struggling because they are weak. They are struggling because nobody taught them how to sustain it.
The people on your team who look the most capable are often the ones running on fumes. They say yes when they are already depleted. They shrink in rooms they have earned. They perform under pressure while quietly falling apart and they do not say a word about it until they are gone.
This is not just a wellness problem. Sometimes it's individual. Just as often, it's systemic built into how growth, quotas, and promotion get structured in the first place. Either way, it's costing your organization in retention, revenue, and leadership capacity every single day.
Amy's keynotes name what is actually happening at the individual and organizational level and give your people the science-backed tools to change it. Not theory. Not inspiration. A framework they will still be using six months after the event.
Keynote Topics
3 Talks, 1 Consistent Message
The patterns holding high performers back burnout, self-doubt, unsustainable pressure are not character flaws. They're survival strategies, and they can be unlearned.
Women in Leadership:
You Earned This Room: Leading with Unshakeable Authority
She prepared twice as hard to get half the credit. This session does not teach women to play the game better It dismantles the belief that they were ever the problem.
For the woman who has fought her way into high-stakes rooms and still questions whether she truly belongs there. She has been talked over, looked past, and underestimated by people she has long since outgrown. And still every morning she walks into that room and proves herself all over again.
This is not a session about tactics. It is a session about identity. When a woman stops performing confidence and starts owning it everything in that room changes.
YOUR AUDIENCE WILL LEAVE KNOWING HOW TO:
Recognize how shrinking shows up in high-stakes rooms and interrupt it in real time
Reclaim credit for their ideas with language that is direct, confident, and professionally unassailable
Build an authority presence that commands the room without compromising who they are
Stop performing confidence and start embodying it from the inside out
FORMAT 45–60 min keynote
BEST FOR Women in male-dominated industries · Executive women · Professional development conferences · ERGs · Leadership summits
Revenue Growth:
Resilient Revenue: Building Teams That Perform Under Pressure
Most sales organizations train skills. Few build resilience and resilience, not skill, is what determines whether a team hits quota during a hard quarter, a leadership change, or a market downturn.
Drawing on 20+ years building and coaching revenue teams from #1 individual rep to enablement leader, Amy shows GTM leaders how to build teams that perform consistently under pressure instead of burning out top performers chasing it.
YOUR AUDIENCE WILL LEAVE KNOWING HOW TO:
Identify the early warning signs of performance-driven burnout on a revenue team before it costs a quota or a quota-carrier
Build coaching cadences and manager behaviors that sustain high performance instead of just demanding it
Apply the 5 Cornerstones of Resilience™ framework to ramp, retention, and quota attainment
FORMAT 45–60 min keynote · half-day workshop for sales leadership teams
BEST FOR Sales kickoffs · RevOps/GTM leadership offsites · CRO peer groups · Enablement conferences
Signature Talk:
The Kindest Form of Self-Betrayal
· 2026 · TEDx Application in Development
The Kindest Form of Self-Betrayal
Every high-achieving woman in your audience has twisted herself for someone: a boss, a partner, a culture, a standard she never actually chose. She called it professionalism, devotion, selflessness. She believed her sacrifice was strength.
She was wrong, nobody told her.
In this talk, I reframe one of the most universal patterns high-achieving women share: people-pleasing, emotional over-responsibility, self-erasure. This isn’t a character flaw, but as a nervous system survival pattern wearing the mask of professionalism.
Drawing on my own journey of rebuilding my leadership and identity through major personal disruption, and my work helping hundreds of high-achieving women move through burnout and chronic stress, I give audiences more than a story. I give them a framework they can use the moment they walk out the door.
You'll leave knowing how to:
Spot the exact moments self-betrayal is disguising itself as strength in your own decisions
Understand why high-achievers are especially wired for people-pleasing and why that's not a flaw
Make decisions from your values instead of fear of disapproval
Format: TEDx talk (12–15 min) · Keynote (45–60 min) · Workshop (90 min)
Best for: Women's leadership conferences · Professional development programs · ERGs · Executive retreats · Women's summits · Professional associations
Every event Amy speaks at leaves something behind not just applause, but a framework.
