Amy Eliza Wong
- 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 – so trust deepens, teams align, and performance flows
- 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
- With insights from psychology, neuroscience, and systems thinking, she turns everyday conversations into powerful tools for momentum, and meaningful change.
Speaker Fee 🛈
Fee Range
$15,000 - $20,000
Virtual Fee:
$10,000 - $15,000
Travels From
California
Amy Eliza Wong Speaker Biography
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. Her 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 empowers people to stop surviving and start creating—on purpose.
Mastering Conversational Intelligence®
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.
Change One Word, Change Your Life
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.
The Universal Truth That’s Holding You Back
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.
Unlock a Growth Mindset
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.
October 29, 2025
Amy was incredible to work with and delivered an inspiring, engaging and valuable session (virtually!) for an hour to over 80+ people at my team offsite! Would be a dream to work with her again!
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