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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:
$20,000 - $30,000
Virtual Fee:
$10,000 - $15,000
Travels From:
California
5.0 | 1 Review
Amy Eliza Wong
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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.

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Speech Topics

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.

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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!

Google LLC | October 29, 2025
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“In my career of almost 25 years, Amy is the single best executive coach, facilitator, and speaker I’ve ever worked with. My background is in Communications, so I’ve worked with many. Amy stands apart for her ability to establish group trust and then create extremely engaging conversations that draw in all types of participants and dig deep into truly meaningful topics that are transformative. Amy is an invaluable mix of left and right brain, grounding the soft skills she coaches in hard science. I first met Amy through her Stanford Continuing Ed course on conversational IQ and then introduced her to my company’s entire executive team to facilitate our gatherings. She’s become an executive coach for many of us and is invaluable.”

Chief Marketing Officer, Wheel

“Amy’s had an extremely positive impact on me as both a leader and human being. She has the uncanny ability to connect with everyone she meets with as though you’ve been lifelong friends. Her speaking and facilitation skills are masterful, allowing even the most technical and opinionated of audiences to become more open and engaged. Amy is the real deal, and I would recommend any of my fellow leaders, executives, and friends to find an opportunity to work with her.”

Vice President of Culture, Diversity and Belonging, Autodesk

“Amy Wong has an exceptional ability to engage established and emerging leaders and empower them with the tools to be more effective in their collaboration. She is an expert in all things trust and communication and is our go-to for our firm and the founders in our portfolio around “conversational intelligence” and executive presence. I’ve received nothing but positive feedback from my partners who have worked with her as well as our portfolio companies and I’ve personally seen the results.”

Founder and CEO, SignalFire

“Amy is one of the most gifted facilitators I’ve ever worked with. In a matter of hours, she’d helped us shift our thinking on how our behavior and communication as leaders affects the outcomes in our company, and over the course of a weekend, she’d completely changed our relationships with each other. I can’t recommend Amy highly enough.”

Chief Strategy Officer, Mighty Buildings

“We were blown away!”

Global Marketing, Facebook

“A powerful and enlightening session!”

Senior Director – Global Revenue, LinkedIn

“That was honestly one of the most epic and inspiring talks I’ve ever sat through. It’s completely changed how I think about leadership.”

Co-Founder, MakerSights

“Amy has absolutely changed my life for the better. People are still talking about and using her teachings years after she spoke to our company!”

COO, Expensify

5-Star Testimonial:
“Amy’s keynote was perfect. Our employees walked away with a renewed mindset, ready to embrace more challenges, build trust, and grow together.”

Co-President, TrueSense Marketing

“Amy’s Spotlight Shift helped our senior leaders move from reactive leadership into a unified stance, and people kept saying she changed the room because the work was practical, powerful, and repeatable. She blended behavioral science, stories, and lessons in a way that created lasting change across teams, market units, and functions.”

CMO of the Americas, SAP