Give your audience more than a memorable hour. Give them practical ideas, powerful questions, and leadership tools they can put to work immediately.
Amy Riley combines compelling stories, engaging experiences, and 25+ years of leadership development expertise to help leaders think differently, lead courageously, and create extraordinary results.
Amy Riley’s Keynote at the
Be Legendary Conference
Each keynote is customized to meet your organization’s specific goals and challenges, and grounded in The Courage of a Leader® framework. Popular topics include:
Create a future people can see, believe in, and want to help build.
When priorities are shifting, workloads are high, or change feels relentless, leaders cannot rely on direction alone. People need to understand where they are going, why it matters, and how their contribution makes a difference.
In this engaging keynote, Amy shows leaders how to create a compelling purpose and clear finish line that inspires ownership, focus, and forward movement.
Your audience will learn how to:
Ideal for: Leadership conferences • Strategy kickoffs • Annual meetings • Organizations navigating growth or change
Break down silos and turn competing perspectives into shared progress.
Cross-functional collaboration gets difficult when priorities and resources compete and perspectives differ. Yet extraordinary results depend on people working beyond their own functions and seeing the bigger organizational picture.
In this practical keynote, Amy helps leaders shift from frustration and “us versus them” thinking to curiosity, shared ownership, and purposeful partnership—so they can create stronger alignment and move important work forward together.
Your audience will learn how to:
Ideal for: Leadership conferences • Corporate leadership events • Organizations navigating transformation • Teams working across functions, business units, or geographies
Build trust faster with your team, customers, partners, and community.
Trust drives stronger relationships, greater collaboration, and better business results. And, many leaders assume trust takes a long time to build.
In this engaging keynote, Amy challenges that assumption and shows leaders how to accelerate trust by extending it first. Using real-world stories and her proven Trust Equation, she gives audiences practical ways to strengthen trust quickly and sustain it over time.
Your audience will learn how to:
Ideal for: Leadership conferences • Sales meetings and kickoffs • Customer and partner events • Organizations strengthening collaboration and trust
Define the impact you want to create—and start living it now.
Too many leaders think of legacy as something they leave behind at the end of a career. Amy reframes leadership legacy as something you can define and begin creating today: an aspiration for how you want to be known, what you want to create, and the value you want to bring.
In this inspiring and practical keynote, Amy helps leaders identify their unique strengths, clarify the contribution they most want to make, and use that legacy as a guide for courageous choices, priorities, and action.
Your audience will learn how to:
Ideal for: Leadership conferences • Executive and leadership retreats • Emerging leader programs • Organizations focused on purpose, growth, and courageous leadership
Lead in a way that reflects your unique strengths, values, passions, and the leadership legacy you want to create.
Have the conversations that matter with clarity and intention, while focusing on what will help others grow, take ownership, and succeed.
Build the trust and commitment needed for others to follow by being transparent, vulnerable, and willing to invite their ideas and contributions.
Envision what is possible and translate bold aspirations into sustainable actions that produce extraordinary results.
Amy creates an engaging, memorable experience that gives members practical leadership ideas they can immediately take back to their organizations.
Amy connects the keynote to your organization’s priorities, equipping leaders to turn key messages into meaningful action.
Amy challenges leaders’ thinking, sparks meaningful dialogue, and helps create clarity around how they want to lead forward.
Amy builds energy and alignment while helping leaders strengthen trust, ownership, collaboration, and results.
Discuss the audience, event goals, theme, and business context.
Amy tailors stories, examples, questions, and emphasis.
Amy delivers an energetic, practical, participative keynote.
Audience members leave with ideas and tools they can immediately apply.
A Summary of The Courage of a Leader® 4 Pillars