KEYNOTE SPEAKING
Step into an immersive experience with our keynote presentations, where captivating storytelling and personal narrative come together to ignite inspiration and drive transformation. Less interactive than a workshop, and spanning 45 to 90 minutes, these dynamic presentations offer a unique blend of engaging anecdotes, thought-provoking analogies, and authentic vulnerability. With a commitment to using our platform responsibly, GC keynotes challenge perspectives, spark dialogue, and empower individuals to commit to doing better.
SOME OF OUR MOST REQUESTED KEYNOTES INCLUDE:
Welcome to the Struggle:
Let’s Meet this Moment, Boldly
As diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts come under fire, we need leaders at all levels of organizations to not only recognize the challenges of our time, but meet them, boldly, with unwavering commitment to build and maintain safe, welcoming, and inclusive spaces. Through compelling storytelling and a passionate call to action, Amanda will emphasize the urgency of moving through the struggle of pushing our workplaces/institutions to be something they were never designed to be: inclusive, accessible, and socially just for all.
Sticks and Stones:
From Hurting to Healing
No place is immune to hate, bias, and everyday bigotry. Is your school/organization ready to respond? What proactive measures can you be taking? How do we foster environments that resist hate and bias, and embrace belonging and mattering? With these questions as the backdrop, this conversation will explore hate/bias prevention, intervention, and post-vention efforts. By leaning on the joys, challenges, successes, and missteps experienced across 15 years of story-holding through her leadership on a Hate/Bias Response Team, Amanda will present a critical social justice framework to move us from hurting to healing.
Racial Healing Across Segregated Places & Midwest Nice Faces
Follow Amanda on her journey of navigating, naming, and disrupting the polite racism that is seeped into every corner of the most racially segregated state: Wisconsin. From color evasiveness to conflict-averse culture, Amanda will examine the pitfalls of Midwest Nice culture as part of a larger pattern of harmful barriers standing in the way of the racial healing that is needed in our schools, workplaces, and greater community.
[MLK Program]
Dear Beloved Community
"Dear Beloved Community" extends an open invitation to join (or stay in) the struggle toward realizing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of a just and equitable society. Through personal narrative and a painful acknowledgement of slow progress, setbacks, and renewed barriers, Amanda will emphasize the need to maintain hope for the joy and liberation that can only be found through building a beloved community. But because hope, while necessary, is not a strategy, audience members will be urged to find their place in this critical movement, through engaging in big and small acts of love, and a commitment to hold people and places accountable for doing better.