Peak performance isn’t just about strategy—it’s about how we think, feel, and lead. This keynote examines how power skills (formally known as soft skills) and nervous system mastery can elevate leadership effectiveness and create a more engaged, high-performing workforce. We will highlight practical tools to stay grounded, make better decisions, and lead with clarity under pressure. Your success isn’t just about making decisions—it’s about how you show up in the room.

The great work of our lives sits at the intersection of where our gifts lie, what brings us joy, what we value, what we want to impact, and what we need. When we design our path from that space, we are living our purpose. Learn how to move into a career that you are excited to get out of bed for every day, regardless of what decade of your career you’re in.

This talk explores how to break free from the ambition traps and offers practical strategies to cultivate confidence, align our drive with purpose, and redefine success on our terms. Attendees will walk away with tools to lead with clarity, step into their power, and pursue ambition in a way that fuels, rather than drains, them.

Women in the workplace are often caught in a double bind—told to be ambitious but not too ambitious, to lead but not too boldly, to strive for success but only within narrow, predetermined lines. This keynote, inspired by The Ambition Trap, unpacks the systemic and cultural forces that shape women’s relationship with ambition and challenges outdated paradigms of success. Through real-world examples and actionable strategies, attendees will learn how to navigate workplace dynamics, advocate for themselves, and pursue ambition on their own terms—without burnout or compromise. This is a call to shift from exhausting hustle to sustainable, purpose-driven leadership.

Success without purpose is empty, and purpose without strategy often leads to frustration. This keynote helps leaders reconnect with their core mission, ensuring their ambition is fueled by meaning rather than external validation. Drawing from The Ambition Trap and years of executive coaching, this session explores how to align career goals with values, harness ambition as a force for good, and create impact-driven leadership that is both fulfilling and sustainable. Attendees will leave with practical tools to stay grounded, make confident decisions, and lead in a way that feels both authentic and powerful.

For the first time, the World Health Organization (WHO) now recognizes burnout as a real workplace phenomenon. Learn about the biology of burnout, how it manifests, and how to reprioritize your work so that you can also honor your well-being. In this talk, Amina takes audiences through her four-part approach to acknowledging, understanding and shifting burnout. In this conversation, we’ll address the passion tax, which is the idea that people are more likely to ask you to do extra, unpaid work when you love what you do. Amina shares how the passion tax is directly correlated to burnout due to the additional invisible labor. Learn how to honor your passions and set boundaries so that you can stay in this work for a lifetime, not just a season.

We are now in the midst of a significant workplace revolution, and I believe it’s because most of what we have been taught about success and ambition is a lie. Most of us design our careers based on the imprints of our families, communities, and the world around us. Therefore, our relationship to success and ambition is rarely our own. We spend a lifetime living into the “shoulds” and “musts” of our careers only to arrive near the top of our mountain and realize there is no joy or freedom there because it wasn’t our dream or conscious desire to start with. It happens because very few of us are actually taught to (or have the permission to) honor ourselves, our gifts, and the people around us. From my perspective, most of what we have been taught about success and ambition is misaligned and doesn’t deliver on supporting those of marginalized identities. Due to the inequities highlighted by the global pandemic (the pay gap, motherhood penalty, lack of affordable childcare, and lack of national paid leave), more than two million women have been pushed out of the workforce since 2020. Women of color and those with disabilities have been the slowest to recover. It can feel like we’re taking a step backward, but I believe we are in a moment of realignment around how to connect to our purpose and how we choose to live and lead. In this talk, I will take audience members through my five-part framework to reconcile our relationship to success and ambition, to release the trap and the hustle, and design work from a place of complete alignment.