Welcome Event Planners

We know planning a successful event—conference, corporate retreat, or leadership session—takes coordination and attention to detail. This step-by-step process ensures a smooth experience: 

Reach out via the contact form or email to discuss your event. We’ll review your goals, audience, and schedule to ensure a perfect fit. A tentative hold can be placed on your desired date while details are finalized. 

Secure your date with a signed agreement and deposit. This reserves your program and allows us to begin planning a tailored experience for your audience. 

A virtual or in-person session to discuss your organization, event theme, audience, and desired outcomes. This ensures each talk, workshop, or program is fully customized to your team’s objectives. 

I develop a tailored keynote, workshop, or course based on the From Loss to Leadership framework. This may include slides, discussion prompts, exercises, or practical tools to restore leadership capacity, resilience, and focus. 

On the day of your event, I engage your audience with storytelling, science-informed insights, and actionable strategies. Participants leave inspired, equipped, and ready to apply what they’ve learned immediately. 

Attendees receive worksheets, guides, and tools to continue growth after the event, reinforcing key strategies from the session and sustaining resilience, focus, and leadership capacity. 

• Pre-event surveys or assessments
• Follow-up coaching or group sessions
• Online courses or programs for ongoing leadership development

Keynotes, presentations, and interactive talks designed to inspire and equip leaders and teams. 

Tailored support for organizations navigating disruption, burnout, or high-pressure environments. 

 We offer workshops and programs based on the From Loss to Leadership framework to rebuild energy, focus, and leadership capacity. 

• From Loss to Leadership: Transform adversity into leadership growth
• Restoring Leadership Capacity in High-Stress Seasons
• The Science of Resilience: How stress, grief, and disruption affect performance
• When Hope Feels Scary: Faith, grief, and courage to move forward

Professional images for programs, websites, and marketing materials. 

Short bio (100–150 words) for program listings:
Amanda Kjar Wilkinson is a speaker, author, and leadership consultant who helps individuals and organizations restore and expand leadership capacity after disruption, loss, or high-stress seasons. She is the creator of the From Loss to Leadership framework and combines lived experience, neuroscience, and practical strategies to guide leaders, teams, and organizations through transformation.

Long bio (250–300 words) for websites, flyers, and press kits:
Amanda Kjar Wilkinson is a speaker, author, and leadership consultant whose work helps individuals and organizations restore and expand leadership capacity, resilience, and purpose after periods of disruption, grief, or high stress. With over two decades of experience in global advocacy, interfaith collaboration, and leadership development, Amanda brings a uniquely human-centered perspective to every engagement. She has represented NGOs at international gatherings in New York, Ecuador, and Switzerland, participated in dialogues connected to the United Nations, and mentored youth delegations at the Commission on the Status of Women. She also co-founded the You Got This: Interfaith Women’s Conference, creating spaces for women from diverse faiths and cultures to connect, collaborate, and grow.

After experiencing the profound loss of two of her children, Amanda shifted her focus to understanding how grief and trauma affect the mind, body, and leadership capacity. This journey inspired the creation of the From Loss to Leadership framework—a practical, science-informed system that teaches leaders how to regulate the nervous system, rebuild energy and focus, reconnect with meaning, and lead with resilient presence.

Through her speaking, coaching, consulting, and programs, Amanda equips leaders and teams with actionable tools to recover from adversity, strengthen emotional and cognitive capacity, and transform challenges into opportunities for growth.

• Global Leadership & Advocacy: Over two decades of experience representing NGOs internationally
• Interfaith Collaboration & Leadership Development: Co-founded the You Got This: Interfaith Women’s Conference
• Grief, Resilience, and Capacity Building Expert: Creator of the From Loss to Leadership framework
• Author & Speaker: Shares insights from Walking with Grace
• Science + Strategy: Combines neuroscience, physiology of grief, and practical tools
• Trusted Across Sectors: Leadership teams, healthcare organizations, nonprofits, and faith communities

• Sample keynote and workshop decks
• 45–60 minute and 90–120 minute options
• Interactive exercises and discussion prompts

• Keynote topics, consulting programs, and leadership courses
• Pre-work and post-event activities
• Participant take-home guides and worksheets