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Amy Cuddy
Dr. Amy Cuddy is an award-winning social psychologist and one of the world’s most sought-after keynote speakers, known for her work on power, trust, and the social forces that shape how we behave and perform under pressure. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Presence, which has sold more than half a million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 35 languages. She served on the faculty at Harvard Business School and received a Harvard Excellence in Teaching Award for her course on power and influence. She is a contributing writer for The Athletic, where she explores the psychology and neuroscience behind performance in high-stakes moments.
A globally renowned speaker on leadership and performance, Dr. Amy Cuddy translates social psychology and neuroscience into actionable insights for leaders and teams. In captivating presentations on how the body and physiology drive influence and peak performance, she delivers…
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Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
Too often we approach our lives’ biggest hurdles with dread, execute them with anxiety, and leave them with regret. In this program based on her bestselling book and viral TED talk, Dr. Amy Cuddy explores how presence, body language, and mindset shape our ability to show up fully in high-stakes moments.
Audiences will:
· Understand how body language influences how we feel about ourselves and what it communicates to others· Learn simple yet effective science-backed strategies for accessing authentic confidence in the moment and overcoming imposter syndrome in the long run
· Develop habits that make it easier to perform at your peak during stressful moments
Ideal for client-facing teams, C-suite leadership, women's organizations, and any audience that serves to benefit from a confidence boost.
Perform: The New Science of Human Performance Under Social Pressure
We are performing more often, for more people, under more pressure than ever before. The presentation. The interview. The pitch. The difficult conversation. The meeting that gets recorded and replayed. But the pressure doesn’t stop at work. The athlete stepping onto the field. The musician walking onstage. The creator going live. Modern life has become intensely performative—and intensely evaluative. Yet most advice about peak performance still treats performance as a private act of confidence, discipline, or talent. In this talk, Dr. Amy Cuddy—whose work on the psychology of performance appears in The Athletic Peak—reveals a radically different way of understanding what allows people to perform at their best under pressure. We are carrying more social load than any generation before us: the pressure of constant evaluation, invisible audiences, recordings that live forever, comment threads, past failures, and the internalized voices we carry into every room. And most performance training hasn’t caught up to that reality. Blending groundbreaking research, powerful storytelling, and insights from sports, music, leadership, and media, Amy shows how the social environment around us shapes what our bodies and brains are actually capable of accessing when the stakes are high — and why connection, trust, and presence are often the hidden forces behind extraordinary performance.
Trust Under Pressure
In a workplace shaped by constant disruption, uncertainty, burnout, and rapid technological change, trust has become one of the most important leadership capacities—and one of the fastest-rising areas of demand in leadership development. As work becomes more uncertain and pressure intensifies, trust becomes harder to build, easier to lose, and more essential to performance, resilience, and effective leadership. In this talk, Dr. Amy Cuddy explores what happens to human behavior under pressure—how stress and uncertainty affect the way people think, connect, communicate, and perform—and why
trust becomes even more important when the stakes are high. Drawing on decades of research in social psychology and human behavior, she explores why, as she argues, “trust is the conduit of influence,” how leaders build trust in moments of uncertainty and change, and why the leaders who do this well are better equipped to guide people through challenge, transformation, and sustained pressure.
How Fear, Cruelty, and Silence Take Hold - and How Brave Leaders Stop Them
At a time when toxic workplace cultures are a leading driver of turnover, burnout, and lost performance, Dr. Amy Cuddy offers a timely and practical framework for leaders that want to do better. In this program grounded in the research and case studies in her forthcoming book, Bullied, Dr. Cuddy shows how individuals and organizations can interrupt harmful dynamics, rebuild trust, and create environments where people can do their best work. She explores:
· The concept of social bravery
· Why bullying, mobbing, and fear-based norms spread in otherwise “good” organizations
· The social and psychological dynamics of bystanders, allies, and “bravehearts” who change the script
· Practical tools for leaders to spot early warning signs, disrupt harmful behavior without creating new fear, and build environments where people feel safe to speak up and contribute
Ideal for both leadership teams and employees at every level of an organization.
Brave Cultures: Turning Toxic Norms into Trust, Courage, and High Performance
There once was a time when toxic workplaces were the norm. Screaming bosses, non-existent boundaries, high stress, low morale. Today, employees have much higher expectations for psychological safety and accountability and are quick to leave workplaces that don't meet their needs. In this program, social psychologist Dr. Amy Cuddy presents her "brave cultures" framework and teaches leaders how to foster an environment where employees can thrive. She explores:
· How cultures of fear and disengagement quietly drain performance and innovation—and why disengagement now represents trillions in lost productivity globally
· The levers leaders can pull to shift norms from silence and cynicism to trust, psychological safety, and shared courage
· Simple, research-backed practices to make “brave behavior” visible, rewarded, and contagious across teams
Ideal for corporate leadership teams in industries with a history of employee burnout and high turnover rates such as tech, finance, and healthcare.
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