Too often, bravado is mistaken for leadership. The loudest voice in the room, the refusal to admit doubt, the performance of certainty—especially in uncertain times—can look like strength. But domineering leadership may suppress dissent, discourage innovation, and create a culture of silence that fails under pressure. In this data-driven and deeply practical talk, Dr. Amy Cuddy shows why dominance doesn’t deliver—and how trust-based leadership outperforms it on every meaningful metric. Drawing on decades of psychological research and timely case studies from high performing organizations, she reveals the measurable costs of fear-based leadership—and the tangible returns of trust. Read More >

Your audience will learn:

• Why dominance leads to surface-level compliance, not sustained engagement
• How fear-based leadership erodes innovation, execution, and ethical behavior
• What the data say about trust: teams led by high-trust managers show higher performance, lower attrition, faster decision cycles, and greater resilience
• Concrete behaviors that build trust: listening deeply, rewarding credibility over confidence, creating psychological safety, and sharing power wisely

This talk is ideal for executive teams, people leaders, and organizations under pressure to perform without sacrificing culture.

Takeaway: Domineering leadership creates fragile organizations. Trust-based leadership builds teams that adapt, innovate, and endure. In today’s workplace, trust isn’t a soft skill— it’s a strategic imperative. Read Less ^

In high-performance environments—whether in sales, R&D, operations, or client strategy— we tend to rely on mental discipline to stay focused, persuasive, and adaptable. But the science is clear: how we use our body directly shapes how we think, feel, and interact. Amy Cuddy draws on two decades of research across psychology, neuroscience, and physiology to show that posture, breath, movement, and vocal tone regulate neural activity in the brain regions responsible for attention, emotion, memory, and decision-making. These aren’t hacks or habits—they’re pathways into clarity, calm, and presence. This talk offers a powerful, science-based framework for using the body as a tool for better thinking, communication, and resilience—across roles and industries. Read More >

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• How upright, open posture activates brain networks linked to confidence, creativity, and cognitive flexibility
• Why slow, steady breathing can calm the amygdala and improve focus under pressure
• How small changes in gait, gesture, and vocal tone influence not just how others perceive us—but how we perceive ourselves
• The neuroscience behind why movement—especially rhythmic or synchronized movement—improves memory, social connection, and problem-solving
• Practical, research-backed strategies for using the body to manage anxiety, prepare for high-stakes interactions, and recover cognitive clarity in moments of overload

Many of our biggest challenges call for us to be calmly confident, focused, and open to hearing others. Too often, we approach these high-pressure interactions with fear, execute with anxiety and distraction, and leave with regret. Based on her best-selling book Presence, Amy Cuddy draws from psychology and neuroscience research, personal narratives, and her own challenges, focusing on: Read More >

• What holds us back from being present and effective in these challenging situations?
• How does feeling powerless (vs. powerful) affect our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, in turn undermining our ability to be smart, creative, attentive, and effective when we most need to be?
• How do we retrain our nervous systems to liberate us -- rather than inhibit us -- in these moments?
• How does our own presence help others to be present -- and facilitate the building of trust in stressful interactions?
• What does powerful vs. powerless body language look like?
• Can we adapt our own body language -- breathing, speech patterns, simple and complex posture, and movement -- to directly affect how powerful we feel (and how powerful we appear to others)?

Audiences will be moved and inspired, leaving Amy’s keynote with a fresh, life-changing perspective on themselves and their interactions, and a concrete and immediately actionable set of simple techniques to harness their own personal power and presence, freeing them to perform and interact at their very best -- and empower others to do the same. Read Less ^

In this talk, Amy Cuddy shares 15 fresh, practical strategies that help people become far more effective storytellers—whether they’re presenting data, leading a team, pitching an idea, teaching a lesson, speaking on stage, or sharing something personal. It’s not about writing the perfect script. It’s about knowing your story, owning your voice, and telling it in a way that people trust, remember, and respond to. Amy draws on decades of social science and on the work she taught in her Power and Influence course at Harvard—teaching that earned her the Harvard Excellence in Teaching Award. The throughline is clear: we influence others not by performing, but by showing up fully—anchored in what we believe, attuned to the people in front of us, and able to create a moment that feels real and shared. Read More >

In this talk, Amy teaches how to:

• Find the story you believe—and tell it like you mean it
• Tune in to your audience and meet them where they are
• Prepare your body and nervous system so they support—not sabotage—you
• Embrace imperfections as opportunities to build trust and stay steady when things don’t go as planned
• Create intimacy—even in a room of a thousand people
• Deliver a talk that feels unrepeatable—because it only could’ve happened with those people, in that moment

Takeaway:

Audiences leave this talk more connected to their own voice—and more ready to use it. They understand how to move people with clarity, conviction, and credibility. Amy introduces what she calls bounteous presence—a shared, real-time connection between speaker and audience that makes the moment feel alive. The best communicators—like great live musicians—can generate that energy in any setting, from a keynote stage to a team meeting. And Amy has watched it happen again and again: people walk out not just inspired, but measurably more compelling, grounded, and effective than they were just an hour before. Read Less ^

Social media is a rocket fuel for our worst impulses, says Amy Cuddy, exacerbating incivility and bullying among adults both online and offline. But the same psychological mechanisms that elicit bullying – tribalism, the influence of norms, and desire for status – can just as easily be used to decrease bullying and increase bravery. The same human tendencies that are activated for bad, argues Cuddy, can be activated for good.  Read More >

“Now, more than any other time, we have the science – and the stories – to build a brand new program to fight against this menace,” Cuddy says. 

In this talk, based on her forthcoming book, tentatively titled, Bullies, Bystanders, and Bravehearts (HarperCollins, 2026) she covers the staggering psychological, physical, and socio-economic costs of bullying to individuals, organizations, and societies – and the unprecedented and surprising opportunities we have to engage in and lead through social bravery. She compellingly demonstrates that when we understand the psychology of these dynamics, virtually all of us will have the power to be bravehearts, rather than passive bystanders. 

A renowned social psychologist, Cuddy shares an acute combination of scientific expertise and first-hand experience, drawing both from her personal journey and the stories of others to communicate important human truths. Read Less ^