Speaker

Amanda’s life purpose is coaching women, impact professionals, and job seekers to build confidence and create the life and career of their dreams with passion, impact, and financial freedom.

Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, she now lives in Nairobi, Kenya and works with thousands of women globally as a social entrepreneur, career coach, consultant, and motivational speaker.

Amanda graduated from Canada’s top business school where she specialized in entrepreneurship, leadership, and advanced presentation skills.

She has 21+ years of experience in leadership, fundraising, sales, partnerships, and people-facing roles since she was in high school, along with 15+ years of professional full-time work experience in non-profit, international development, social entrepreneurship, women’s entrepreneurship, education, youth livelihoods, and tech sales.

Amanda has worked with thousands of women, youth, non-profits & NGOs, social enterprises, B Corporations, startups, and small businesses in North America, South America, the Caribbean, Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and globally including Canada, the US, Guyana, Trinidad, Jamaica, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Ghana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Japan, Hong Kong, India, Nepal, Costa Rica, New Zealand, and Colombia.

She was the top sales rep at a social enterprise, B Corporation, and EdTech start-up in early childhood education bringing in $500,000+ (half a million dollars) in annual recurring revenue. She achieved tremendous growth, success, and results with hundreds of loyal, long-term customers and child care partnerships using an ethical, consultative approach built on passion, honesty, integrity, empathy, and hard work.

After losing her job in 2019 she transitioned her career coaching side hustle in to a successful full-time job and moved to Kenya. She is living her true passion and purpose by working with thousands of women globally and helping them land their dream job opportunities with the salaries and compensation that we all deserve.

Fun Fact: Amanda is a passionate soccer / football player and snowboarder. She has summited both Mt. Kenya and Mt. Kilimanjaro.