Your audience already knows how to survive.
I help them understand who they are now.
My keynotes are designed for healthcare conferences, women's events, and leadership teams navigating change — because the real work begins after the crisis ends.
Currently booking keynotes & live podcast events for 2026 — inquiries answered within 48 hours.
We spend so much time preparing for the moment everything changes.
But almost no one prepares us for what comes after.
The part where you're no longer who you were — but not yet sure who you're becoming.
Amanda Lentz has built her life's work in that space. Her talks give audiences language for the experience they've been living but couldn't name — and a framework for moving forward that doesn't require pretending they're further along than they are.
Amanda was diagnosed with breast cancer at 34 — mid-career, mid-build, and firmly in the gap between young adult oncology programs and the general cancer world. No one had a roadmap for where she landed. So she built one.
As host of Who We Become — Life Beyond Change and a Human Resources Business Partner with graduate degrees in I/O Psychology, Leadership Development, and Business Administration, Amanda brings something rare to the stage.
The lived authority of a survivor — and the professional framework of an organizational psychologist.
Her talks are both deeply human and immediately applicable.
Her work is informed by a simple but rarely explored observation:
"We know how to tell crisis stories. We do not know how to talk about what happens after."
As host of Who We Become, Amanda has gathered the lived narratives of individuals rebuilding identity in the aftermath of disruption. Those conversations shape the foundation of her keynote work.
Her talks draw fromAmanda is the right speaker for your event if your audience includes:
Cancer survivors, patients & caregivers
Figuring out who they are after diagnosis — not just how they survived it.
Healthcare professionals
Supporting patients through survivorship, identity transitions, and life beyond treatment.
Women navigating reinvention
After illness, loss, career disruption, or any life that didn't go as planned.
Leaders & HR teams
Building cultures that hold human complexity — not just performance metrics.
Advocacy organizations
Working at the intersection of health, identity, and community impact.
If your audience has been through something that changed them — and they're still figuring out what comes next — this is the right room for Amanda's work.
Four talks. One through line.
The In-Between
What do you do when your crisis doesn't fit the available category — and there's no map for where you've landed? This talk is for the person who was too young or too old, too sick or not sick enough, always somewhere in between — building a framework for territory that had no name.
Inquire about this talk →- A name for the experience of falling between categories — and relief that they're not alone in it
- Permission to stop waiting for a program or framework that was built for someone else
- Practical language for describing where they are to partners, providers, colleagues, and friends
Navigating the After
Everyone celebrates the all clear. Nobody prepares you for what comes next. When the calendar empties and the casseroles stop coming, you're left standing in a life that's supposed to feel like normal — except it doesn't. This is the talk every survivor needed and nobody gave them.
Inquire about this talk →- Language for the disorienting space after treatment ends — when the world moves on and you haven't
- A reframe of "the all clear" that reduces the isolation and confusion of survivorship
- A framework for rebuilding identity when the version of yourself that existed before no longer fits
Both at Once
You can be grateful and grieving at the same time. This talk refuses the clean recovery arc — and makes space for both. The world already knows how to hold the gratitude side of your story. This talk is for the part that doesn't fit the narrative — the grief, the anger, the loss that sits right alongside the relief.
Inquire about this talk →- Relief that the complexity of what they're feeling is not a failure of gratitude — it's the full truth
- Tools for holding grief and gratitude simultaneously without minimizing either
- A framework they can bring back to their teams, families, and communities
The Body You Didn't Choose
She stood in the mirror after treatment and didn't recognize herself. This talk is about rebuilding a relationship with a body that changed without your permission. Treatment changes your body in ways the medical team prepares you for — and ways they don't. This talk addresses the identity work that happens after.
Inquire about this talk →- Language for the specific grief of losing the body you had — distinct from grief over health or mortality
- A framework for rebuilding body identity that doesn't require acceptance before they're ready
- Concrete language they can use with providers, partners, and themselves about where they are
How we can work together
Keynote presentation
30, 45, or 60-minute standalone talks, customized for your audience and event theme. Available in person or virtual.
30 · 45 · 60 min · In person or virtualFireside chat
A conversational format ideal for smaller gatherings or as an intimate follow-up to a general session. Amanda comes prepared with stories and frameworks — your host brings the questions.
Intimate · Flexible lengthLive podcast event
A recorded episode of Who We Become performed live, with audience Q&A. Brings the intimacy of podcasting into a live room — a format that works especially well for healthcare and advocacy conferences.
Live recording · With Q&APanels & moderation
Amanda participates as a panelist or facilitates conversation among multiple voices on survivorship, resilience, and identity. She keeps panels moving, on topic, and emotionally honest.
Panelist or moderatorEach engagement is tailored to your audience and event goals. Amanda works with your team in advance to ensure the content lands.
Let's talk about what your audience needs.
Amanda is currently booking keynotes, panels, and live podcast events for 2026. Speaking inquiries are responded to within 48 business hours.
Speaking fees vary based on event format, travel, and organization type. Nonprofit, advocacy, and community rates are available. Reach out to start the conversation.
Not sure if it's the right fit? Reach out anyway. I'm a real person who replies, and I would love to have a conversation.
— Amanda Lentz