Speaking & Engagements
Your audience already knows how to survive.
I help them understand who they are now.
Keynotes for healthcare conferences, survivorship events, women's leadership programs, and corporate wellness teams — because the real work begins after the crisis ends.
About Amanda
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, Amanda has gathered the lived narratives of survivors, caregivers, and changemakers rebuilding identity after disruption. Those conversations shape the foundation of her keynote work.
Her talks are both deeply human and immediately applicable.
What makes Amanda's perspective distinct
Who Amanda speaks to
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.
Signature speaking topics
Four talks. One through line.
Each talk is available as a keynote, fireside chat, or panel contribution. All can be customized for your event theme and audience.
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.
Best for
- Women's leadership events
- Corporate wellness & HR programs
- Survivorship and healthcare conferences
- Any audience navigating a transition that didn't fit the roadmap
Your audience will leave with
- 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 built for someone else
- Practical language for describing where they are to partners, providers, and colleagues
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.
Best for
- Survivorship and healthcare conferences
- Women's professional organizations
- Corporate audiences navigating change
- Anyone supporting others through major life transitions
Your audience will leave with
- Language for the disorienting space after treatment ends
- A reframe of "the all clear" that reduces isolation and confusion
- A framework for rebuilding identity when the old version 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.
Best for
- Women's leadership conferences
- HR and corporate wellness programming
- Healthcare audiences
- Any room where people are expected to perform resilience rather than live it
Your audience will leave with
- Relief that complexity 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 — addressing the identity work that happens after treatment ends, in ways the medical team prepares you for and ways they don't.
Best for
- Survivorship and women's health conferences
- Oncology and healthcare audiences
- Wellness programming addressing identity after life-altering physical change
Your audience will leave with
- Language for the specific grief of losing the body they had
- A framework for rebuilding body identity that doesn't require premature acceptance
- Concrete language for conversations with providers, partners, and themselves
Engagement formats
How we can work together
Every engagement is tailored to your audience and event goals. Amanda works with your team in advance to ensure the content lands.
Keynote presentation
30, 45, or 60-minute standalone talks, customized for your audience and event theme. Amanda works with your team in advance to tailor content, examples, and framing to the room.
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 in front of your audience, followed by Q&A. Amanda selects or collaborates with you to identify a guest whose story fits your event theme — then conducts the interview live on stage.
A format that works especially well for healthcare, survivorship, and advocacy conferences. Discuss recording and distribution details with Amanda at booking.
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 moderatorSpeaking fees
Let's start a conversation.
Speaking fees vary based on event format, travel, and organization type. Nonprofit, advocacy, and community rates are available. Reach out and we'll find what works.
Virtual engagements are available. Multi-event partnerships welcome. Submit an inquiry below and Amanda will follow up within 48 hours.
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"Not sure if it's the right fit? Reach out anyway. I'm a real person who replies, and I'd genuinely love to have the conversation."
— Amanda LentzSpeaking inquiries are responded to within 48 business hours.