- Amy Thurman - AUTHENTICITY EXPERT | International Speaker | Author
Resilient Futures Nonprofit, Founder - Educational and Community Renewal
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amy featured with brenÈ brown in San Francisco WEekly!
Amy was named one of the 5 Resilient Women Rewriting the Rules of Business, alongside Brenè Brown!
amy featured with Mel robbins in San francisco Examiner!
Amy was named one of the 10 Women Who Turned Adversity Into Empire, alongside Mel Robbins!
About Amy
Authenticity Expert | International Speaker | Best-Selling Author
I help people measure the thing most of us overlook: authenticity.
After living ten years with a broken neck and a sheared brainstem, undiagnosed for six months, I was forced to rebuild my life from the inside out. That experience didn’t just change my body; it reshaped how I understood strength, leadership, and resilience. It revealed a truth I now dedicate my work to proving: alignment can be measured, and measurable alignment transforms everything.
I’m an authenticity expert, international speaker, best-selling author, and the creator of Authentic Intelligence and Your Authenticity Score, a practical framework that evaluates how closely a person’s life and leadership reflect their values, identity, and truth.
In a world driven by automation and artificial intelligence, I believe the next competitive advantage is human; our ability to live, choose, and connect from alignment rather than performance, fear, or emotional suppression.
Through speaking, online communities, and consulting, I work with individuals, corporate leaders, HR and L&D teams, healthcare and education professionals, nonprofit leaders, and mission-driven organizations navigating burnout, trust breakdowns, and cultural fatigue.
My work gives leaders language and tools for boundaries, honest self-leadership, and holding space without fixing, forcing, or avoiding hard conversations.
When authenticity is practiced intentionally, it reduces burnout rooted in misalignment, strengthens trust and relational safety, improves communication, and reframes resilience as presence and integrity rather than endurance. The result isn’t just insight, it’s action.
I’ve shared media features alongside Brené Brown and Mel Robbins, appeared on a Times Square billboard, collaborated with leaders such as Lisa Nichols, and spoken globally, most recently at Oxford University in the UK. I’m also the founder of Resilient Futures, a nonprofit reimagining education through school–community collaboration, and the host of the Holding Space with Authentically Amy podcast.
At the heart of everything I do is a simple conviction:
Authenticity isn’t soft, it’s strategic. And when people learn to live and lead from who they truly are, they don’t just change outcomes, they change cultures, communities, and lives.
Signature Talks:
· How to Fall Apart Without Losing Yourself
· Why Being Okay is Overrated
· Your Authenticity Score: Why It Matters & How to Use It
· Holding S.P.A.C.E.: The Leadership Skill That Changes Everything
· The Authenticity Advantage: How Alignment Transforms the Way You Live, Love & Lead
NEW PODCAST and private Holding Space sessions!
To hold space means to offer someone a moment where they can show up fully without being judged, fixed, rushed, or expected to be anything other than human.
It’s a space where masks come off.
Where emotions are welcome.
Where silence is safe.
Where truth can rise without needing to be polished.
POLISH THE MIRROR BOOK 1: SELF-DISCOVERY NOW AVAILABLE!
A Reflective Coloring Workbook Series
This is not just a coloring book. It's a return to yourself.
Polish the Mirror - Book 1: Self-Discovery is the first in a four-part reflective coloring series designed to help you reconnect with who you are beneath the roles, expectations, and labels you've carried for far too long.
This reflective coloring workbook for adults blends the calming creativity of coloring with powerful tools for personal growth-including guided reflection questions, journal prompts, soul work activities, and real-life practices that help you embody what you're uncovering.
This series was born from the overwhelming response to the Polish the Mirror sections in Amy Thurman's memoir, "Finding My Hero Within". Readers asked for more, and this book is the answer. If those pages felt like a breath of fresh air, this book is an invitation to inhale deeper.
Get Your Copy Today
Whether you're just beginning your healing journey or simply craving a deeper connection with yourself, this book offers a sacred space to slow down, reflect, and begin to peel back the layers of who you've been told to be, so you can remember who you truly are. Because who you are isn't something you have to fix. It's something you get to uncover.
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"Finding My Hero Within"
Amy gifted copies of her best-selling book, "Finding My Hero Within", to celebrities, writers, directors and producers from The Emmys (pictured here with Mike Manning from This is Us, Days of Our Lives, Beyond the Gates, and more)!
Educational and Community Renewal
Resilient Futures nonprofit
Learn more about how Resilient Futures can help your school and community learn to work together while teaching students to be better prepared for a resilient life beyond the classroom.
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