Keynote Speaker
Amy Bretall knows first hand how to tap into creativity, helping others connect with their spiritual side to find and use their gifts and inspiring others to step out on faith.
Keynote 1: Cultivating Creativity: How to Unleash Your Creative Energy
Have an idea that keeps calling you? The “what if?” Unsure how to tap into your creative energy? With a 20+ year successful senior-level HR leadership career, Amy Bretall transformed her business and life focus by taking an idea and using her untapped creative skills. Amy shares her faith-driven entrepreneurial story of how she started with an initial idea to do something with a few of her photos to becoming a faith-based author, publishing a series of unique photo devotional books and developing a line of inspirational products. Inspiring others to use their natural gifts, Amy shares practical how-to steps for cultivating your creativity and why renewing our spiritual health aligns with our creative energy to live a fuller life with meaning and purpose.
Program Highlights:
- How to get unstuck and hone your creativity.
- Learn the clues and cues of finding your creative gifts and how our spiritual health aligns with our creativity.
- How to navigate uncertainty and breakthrough doubt to move forward with an idea.
Amy’s keynote provides a captivating, artful, visual journey, with beautiful, powerful and meaningful photography artwork, adding to the audience experience.
Keynote 2: Unlock the Power of Finding Faith in The Everyday
Amy Bretall redefines ‘walking by faith, not by sight’ by revealing how God places signs In Plain Sight. Through a visual journey, she challenges traditional perspectives and shares an unconventional path to finding extraordinary faith in ordinary days, aligned to Biblical principles and scripture. Starting with a simple idea and a few photos of crosses, she inspires others to believe in signs of faith and take bold steps towards deepening a personal faith relationship.
Through “Stories Behind” her Everyday Cross photography, Amy shares her insights, experience, and approach, guiding audiences to recognize the surrounding visible signs and achieve a closer spiritual connection. Amy’s high-energy keynote leaves a lasting message that transforms views of faith, expands how others experience faith, showing how to see life through a lens of faith.
Program Highlights:
- How to discover faith in ordinary moments to provide comfort, guidance and spiritual connection.
- Learn how to recognize spiritual nuggets & nudges to understand God’s forms of communication.
- How to breakthrough doubt, gain confidence and resilience, to step out on faith.
Crafting her public speaking throughout her 20+ year senior-level HR career in fast-paced, growing, for-profit companies, to then strategic consulting, Amy Bretall learned how to take routine topics and verbally communicate in interesting ways to connect with employees at all levels and engage audiences. Amy excelled at creating and delivering employee and management training of new hire orientations, performance management, harassment/non-discrimination (Amy developed a unique way to turn a generally bland compliance topic into an engaging and fun interaction!), large all-employee events, acquisitions, and presenting to board of directors, working with all levels of leadership.
Speaking Testimonials
“We were so happy Amy spoke at our luncheon. Sharing her faith journey and how she was prompted by God to publish two books was inspiring to all. Several guests shared that they could have listened to her story for another hour. Amy has a gift for holding everyone’s attention.“
– Carol P., organizer, annual women’s event, UMW
“Amy’s authentic and open message of life challenges and developed faith relationship connects with people and is very inspiring.”
– Audience member
“In this materialistic, cynical world, Amy’s inspirational message is that it doesn’t have to be that way. We can choose to step off the well-worn road and find the path God wants us to walk, pursue the passions that make us joyful, and live a meaningful life of purpose and love. She encouraged us to notice our own faith patterns.”
– Shirley G., organizer, Pathways, women’s group
“Amy spoke so naturally and connected wonderfully with the audience. She shared a brief history of her journey and then shared how God has walked with her through each step of writing her two books. Our group was so intrigued that we were on the edge of our seats and could have listened longer. Amy is a gifted writer and speaker.”
– Martha R., audience, women’s event
“I’ve followed Amy on social media and have been impressed with her pictures and words and was so glad to hear her speak at our women’s group. We were inspired from Amy’s story, photos, and how to continually grow closer to Christ in our daily walk.”
– Karla W., Organizer, women’s group event
“I had the privilege of hearing Amy Bretall speak about her mission to spread a passion for the cross as a touchstone of faith. Her open and honest demeanor is authentic and encourages the audience to have a real dialogue.”
– Molly B., audience member
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Speaking One Sheet available upon booking request. For general questions, email amy@amybretall.com.