The science of confidence, applied where it matters.
Real Confidence Makes You Smarter
What confidence actually is inside the brain, why so much conventional advice about it is backwards and what changes when people understand how it really works.
Overqualified, Underconfident: When Women’s Competence and Confidence Don’t Match
Not another “you go girl” pep talk. A provocative look at why extraordinarily capable women still second-guess themselves — and what the science says we can do about it.
Belonging Is a Team Sport
Belonging changes what the brain is willing to risk. Alyssa shows audiences why fitting in isn’t the same as belonging — and how confidence changes connection, contribution and participation.
Looking for ERG and organizational belonging expertise?
Alyssa also speaks on The Brain Science & Business Case for Belonging and ERG Intelligence through ERG Leadership Alliance.
She knows the science. She knows the room.
Serious substance without the lecture.
Alyssa translates brain science and behavioral research into ideas people immediately understand.
Audiences participate, not just listen.
Interaction is purposeful, surprising and designed to make the science personal.
She challenges people without losing them.
Expect candor, humor and the occasional uncomfortable truth from someone who knows how to keep an audience with her.
People leave with something they can actually do.
Not inspiration that evaporates by lunch, but ideas that change how they think and behave afterward.
WATCH ALYSSA BRING THE SCIENCE TO THE STAGE
ACI Speaker Reel
See Alyssa doing what she does best: challenging assumptions, making brain science accessible and keeping a room with her from the first idea to the last.
Confidence Is a Choice โ TEDx
Alyssa takes one of our most familiar assumptions about confidence and turns it on its head, using science to show why confidence is more changeable than most people think.
Women's Leadership Conference
See how Alyssa brings confidence science into a room full of women leaders with candor, humor and the kind of challenge that gets people thinking differently about themselves.
She’s been on both sides of the stage.
Alyssa isn’t only a keynote speaker. She’s a former international CMO, entrepreneur, founder of two organizations and someone who has spent decades inside the kinds of workplaces her audiences come from.
She brings real-world credibility.
Alyssa knows what leadership, pressure, uncertainty and organizational complexity look like beyond the keynote stage because she’s lived them herself.
She knows what event teams need.
She comes prepared, works closely with your team and understands that a great keynote starts long before she walks on stage.
Want more proof? Read 100+ recommendations on Alyssa’s LinkedIn, request direct references or join us at an upcoming event.
Hear it from the people who’ve been in the room.
"Alyssa is fantastic! She recently spoke at Staples for the 3rd time, insightful, engaging, with a great dose of humor on such an important topic."
"Alyssa's keynotes are so inspiring and impactful! She always leaves her audience empowered and energized to implement her lessons."
"The audience was engaged from beginning to end. She provided extremely valuable, practical information โ the ideal way to start the event."
Give them something to talk about after the keynote.
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