Amilya Antonetti is a best selling author and one of the most inspiring female business groundbreakers of our day. Her genuine David and Goliath story has touched millions. Featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show and in the best selling "Chicken Soup for The Soul" books, her story has even become required study at many business schools. She is the founder of Amilya's Soapworks, an award winning green business pioneer who helped take green to mainstream, redefining the way American consumers shop and how the world's largest consumer products companies do business. Amilya was a working mom when her newborn son David began experiencing frightening symptoms that forced her to spend his first years in hospital emergency rooms, leaving her career to care for her son. Soon she discovered it was the side effects of toxic ingredients in many common household products unsuspectingly causing David serious harm. In that moment, she vowed to help families everywhere and reveal what she had uncovered. With her grandmother's help she developed a recipe to make her own pure cleaning products and began giving them to friends and neighbors. With little money, experience or help she transformed herself from mom to crusader to CEO taking on the impossible tasks of challenging the giants of the household industry and convincing consumers to change how they think. Moving people to action by her genuineness, she created a grassroots effort retail giants could not ignore. Amilya risked everything; her story spread and her passion grew into a business as people across the country clamored for Amilya's Soapworks. In a few years, Amilya's Soapworks went from kitchen table startup to success story, selling side by side with global brands, and soon, they were following her example. Under Amilya's Leadership by Authenticity, she and her team grew Amilya's Soapworks from an inspiration to a multi-million dollar enterprise breaking down the doors of the country's largest retailers to bring green to mainstream and taking on the giants of the consumer products industry in the process. Amilya is memorable and her impact on organizations is significant. Her story leaves audiences speaking of feeling a personal connection that allows them to hear, retain and use the actionable information she provides and be inspired by her example. Her philosophy of authenticity has a transforming power on everyone she reaches. Amilya teaches leadership and team building techniques from her own playbook of hard learned experience sharing the details of her success and the skills she learned on her journey. Her moving presentations inspire groups to discover their authenticity and empower individuals to lead by example for the betterment of the team as well as a greater good. Since the private sale of Soapworks, Amilya Antonetti has moved on as CEO of AMA Productions and continues to evangelize her positive message through her books, speaking engagements and websites. She shares her personal story of near tragedy to triumph offering life changing strategies and actionable tools to help organizations and individuals make real change and achieve significant results. Titles One Idea Can Change The World The Seven Steps Of Building Authentic Teams Leading With Authenticity The Broken Cookie: Your Life Can Be More Than Crumbs The 10 Beliefs Herding Cats: Women Supporting Women Green is a Dirty Word... Topics Women, Accountability, Leadership, Teamwork Click topic above to see more speakers on that topic Speaker's Asking Fee Range $7,500 - $9,999 Click on fee range to see more speakers. This is the starting keynote fee range - other programs may be higher. State NY Click on state above to see more speakers from that state. Fees The fee range quoted means the speaker's fee starts somewhere within that range. Note that speaker's fees are subject to change and some speakers may have special fee quotes.