Book Mandy to speak
Your best people don't have a capability problem. They have a capacity problem.
Mandy Balak speaks to leaders and teams about the capacity crisis they've been calling success, and what to do about it on Monday.
THE GATHERING, IN THREE YEARS
COMMUNITY BUILT AND EXITED
LEADERSHIP TEAMS COACHED
PODCAST INTERVIEWS
Hear her in the room
We don’t have a burnout epidemic. We have a capacity crisis.
Four minutes from Leading from Full: The Hidden Tax of High Performance, filmed live in Banff.
A note before you book
On paper I was killing it. It was killing me.
I learned early that I had to earn my place. That got me very far, until it didn’t.
Years ago I hid in a bathroom stall at a networking breakfast for fifteen minutes, in my best suit, because I couldn’t walk into the room. I knew exactly what to say. I didn’t have a method, I didn’t have the confidence, and I didn’t have the reps.
Now I build the rooms. I’ve spent 18+ years building communities, events and stages, and coaching the leaders inside them. What I bring to yours is what I needed back then: a way to want more without paying for it with yourself, and one move to make this week.
Mandy Balak
In person or virtual.
The talk
Leading from Full
The Hidden Tax of High Performance
Ambition isn't the problem. Depletion is. Capable leaders run out of capacity long before they run out of ambition, and most organizations are calling it success. This talk gives your people the language, the tools and one decision to lead from full, so they keep their edge and stop paying for it with their energy, their health and their teams.
They leave with
- Their eight capacity tanks, shaded, and the one they stopped feeding
- What they're carrying, and one thing they're putting down
- The pattern that built their success and is now costing them
- A definition of success in their own words
Four ways to bring it in
45 to 60 minutes. Story, the framework and one decision. For conferences and leadership events.
Three hours with the workbook. For leadership teams and networks who want to do the work, not just hear it.
Two hours to a full day for groups that already meet. Precision plus story, a workbook, a decision, and integration to make the work last.
A working session for one team. Each person scores their capacity and the team leaves with one decision it owns.
Eligible for professional development budgets.
Why bookers choose Mandy
She has been the one booking the speaker.
She builds rooms and movements for a living.
Mandy has produced more than 100 live experiences impacting over 25,000 people and doubled The Gathering, a brand festival, in three years. She knows what your room needs.
She's lived the material.
She built and exited a 250,000-member community, burned out, and rebuilt on purpose. Every story in the talk is hers.
People use it the next morning.
Three frameworks, each one short enough to repeat in the hallway afterward.
What organizers say
“Mandy Balak was an exceptional guest on the aspiHer Power Stage. She has a wonderful ability to share her journey with authenticity and vulnerability while translating her experiences into meaningful, practical lessons for the audience. She brings both substance and heart to the stage.”
“Mandy was the perfect closing speaker for our ‘Thrive Not Survive’ event! She took the time to reference our events core themes in her talk & it pulled the whole day together perfectly. The room was full of high-producing real estate agents whom her message resonated with greatly. I got instant positive feedback and continue to have it pouring in as we speak. We loved having Mandy at our event”
As featured in.
The Gathering Festival · SXSW Austin · Cannes Lions · RISE Conference · Startup Canada · Wealthy Women Conference · Inventures Summit · Redline Real Estate · aspiHer Power Stage
The book
Put the book in every seat.
Every talk pairs with signed copies of Chasing Enough. Send books ahead so people arrive having read it, or hand them out on the way out.
Bulk orders and packagesHow booking works
From first message to the room.
- 01
Send the brief.
The date, the room, and what you want people to walk out with.
- 02
A 20-minute call.
Who's in the room and what they're dealing with right now.
- 03
A proposal.
The talk, the format and the fee, written for your event.
- 04
Prep and the day.
A prep call for run of show and AV. Mandy arrives early and stays for the room, and for the signing if there are books.
Book Mandy
Tell me about your room.
The date, the audience, and what you need them to leave with. I’ll come back within two business days.
From the stage
See the rooms she’s held.
Brand festivals, founder summits, industry stages and corporate offsites.
