How to stop fighting change and start growing through it.
It’s not the workload, it’s the tension you hold while dreading the inevitable.
When everything keeps changing, people spend enormous energy resisting what is, and the resistance costs more than the work does. Amy Eliza Wong shows teams how one shift in stance turns that drain into energy they can use.
When people say “I just can’t do this anymore,” they rarely mean the task. They mean the tug-of-war inside their own head.
“Should” is the sound of that tug-of-war. It should be clearer by now. We should have a plan. They shouldn’t have made that call. I should be further along. Every one of those is a small push against what’s actually true, and every push costs bandwidth, the exact bandwidth a team needs to think creatively, decide fast, and stay with each other when things get hard. And the less certain the future feels, the louder the “shoulds” get.
Multiply that across a hundred people and you get an organization that’s busy, compliant, and quietly stalled. It gets blamed on workload, or personalities, or change fatigue. It isn’t any of those. It’s resistance.
In this keynote, Amy makes that pattern visible and hands people the way out of it in real time. Drawing on her Spotlight Shift™ framework, cognitive science, and positive psychology, she shows why resistance narrows thinking exactly when a team needs it wide, and why the fastest route back to clarity isn’t pushing harder. It’s turning. Not away from reality. Turning toward what people actually want to feel and create on the other side of it. This isn’t toxic positivity. It’s a practical, science-based reset, and it works because purpose is renewable in a way pressure never is.
The shift in stance is small. The results aren’t. People stop resisting what they can’t control and start focusing on what they can. Creativity, energy, honest conversation, and flow come back online without anyone being told to try harder. Leaders model intention instead of obligation. And performance stops depending on perfect conditions, because the world isn’t going to stop moving.
Through stories, humor, and interactive moments, Amy gives teams a shared language for catching resistance the moment it shows up, and a simple turn they can run in their next meeting: the vague directive, the shifting priority, the decision nobody wants to own.
Certainty isn’t coming back. Flow doesn’t require it.
Maxim Williams
VP of Global Culture and Belonging | Autodesk
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