Member since August 2026
Dr. Amber Hill is an award-winning educator, transformational keynote speaker, author, and Founder & CEO of Epiphany-Hill Enterprises LLC. With more than 25 years of experience in education, leadership, coaching, and youth development, Dr. Hill helps individuals and organizations create cultures where people feel seen, valued, connected, and empowered to thrive.
A former Division I student-athlete and collegiate coach, Dr. Hill brings a unique perspective on identity, leadership, performance, emotional wellness, and belonging. Her signature message, “Got Love – Give it. Live it. Be it.™,” challenges leaders to recognize that culture is not simply what an organization says. It is what people experience.
Through powerful storytelling, practical strategies, and engaging audience experiences, Dr. Hill speaks on love-led leadership, workplace culture, identity beyond performance, emotional intelligence, belonging, burnout, resilience, and purpose.
She is a published award-winning author, Les Brown-trained speaker, and WBE/MBE-certified business owner who has presented to educators, leaders, athletes, families, and organizations across the country.
I am passionate about helping people become more aware of how they show up and the impact they have on the people around them. I have seen what happens when people feel seen, heard, valued, supported, and loved. They grow. They contribute. They become more confident and are more willing to bring their best selves into the room.
I also know what unhealthy environments can do. People shrink. They disconnect. Sometimes, they even begin to lose pieces of themselves. That is why I care so deeply about helping people build self-awareness, strengthen relationships, and create healthier cultures where people can thrive.
I believe we are all planting seeds every day through our words, our leadership, our relationships, and the way we treat people. The question is: What are we growing?
Before expectations ever found me, I was simply a joyful person with a big heart. I loved people, loved connection, and genuinely wanted to make others smile. I cared deeply, sometimes too deeply, and I placed a lot of value on what others thought about me. Sports became one of the first places where I learned how quickly people can begin valuing what you do more than who you are.
As I became more successful athletically, I noticed a shift in how some people treated me. One experience has stayed with me since childhood. My fifth-grade teacher did not treat me well, and I believed race played a role in how I was treated. Years later, when I was succeeding as a high school athlete, that same teacher came to one of my games and suddenly wanted to reconnect with me.
That moment raised a question I would carry throughout my life:
How do you respond when people value what you can do for them more than they value who you are?
I prayed for discernment and asked God to help me navigate those moments with wisdom and grace. And I will admit part of me enjoyed the recognition. But as I grew, I had to learn something much deeper: I am not what I do.
Today, I am more grounded in who I am and in my faith. I have learned that maturity is not simply getting older. It is becoming secure enough in your identity that other people's opinions no longer have the power to define you or disrupt your peace.
My goal is to continue growing in Christ, treat people with love, and care more about what God thinks of me than what the world says about me. Because when your identity is rooted in something deeper, expectations don't have to control you. They can refine you.
My journey into this work comes from both lived experience and observation.
Throughout my life, I have experienced healthy and unhealthy environments. As an athlete, educator, coach, leader, mother, and entrepreneur, I have watched what happens when people feel valued and supported, and I have also seen what happens when they don't.
Over time, I began to recognize a pattern: people show up differently when they know they matter.
In healthy environments, people grow, connect, contribute, and become more confident. In unhealthy environments, people often shrink, disconnect, protect themselves, and sometimes lose sight of who they are.
That realization changed the way I thought about leadership and culture. I understood that creating healthier organizations and communities wasn't only about having better programs, policies, or strategies. It started with people becoming more self-aware. How do I show up? How do people experience me? What am I contributing to the environment around me?
That became the foundation of my work.
I often say that we are all planting seeds every day. Through our words, decisions, relationships, and leadership, we can plant seeds that bring life and connection, or seeds that create hurt and disconnection.
We won't get it right every time. But when we become intentional about how we show up, we can begin to transform ourselves, our relationships, our organizations, and ultimately our communities.
You don't need a title, position, or microphone to be a leader. Leadership begins with how you show up when no one is watching.
In this interactive keynote, Dr. Amber Hill challenges students to rethink what leadership really means. Through storytelling, reflection, and practical activities, students explore how their identity, choices, relationships, and everyday actions influence the culture around them.
Dr. Hill helps young leaders understand that they are planting seeds every day. Their words can build someone up or tear someone down. Their choices can create connection or division. And their influence can make a difference long before anyone gives them an official leadership title.
Students leave challenged to:
Signature takeaway:
You don't become a leader when someone gives you a title. You become a leader when you recognize that how you show up has the power to influence what happens next.
We live in a world that constantly asks, What do you do? What have you achieved? What's next? But what happens when the title changes, the season ends, the recognition fades, or the applause stops?
Drawing from her journey as a Division I athlete, educator, leader, entrepreneur, wife, and mother, Dr. Amber Hill explores the danger of building our identity around performance, achievement, titles, and other people's expectations.
This powerful keynote invites audiences to separate who they are from what they do, recognize the expectations that have shaped them, and reconnect with the values, purpose, and identity underneath their accomplishments.
Participants leave challenged to answer one important question:
If you removed the titles, accomplishments, roles, and applause, would you still know who you are?
Before leaders can transform a team, they have to be willing to examine themselves.
In this engaging keynote, Dr. Amber Hill challenges leaders to look beyond titles, strategies, and organizational charts and ask a more personal question: What is it like to be led by me?
Through storytelling, self-reflection, and practical strategies, Dr. Hill explores how self-awareness, emotional intelligence, relationships, and everyday behaviors shape workplace culture. Leaders will examine the seeds they plant through their words, decisions, and interactions and how those choices influence trust, connection, performance, and retention.
Audiences leave with a deeper understanding that leadership isn't simply about getting people to follow you. It's about creating an environment where people can become their best while they're with you.
Connection isn't a perk. It is the culture people experience every day.
In this engaging talk, Dr. Amber Hill explores the powerful connection between belonging, leadership, and organizational culture. People do their best work when they feel seen, heard, valued, and empowered to contribute. When connection is missing, even talented people can disengage, burn out, or leave.
Through personal stories, practical strategies, and her love-led approach to leadership, Dr. Hill challenges audiences to examine how they show up, the seeds they plant through everyday interactions, and the culture they are helping create.
Participants will walk away understanding that culture isn't built only through policies, programs, or mission statements. It is built in the everyday moments between people.
The question isn't simply, “Do people belong here?”
It's, “Do people experience belonging when they're with us?”
Before expectations ever found me, I was simply a joyful person with a big heart. I loved people, loved connection, and genuinely wanted to make others smile. I cared deeply, sometimes too deeply, and I placed a lot of value on what others thought about me. Sports became one of the first places where I learned how quickly people can begin valuing what you do more than who you are.
As I became more successful athletically, I noticed a shift in how some people treated me. One experience has stayed with me since childhood. My fifth-grade teacher did not treat me well, and I believed race played a role in how I was treated. Years later, when I was succeeding as a high school athlete, that same teacher came to one of my games and suddenly wanted to reconnect with me.
That moment raised a question I would carry throughout my life:
How do you respond when people value what you can do for them more than they value who you are?
I prayed for discernment and asked God to help me navigate those moments with wisdom and grace. And I will admit part of me enjoyed the recognition. But as I grew, I had to learn something much deeper: I am not what I do.
Today, I am more grounded in who I am and in my faith. I have learned that maturity is not simply getting older. It is becoming secure enough in your identity that other people's opinions no longer have the power to define you or disrupt your peace.
My goal is to continue growing in Christ, treat people with love, and care more about what God thinks of me than what the world says about me. Because when your identity is rooted in something deeper, expectations don't have to control you. They can refine you.
My journey into this work comes from both lived experience and observation.
Throughout my life, I have experienced healthy and unhealthy environments. As an athlete, educator, coach, leader, mother, and entrepreneur, I have watched what happens when people feel valued and supported, and I have also seen what happens when they don't.
Over time, I began to recognize a pattern: people show up differently when they know they matter.
In healthy environments, people grow, connect, contribute, and become more confident. In unhealthy environments, people often shrink, disconnect, protect themselves, and sometimes lose sight of who they are.
That realization changed the way I thought about leadership and culture. I understood that creating healthier organizations and communities wasn't only about having better programs, policies, or strategies. It started with people becoming more self-aware. How do I show up? How do people experience me? What am I contributing to the environment around me?
That became the foundation of my work.
I often say that we are all planting seeds every day. Through our words, decisions, relationships, and leadership, we can plant seeds that bring life and connection, or seeds that create hurt and disconnection.
We won't get it right every time. But when we become intentional about how we show up, we can begin to transform ourselves, our relationships, our organizations, and ultimately our communities.
You don't need a title, position, or microphone to be a leader. Leadership begins with how you show up when no one is watching.
In this interactive keynote, Dr. Amber Hill challenges students to rethink what leadership really means. Through storytelling, reflection, and practical activities, students explore how their identity, choices, relationships, and everyday actions influence the culture around them.
Dr. Hill helps young leaders understand that they are planting seeds every day. Their words can build someone up or tear someone down. Their choices can create connection or division. And their influence can make a difference long before anyone gives them an official leadership title.
Students leave challenged to:
Signature takeaway:
You don't become a leader when someone gives you a title. You become a leader when you recognize that how you show up has the power to influence what happens next.
We live in a world that constantly asks, What do you do? What have you achieved? What's next? But what happens when the title changes, the season ends, the recognition fades, or the applause stops?
Drawing from her journey as a Division I athlete, educator, leader, entrepreneur, wife, and mother, Dr. Amber Hill explores the danger of building our identity around performance, achievement, titles, and other people's expectations.
This powerful keynote invites audiences to separate who they are from what they do, recognize the expectations that have shaped them, and reconnect with the values, purpose, and identity underneath their accomplishments.
Participants leave challenged to answer one important question:
If you removed the titles, accomplishments, roles, and applause, would you still know who you are?
Before leaders can transform a team, they have to be willing to examine themselves.
In this engaging keynote, Dr. Amber Hill challenges leaders to look beyond titles, strategies, and organizational charts and ask a more personal question: What is it like to be led by me?
Through storytelling, self-reflection, and practical strategies, Dr. Hill explores how self-awareness, emotional intelligence, relationships, and everyday behaviors shape workplace culture. Leaders will examine the seeds they plant through their words, decisions, and interactions and how those choices influence trust, connection, performance, and retention.
Audiences leave with a deeper understanding that leadership isn't simply about getting people to follow you. It's about creating an environment where people can become their best while they're with you.
Connection isn't a perk. It is the culture people experience every day.
In this engaging talk, Dr. Amber Hill explores the powerful connection between belonging, leadership, and organizational culture. People do their best work when they feel seen, heard, valued, and empowered to contribute. When connection is missing, even talented people can disengage, burn out, or leave.
Through personal stories, practical strategies, and her love-led approach to leadership, Dr. Hill challenges audiences to examine how they show up, the seeds they plant through everyday interactions, and the culture they are helping create.
Participants will walk away understanding that culture isn't built only through policies, programs, or mission statements. It is built in the everyday moments between people.
The question isn't simply, “Do people belong here?”
It's, “Do people experience belonging when they're with us?”