Turning Research Into Action. Building People, Programs, and Possibility.
Higher education is changing—and the way we lead, support students, develop professionals, and design programs has to change with it.
Dr. AMO Consulting, LLC partners with colleges and universities, professional associations, student affairs teams, and organizations to transform research and theory into practical strategies that create meaningful change.
Led by Dr. Amber Manning-Ouellette, Dr. AMO Consulting brings together scholarship, leadership, student development, organizational strategy, and practitioner experience to create engaging experiences that move audiences from “That’s interesting” to “I can use this.”
Whether you are looking for a keynote that challenges the way your organization thinks, an interactive workshop that equips participants with new skills, or a presentation that connects research to practice, Dr. AMO Consulting creates experiences designed for your audience and your goals.
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Keynotes
Big Ideas. Bold Conversations. Meaningful Change.
Keynotes with Dr. AMO Consulting are designed to challenge assumptions, inspire new ways of thinking, and leave audiences with ideas they can carry into their work.
Featured Keynote Topics
Well-Being is Not a Department
Reimagining student well-being as a shared institutional responsibility rather than the work of a single office or profession.
Leading Through Change: From Adaptation to Agency
How leaders can move beyond simply responding to change and instead create the conditions for people and organizations to shape what comes next.
The Future of Student Affairs is Everyone’s Work
Exploring how collaboration, connection, and shared responsibility can transform the way institutions support students.
Generative Leadership: Growing Leaders Who Grow Others
Moving leadership development beyond leadership positions to create cultures where people develop, mentor, and empower one another.
From Transactional to Transformational: Rethinking Student Support
Examining how institutions can design student support that prioritizes connection, development, belonging, and meaningful engagement.
The Leadership Transfer Problem
Why organizations struggle when student and organizational leaders transition—and how intentional mentoring and leadership transfer can build sustainable organizations.
Career Readiness is More Than a Resume
Reimagining career development as an ongoing process of reflection, identity development, exploration, and connection rather than simply preparation for employment.
Sexual Health is Student Health
Exploring why comprehensive sexual health education belongs within conversations about student wellness, prevention, belonging, and student success.
Looking Upstream: What Emerging Adults Can Teach Us About Preventing Sexual Violence in Youth
From Emerging Adults to Early Prevention: Translating What We Know Into Youth Sexual Violence Prevention
Keynotes can be customized for your institution, organization, conference theme, or audience.
High-Engagement Workshops
Don’t Just Sit and Listen. Learn, Reflect, Create, and Do.
The best professional development does more than deliver information. It creates space for people to practice, reflect, collaborate, and apply.
Dr. AMO Consulting workshops combine research-informed content with facilitated activities, discussion, reflection, case studies, and practical application.
Workshop Topics
Designing for Generative Leadership Transfer
Build intentional systems for mentoring, leadership transition, and organizational continuity within student organizations.
From Officer Transition to Leadership Development
Move beyond the traditional “here’s what you need to know” transition process and create experiences that develop leadership capacity.
Building Mentoring Cultures That Actually Work
Explore the difference between assigning mentors and creating meaningful mentoring relationships that support learning, identity, and organizational success.
Leading Through Uncertainty
Develop practical strategies for navigating organizational change while maintaining purpose, connection, and momentum.
Leadership Theory Evolved Take a journey through how leadership has evolved over time. This session will highlight several foundational leadership approaches and theoretical frameworks to inform your leadership practice. The program will offer application of how to implement these into our work.
Finding and Sustaining Your Voice Great leaders step up in small moments and in times of crisis no matter their title. When you see injustice, what will you do? Will you have the courage and confidence to stand up for others? In this session, you will learn how to confidently use your voice to lead positive change.
The Reflective Practitioner
Use structured reflection to strengthen professional learning, decision-making, supervision, and leadership development.
Career Readiness Beyond the Checklist
Explore flexible approaches to career development that meet students where they are and connect reflection, coaching, identity, and action.
Designing Student Support Around Connection
Examine how institutions can build student support systems that are relational, developmental, and responsive.
From Research to Practice
Learn how to translate scholarship and assessment findings into programs, policies, and practices that practitioners can actually use.
Developing Future-Ready Student Affairs Professionals
Identify the knowledge, skills, mindsets, and developmental experiences professionals need to navigate an evolving higher education landscape.
Mapping it out: Effectively Aligning FYS Courses with Student Milestones, Development, Activities, and Competencies FYS instructors at many institutions often struggle with selecting and implementing effective course activities, course content, competencies, and assignments. This workshop focuses on aligning and effectively mapping first year student milestones, development, course competencies, activities, and assessment. The more instructor’s learn how to align their courses with student’s development, the more effective first year learning, agency, and critical thinking can take place. Participants will learn several strategies for aligning courses, historically effective FYS activities and assignments, and opportunities for assessment. This interactive workshop will offer several experiential opportunities for course planning.
Individualized Learning in the First-year This pre-conference sessions provides concrete ways of developing curriculum inclusive to gendered learning styles, in particular we examine and provide strategies for working with first-year women as well as underrepresented students at the university level. Creating communities of student leaders and fostering the skills that will enhance their voice, identity development, and connection to critical thinking is vital in a university setting. We hope to produce competent leaders who will give back to their communities and engage others in critical ideas and professional development.
Presentations & Professional Development
Research You Can Use. Ideas You Can Take With You.
Looking for a session that is grounded in scholarship but doesn’t feel like a lecture?
Dr. AMO Consulting presentations connect research, theory, and practice in ways that are relevant to today’s higher education professionals.
Topics can include:
Student development theory in practice
Leadership education and development
Socially just leadership
Student engagement and belonging
First-generation student success
Career development and career readiness
Student sexuality and sexual health education
Student well-being and holistic support
Mentoring and supervision
Organizational leadership and change
Assessment and evidence-informed practice
Graduate student and emerging scholar development
Preparing the next generation of student affairs professionals
Translating research into practice
Designing developmental programs for college students
More Than a Speaker
A Partner in Your Organization’s Growth
Every campus, organization, and audience is different.
Dr. AMO Consulting works with you before the session to understand your audience, context, goals, and challenges. Sessions can be customized to fit your institutional priorities, professional development needs, conference theme, or strategic initiatives.
What You Can Expect
Research-informed
Grounded in scholarship, theory, and evidence.
Highly engaging
Designed around conversation, reflection, application, and participation.
Practical
Participants leave with strategies, tools, and ideas they can put into practice.
Customized
Your audience is not an afterthought. Sessions are designed with your context in mind.
Thought-provoking
Expect participants to question assumptions, explore possibilities, and consider what comes next.
Bring Dr. AMO Consulting to Your Campus or Organization
Whether you’re planning a conference keynote, professional development experience, retreat, leadership program, staff development series, or campus initiative, let’s create an experience that fits your people and your purpose.
Let’s Move From Ideas to Action.
Invite Dr. AMO Consulting to your next event.
To Request a keynote, workshop, presentation, and/or consulting, please send an email to dramoleaders@gmail.com with the following information: Name of event, date, proposed time, location, and preferred topic area.
Contact Dr. AMO Consulting: dramoleaders@gmail.com
Dr. AMO Consulting, LLC
Research. Leadership. Learning. Change.
Helping higher education professionals and organizations turn good ideas into meaningful action.
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