Stop Surviving Your Career Transition: Build the Resilience to Move Forward
with Amy Looper
Career transitions can shake more than your résumé. A layoff, job search, career pivot, burnout, or unexpected life change can challenge your confidence, identity, and sense of direction.
When uncertainty stretches on, it’s easy to slip into survival mode—overthinking every decision, questioning your value, comparing yourself to others, or becoming so overwhelmed that you stop taking the actions that could move you forward.
In this practical and encouraging session, Amy Looper, Founder of Resilient Growth and leadership and resilience expert, will help participants understand how to move out of survival mode and approach their next chapter with greater clarity, confidence, and intention.
Using Amy’s 5 Cornerstones of Resilience, participants will learn how to:
> Courage - Take meaningful action even when the outcome is uncertain.
> Commitment - Stay engaged with your goals instead of allowing setbacks to define your direction.
> Compassion - Navigate career change without turning disappointment, rejection, or uncertainty into self-criticism.
> Connection - Build relationships and support systems that create opportunity and resilience.
> Confidence - Rebuild self-trust and show up powerfully for the opportunities ahead.
Participants will leave with practical tools to regulate stress, challenge the patterns that keep them stuck, and take courageous action toward what comes next.
Your career transition doesn't have to be a season of waiting. It can become a season of rebuilding.
Amy Looper is a global speaker and trauma-informed coach who has equipped thousands of people worldwide to break free from burnout, chronic stress, and anxiety so they can lead lives of greater joy, freedom, and peace.
Known for her relatable style and practical strategies, Amy helps audiences at every level navigate uncertainty with confidence and thrive in high-pressure environments through her signature framework, The 5 Cornerstones of Resilience.
After experiencing profound challenges in early motherhood, Amy founded Resilient Growth, a personal development company based in Phoenix, Arizona. Drawing from her lived experience and professional training as a certified trauma and resilience coach, she developed the Resilient Growth Method to empower high achievers to rebuild and rise stronger after major life transitions.
Amy has partnered with leaders at organizations including Dell Technologies, Deloitte, Vonage, Harvard Business School, and Outreach.io. She is also the author of Leading Motherhood: Surrendering to Faith Over Fear From the Delivery Room to the Boardroom and holds certification in Trauma & Resiliency from the Arizona Trauma Institute.
Career GPS: Navigate Toward Work That Fits
with Aysha Bell
Your career has a story — and it’s been telling you something all along. Career GPS: Navigate Toward Work That Fits You is a brief, candid session that helps participants connect the dots between where they’ve been and where they’re going. Through the M.A.P. framework — Moments that Matter(ed), Authentic Awareness, and Powerful Pursuit — attendees uncover the experiences that shaped them, grow in self-awareness, and learn how to pursue career opportunities with confidence and intention. Participants leave equipped with a personalized roadmap for what’s next, reminded that the life they’ve lived has already been preparing them for the next phase of their journey.
Aysha Bell, MA, has had a steadily advancing career at Grand Canyon University since 2012, serving in a range of roles which have shaped career development, leadership programming, student worker new hire orientation, and specialized initiatives for undergraduate, graduate, and recent graduate populations.
In 2023, Aysha assumed the role of Executive Director of Career Services where she currently directs the strategic planning, development, and execution of career programs and employer relationships designed to elevate students’ career readiness and post-graduate success.
With a diverse background spanning social services, talent acquisition, and government, in addition to higher education, Aysha brings a multidisciplinary perspective to her position. Aysha holds a Bachelor of Science in Communication from Indiana State University and a Master of Arts in Christian Leadership from Grand Canyon University, and she is a certified life coach.
Deeply committed to service, Aysha actively gives back to her local community and supports others in their career, personal, and spiritual growth. Above all, she treasures time with her husband and two daughters who she adores and considers the absolute most important aspect of her life.
Plus Stay for Expert Breakout Rooms After the Main Sessions
After the presentations, you’ll have the opportunity to join small-group breakout rooms and connect directly with career experts who can support your next step.
Meet with specialists including resume writers, career coaches, LinkedIn coaches, finance coaches, and other professionals who can help you strengthen your job search, improve your positioning, and move forward with more clarity and confidence.
Whether you need help refining your resume, improving your LinkedIn presence, navigating your next career move, or understanding the financial side of a transition, these breakout rooms are designed to give you practical guidance and personal connection.
Come for the expert sessions. Stay for the conversations, connections, and support that can help you take action.