Global Keynote Speaker | English and Spanish
Expanding How Leaders Think, Build Trust, and Lead Across Cultures
Amalia Moreno-Damgaard brings global perspective, compelling storytelling, and Culture Through Cuisine™ together to challenge conventional thinking and strengthen leadership across cultures.
Drawing on a career spanning international banking, entrepreneurship, nonprofit leadership, authorship, and travel across all seven continents, Amalia explores how culture shapes communication, trust, decision-making, and the way people work together.
Her keynotes use food and the table as powerful cultural metaphors, creating an engaging entry point into deeper conversations about cultural intelligence, adaptability, reinvention, and leadership in an interconnected world. Each presentation is customized to the audience and may be delivered as a traditional keynote or enhanced with an interactive culinary component.
What Audiences Gain
- Expanded Perspective: A broader understanding of how culture and context influence leadership, relationships, and business.
- Practical Cultural Intelligence: Insights for listening more intentionally, navigating differences, and building trust across cultures.
- Leadership Through Change: Lessons in adaptability, resilience, and reinvention drawn from Amalia’s international banking career and entrepreneurial journey.
- Memorable Engagement: Storytelling, cultural insight, and optional culinary elements that make complex ideas accessible and lasting.
Signature Keynotes
- Mise en Place
A practical framework that equips leaders to prepare with intention, navigate change, and lead with greater clarity and purpose. - Leadership and Strategy at the Global Table
An engaging exploration of how cultural intelligence and global perspective strengthen trust, decision-making, and leadership across cultures. - The Unwritten Recipe
A compelling story of reinvention that inspires leaders and entrepreneurs to draw from their experiences, challenge prescribed paths, and create what comes next.
Each keynote is thoughtfully customized to reflect the audience, organizational priorities, and desired outcomes, with an optional Culture Through Cuisine™ culinary component.
Who Amalia Speaks For
- Corporate leadership teams and employee communities
- Conferences and professional associations
- Colleges and universities
- Nonprofit and community organizations
- Global and multicultural audiences
Invite Amalia to bring Culture Through Cuisine™ to your next conference, leadership gathering, or organizational event.
Amalia’s Presentations Include
- FEI Twin Cities 2026, Leadership and Strategy at the Global Table, keynote and culinary experience at Loffler Companies, St. Louis Park, Minnesota
- Blue Flame Culinary Studio, JT Mega Food Marketing 2026, experiential keynote, Mise en Place: Culinary Fundamentals From Preparation to Plate, St. Louis Park, Minnesota
- Immigrant Entrepreneurs Summit, Keynote Speaker, 2026 IES Minnesota Regional, Bloomington, Minnesota
- Carlson Executive Education, University of Minnesota, panelist, featured series: Inspire, Influence, and Impact, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Padilla, Speaker at Bubble Break Speaker Series, a platform that hosts creative problem solvers in our communities, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) National Small Business Week/ 2nd Annual Small Business Summit & Expo, SBA Champion Panelist, St. Paul, Minnesota
- Association of Women Business Owners President’s Address, Hall of Fame Gala, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- National Association of Women Business Owners President’s Address, Achieve Awards, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Cocina Sabrosa Trade Expo, Moderator “Mesa Redonda: Exploring Latin American Cuisine’s Emerging Trends in the Food and Beverage Industry”, Irving, Texas
- Cocina Sabrosa Trade Expo, Speaker ” From the Table Server to Table Setter”: A Culinary Journey of Career Transition, Entrepreneurship, and Self-Realization, Irving, Texas
- 3M, Speaker “We Are All Human Midwest Hispanic Summit”, Hispanic Heritage Month, community and partnership-building strategies, Minneapolis
- The International School of Minnesota (ISM), Graduation Speaker for the class of 2023
- The Risen Christ Catholic School Gala Emcee 2022 at the InterContinental Hotel: MSP-Airport
- SOPHOS, book launch presentations, Guatemala City
- Medtronic, Hispanic Heritage Month, multiple presentations
- Carleton College, Speaker, convocation address
- Fitch Ratings, New York, virtual career speech and culinary presentation
- RBC Wealth Management, Hispanic Heritage Month presentations
- Association of Corporate Growth (ACG), speaker, AIM: a Women’s Leadership Conference
- General Mills Women in Marketing Annual Conference, speaker, Minneapolis
- ECOLAB – HACER Network, Hispanic Heritage Month presentations
- Collegiate DECA Minnesota Association Fall Conference, speaker
- Prudential Insurance Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration
- Land O’Lakes Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration
- The University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) Entrepreneurship Conference, Association of Latino Professionals, speaker
- Boston Scientific, Hispanic Heritage Month presentations
- US Bank, Hispanic Heritage Month presentations
- Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis in partnership with ALPFA, speaker
- Target, Hispanic Heritage Month presentations
- Super Bowl LII Super Snack Challenge Speaker and Chef-Judge and speaker
- Wells Fargo, Hispanic Heritage Month presentations
- Women Chefs and Restaurateurs Conference-MN speaker and chef-judge
- Rock What You Got Women’s Expo Minneapolis, speaker, and panel moderator
- The World of the Latino Cuisine, New Jersey and Las Vegas presentations
