Amilya's Bio

Amilya Antonetti is a best selling author and regarded as one of the most inspiring female business groundbreakers of our day.  Her genuine David and Goliath story has touched millions. Featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show and in the best selling Chicken Soup for The Soul books, her story has even become required study at many business schools. She is the founder of Amilya's Soapworks, an award winning green business pioneer who helped take green to mainstream, redefining the way American consumers shop and how the world's largest consumer products companies do business.

Amilya was a working mom when her newborn son David began experiencing frightening symptoms that forced her to spend his first years in hospital emergency rooms, leaving her career to care for her son. Soon she discovered it was the side effects of toxic ingredients in many common household products unsuspectingly causing David serious harm. In that moment, she vowed to help families everywhere and reveal what she had uncovered.

With her grandmother's help she developed a recipe to make her own pure cleaning products and began giving them to friends and neighbors. With little money, experience or help she transformed herself from mom to crusader to CEO taking on the impossible tasks of challenging the giants of the household industry and convincing consumers to change how they think.

Moving people to action by her genuineness, she created a grassroots effort retail giants could not ignore. Amilya risked everything; her story spread and her passion grew into a business as people across the country clamored for Amilya's Soapworks. In a few years, Amilya's Soapworks went from kitchen table startup to success story, selling side by side with global brands, and soon, they were following her example.

Under Amilya's Leadership by Authenticity, she and her team grew Amilya's Soapworks from an inspiration to a multi-million dollar enterprise breaking down the doors of the country's largest retailers to bring green to mainstream and taking on the giants of the consumer products industry in the process.

Amilya is memorable and her impact on organizations is significant. Her story leaves audiences speaking of feeling a personal connection that allows them to hear, retain and use the actionable information she provides and be inspired by her example.

Amilya's Philosophy of Authenticity has a transforming power on everyone she reaches. Amilya teaches leadership and team building techniques from her own playbook of hard learned experience sharing the details of her success and the skills she learned on her journey.  Her moving presentations inspire groups to discover their authenticity and empower individuals to lead by example for the betterment of the team as well as a greater good.

Since the private sale of Soapworks, Amilya has moved on as CEO of AMA Productions and continues to evangelize her positive message through her books, speaking engagements and websites. She shares her personal story of near tragedy to triumph offering life changing strategies and actionable tools to help organizations and individuals make real change and achieve significant results.

Amilya's Featured Topics:

One Idea Can Change The World - Keynote

An inspiring look at a mother's mission to save her son, the personal sacrifice and passionate commitment she made that would take her from the hospital emergency room to CEO of a multi-million dollar company that changed the way America's largest consumer product companies do business. Amilya shows that when authentic purpose and passion come together, one simple idea can change the world.

The Seven Steps Of Building Authentic Teams

Building a self motivated, goal oriented team committed to results led by a common vision is the reward for following The Seven Steps of Building Authentic Teams. This dynamic presentation is designed for leaders responsible for achieving results on demanding projects that require the commitment and energy of a unified team.

Organizational leaders know the results a motivated group of professionals can achieve as well as the bottlenecks when just one team member is not on the same page. The Seven Steps of Building Authentic Teams teaches participants how to define, build, recognize and reward by guiding them to excellence. In doing so, this creates a culture of knowledge and trust as well as a satisfied group of individuals who remain engaged and focused on the greater purpose.

Leading with Authenticity

This powerful presentation is designed for executives, managers and supervisors responsible for leading people and achieving performance objectives in a fast paced environment. Leading with Authenticity teaches a value driven approach that makes use of the internal compass of every team member to benefit both the organization and emotionally reward all of its members, with recognition, trust and accomplishment.

Participants challenge their preconceptions of themselves and their role as leaders learning techniques for creating and sharing an authentic vision and a new path of personal development. In parallel, the organization benefits from the renewed confidence, conviction and self-awareness of its team who will become better focused on the longer-term needs of the business.

Everyone wants a lucky break, but successful people seem to have the ability to create them and everyone wants to know how. This is an inside look at the beliefs of an entrepreneur and how adherence to them have allowed Amilya and countless other successful individuals to push limits, cause disruption and move through what others saw as boundaries. Whether you run a large corporation, manage a division, are self-employed or looking to jump start your life, learning to adopt the mind set of an entrepreneur can give you a new perspective that will bring positive movement to your life.

Herding Cats : Women Supporting Women

Women can be their own worst enemies; and getting them to work together and support one another is not always an easy task. Amilya addresses this sensitive issue openly and candidly to help women recognize their own self limiting behaviors and acknowledge the opportunities women have to enhance one another’s success and simultaneously defeat their greatest enemy, themselves.  Presented as a team building workshop or keynote, this timely topic can make an immediate positive shift in the work environment and your personal success strategy.

Green is a Dirty Word...

Everyone is talking “Green” today but it wasn’t too long ago that Green speak was a dirty word and the businesses and the people who worked passionately to popularize it were marginalized and their products relegated to the bottom row of specialty store shelves.  Years later though the tenacity of advocates and entrepreneurs like Amilya Antonetti has paid off, Green has become the new black and every person and every business is clamoring to get on board, but what does being green really mean to main street America?

In this enlightening presentation Amilya shares part of her life altering  journey from everyday consumer to crusader and answers some of the most pressing questions people have today about being “mainstream green”. Is human health and earth health the same? What are the real pro’s in going green in your home, for you personally and for your family? How hard is it? What are the costs? And most importantly, is it who you are or do you have to loose “you” to be “Green”