A keynote for the women who hold your building together.
Opening-day keynotes, professional development sessions and new-teacher induction for districts, ISDs and education associations. Canetha Amour-Porter speaks to the educator running on the last of herself in October.
A PD day your teachers do not resent.
You already know the look. Arms folded, laptop open, grading under the table. They are not being difficult. They are protecting the only hour they were going to get.
Roughly three quarters of your workforce is women, and most of them are carrying a classroom, a household and somebody else’s crisis before eight in the morning. Then they are handed a session on self-care with a worksheet.
Retention is a board-level problem in your district. What your teachers are carrying is the same problem, one week earlier.
You cannot pour into thirty children from an empty cup, and nobody in this building has asked you how full yours is.
Four talks, one throughline.
Every talk is rewritten for your room. An opening-day all-staff, a PD day breakout and a new-teacher induction each carry this differently, and the talk says so in their language.
You cannot pour from an empty cup
Nobody has asked how full yours is. What is actually being spent in a school year, and why the summer never fully refills it.
The tired that sleep cannot fix
Why the breaks never hold, why you were exhausted by the third week, and what rest alone does not replace.
Caring is not carrying
Boundaries for women who were raised to believe that saying no is the same as failing a child.
You cannot retain her if she is carrying yours
For the people who lead her. Why your strongest teacher leaves without warning, what she was absorbing before she went, and what a building leader can actually do.
Formats run from a single opening-day keynote to a PD series delivered across buildings, with participant workbooks and The Glue Woman™ Assessment included for every attendee.
What your staff walk out with.
Recognition
Your staff stop performing for the length of the talk. On an opening day or a PD day, that is a room that arrived braced and leaves softer.
Language
She leaves with words for something she has carried silently for years. Teachers say it back to each other in the hallway, which is where a building culture actually changes.
One thing she can do
Not a list, and not another initiative on top of the initiatives. One specific practice, and the reason it is the right one for where she actually is.
A way to keep going
The Glue Woman™ Assessment names which pattern she carries and what to do next, at no cost to her or to the district.
This is not borrowed material.
Most speakers on educator burnout are describing research. Canetha is describing a framework she built, tested on herself first, and has been running for twelve years. The Amour Women Foundation’s Title I work is not a talking point for her, it is Tuesday.
She lived it
She was the woman who held everything together until it cost her. The work began there, not in a library.
She built the framework
The Amour Method™ and its five pillars of holistic wealth: mental, physical, spiritual, relational and financial. Her own intellectual property, not a licensed curriculum.
She built the diagnostic
The Glue Woman™ Assessment names which of six patterns a woman carries and which of five stages she is in. Your attendees can take it the same day, at no cost.
Named an award winner
Winner of the 2025 Emerging Business Award from NAWBO Greater Detroit, the National Association of Women Business Owners.
She wrote the books
Four titles, including The Glue Woman™, with a workbook library women work through afterward.
She built the room, and institutions use it
Founder of the Amour Women Work Community in Troy, Michigan, where she hosts Inforum’s “Her Whole Self” Infinity Group on the first Tuesday of every month. She is not only speaking about community. She built one and runs it.
A limited number of dates each year are reserved for Schools, Churches, and Nonprofit Organizations.
“Canetha’s impact went far beyond a single demographic, she connected powerfully with our entire room, including our non-profit clients and leadership teams. She delivered clear, highly achievable strategies that our attendees were able to immediately put into action to drive fast, tangible results.”
Tell her the date, the room, and what your women need.
Twenty minutes is enough to know whether this is a fit. Bring your date, your audience, and what you need them to walk out with.
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