A keynote for the women who hold your hospital together.
Nurses Week keynotes, nurse leadership retreats and burnout programming for health systems. Canetha Amour-Porter speaks to the nurse who is running on the last of herself and calling it a normal Tuesday.
Your nurses have never been short on resilience.
Every wellbeing vendor who walks into your building sells the same thing. Resilience training. Coping skills. A breathing exercise and an app.
Watch a nurse’s face while she is being taught to be more resilient. She has been resilient through a pandemic, through short staffing, through a family standing in the hallway on the worst day of their lives, through a twelve-hour shift where she never sat down once. Resilience is the only reason she is still standing in front of you.
What she hears in that room is that the problem is her coping. So she nods, she takes the handout, and she goes back out and absorbs more. Six months later she is a resignation nobody saw coming.
Your nurses do not need to be taught resilience. They have more of it than anyone in this building. They need permission to put something down.
Four talks, one throughline.
Every talk is rewritten for your room. A Nurses Week audience, a nurse leadership retreat and a new-graduate residency cohort each carry this differently, and the talk says so in their language.
The tired that sleep cannot fix
Why the days off never hold, why the vacation wore off by Tuesday, and what is actually being spent that rest does not replace.
When caring for others is the job
Sustainability for the professions where giving is the work, without asking anyone to care less about the patient in front of them.
Caring is not carrying
Boundaries for women who were raised to believe that saying no is the same as abandoning someone. In a hospital, that belief shows up as a line on your turnover report.
You cannot retain her if she is carrying yours
For the people who lead her. Why your most reliable nurse leaves without warning, what she was absorbing before she went, and what a manager can actually do about it.
Formats run from a single Nurses Week keynote to a multi-session series delivered across shifts and campuses, with participant workbooks and The Glue Woman™ Assessment included for every attendee.
What your nurses walk out with.
Recognition
Canetha does not ask a room to open up. She makes it safe enough that it does. For most of your staff it is the first hour all week that nobody needs anything from them, and the performing stops.
Language
She leaves with words for something she has carried silently for years and could not name until this morning. Nurses say it back to each other in the hallway afterward, which is where a culture actually changes.
One thing she can do
Not a list, and not another program to keep up with. 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 your budget.
This is not borrowed material.
Most speakers on clinician burnout are describing research. Canetha is describing a system she built, tested on herself first, and has been running for twelve years.
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 truly has a passion to help people, and in turn, people are drawn to her and can never get enough of her words of wisdom and positivity when it comes to promoting them!”
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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