Peace over Performance for Leadership and Life

The power of allowing our peace to fuel our performance

In this journey and introduction of Peace Over Performance, executive coach, speaker and writer, Amy Balog helps us consider a profound shift in how we understand ourselves, our leadership, and life. Through our time together we will explore the paradigm shift of inner peace as our true fuel to our performance – regardless of circumstances. In our work and lives we are pulled in too many directions – and it has accelerated in the extreme of COVID times, yet we have an entirely new capacity when our peace becomes, not just an ideal, but a practical duet to our performance in life. In our time with Amy, she will help us consider Peace Over Performance as it impacts our :

Identity and worth
Leadership capacity
Making room in life for growth and joy (that can only come when we know our Peace Self)

Amy Balog Founder of ConnextionPoint Services LLC

As an executive coach, facilitator, writer, and speaker, Amy wakes up every morning and pursues her passionate mission to help leaders understand their inner peace as the fuel to their performance – upon which she coined the phrase peace over performance. Before launching ConnextionPoint in 2008, Amy spent seventeen years leading sales and solution practices across global firms in the management consulting and system integration industries. Amy discovered how deeply she loved leadership when she came across Daniel Goleman’s book Working with Emotional Intelligence which reframed how she engaged with her teams, clients, and peers. The practical learnings from real world applications of emotional intelligence skills turned out to be the seed that would inspire Amy to take a courageous step in 2008, with the economy shuttering, and leave her established career to launch ConnextionPoint.

Now running strong twelve years in, ConnextionPoint offers a unique executive leadership and team growth experiences. Amy’s services have been engaged by diverse clients of Fortune 500 organizations across the healthcare, media, high tech, energy, and manufacturing sectors working with current and rising executives pioneering bold change. In addition to her own programs, Amy is a certified practitioner for numerous global talent and leadership platforms, including the HOGAN Leadership Forecast System, Decision Dynamics, The Harrison Assessment, and Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument.

Alongside of keeping an active executive coach roster, Amy has developed corporate leadership training experiences to bring calm and connection in an increasingly chaotic world. Currently released ConnextionPoint training programs include Liberate Your Listener™ and Feedback Mastery.

Additionally, Amy is a frequent public speaker, a guest on popular leadership podcasts, and a prolific writer on LinkedIn on the topic of Peace Over Performance – you can find Amy’s daily writings on the topic under the hashtag #peaceoverperformance or on the Facebook ConnextionPoint page. Recently Amy was the featured guest webinar speaker with Nashville’s Faith and Work Institute on Peace Over Performance: Centered Leadership in Disorienting Times.

Amy is also a Leadercast collaborating partner and contributor and a strategic partner with Next Element, a learning solution provider for the Compassion Mindset™.

Amy lives in Atlanta with her husband Chad where they downsized from the suburbs to a Buckhead high rise she refers to as the cottage in the sky which offers spanning sunset views that inspire Amy to share daily insights across all venues of her leadership practice – that our inner peace profoundly shapes our performance and purpose – and ultimately, our leadership.