"Come and hear...and I will tell what He has done for my soul." Psalm 66
"Penny’s teaching style is honest, disarming, and deeply relatable. She speaks to high-capacity leaders, burned-out servants, and women carrying silent pressure, because she’s lived it."
- Rachel, Conference Attendee
Penny speaks to:
BUSINESS & MINISTRY LEADERSHIP & TEAMS
Throughout her 25+ year career, Penny Joy has served in executive leadership and C-suite roles across nonprofit organizations, churches, ministries, for-profit companies, and local government. Her leadership experience spans organizational development, strategic planning, communications, marketing, operations, team leadership, fundraising, and culture building. Having led teams through seasons of growth, transition, challenge, and transformation, Penny brings a unique perspective that bridges both the practical and spiritual dimensions of leadership.
As the author of Abiding Leadership, Penny teaches that leadership is far more than strategy, systems, and results. At its core, leadership is a reflection of the heart. Organizations often mirror the health, beliefs, and character of those who lead them, making personal transformation one of the most important aspects of sustainable leadership.
Through her keynote presentations, workshops, retreats, and masterminds, Penny helps leaders examine the internal drivers that influence how they lead, communicate, make decisions, build culture, and develop others. She addresses topics such as identity, emotional and spiritual health, servant leadership, navigating transitions, overcoming performance-driven leadership, building healthy teams, and leading with purpose and eternal significance.
Drawing from both extensive executive experience and deep biblical insight, Penny equips leaders to lead from a place of wholeness rather than striving, influence rather than position, and calling rather than ambition. Her message challenges leaders to move beyond simply achieving success and instead cultivate the character, wisdom, and spiritual maturity necessary to create lasting impact in the lives of those they serve.
Leaders leave Penny's presentations inspired, equipped, and empowered with practical tools to align their leadership with their values, strengthen their influence, and build organizations that flourish from the inside out.
Christian Women
Penny ministers to women in conferences, retreats, leadership events, and masterminds. Having walked through seasons of hardship, healing, growth, leadership, and reinvention, she brings both practical wisdom and spiritual insight to every audience. Penny's passion is helping women discover who they are in Christ, break free from limiting beliefs, and step boldly into God's calling for their lives. Through powerful storytelling, biblical truth, and genuine encouragement, she equips women to thrive spiritually, personally, and professionally in every season they face.
Speaker Bio
Hello!Penny Joy Burciaga is a wife and helpmate to her husband, Christopher, speaker, author, podcaster, entrepreneur, and ministry consultant who helps people move from striving and survival mode into a life of alignment, purpose, and eternal significance.
Her journey is anything but ordinary. Once a young, homeless, suicidal atheist searching for meaning, Penny encountered Jesus Christ during a suicide attempt and became an instant believer. That experience radically changed the course of her life. Since then, she has served as a missionary in Romania and Mexico, built successful businesses, led nonprofit organizations, worked in government and corporate leadership, and helped launch and grow multiple mission-driven ventures.
Drawing from nearly three decades of marriage, decades of leadership experience, and a lifetime of overcoming adversity, Penny brings a unique blend of biblical truth, practical wisdom, humor, and authenticity to every stage. Her messages resonate with leaders, entrepreneurs, ministry teams, women in transition, and anyone seeking to live with greater purpose and intentionality.
Penny is the creator of the Abide for Life Framework and host of the Abide with Penny Joy podcast, where she equips audiences around the world to align with God's Word, discover their identity in Christ, lead from a place of wholeness, and create lasting impact in every area of life.
Whether speaking on faith, leadership, personal transformation, relationships, purpose, or overcoming life's challenges, Penny's mission is simple: to help people abide deeply in Christ so they can live, lead, and love from God’s abiding presence.
"When we learn to abide in Christ, we stop striving for significance and start living from the abundance of who God created us to be."
HIGHLIGHTS:
Daughter of my King Jesus for 28+ years
Married 26+ years to my best friend and soul mate, Christopher
Host of the Abide with Penny Joy podcast
Creator of Abide for Life Framework
Featured on the cover of Women’s World magazine
Former missionary to Romania and Mexico
Founder of multiple non-profit ministries
25+ years of organizational leadership and administrative experience
Five years of C-Suite level leadership [Former CEO, Executive Director of International Ministries, and COO of 5+ million dollar health company]
Designer for Declare Streetwear Brand
Author of the Sacred Caverns fiction book series and non-profit leadership books
Signature Talk
Key Takeaways:
Discover how to break free from burnout, striving, and performance-driven living.
Learn how to anchor your identity in Christ rather than achievement, approval, or success.
Develop a practical framework for aligning every area of life and leadership with God's purpose.
Gain tools for sustainable personal growth, spiritual maturity, and developing others.
Lead with greater clarity, joy, and Kingdom impact by focusing on eternal significance.
The Abide Framework:
Transforming Leadership from the Inside Out
In an era defined by relentless demands and the pursuit of fleeting success, leaders in Christian business, ministry, and corporate environments often find themselves battling burnout, identity crises, and a disconnect from their core purpose and identity. The Abide Framework offers a transformative pathway to not just survive, but thrive, by integrating deep spiritual principles with practical strategies for personal growth and organizational flourishing, applicable to all areas of life, business, and ministry settings.
This signature talk, "The Abide Framework: Transforming Leadership from the Inside Out," introduces a powerful life-acronym designed to equip leaders with a roadmap for enduring success rooted in faith. Participants will discover how to:
A – Align with God’s Word: Re-establish a foundational truth that recalibrates mindset, identity, and direction, ensuring decisions are anchored in divine wisdom rather than worldly pressures.
B – Be Transformed in Mind and Body: Explore holistic renewal, addressing mental resilience, breaking free from performance-driven validation, and honoring the body as an integral part of spiritual stewardship.
I - Identity in Christ: Dismantle false identities built on achievement or approval, restoring an unshakable sense of worth and purpose that liberates leaders from exhaustion and insecurity.
D – Develop: Understand that true discipleship is not about striving, but abiding. This pillar reveals how staying connected to the "Vine" naturally cultivates character, matures faith, and equips leaders to multiply their impact by developing others.
E – Eternal Significance: Shift perspective from temporary gains to lasting Kingdom impact, inspiring leaders to lead with a vision that transcends immediate challenges and contributes to a legacy of eternal value.
Through engaging insights, relatable anecdotes, and actionable takeaways, this presentation empowers leaders to move beyond mere survival to a life and leadership reflecting profound purpose, sustainable growth, and an unshakeable identity. It is an invitation to embrace a framework where abiding in Christ becomes the wellspring of all personal and professional fruitfulness, leading to a more impactful, joyful, and eternally significant journey.
Additional Speaking Topics
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Custom Topics Available
Every audience is unique. Penny works closely with event organizers to develop customized presentations tailored to the specific goals, challenges, and needs of their organization, conference, ministry, or event.
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From Test to Testimony
Every life contains moments of heartbreak, disappointment, and struggle, but God rarely wastes our pain. Through her own journey from homelessness, hopelessness, and brokenness to purpose and impact, Penny shares how God transforms our greatest tests into powerful testimonies that encourage and inspire others.
Turning Pain Into Purpose
The very experiences we wish we could erase often become the foundation for our greatest calling. This inspiring message helps audiences discover how God can redeem pain, loss, failure, and adversity into purpose, influence, and lasting impact.
From Victim to Victorious: The Mindset That Matters
The stories we tell ourselves shape the lives we create. This empowering presentation reveals how shifting from a victim mindset to a victorious, faith-filled perspective can transform relationships, decisions, resilience, and overall fulfillment.
Mindset of the Master Jesus: The Keys for Lasting Transformation
Jesus modeled a way of thinking that produced extraordinary peace, purpose, wisdom, and influence. Drawing from biblical principles and personal experience, Penny reveals how adopting the mindset of Christ leads to lasting transformation from the inside out.
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How to Turn a Mid-Life Crisis into a Mid-Life Celebration
Midlife is not the beginning of the end, it's an invitation to begin again. Penny equips audiences to navigate life's transitions with confidence, embrace new possibilities, and step into their next season with renewed purpose and excitement.
How to Navigate the Transitions of Life with Love and Grace
Whether facing career changes, health challenges, family shifts, or unexpected detours, transitions can feel overwhelming. Penny shares practical wisdom and biblical principles for embracing change with faith, resilience, and grace.
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Marriage Made in Heaven: How to Have a Love of a Lifetime
After more than 26+ years of marriage, Penny shares timeless principles for building a relationship that grows stronger through life's challenges. Audiences will learn practical insights on communication, forgiveness, commitment, and creating a marriage that thrives for decades.
Mirrors of the Soul: How God Uses Relationships to Reveal and Heal
Relationships often reveal what lies beneath the surface of our hearts. This powerful message explores how God uses our interactions with others to expose wounds, refine character, bring healing, and deepen our spiritual growth.
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The Performance Trap: How to Find Rest for Your Soul
Many people spend their lives chasing achievement while neglecting the deeper needs of the heart. This transformative message helps audiences break free from striving, burnout, and people-pleasing to discover the peace and freedom found in abiding with God.
Head and Heart Coherence: How to Live a Congruent Life
True transformation happens when what we believe, what we feel, and how we live are aligned. Penny teaches how to cultivate integrity, authenticity, and alignment between faith, values, decisions, and daily actions.
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Lessons in Leadership & Brand Building
Drawing from decades of experience leading organizations, building brands, launching initiatives, and navigating both successes and failures, Penny shares practical lessons on leadership, influence, communication, and creating a mission-driven brand that leaves a lasting impact.
PROCESS AND HOW I WORK WITH YOU
My goal is simple: to help people move from from striving to abiding, and from information to transformation.
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Connect & Clarify
Every event begins with a conversation. We discuss your audience, goals, theme, and desired outcomes so the message aligns with your vision and serves your people well.
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Customize & Prepare
No two audiences are the same.
Each keynote, workshop, or retreat experience is thoughtfully tailored to your organization, with collaborative planning to ensure a seamless event.
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Inspire & Equip
Through authentic storytelling, biblical wisdom, and practical leadership insights, participants leave encouraged, challenged, and equipped with actionable takeaways they can apply long after the event ends.
FAQs
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Penny speaks on leadership, faith, personal growth, purpose, resilience, navigating life transitions, organizational development, and her signature framework, Abiding Leadership: Leading from the Inside Out.
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Penny speaks to businesses, nonprofits, ministry leaders, churches, women's groups, conferences, leadership teams, and community organizations seeking practical and transformational content.
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Absolutely. Every presentation is tailored to the goals, theme, audience, and desired outcomes of your event.
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Keynotes, workshops, breakout sessions, retreats, leadership trainings, master-minds, panel discussions, podcasts, webinars, and virtual events.
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Yes. Penny is available for both in-person and virtual events. Travel availability and logistics are discussed during the discovery process.
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Your engagement includes a planning consultation, customized content, event coordination support, professional promotional materials, and post-event resources when appropriate.
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While last-minute opportunities may be available, booking several months in advance is recommended to secure your preferred date.
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Yes. Penny regularly presents virtually and can deliver engaging sessions for remote teams, conferences, ministries, and organizations worldwide.
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Speaking fees vary depending on the event type, location, audience size, and format. Please inquire for a customized proposal.
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Simply complete the inquiry form or schedule a discovery call to discuss your event, goals, and potential next steps.
