Founder | Advisor |Author | Speaker
Leadership Advisory & Speaking
Amy speaks to leaders navigating growth, responsibility, and change—bringing clarity, grounded judgment, and lived leadership experience into rooms where decisions matter.
Her keynotes and conversations draw from founding and scaling organizations, leading through complexity, and the ongoing work of staying true to yourself as expectations expand. Amy’s speaking is thoughtful, steady, and relatable —designed to meet leaders where they are and leave them clearer about what comes next.
Speaking & Workshops
Topics include:
Leading with confidence and integrity as stakes grow
Boundaries, discernment, and sustainable leadership
Identity shifts, reinvention, and founder transition
Clarity and decision-making in complex environments
Leadership presence and communication under pressure
Delivered for:
Corporate ERGs
Leadership programs
Nonprofit and founder audiences
National conferences
Available for keynotes, leadership gatherings, and retreats.
Founder of UP for Women and Children, scaled to a $1.6M organization serving more than 2,000 women and children annually. Recognized as a Most Admired CEO and national advocate for women and leadership.
I help leaders and organizations navigate growth, transition, and high-stakes moments with clarity, presence, and strategic insight.
Civic Leader, Author, and Founder
Amy Meredith is a nationally recognized nonprofit founder, anuthor and award-winning CEO whose work is grounded in lived leadership experience and sound judgment. She works with founders and experienced leaders navigating growth, complexity, and change—bringing clarity to moments when decisions carry real weight.
Amy’s work and leadership have been featured in:
A Leader Shaped by Life, Not Just Leadership
Amy didn’t set out to become an Executive Director.
Or a founder.
Or a public voice in national conversations about women, homelessness, and trauma-informed leadership.
She stepped into the work because she believed women deserved safety, dignity, and a place to land when everything else had fallen apart. Over seven years, she grew a small-but-urgent idea into a seven-figure nonprofit, expanded services for women and families, and became a trusted leader across Louisville’s social-impact ecosystem.
But during those same years, she was navigating her own private transitions — motherhood, grief, identity shifts, neurodivergent self-discovery, and the quiet work of rebuilding a self she hadn’t met yet.
The leadership lessons that changed her most weren’t found in conference rooms or strategic plans.
They were found in the moments that required self-trust, discernment, courage, and the willingness to grow beyond former versions of herself.
That perspective now shapes her writing, speaking, and leadership work today.
This is the wisdom she brings into her writing, her speaking, and her work with women and leaders today.
