Helping leaders navigate growth, transition, and increasing responsibility with clarity, confidence, and integrity.
Amy brings clarity, discernment, and lived leadership experience to conversations where decisions matter. Drawing on her experience as a founder, CEO, author, and speaker, she helps leaders navigate growth, responsibility, and change with greater confidence, intention, and impact.
Amy Meredith is the founder of UP for Women & Children, Louisville’s first daytime safe space for women and children experiencing homelessness. Over eight years, she led the organization from startup to a $1.6M nonprofit serving more than 2,000 women and children annually.
Today, she brings that experience to speaking, advisory work, and leadership conversations focused on growth, transition, communication, and sustainable leadership.
Recognized as a Most Admired CEO by Business First Louisville, Amy is a national advocate for women and families.
Why Amy
Amy’s work and leadership have been featured in:
Work With Amy
Speaking
Keynotes, conferences, panels, and leadership events that help leaders navigate growth and transition with greater clarity, confidence, and purpose.
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
Available for keynotes, leadership summits, and retreats.
Advisory
A trusted thought partner for leaders and organizations navigating growth, complexity, and change.
Amy works with founders, executives, nonprofit leaders, philanthropists, foundations, and mission-driven organizations seeking greater clarity, alignment, and impact.
Workshops & Cohorts
Interactive leadership development experiences focused on clarity, communication, and executive presence.
Delivered for:
Corporate ERGs
Leadership programs
Nonprofit and founder audiences
National conferences
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.
