Designing Thriving
Organizations
Inspiring leaders to foster meaningful change, co-create thriving workplaces, and build brave spaces where people are valued, heard, and able to contribute their best selves.
Our world is getting increasingly more complex, volatile, uncertain, and ambiguous.
This swift change has left many feeling burnt out, disconnected, and lonely.
To thrive, we must evolve to meet the moment.
What makes a healthy organization?
Throughout my career, I’ve pondered this question, considering:
Who makes up the organization?
What are their roles and challenges?
How and where do they work?
How do they feel?
Many workplaces, whether intentionally designed or not, no longer serve us effectively. It’s time to reassess and redefine our relationship with work.
My Approach
I collaborate with organizations to:
Design strategies that align with current realities.
Empower individuals to recognize and advocate for their needs.
Unpack inherited patterns from our past and present.
I co-create cultures and systems rooted in
Emotional Intelligence and Innovation
These domains require:
Change: both personal and organizational transformations.
Context: understanding unique cultural nuances to drive evolution.
While complex, this work is both challenging and rewarding.
Change and Context Requires Emotional Intelligence
Successful leaders today:
Understands Challenges
Commitment to meeting the needs of employees and customers.
Designs and Leads without Ego
Co-creating products, programs, or services that resonate with audiences.
Delivers Excellence
Providing top-notch, equitable offerings.
Organizational Change: A Movement,
not Just a Mandate.
MY BOOK
Empathy for Change:
How to Create a More Understanding World
Leading change isn’t about moving fast and breaking things—it’s about using empathy to make our world better.
Empathy in Action Framework & Guide
(Formerly called the Heart, Head, and Hand Framework)
This framework emphasizes sustainable change by:
Building the right culture, structure, and systems.
Centering design on the worker’s voice.
Prioritizing co-creation over outdated systems.
It fosters community and trust, enabling organizations to fundamentally shift their culture and systems for the better.
JUMP IN!
Choose Your Own Adventure
My Services
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Clarify focus, understand stakeholders, and appreciate current strengths.
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Co-create ideal states and strategies, incubate innovations, and craft compelling narratives
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Develop strategies, design experiments, empower leaders, and ensure continuous learning.
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Offer expertise in areas like co-creation, design thinking, empathy in the workplace, equity design, innovation strategy, and more.
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Guide groups to collaborate effectively, ensuring everyone feels seen and heard, leading to actionable outcomes.
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Provide individual, group, and executive coaching to develop personal capabilities, interpersonal skills, and empathy.
I'VE WORKED WITH |
I'VE WORKED WITH |
Client Testimonials
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Workshop Facilitation
“I have been part of many programs and never have I felt so deeply connected with a group of colleagues so quickly.
You have paved the way for dozens of amazing friendships to develop over the next several years, and we are all incredibly grateful!”
- Trey, Federal Government Partner
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Transformation + Community Design
“I could not be more excited about our results. Thank you for being our compass to achieve great things together.”
Hind, DEI Partner
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Transformation Management
“Amy is a jack of all trades who somehow manages to be organized, knowledgeable, poised, perceptive, dedicated, action-oriented, adaptable and highly ambitious, all at the same time.
She is an inspiration and undisputed natural leader to all. I have full confidence in Amy's ability to excel at any challenge thrown her way.”
Kaylee Schwitzer-Yarrow, Head of Design Operations, Walmart
