Founder | Advisor |Author | Speaker
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.
Work With Amy
Keynotes, conferences, leadership events, workshops, and retreats that help leaders navigate growth, change, and reinvention.
A trusted thought partner for leaders and organizations navigating growth, complexity, and change.
I work with founders, executives, nonprofit leaders, philanthropists, and foundations committed to creating meaningful impact.
Workshops and cohort-based learning experiences designed to help leaders navigate growth, complexity, and change with greater clarity, confidence, and leadership presence. Led by founder, author, speaker, and advisor Amy Meredith.
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.
