When the usual explanations
stop holding up.
The strategy is credible. The technology works. And progress has stalled anyway. That's usually when leaders bring me in. Not to revisit the strategy or upgrade the tools—but to diagnose what the organization actually needs to absorb what it's being asked to do. The gap is almost never where it appears.
Workshop Design & Delivery
Turning Resistance into Your Competitive Advantage
Leadership teams bring me in for workshops when they're facing one of a few recognizable situations: functions running their own alignment meetings that nobody quite beileves in, resistance that keeps getting misread as obstruction, or an initiative with real momentum at the top that isn't translating through the organization.
What shifts in the room is how people see the problem. Teams leave with shared language, a clearer read on where alignment is breaking down, and a different way of reading the friction they've been trying to push through.
Workshop Formats:
- Half-day or full-day sessions
- In-person, hybrid, or virtual delivery
- Optional follow-up advisory
Keynote Speaking
Seeing the Problem Differently
Leaders bring me in to speak when they need their teams to see something they've been too close to see—why a technically sound initiative isn't moving, why resistance keeps showing up in the same places, or why the the vision keeps getting lobbed over the fence to people who were never set up to catch it—and what to do about it.
Popular Topics:
- Why standard change approaches fail and what organizations need instead
- Turning resistance into diagnostic intelligence
- Building the coalitions that make change stick across complex organizations
All talks are:
- Customized for your audience and industry
- Available in-person or virtually
- Adaptable for keynotes, roundtables, panels, or fireside chats
Strategic Advisory
Navigate Complex Change with Confidence
Leaders bring me in for advisory work when something important isn't moving and the usual explanations have stopped making sense. The visible problem is almost always a symptom of something deeper. What I do is help leaders find the capability gap underneath it— the real reason a sound strategy isn't translating into results.
This is pattern recognition work, not execution support. I help leadership teams see what they're too close to see clearly, and understand what the organization needs to build before the next push can land.
My engagements:
- Typically run 90-180 days
- Focus on diagnosing why progress has stalled—and what's been misread along the way
- Have spanned financial services, technology and marketing sectors
With her robust experience leading innovation, marketing, and customer experience, Amy has been a valued partner in propelling our business strategy.
She is talented at harnessing complex market disruption and zeroing in on how to build scalable opportunities for real impact. Her partnership has been transformative for us.
Shruti Miyashiro
President & CEO, First Tech
