Amanda Laden is a global leadership strategist and business builder with more than 20 years of experience helping organizations solve their most pressing people and growth challenges. She has worked with leading organizations including Uber, Amgen, Parexel, Johns Hopkins University, GE, and Stuart, as well as more than 150 founder-led organizations navigating scale, complexity, and transformation.

Amanda specializes in designing and implementing high-impact leadership development and learning (L&D) programs that align business strategy with human performance. Her work goes beyond traditional training; she partners with executive teams, HR leaders, and founders to diagnose root challenges, build leadership capability, and create scalable solutions that drive measurable results.
Her experience is deeply global. Amanda has lived and worked internationally, including time in London, and has led teams and initiatives across Europe, India, China, and the Middle East. Across five continents, Amanda has developed leaders at every level, from emerging talent to the C-suite, equipping them to lead through growth, ambiguity, and change. She brings a pragmatic, commercially minded approach to leadership development, ensuring programs are not only inspiring but directly tied to business outcomes.

Amanda holds an MBA from American University’s Kogod School of Business and studied abroad at the Sorbonne in Paris. She is conversational in both French and Spanish, has traveled to over 50 countries, and brings a culturally fluent, globally informed perspective to her work. She is also certified in DiSC and The Five Behaviors of Cohesive Team, integrating proven frameworks into leadership development in a way that is both practical and impactful.

Known for her ability to quickly connect the dots between strategy, culture, and execution, Amanda helps organizations unlock performance by strengthening leadership, improving alignment, and building the internal capability needed to sustain long-term success. She is based in Austin, TX.