executive creative strategist • book coach • speaker • author • artist • advocate
Helping Ambitious Humans Connect with Their Innate Creativity to Do Their Greatest Work
You deserve to feel passionate about the work you do. Learn how to access your creative intuition and build your business even bigger, become a better leader, utilize your team by inspiring their growth, write that book you have on the back burner, unlock new degrees of clarity—all by honoring what is specifically unique about you.
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No One is Ambitious by Mistake.
Let’s Develop Your Superpower.
You don’t have to hide your quirkiness anymore. In fact, it’s your greatest asset.
You’ve excelled in your career, but at the expense of being your full self—likely both in the boardroom and at home. You’re worn out by keeping up just to maintain your business, your lifestyle, your family—and rightfully so, because it’s exhausting.
You’ve reached a glass ceiling, and the only way to break through it—to grasp the next level of success and fulfillment—is to embrace and capitalize on the very thing you’ve been stuffing down and out of the way: YOU.
As a lifelong nerdy girl with big dreams and an unlimited well of ambition myself, I get it. But it’s time to stop conforming. It’s time to show up as your full self, to discover and embrace your innate creativity, and reshape your entire life to fit the big dreams you quietly fantasize about.
Become an unstoppable leader. Build a career that feels like an authentic extension of who you truly are, pursue those creative projects you daydream about in the shower, chase down those pipe dreams. Access your innate creativity and watch your life unfold into the spacious, regenerative, rewarding experience you’ve never thought was actually possible—financially, emotionally, and physically.
You deserve this. And so does everyone around you.
A coaching Approach as Ambitious as You Are
HELPING YOU THRIVE
WITH AUTHENTICITY
Ambitious leaders with high emotional intelligence know that results come from consciously investing in themselves first. Executives, entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, artists, and dreamers all have a mission to complete here: to commune with our deepest self, to use our unique perspective to innovate, to lead with empathy and compassion, and to create work that sustains us and others.
MEET YOUR COACH
MEET YOUR COACH
Creative Coaching Designed for Ambitious People
Amanda Filippelli is an internationally recognized editor, writer, book coach, artist, and chief architect and executive advisor for many influential leaders. After completing her degree work at both Roosevelt University and Western Michigan University, and graduating with a top five honorary degree, she started her career as an associate editor for the Oyez Review in Chicago. A widely published, award-winning writer, Amanda also worked in the mental healthcare system for ten years, teaching adolescent survivors of trauma how to take control of their narrative. This professional intersection imbues Amanda with unique offerings that help people find success through creativity. Amanda continues this work through her writing, art, workshops, and as an executive coach and facilitator. She is the founder of Blue House Literary and its sister production company Blue House Media, the author of Blue Rooms, a book of poetry that was adapted for the stage and received with critical acclaim, the author of The Remembering Room, a book of prose and poetry that was made into an interactive art installation that exhibited at Atithi Studios in the spring of 2023, and she is the creator of The Writer’s Tarot, a deck of tarot cards that honor literary heroes and conventions, and that offer unlimited creative prompts through its spreads. Amanda is also a partner at Truepath Consulting, through which she facilitates one-of-a-kind wholistic corporate wellness programming that teaches leaders and their teams how to access their innate creativity to build more empathetic and profitable structures.
SPECIALTIES
01 | Creativity Strategy & Executive Coaching
As a creative strategist and executive coach partner at TRUEPATH Consulting, Amanda helps C-suite leadership teams inspire groundbreaking innovation through intrapersonal work that centers creativity through her signature program Empathetic Innovation.
02 | Book Coaching: Writing & Publishing
An award-winning writer and acclaimed emerging artist, Amanda is a sought-after professional editor and book coach who has shepherded thousands of authors through her coaching programs, workshops, and talks. She is Editor-in-Chief at Blue House Literary and is also the founder of Pittsburgh’s first premier writers’ conference, The Authorpreneur Conference.
03 | Public Speaking, Art, & Advocacy
Amanda is transparent about her family’s story of mental illness and substance abuse, which inspired her decade-long career in mental healthcare. Amanda was formerly CEO of Parity Health Services—a wrap-around service for at-risk youth—as well as a child advocate. She now speaks publicly and to private organizations about many difficult topics.
EMPATHETIC INNOVATION
A PROGRAM for AMBITIOUS LEADERS AND THEIR TEAMS
A Leadership Program That Evolves Organizations From the Inside Out
Conscious leadership means building an inclusive culture where everyone feels like part of the company mission and purpose. It’s about empowering them to contribute in a fulfilling way so the organization can reach its greatest potential. It’s about leading with empathy and with curiosity, so as to inspire innovation.
This is leadership guidance for executives and entrepreneurs who are ready to center their authenticity and allow it to proliferate their greatest work. Leave burnout behind, harness your team’s inherent value, foster an inclusive culture that evolves your organization, and learn how to resource profitable creative innovation.
FROM THE DESK
FROM THE DESK
High-Achiever Problems
Require Creative Solutions
I struck out on my own at seventeen with nothing but a journal, a dream, and a lot of emotional trauma weighing me down. I knew I had something important to offer the world, I trusted that deep in my gut, but I just wasn’t sure what it was… yet. And then the answer came from the place I expected the least: from within.
The Remembering Room is Closed: How Grief Brought Us Joy
I took 6-Months off From Social Media: Notes From the Field
Art is an Act of Advocacy
Empathetic Innovation
the book
What are you uniquely designed to create?
Empathetic Innovation asks readers to excavate the most difficult parts of their past and transmute uncomfortable lived experiences into their superpower. Filippelli, whose own story of turning trauma into embodied creativity serves as the backdrop of Empathetic Innovation, has designed a wholly unique program that demonstrates how each and every one of us has the creative power to better the world around us by first investing in ourselves. Ambitious humans require creative support, and Empathetic Innovation provides that support by empowering people to innovate with passion and authenticity while simultaneously teaching the companies we work for how to appropriately resource their team members and build inclusive cultures that allow everyone to contribute to company missions in a meaningful way. It asks that corporations recognize the growth capital sitting right in from them: the creative humans they employ.
Empathetic Innovation is about leading with empathy and curiosity, for ourselves and for others, ultimately re-imagining the way we cooperate with one another, and sets forth a vision for building personal, professional, and societal structures that are rooted in every type of restorative and regenerative wealth.
YOUR NEXT STEP
come home to your authentic self
Ready to embrace the creative rebel within and let her help you thrive? Let’s find out who you really are and how to bring your full self to the table.
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