Build the Leadership Infrastructure Your Business Needs
Custom strategy and embedded expertise to solve leadership challenges from the inside out.
We Operationalize Strategy
We don’t just talk about leadership—we integrate it into how your organization actually works.
We’re Your Thinking Partner
We work alongside senior leaders, HR professionals and key stakeholders to simplify decisions and solve the problems behind the symptoms.
We Bring the Team to You
No more managing five vendors. We curate and embed the right experts for your leadership goals and culture.
Trusted by World-Class Organizations
Problems We Solve
Overcome Your Biggest Challenges
What stands in the way of great leadership? If any of these sound familiar, you’re not alone. We help organizations like yours move past these roadblocks and build real leadership capacity that lasts.
Your managers were promoted, but not prepared.
They’re managing tasks, not people. We help develop confident, capable people leaders.
Your managers were promoted, but not prepared.
They’re managing tasks, not people. We help develop confident, capable people leaders.
Your culture looks fine on the surface, but trust is eroding underneath.
You’re losing your best people—and you’re not sure why.
You’re investing in early talent, but it’s not sticking.
Senior leaders aren’t aligned, and your teams can feel it.
Change is constant, but buy-in isn’t.
What We Deliver
Leadership Development
Executive coaching, high-impact workshops, and leadership journeys that grow confidence, clarity, and strategic thinking.
Organizational Strategy
Fix alignment issues, embed experts into your teams, and create a culture of performance without burnout.
Early Career Programs
Support rising talent with coaching and programs designed to develop future-ready leaders from the very beginning.
Who We Are
Thinking People is a boutique leadership development firm that delivers custom strategy, expert facilitation, and embedded support for high-performing organizations.
Led by Amber Wendover, a leadership strategist with 25+ years of operational experience across Fortune 100s, startups, and mission-driven orgs, we work from the inside out to strengthen leadership at every level.
The clarity to make smart decisions
The structure to align teams and culture
The tools to scale leadership without burning people out
The team to carry it out—without adding to your plate
How To Work With Us
A Simple, High-Touch Process for Busy Leaders
01
Clarify
We dig into what’s really going on—from leadership gaps to cultural friction to broken systems.
02
Customize
We design a tailored solution with the right mix of strategic facilitation, leadership development programs, embedded coaching, or team transformation work.
03
Execute & Embed
We assemble and embed the expert team, guide the implementation, and stay with you to ensure results.
You get a partner. Not a playbook.
Meet the founder
Amber Wendover
Founder & Principal Strategist, Thinking People
Amber Wendover has spent over 25 years helping high performers lead with more impact—and a lot less burnout. She’s coached, facilitated, and walked alongside executives, senior teams, and organizations in the messy middle of change—whether at global brands or scrappy startups.
Her gift? Blending sharp operational strategy with empathy, humor, and a strong dose of truth-telling.
Amber has designed and delivered thousands of workshops for teams worldwide, helping leaders not just understand change—but lead it. She created Thinking People to help organizations stop patching leadership problems—and start solving them. She’s not here to drop in, deliver a deck, and disappear.
She’s here to help you build clarity, embed the right team, and lead with intention that actually moves the needle.
The Numbers Stack Up
Leaders trained globally
Workshops facilitated
Client organizations served
Countries reached
Early-career professionals supported
Here’s What They’re Saying…
Amber is the most effective facilitator and OD expert I have ever worked with.
Amber is highly capable, bright, energetic, and an absolute asset to any team lucky enough to have her.
Pete Bourgeault, Risk Manager
You've taken such care to balance the history of the program with our current needs and constraints.
Tiffany Chui, Management Excellence & Capability, Microsoft
Amber is a talented relationship builder having the capability of building trust across all levels of an organization.
I have found her to be a truly strategic yet pragmatic OD thinker as well as an absolute pleasure with which to partner. She is fearless with providing feedback to executive leaders finding appropriate ways to challenge the status quo and helping move the business forward. Amber has terrific energy that she brings to her work that is infectious to those with whom she interacts.
Michael Walters, Executive Vice President Human Resources
Amber’s ability to accurately assess groups, individuals, group dynamics and strengths and to recommend ways to capitalize on those strengths and dynamics is remarkable.
Amber has facilitated a number of different programs for our division and for my team. I’ve had the opportunity to attend all manner and number of trainings over the course of my career. Amber’s ability to accurately assess groups, individuals, group dynamics and strengths and to recommend ways to capitalize on those strengths and dynamics is remarkable.
Jason Kap, CEO
I highly recommend Amber to any organization that is considering engaging her in any way.
Scott Tibbels, Manager, US Indirect Channel
Amber is a skilled facilitator and brings out the best in others.
Amber has a keen sense of self-awareness which for me is core to another quality – self confidence. Amber is able to express her ideas without alienating or shutting down others. She is a skilled facilitator and brings out the best in others, even when ideas may run counter to her own. She is able to express her opinion and draw out other perspectives while being assertive and approachable.
Paul Gomez, Employee Development Group Manager
Amber brings poise, intelligence and caring to her role as an excellent facilitator, speaker and consultant.
Amber is very knowledgeable about human communications, team development and leadership, and can convey concepts in an easily understood manner. She is a rockstar.
Scott Schwefel, CEO
You've unlocked so much of my passion and purpose!
Adopting the Insights framework with you has unlocked so much of my passion and purpose, enabling me to put it to impactful work!
Vivienne Wei, COO, Unified Agentforce Platform, Salesforce
Read Our Blog
Thinking People: It Starts With You
Amber shares leadership insights, stories, and writing from her book-in-progress Thinking People: It Starts With You, on Substack. It’s part field notes, part tough love, and part lifeline for leaders navigating complexity with heart.
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Build the Leadership Your Organization Needs To Scale
You’ve built a high-performing business. Now it’s time to align your people, upgrade your systems, and create the kind of leadership that can actually carry the weight.
Let’s make it happen – together.