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.

We help fix toxic dynamics and rebuild alignment, clarity, and psychological safety.

You’re losing your best people—and you’re not sure why.

Burnout, unclear expectations, and misalignment are driving disengagement.

You’re investing in early talent, but it’s not sticking.

Our early-career programs build clarity, communication, and leadership from day one.

Senior leaders aren’t aligned, and your teams can feel it.

We help executive teams speak the same language and lead with one voice.

Change is constant, but buy-in isn’t.

We help leaders lead change from within, not force it from above.

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…

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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

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You've taken such care to balance the history of the program with our current needs and constraints.

Amber – thank you so much for leaning into this MRE redesign. You’ve taken such care to balance the history of the program with our current needs and constraints, all while being focused on an excellent manager learning experience and the finer details of the session.

Tiffany Chui, Management Excellence & Capability, Microsoft

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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

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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

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I highly recommend Amber to any organization that is considering engaging her in any way.

Amber is one of the most dedicated and competent facilitators I have had the pleasure of collaborating with. Her attention to detail and her work ethic are second to none. I highly recommend Amber to any organization that is considering engaging her in any way. She will get the job done and she is a delight to work with.

Scott Tibbels, Manager, US Indirect Channel

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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

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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

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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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