Design the Culture and Systems Your Strategy Needs
Develop confident, strategic, and self-aware leaders who drive performance, without burning out your people or your culture.
Organizational Strategy Takes More Than Good Intentions
Real change doesn’t come from the outside; it comes from within. You can’t PowerPoint your way out of broken leadership behaviors. And you don’t need another 100-slide change management deck. What you need is someone who understands your business – and can embed themselves in it.
At Thinking People, we bring deep experience in organizational design, culture strategy, and leadership development to help you solve the people side of performance. That means aligning how your organization thinks, leads, operates, and grows.
This isn’t consulting from a distance. It’s boots-on-the-ground, business-integrated expertise, designed to make change stick.
Trusted by World-Class Organizations
We’re Called In When…
- $You’re scaling fast and your leadership systems can’t keep up
- $Culture feels performative on the surface, but misaligned underneath
- $Burnout is rising, trust is eroding, and no one’s saying it out loud
- $You’re launching new initiatives, but struggling to get buy-in
- $Your people strategy and business strategy aren’t speaking the same language
- $You need support to actually operationalize your values
- $Your managers and executives are misaligned—and your teams can feel it
We Don’t Consult. We Embed.
How We Work
You don’t need another outsider making recommendations. You need a trusted expert inside your business, asking smart questions, uncovering root issues, and co-creating solutions that actually work.
Depending on your goals, we may:
Embed with a specific department, region, or leadership cohort
Partner with your People & Culture, HR, or L&D teams
Facilitate senior alignment and culture reset sessions
Co-design new leadership frameworks or talent systems
Build leadership programs aligned to strategy and real roles
Support change communication and rollout plans
Coach leaders through complexity and resistance
Design custom learning experiences to reinforce cultural shifts
Thinking People’s Experience in Action
Why We’re Trusted to Lead from Inside
Amber Wendover has led leadership strategy, learning architecture, and culture change for Fortune 100 companies, scrappy startups, and global nonprofits. She’s worked in operations, HR, and L&D—so she gets how to move between strategy and execution.
Her organizational design experience includes:
- $Leading learning strategy and leadership development at companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Whole Foods Market
- $Designing manager activation programs for 3,000+ participants
- $Building cross-functional leadership frameworks from the ground up
- $Supporting change and culture strategy across 30+ countries
- $Embedding directly into People & Culture teams as a fractional strategist, facilitator, or learning architect
She’s not here for a day and then gone. She’s here with her team to lead with you, as a true partner.
Here’s What They’re Saying…
Amber's passion is training people and it shines when she works with a group.
She is engaging, funny, knowledgeable and empathetic. She does an excellent job of conveying the content of her presentations in a timely and informative manner, while simultaneously entertaining questions and requests from her audience.
Nancy Crowell, Content Engineer
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
Amber is the most effective facilitator and OD expert I have ever worked with.
Pete Bourgeault, Risk Manager
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. Amber is among the very best regardless of subject matter. She is bright, engaging, and energetic and someone who knows her material inside and out.
Jason Kap, CEO
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. She will get the job done and she is a delight to work with.
Scott Tibbels, Manager, US Indirect Channel
All of us that worked there, past and present, learned from Amber.
Jason Silverstein, President
What You Can Expect
Strategic Support That Moves the Needle
Clarity on what’s really driving friction, fatigue, or misalignment
A partner who can build trust across functions, levels, and regions
Embedded support that makes space for complexity, nuance, and change fatigue
Clear communication plans and aligned leadership behaviors
Stronger buy-in and momentum behind your cultural priorities
Strategy that’s felt, not just framed
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Build What Your Strategy Actually Needs to Succeed
You’ve got the vision. Now let’s align your people, culture, and systems to deliver it, without burning out the humans behind the work.