HELPING
AMBITIOUS
HUMANS TELL
THEIR STORY
My philosophy
You Don’t Have to Choose
Between Achievement and Ease
High-achievers and ambitious humans are often the people who have been through the most. We’re Type-A, meticulous, secretly anxious, hyper-fixated, obsessive, and miraculous creatures, who sometimes forget that creative innovation demands spaciousness. Let’s help you do your greatest work yet with ease.
BEHIND EVERY STRONG
WOMAN IS A STORY
Meet AMANDA
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: within…
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.
Credentials Matter.
So Does Connection.
My story shapes the way I support yours
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.
BEYOND THE
BOARDROOM
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Creative work—not for show or for sharing, but for the pure journey of traveling deep inside to explore my truest self through Art—keeps me grounded no matter what.
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My kids, first and foremost! But slowing down, getting quiet, and noticing the simple things around me—nature, passersby, small kindnesses, a really great poem, a rushing creek; the everyday beauty in mundanity we often forget to look at really inspires me.
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I believe in people. I believe that service connects us, and I believe in every single person’s innate ability to create beautiful, unimaginable things. I believe in Art as the barometer for all things, and I believe that the key to peace, community, and harmony is a deep and difficult, spiritual-like investment in ourselves. I believe in human dignity, in equitable practices at all costs, and in human-centered inclusion that transcends operational policies.
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Writing, of course! Making tea. Reading before bed. And spending time on the floor, mid-day, playing make-believe.
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Again, writing, obviously. But I also love to weave fabric art, to paint, and to sew.