Amy J. Wilson

Amy J. Wilson is a Culture Futurist, founder of Culture Shift Studio, and a former White House Presidential Innovation Fellow who helped launch Innovation.gov. She's spent over twenty years helping organizations change how they work. But the work that shapes her most started somewhere else: ten-plus years in ACA recovery, where she's also an active sponsor, and where she learned firsthand how the rules we absorb early, about safety, worth, and control, show up decades later in how we lead, decide, and relate to money. That's what she brings to Trauma of Money. Amy is a trauma-informed facilitator who connects the personal to the systemic, using tools like her own Pattern Shift Wheel to help people notice the patterns money triggers and update them for who they are now. She's the author of Empathy for Change, and she doesn't just teach this work. She lives it, visibly and honestly. Amy holds space for what's actually in the room, shame, fear, control, status, without letting it collapse into blame. People leave with more than an insight. They leave with a practice.