Award-Winning Author | Business Strategist
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About This Speaker: Meridith Elliot Powell
Meridith Elliott Powell, CSP, CPAE is a nationally recognized keynote speaker, award-winning author, and business strategist who has built her career on one unshakable belief: there’s only one way to succeed in business, Ask for Change. From her early days in the finance and travel industries to her rise to executive leadership, Meridith noticed a common trap: most senior leaders do all the thinking. Teams bring problems instead of solutions, leaving leaders stuck in the weeds, troubleshooting instead of driving strategy. And while the marketplace demands speed, adaptability, and innovation, cultures often stay reactive and resistant.
Determined to change that dynamic, Meridith began a deep dive into how the most resilient companies turn disruption into opportunity. She studied organizations that had navigated the Great Depression, world wars, economic downturns, and even a global pandemic — not only surviving, but thriving. The result was her proven ASK FOR CHANGE 3-Step Proven Formula for transforming uncertainty into a strategic advantage.
Her work blends mindset mastery, agile team conditioning, and strategic reinvention, giving leaders the tools to stop carrying the full mental load and start empowering teams to think deeper, act faster, and own results. She challenges leaders to stop having all the answers — and start asking different questions: What do you see? What would you try? What would you change? When you ask for change, you create the conditions for it. That’s the shift Meridith embodies and teaches, moving leaders from lone drivers of progress to catalysts of cultures that thrive in uncertainty, adapt with confidence, and grow no matter the climate.
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