Amy Schutte gave her first speech at eight years old. By high school, she was winning state speech titles. She hasn’t stopped getting on stages since.
At 25, that pull toward the stage became her first business: a character performance company where she dressed as a princess and performed at children’s birthday parties. It was equal parts theater and enterprise, and it taught her something she still relies on today: how to read a room, hold its attention, and give people an experience they remember.
From there, Amy took her instinct for people and story into business strategy. She founded Hudson & Co., a strategic communications consultancy now a decade in, with clients spanning the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
After years inside growing and changing organizations, Amy began to notice the same friction showing up again and again. Something that had worked beautifully stopped working. And nobody could quite explain why.
She became fascinated by what happens in that space between what worked before and what’s required next.
Today, she calls it The Kármán Effect™.
Meet Amy Schutte
TEDx Cambridge University · Award-Winning Writer · Founder, Hudson & Co. · Host, Business Origin Stories
For more than a decade, Amy has worked inside organizations navigating change, shifting markets, new leadership and new ways of working.
Her work asks a deceptively simple question:
What happens when the conditions change, but the way we see ourselves inside them doesn’t?
Through keynotes and workshops, Amy helps leaders and teams recognize those moments sooner, understand what the new conditions require, and move forward with greater clarity and momentum.
AMY WORKS AT THE INTERSECTION OF COMMUNICATION, IDENTITY AND CHANGE.
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