Amanda Slavin

CEO

United Kingdom14 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Developed the Seventh Level Engagement Framework.
  • Co-Founder of multiple innovative educational platforms.
  • Best-selling author on engagement and human behavior.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and EdTech expert focused on engagement and learning systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Educational TechnologyEngagement

Other Skills

EducationMeasurement SystemsLearningFacilitationWorkshop FacilitationGovernanceEdtechEducation StrategyTeachingEducational LeadershipEntrepreneurship EducationStrategic ConsultingBrand ConsultingStrategic PartnershipsBrand Development

About

I turn attention into action and sustained engagement across technology, media, and workforce systems.For more than two decades, I have applied this work across commercial environments, designing engagement systems within marketing, community design, education, and technology. From the work I have done with organizations like Google, American Express, Coca-Cola, and Zappos to building my own platforms, my focus has remained consistent: turning attention into active participation and creating experiences people return to over time.I developed the Seventh Level Engagement Framework during my Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction, informed by the research of Bangert-Drowns and Pyke, and tested it across workforce, marketing, and learning environments. In parallel, I built original technology to operationalize this work, including a provisional patent now integrated into LearnCard. I am the Co-Founder and CEO of Frequency, an engagement engine that personalizes how people interact with content and systems by adapting to emotional, cognitive, and motivational patterns. It integrates into LMS and CMS environments to improve participation, confidence, and outcomes. I also serve as Chief Development Officer at the Learning Economy Foundation, leading global partnerships and building open infrastructure for learning and work with partners including Oxford Saïd Business School, Roblox, and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, with a focus on metacognition and digital well being. The framework has been taught at Yale, Howard, and Emerson and scaled to more than 1,400 professors through an open curriculum with HubSpot. I am also the author of The Seventh Level, a best selling book on engagement and human behavior.As an advisor and angel investor, I have worked with more than 40 companies, applying my methodology to product and experience design, and I support Antler as a Visiting Partner. I co host From the Culture with Marcus Collins, exploring how attention and engagement shape internal culture and organizational performance.My work has been featured in Time, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Forbes, and Entrepreneur, and shared on stages including TEDx, SXSW, Web Summit, and the United Nations.

Experience

From the culture podcast

Co-Host

Jan 2026Present · 2 mos

Antler

Visiting Partner

Sep 2025Dec 2025 · 3 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Ted conferences

TED Ambassador

Jul 2025Present · 8 mos

The future frequency

Founder and CEO

May 2025Present · 10 mos · Remote

  • The Future FQ is an intelligent engagement engine that understands and elevates human attention. It helps organizations transform passive consumption into meaningful participation by personalizing how people learn, interact, and respond across any content or system.
  • The Future FQ analyzes emotional, cognitive, and motivational patterns and adapts experiences in real time. This creates dynamic pathways that feel personal, relevant, and alive, activating the human layer of engagement that traditional systems overlook.
  • The Future FQ integrates seamlessly into LMS and CMS environments and supports partners across education, enterprise, media, gaming, and workforce development. Its foundation is rooted in engagement science and the Seventh Level Framework, developed by our founder during her Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction.
  • The Future FQ serves both individuals and organizations. It enhances user experience while providing deep insights into how people pay attention, where they disconnect, and what strengthens motivation, confidence, and retention.
  • Our mission is to unlock the human frequency of engagement. The Future FQ brings intelligence, care, and personalization to every interaction, empowering people to feel seen, supported, and capable in their own learning and growth.
EducationEducational TechnologyEngagementMeasurement SystemsLearning

Veep

Advisor

Apr 2025Present · 11 mos

Learning economy foundation

Chief Development Officer

Jun 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos

Kismet

Investor

Jun 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos

Nurture

Advisory Board Member

Jun 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos

Solsten

Advisor

Feb 2023Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

New stand

Strategic Advisor

Feb 2023Jan 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

On_discourse

Co-Founder

Nov 2022Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

  • A member-driven media company run by business experts focused on the business of technology

Legends

Advisor/Investor

May 2022Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Village

Advisor

Apr 2022Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

Catalystu

Co-Founder

Jan 2022Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

  • CatalystU is an online learning platform focused on customer engagement and human connection that grows your business. Developed by the award-winning, Forbes 30 under 30 bestselling author, Amanda Slavin (MA in Curriculum and Instruction) and the Cannes Lion strategists at CatalystCreativ, our platform present a completely new way of measuring and educating the entrepreneurial mindset. We believe in the transformative power of the University-taught Seven Levels of Engagement academic Framework can reach everyone outside the four walls of the classroom. Our proven Framework has been taught in MBA University programs, by Fortune 100 companies, nonprofits and startups and referenced in countless professional presentations and TED Talks.

Clay

Advisor/ Investor

Jun 2021Present · 4 yrs 9 mos

  • Acquired by Automattic

Boundless life

Board Member

Apr 2021Present · 4 yrs 11 mos

Runway health

Co-Founder

Apr 2021Present · 4 yrs 11 mos

  • Runway is the first DTC Telehealth company focused on travel health. We make it more convenient, affordable, and accessible to connect with a US based physician online to obtain prescription medication for many of the most common travel ailments - think of things like anti-malarials for Safari in South Africa, altitude sickness medication for trips to Colorado, motion sickness medication for cruising the Caribbean, and medications for sleeplessness and upset stomachs for everywhere in between.

Numa new york

Mentor

Mar 2021Jan 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • NUMA is a global startup accelerator with two decades of experience and over 700 alumni around the world. As a Mentor at NUMA New York, I support early and growth-stage international startups with their US expansion journeys.

Kiddie kredit

Board Member

Dec 2020Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

  • Kiddie Kredit is a mobile app designed to educate children on the credit system by completing chores.

Official

Advisor

Nov 2020Nov 2021 · 1 yr · Remote

  • Acquired by Bumble

Catalystu

2 roles

Co-Founder

Aug 2020Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

Chief Executive Officer

Aug 2012Aug 2020 · 8 yrs

  • CatalystCreativ is a Brand Consulting Firm that has developed a proprietary framework called The Seventh Level, www.the-seventhlevel.com, that helps Brands and Organizations engage more successfully with their internal and external customers. The firm has assisted WeWork, Google, HubSpot, NPR, The Nature Conservancy and The NYC Ballet, among others. CatalystCreativ was founded in 2012 by Amanda Slavin, Forbes 30 under 30 for Marketing and Advertising, with the backing of Zappos CEO and Venture Capitalist Tony Hsieh.

Speakfully

Member of The Board of Directors

Apr 2020May 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Acquired by HR Acuity

The seventh level book

Bestselling Author, The Seventh Level

Oct 2019Present · 6 yrs 5 mos

  • KIRKUS REVIEWS:
  • A fresh, enlightening perspective on customer engagement. The compelling book is clearly written in language appropriate for business managers, and the author’s enthusiasm for the topic is almost palpable. “We are settling for a one-way conversation when we could be building more meaningful and more profitable connections,” claims Slavin in this engrossing debut. To meet this challenge, the author believes companies need to reach “the seventh level,” a degree of engagement in which, she says, “your audience’s personal values and beliefs deeply align with yours.”
  • QUOTE FROM TONY HSIEH: AUTHOR OF #1 NY TIMES BESTSELLER
  • “DELIVERING HAPPINESS” AND FORMER CEO OF ZAPPOS.COM
  • “Amanda Slavin is one of those special people that you wish you could clone to make the world a better place, but at the same time, you’re a little scared to clone her because so much information comes out of her at 100 miles per hour that there’s no way you can keep up with more than one Amanda. So I was excited to hear that she was able to capture everything that was in her head and coming out of her mouth into something printed on paper.
  • One of the philosophies I try to live by (and use for employee all hands meetings) is ICEE (an acronym I made up to help with remembering): Inspire, Connect, Educate, and Entertain.
  • Amanda’s Seventh Level of Engagement framework resonates with the way I think about business and life, so it’s not surprising that Amanda and I get along so well since her self-described Seventh Level (which I found out about after I read this book) is about “building connections while inspiring and educating others.”
  • I’d recommend this book for anyone looking to take change their organization for the better by connecting more meaningfully to employees, customers, or other stakeholders. And the good news
  • is it’s much easier to get additional copies of this book than it is to clone additional copies of Amanda.”

Seen hair care

Board Member

Mar 2019Present · 7 yrs

  • Www.helloseen.com

Hubspot

Hubspot Board of Advisors

May 2018Jan 2023 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Greater Boston Area

Seed

Investor

Feb 2018Present · 8 yrs 1 mo · Los Angeles, California

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Hi clark - acquired by noodle

Advisor

Jan 2018Nov 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos · NYC

Reserve

Investor

Feb 2016Nov 2019 · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Acquired by Resy

Google

Marketing Specialist

Aug 2012Aug 2013 · 1 yr · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area · Hybrid

Tedx

Event Organizer

Oct 2011Jan 2012 · 3 mos

  • Assisted in the production of TedX Big Apple at Saatchi and Saatchi
  • Secured the major fiscal sponsor, Music for Tomorrow.
  • Secured Eventbrite, CharityConnector, Ambitious Media, Uber, Harmless Harvest, Turmeric , Vita Coco, Dream Water, The Soft Serve Fruit Company, and Blue Lizard Sunscreen as additional sponsors.
  • Helped with event management, curation of guestlist, and marketing

Globalcitizen

Producer

Aug 2011Aug 2012 · 1 yr · NYC

  • Helped produce the Global Poverty Project’s Global Festival; in which GPP partnered with 10 major nonprofits to produce a concert focused around social impact occurring on September 29th, in Central Park funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as well as the Sumner Redstone Foundation where Black Keys, Foo Fighters, Crazy Horses, Band of Horses and K’naan performed.
  • Secured the strategic partnership to build out The Global Festival’s ticketing platform (a mobile application that “monetizes” social impact, where individuals have to earn points through giving back/taking action on behalf of the 10 participating organizations.)
  • Helped build the teams for sponsorship, media, artist outreach, and nonprofit partners.
  • Secured partners for ticketing, nonprofits, and digital

Summit

Content Producer

Apr 2011Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Paige hospitality group

Partner of the Ainsworth; Formerly Events and Marketing Director

May 2009Nov 2012 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Partner in Paige Hospitality Group; built the event and marketing department from the ground up for Paige Management, particularly for The The Ainsworth brand.
  • Developed all departments for Paige and all properties including grassroots marketing and business development, reservation system, customer loyalty, large scale event department, internship program, external events, (sponsorship and production), websites, PR, sponsorship and social media.
  • In 2009, executed and planned over 1 million dollars’ worth of events in the month of December alone.
  • Booked and executed over 6 million+ dollars worth of events. These clients were including but not limited to, Marquis Jets, Dockers, Harley Davidson, AdAge, GMA, CBS, EA Sports, Acura, Better Homes and Gardens, etc.
  • Planned and executed all external events including events at Sundance, Super bowl and all marketing, branding and events for the Paige Estate in the Hamptons, (summer 2012), where Paige partnered with Moet and Belvedere to host small curated tastemakers dinners as well as large scale 700+ events each weekend.

Education

University of Connecticut

Bachelors/Masters — Elementary Education/English - Curriculum and Instruction

Jan 2004Jan 2009

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