Amie Fox

Amie Fox is a managing director, trainer and keynote speaker who helps founders, HR and operations leaders in growing organisations build practical people systems that improve employee engagement, manager confidence and business performance.

She moved into this work after a portfolio career across communications, training, fundraising, corporate responsibility and operations exposed her to how differently people experience workplaces. A key turning point was struggling to find early employment as a visually impaired woman, which shaped her understanding of hidden barriers, workplace design and the importance of systems that help people perform at their best.

Her credibility is grounded in recent and current roles: she set up A Fox Consulting, serves as a non-executive director at Vision Ireland, and has held senior CSR and operations roles at organisations including SCOPE Eyecare & Healthcare. Through her consulting, communications, fundraising and inclusion work, she has contributed to projects with organisations such as McDonald’s, Telefonica, Deloitte, Novartis, Abbott, Newstalk and John Sisk & Sons.

Day-to-day, Amie’s work is built around the employee life cycle as the foundation for better people performance. She supports leaders and managers through coaching, training and mentoring designed to maximise employee engagement and performance across each stage of that life cycle. Her work covers practical topics including constructive feedback, strategic internal communication, coaching, setting expectations, manager routines and the day-to-day behaviours that help teams work better.

Her central thesis is simple: when people feel good, they perform at their best - but that idea only becomes useful when it is translated into clear routines, structures and systems that work in boardrooms and in daily operations. Her book Mind the Blind Spot: Decision to Done and her FoxBuzz framework are practical manifestations of that reframing.
Amie also speaks directly about the business case for disability inclusion. Her expertise is not limited to lived experience; it is grounded in practical work with companies on disability inclusion, built environmental accessibility and inclusive workplace design. She helps organisations understand that the best candidates are not missing - their hiring process may be blocking them. She also highlights that upward of 85% of people with a disability acquire those disabilities during their working lives, making disability inclusion not only a talent-sourcing solution, but also a retention strategy.

As a podcast guest, Amie brings lived experience as a visually impaired leader, media-facing storytelling from radio, television and documentary appearances, and tangible frameworks listeners can implement. Audiences leave with practical manager routines, clearer employee life cycle thinking, stronger internal communication practices, and repeatable steps to reduce the “middle manager ceiling” in growing organisations.