Amy Showalter, Principle, The Showalter Group, LLC.

The Showalter Group, LLC

What do the American Heart Association, Southwest Airlines, The U.S. Green Building Council, ConocoPhillips, NATO, and the The National Restaurant Association have in common? They have all turned to Amy Showalter for her expertise and motivation to revitalize their grassroots advocacy and PAC programs. Amy is a grassroots and PAC productivity expert who founded The Showalter Group to help associations and corporations increase their grassroots and PAC effectiveness. In fact, over 85% of her long term consulting clients have experienced an increase in budget, staff, and senior management recognition after collaborating with Amy.

She has spoken in 35 states to more than 25,000 corporate executives, management teams, boards of directors, and nonprofit volunteer leaders about how to get powerful people on their side.

For nine years she directed the efforts of the highly acclaimed Nationwide Insurance Civic Action Program (CAP). During her tenure, over 2,000 public affairs professionals across the country ranked Nationwide's program as one of the top two corporate grassroots programs in the country. (Ed Grefe and Martin Linsky, The New Corporate Activism)

Amy has authored or co-authored more than ten national research projects that explore the influence strategies of the nation's most powerful interest groups, as well as the tactics that persuade high-powered elected officials. In addition, she has surveyed thousands of "everyday" grassroots advocates who have shared their secrets for influencing up the food chain.

Her insights have been featured in The Washington Times, Roll Call, Politico.com, The Baltimore Sun, The Dallas Morning News, and The Christian Science Journal, over 100 Creators Syndicate newspapers, and 15 Tribune Media Services publications, to name a few. Amy has been a regular columnist for three magazines and has published more than 100 articles on grassroots influence. She is the author of 105 Ways to Build Relationships with your Elected Officials.

Amy has served as a faculty member at the U.S. Chamber's Institute for Organization Management, and has been a guest lecturer at George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management. She is a Past Chairman of the American Society of Association Executives Government Relations Section Council, and is the Co-Founder and Producer of Innovate to Motivate, an annual national conference for veteran political involvement professionals.

Amy has a BA in Political Science from Wright State University and an MSA from Central Michigan University.