B. Business (Marketing, Management)
B. Communications (PR & Sociology)
Certified Practising Marketer
Australian Marketing Institute
Graduate
Ignition Entrepreneurship Program
AI Strategies for Business Transformation
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Amanda Blennerhassett is the founder of Brand Savvy Consulting and a multi-award-winning strategic advisor specialising in growth, transformation and leadership.
For more than 25 years, she has helped challenger brands, purpose-led organisations and innovation leaders navigate complexity, unlock growth opportunities and build organisations people genuinely believe in.
Her career has spanned client-side sales, marketing and product roles in Australia and the UK for multi-national companies like Heinz and Murray Goulburn through to niche luxury brands like King Charles' Duchy Originals. She has worked with strategic agencies on household name brands and on major events in media and communications, as well as in management consulting.
Known for her strategic insight, commercial thinking and deeply human approach, Amanda helps leaders bring clarity, alignment and momentum to organisations navigating change.
"Amanda has a very incisive mind that can quickly assess what’s happening in a business."
Michael Hawton, Founder of Parentshop
AMANDA'S STRENGTHS
Seeing what others sometimes miss
Amanda is known for seeing the bigger picture quickly - identifying underlying issues and patterns, connecting the dots and helping organisations uncover what is really holding back momentum, alignment and growth - and the direction to take instead.
Her work combines strategic insight, leadership thinking, commercial understanding and communications expertise to create practical pathways forward that strengthen organisations from the inside out.
Complexity made clear
Amanda has worked across many industries and sectors, and also works effectively with highly technical and specialist organisations, translating complex and emerging ideas into clear, persuasive and engaging stakeholder communications that build understanding, trust, adoption and influence.
Strategy built on human understanding
Amanda believes organisations people trust are built through clarity, authenticity, values alignment and connection built upon a genuine value exchange.
She has observed that performance, and therefore impact, depend on the strength of the whole ecosystem - all key aspects and departments of the organisation need to work towards a common goal effectively. This is the most efficient and enjoyable way to grow organisations.
That’s why her work spans across organisations and their stakeholders, helping leaders create and implement the strategies to align the whole ecosystem in ways that build organisational capacity and scalability, sustainable growth and long-term impact.
Bold ideas that make brands magnetic
As the organisation's internal clarity begins to land, so does its activation potential. Amanda takes her in-depth understanding of who her clients are, their competitive advantage, and what they are trying to achieve and translates it into highly creative and innovative approaches to branding, marketing and campaigns that get noticed, engage stakeholders and build lasting impact.
This is the brand brought to life. This is the power of Brand Savvy Consulting.
"Amanda is easy to work with and a great listener, which enabled her to really understand our organisation, our people and the way we work. It was this understanding that enabled Amanda to help us to achieve our goals."
Jana Hall, Director of Corporate Services at Social Futures