Amanda Slavin

Founder & CEO, CatalystCreativ

Amanda Slavin, is a world-class educator (MA in curriculum and instruction),  Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, is Co-founder of CatalystCreativ, an award-winning community design agency started in 2012, and founding partner of Runway Health. 

All of Amanda’s professional experience is modeled after the Seventh Level Engagement Framework—a proprietary methodology adapted from Amanda’s thesis work while earning her Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction at NEAG School of Education. She developed a curriculum utilizing her framework, which has been shared with over 1400 professors all over the world in partnership with HubSpot. Amanda has helped enhance engagement for brands like Google, The Nature Conservancy, Zappos, HubSpot, and Coca-Cola through design, experiences, and campaigns over the past 15 years.

In October 2019, she published the Best-Selling book, The Seventh Level, which explains her proprietary framework, and guides readers to use it for themselves.

Amanda has used this framework as founding partner as a venture partner, as well as advisor and investor to 20+ startups including HubSpot, Village, Kiddie Kredit, SEEN, SEED, Clay, Everscouts, etc.  She has spoken at SXSW, TED, Summit Series, and INBOUND about how The Seventh Level Engagement Framework is the future of meaningful, personal connections. Amanda’s groundbreaking thought leadership has been covered by Inc Magazine, AdWeek, Forbes, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, and Time Magazine.