AMANDA SLAVIN

While earning her Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction, Amanda became fascinated by a simple question: how do people learn, participate, connect, and grow? That work led to the development of The Seventh Level Engagement Framework, grounded in educational research and designed to better understand human development through participation, self-awareness, and agency.

She first applied this work within hospitality and experience design, exploring how research could move beyond theory and influence real-world behavior, belonging, learning, and community.

Amanda then spent more than a decade through CatalystCreativ helping organizations translate research and human insight into award-winning experiences, communities, workplace initiatives, learning systems, and culture-building efforts. This work included collaborations with organizations such as Google, American Express, Coca-Cola, Zappos, Dell, PayPal, and HubSpot.

As the work evolved, it expanded into curriculum, higher education, and publishing. The Seventh Level became a bestselling book, CatalystU was developed in collaboration with HubSpot, and the framework was taught across universities and professional learning environments.

Today, Amanda leads Frequency, a venture studio focused on transforming research into products, technology, media, and human development systems. Working alongside partners such as Oxford Saïd Business School, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, the Learning Economy Foundation, and others, the team develops learning technologies, digital well-being tools, media properties, workforce initiatives, and new models for helping people better understand themselves and reach their potential.

Across every chapter of her career, the work has remained the same: taking research and turning it into something people can experience, apply, and use to grow.