We help leaders communicate clearly
when the stakes are high.
Strategic communication support for executives, teams, and enterprise organizations.
A collective model
A shared framework
Consistent outcomes
Leadership
Led by Meridith Grundei and supported by a cross-trained team built for high-stakes work.
Meridith Grundei leads the work across executive coaching, enterprise engagements, and keynote development, supported by specialists who extend capacity without diluting quality.
Founder, Meridith Grundei Coaching
Public Speaking & Communication Strategist
Meridith Grundei
Communication Strategist + Experience Director
Meridith Grundei is a New York City–based communication strategist who leads all strategic direction and client work. She works with executives, founders, and enterprise teams to shape clear, decision-ready communication in high-stakes environments. ​Meridith's work focuses on helping leaders move beyond generic presentation styles and communicate with clarity, authority, and presence. Clients include teams at Amazon AWS, Google, Sotheby’s, Pfizer, and Panasonic, as well as mission-driven organizations navigating complex ideas and high visibility moments. ​With a background in theater directing and training at The Second City, Meridith brings a structured yet human approach to communication. Her work blends clear frameworks, sharp storytelling, and embodied presence, supporting leaders in boardrooms, on stage, and on camera. ​In addition to enterprise and executive work, Meridith is the founder of Unscripted, an immersive retreat experience focused on presence, storytelling, and live communication practice. Across every engagement, her focus remains consistent: cut the noise, tell the truth, and communicate in a way people actually understand and remember.
Photographer & Videographer
Danny Bristoll
Creative Director + Visual Storyteller
Danny Bristoll leads visual direction and image strategy across Meridith Grundei’s work. He supports leaders and teams in aligning how they show up visually with what they are communicating, so presence, messaging, and visuals reinforce one another in high-visibility moments. ​With a background in acting and photography, Danny brings a people-first approach to image-making. He is known for helping clients feel grounded and confident on camera, which allows visuals to feel authentic, polished, and intentional rather than performative. ​His work spans corporate and personal brand photography, editorial, headshots, and live events. Danny has collaborated with organizations including Disney Theatrical, SiriusXM, Ford Foundation, Pantene, Colgate, AdColor, and The Public Theater, among others. Across all engagements, his focus is consistency, clarity, and visual trust.
Remote Superstar
Executive Assistant to Meridith Grundei
Catherine Ramos
Administrative Genius
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Catherine Doliente-Ramos leads operations and execution across Meridith Grundei's client work. She ensures that engagements run smoothly, materials are prepared with care, and every detail supports clarity, consistency, and follow-through. ​​Her work spans operational coordination, presentation preparation, and project support across executive, team, and enterprise engagements. Catherine’s focus is on reducing friction behind the scenes so leaders and teams can stay focused on the work that matters most. ​Across every interaction, she brings structure, reliability, and attention to detail, helping ensure a seamless client experience from preparation through delivery.
Doris McNair
Media, Messaging & Press Readiness
Doris McNair brings a journalism-driven approach to messaging, media preparation, and executive communication. She supports leaders in becoming clear, concise, and press-ready across interviews, public platforms, and high-visibility internal communications. Previously, Doris served as a Senior Public Speaking Coach at AWS, where she supported leaders preparing for global events and critical communications. Prior to her work in technology, she was an Emmy Award–winning executive producer and broadcast executive with ABC News affiliates. ​Her background in journalism and live broadcast informs a disciplined, practical approach to communication, focused on accuracy, clarity, and credibility under pressure.
Blaine Sundrud
Executive Communication + Keynote Development
Blaine Sundrud supports senior leaders and keynote speakers in shaping clear, compelling messages for high-visibility moments. His zone of focus includes keynote development, executive presence, and the translation of complex technical ideas into communication that holds up on large stages. ​Blaine’s background spans technology education, mathematics, computer science, and theater, allowing him to bridge analytical rigor with performance awareness. He previously worked with AWS Global Events, where he helped guide keynote content and mainstage communication for large-scale, enterprise audiences, and authored the NeuroEducate program used to coach technical speakers. His work centers on clarity, structure, and presence, particularly when expectations are high and time is limited.
Senior Partner
Hillside Communications
Chris Hill, PhD.
Science Communication Expert
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Chris Hill is president and co-founder at Hillside Communications, based in Denver, Colorado. For over twenty-five years, Chris and his team have supported over thirty thousand of the most accomplished scientific experts in the US and worldwide to deliver outstanding presentations. With over seventeen years of science-teaching experience in the UK, Bermuda, and the US and a doctorate in educational psychology, Chris is well-qualified to recognize influential speakers and educators and share their best practices. When he is not traveling the world giving keynote presentations and workshops, Chris is knee-deep in the trout streams near his home in Durango, Colorado.
experiential coach & Founder
Sam Elmore Coaching
Sam Elmore
Executive Coach + Off-Site Creator and Facilitator
Sam Elmore believes effective communication creates impactful connections. He has built his career as a coach and facilitator around a personal mission to support individuals and teams to be more connected to themselves and each other. He has an ability to deeply listen to both what is being said as well as what lies beneath the surface. In his 1:1 coaching Sam’s first priority is to help people connect to what matters most to them. He has an uncanny way of drawing out his clients' genius and supporting them to embody the message they seek to communicate. Sam’s training in Theatre, Somatics and Psychology offers a unique blend of techniques that foster authenticity and clarity.
Founder, Foureva Media
Jamar Jones
Personal Brand Strategist and Event Creator
Jamar Jones is a filmmaker, visual storyteller, and creative director who collaborates with Meridith Grundei on Unscripted retreats and select experiential projects. His work focuses on helping speakers and leaders show up on camera and on stage with clarity, credibility, and intention. ​Jamar brings a strong instinct for drawing out what is real and shaping it into storytelling that feels grounded, purposeful, and human. He works with individuals and brands to clarify voice, define identity, and communicate in a way that feels aligned and trustworthy, without relying on formulas or performative polish. ​At Unscripted, Jamar guides participants through content capture and storytelling direction, helping translate who they are into how they show up on stage, on camera, and in high-visibility rooms. His role is creative collaboration and experiential design, not core enterprise delivery or client engagements.
Founder & President, DECK
Mike Teixeira
Deck Design
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Mike has worked with executives for over 25 years, helping them discover their core messages and present them with style and stunning visuals. ​Leveraging his theater, public relations, and corporate communications background, he leads his clients through initial strategy, presentation structure, design, rehearsal, and delivery. He founded DECK in 2017, and they have worked with hundreds of clients, including such notable brands as Spotify, Timberland, Stanford University, and Pepsi.
We focus on outcomes, not performance.
Our work is designed to help leaders communicate with clarity and credibility when it matters most. We prioritize decision-ready messaging, presence under pressure, and communication that holds up in real environments.
We apply structure with flexibility.
Every engagement is shaped by context, audience, and objective. We use shared frameworks to ensure consistency, while tailoring the work to the specific demands of each leader, team, or organization.
We are accountable to real impact.
We don’t aim for surface-level polish. We prepare leaders to communicate in ways that influence thinking, align teams, and support long-term effectiveness across the organization.