About Meredith
Culture Mentor, Speaker and Author
Meredith Wilson
Meredith Wilson makes culture simple and actionable. With over 15 years at the Executive and Board level in ASX10 and global teams, she has led culture through rapid growth, acquisitions, downturns, and transformations. Now, as a speaker, author, mentor, and facilitator, Meredith works with senior leaders to shape, shift, and lead culture, building the capacity needed for what’s next.
Through her work, Meredith offers:
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Mentoring: One-on-one engagements to enhance leadership effectiveness.
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Masterclasses: Interactive sessions on culture and leadership
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Executive Programs and Experiences: curated experiences and learning programs designed for executives and senior leaders.
Committed to making culture accessible to all leaders, Meredith has authored Shift: Everyday Actions Leaders Can Take to Shift Culture, a practical guide to building effective cultures.
Meredith’s deep knowledge of people and culture has made her a highly sought-after speaker and mentor. She is known for her engaging style, practical insights, and ability to make complex concepts understandable and actionable.
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Meredith is a warm, engaging, and thought provoking speaker who brings culture and leadership to life through real stories, sharp insights, and a touch of humour. She challenges assumptions, busts myths, and leaves audiences laughing, learning, and rethinking the way they lead.
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"Meredith is a master people strategist, a powerful communicator and a generous colleague, she is able to digest complex theory, apply it in new and unique ways to a business challenge and explain it to any audience."
Chris, GM HR
"Meredith is well regarded for crafting creative solutions, her engaging style and her commercial, pragmatic approach."
Nic, EGM People & Culture
Author
After two decades shaping, shifting and leading culture in leadership and executive roles, Meredith knows what it takes in the real world. She’s on a mission to make culture clear, practical and actionable cutting through the fluff and giving leaders the tools to shift culture in their everyday work.
Determined to make culture accessible to all leaders, Meredith has written a practical guide to shifting culture in action. Shift: Everyday Actions Leaders Can Take to Shift Culture offers real world strategies for building cultures worth belonging to, work worth doing, and leadership worth following.
Her upcoming book, Leadershift (2026), explores the pivotal shifts leaders need to navigate the now and next of work.
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Leaders are expected to shape cultures worth belonging to but culture isn’t a project, an initiative, or an HR responsibility. It’s what leaders do every day. Boards are asking tougher questions, public scrutiny is intensifying, and teams are voting with their feet.
Whether you're a CEO or team leader, Shift introduces Meredith’s simple, actionable culture formula that you can apply in your daily leadership.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Meredith Wilson?
Meredith Wilson is an Australian workplace culture expert, keynote speaker, author, and executive mentor based in Brisbane. She works with senior leaders, executives, and CEOs to shape, shift, and lead culture in their organisations. Meredith spent over 15 years at Executive and Board level in ASX10 and global organisations, including Wesfarmers, before building a practice focused on making culture simple and actionable for leaders at every level. She is the author of Shift: Everyday Actions Leaders Can Take to Shift Culture.
What is Meredith Wilson's background?
Meredith's career spans more than 25 years in leadership, executive, and board roles across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Europe, and the Middle East. She held senior positions within Wesfarmers, Australia's largest private employer, where she was responsible for people, culture, and organisational strategy across large, complex operations. That experience gives her a perspective grounded in the reality of leading culture under operational pressure, competing priorities, and commercial accountability. She now works as a speaker, mentor, and facilitator, partnering with senior leaders across industries.
What is Meredith Wilson's approach to workplace culture?
Meredith's approach is built on a simple belief: culture creates capacity. She works with leaders to see culture as their day job, shaped in the everyday moments that matter, not as a program or initiative owned by HR. Her frameworks, including GRASS (Gatherings, Rituals, Actions, Symbols, Stories) and SHAPE (Safety, Hope, Autonomy, Purpose, Exploration), give leaders practical ways to observe, name, and shift the culture around them. The approach is commercially grounded. It connects culture to organisational performance, risk, decision quality, and the capacity to deliver results.
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