About Meredith
Culture Expert, Speaker, Author and Mentor
Meredith Wilson
Meredith Wilson is a culture expert, speaker, author and executive mentor who helps leaders create capacity through culture and leadership. A former ASX10 executive, she has led cultural transformations in complex and global organisations, navigating growth, acquisitions and large-scale change.
Working under her Meredith Wilson brand, Meredith partners with executives and leadership teams to shape, shift and lead culture in practical, commercially grounded ways. She is the author of Shift: Everyday Actions Leaders Can Take to Shift Culture and the forthcoming Leadershift (2027), which introduces five pivotal shifts for leading the now and next of work.
Meredith's work focuses on helping leaders see culture as part of the day job, shaped through conversations, decisions, systems and everyday actions. Her SHAPE model describes the culture needed for the now and next, while the GRASS model, Gatherings, Rituals, Actions, Symbols and Stories, turns culture from theory into daily practice. Through programs such as Leading Culture and Leadershift, she helps leadership teams align behaviour, leadership and systems to support meaningful change.
A sought-after keynote speaker, mentor and advisor, Meredith works with executives and leadership teams across industries.
Speaker
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 and busts myths, leaving audiences from the boardroom to the frontline laughing, learning and ready to take action.
Shift your leaders. Shift your culture. Create capacity.
What leaders say about working with Meredith
"Meredith is fiercely intelligent and so, so experienced. You immediately feel comfortable in her confidence. She also has that rare combination of being tough and brutally honest while being equally nurturing and caring. She has helped me out of some tricky situations for which I will be forever grateful."
Founder & CEO, Digital Agency
"Meredith is a master people strategist and a powerful communicator. She is able to digest complex theory, apply it in new and unique ways to a business challenge and explain it to any audience."
General Manager HR, Financial Services
"Meredith is well regarded for crafting creative solutions, her engaging style and her commercial, pragmatic approach."
Chief People Officer, Industrials
Shift. Everyday Actions Leaders can take to Shift Culture.
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.
Meredith will shift the way you see culture and leadership.
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, author and mentor, 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 — culture as a leadership practice, embedded in how decisions get made. 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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