Top Skills
Design Services
Extensive experience in design services, including multimedia and graphic design.
Project Management
Managed end-to-end branding projects, ensuring WCAG-level accessibility and trauma-informed empathy.
Brand Strategy
Experience in steering marketing strategy and delivering end-to-end branding solutions.
Bio
I’m Amanda Allen, the founder of Ember & Sage Media. I work with professionals who serve neurodivergent audiences—clinicians, public speakers, coaches, and mission-driven founders—who are tired of fixing the same files before every session or talk. If your intake forms are hard to read, your slides look different every time, or clients get lost in worksheets, that’s what I fix.
My approach is simple: accessibility first, people first. We lock your core identity and a few clear rules, then turn your everyday materials—forms, decks, worksheets, web pages—into ready-to-use templates your team can run without hand-holding. The payoff is fewer last-minute edits, easier sessions, smoother talks, and a look people trust.
Before Ember & Sage Media, I spent years in hands-on production and in-house marketing, pairing design with practical ops. I bring that same calm, get-it-done energy here: no hype, no hustle-culture pressure; just clear, usable tools that fit real life and real brains.
On Startups.com, I’m here to learn from peers serving ND communities, swap practical tactics, and connect with partners who care about accessibility as much as aesthetics. If you’ve got one nagging piece of collateral that keeps getting “make it clearer” comments, let’s start there.
Elevator Pitch
Most brands lose conversions because their visuals feel chaotic and inconsistent. Ember & Sage builds a clear set of templates and simple rules so your content is calm, clear, and easy to follow, allowing your team to maintain consistency without needing to be designers.
Industry
Services
Location
Tyler, TX, USA
Website
embernsage.com
Team Size
Just Me/Co-Founders
Funding Stage
Pre-Seed
Funding Raised
None/Bootstrapped
Annual Revenue
$0 to $100k
| Skill | Strength | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| Design Services | 90 | Extensive experience in design services, including multimedia and graphic design. |
| Project Management | 85 | Managed end-to-end branding projects, ensuring WCAG-level accessibility and trauma-informed empathy. |
| Brand Strategy | 85 | Experience in steering marketing strategy and delivering end-to-end branding solutions. |
| Advocacy | 80 | Focus on advocacy-first design, pairing curiosity with critical thinking. |
| Web Design | 80 | Experience in creating websites as part of branding services. |
| Photography | 75 | Professional photographer with extensive experience in creating inclusive visuals. |
| Social Media Marketing | 70 | Delivered social-media kits as part of branding services. |
| Founder | 70 | Founded AMA Designs & Productions, focusing on accessible and ethical branding; later rebranded to Ember & Sage Media. |
| Leadership | 70 | Experience in leading production art teams and steering marketing strategies. |
| Entrepreneurship | 70 | Founder of AMA Designs & Productions, focusing on ethical and accessibility-driven branding; later rebranded to Ember & Sage Media. |
| Marketing Strategy | 70 | Led marketing strategy at Frankston Packaging, focusing on data-driven storytelling and brand growth. |
| Bootstrapped Business | 60 | Successfully bootstrapped AMA Designs & Productions; later rebranded to Ember & Sage Media. |
Title
Marketing Strategist
Position Description
Steered marketing strategy, focusing on data-driven storytelling and brand growth.
Accomplishment Notes
Recalibrated priorities to focus on WCAG-level accessibility and trauma-informed empathy.
Title
Production Artist
Position Description
Led production art for screen-printing apparel design, signage, embroidery (wearables), music-festival posters, vehicle wraps, and various other misc. projects.
Accomplishment Notes
Turned complex ideas into clear, inclusive visuals.
Title
Founder
Position Description
Founded a trauma-informed, neurodivergent-affirming brand-strategy studio that builds WCAG-compliant identities and growth roadmaps for overlooked entrepreneurs; later rebranded to Ember & Sage Media.
Accomplishment Notes
Title
A.A.S. in Visual Communications
Position Description
Studied visual communications, focusing on multimedia design.
Accomplishment Notes
Graduated with an Associate of Applied Science degree and five certificates; Graphic Design, Photography, Adobe AI, PS, and Visual Communications.