Amie Deak is a senior advisor at IA with over 25 years of transformation experience. Amie has an extensive background in change and behavior. She is a licensed clinical social worker with a master’s degree in healthcare administration. Amie’s expertise in communication, relationship building, and conflict resolution puts her in a unique situation to help empower businesses to make difficult decisions and transform.

When High Performance Costs Too Much

By Amie Deak / Jan 27, 2026

Work was never meant to cost people their health. Yet for years, the highest performers have often been those most skilled at ignoring their own limits. Endurance was rewarded. Exhaustion was normalized. Burnout became a private problem rather than a systemic one. A Turning Point In many ways, 2025 marked a turning point for workplace mental […]

Reunited and it feels so good

By Amie Deak / Nov 23, 2022

I recently reunited with my IA family after a 2-year hiatus, and it feels amazing! You know how sometimes when you leave something or someone for a reason, it may only be for a season, and then you find yourself coming back together again? Well, that is what happened to me with IA. However, before […]

How Does HR Transformation Affect the Employee Experience?

By Amie Deak / Oct 23, 2019

I recently attended my first-ever HR Tech Conference in Las Vegas. I have spent decades advocating for the employee experience inside healthcare companies, but this was the first time I’d been a part of conversations about transformation and the future of work from the other side. While I was fascinated by many of the conversations […]

Change Management Is Really All About Human Relationships

By Amie Deak / Mar 7, 2019

I started my career as a licensed clinical social worker. My passion has always centered around helping others. Empowering people and bringing them together has been at the core of my career in healthcare for over 20 years. A few months ago, I started a new role at IA as an advisor and now I […]