Amy is a grassroots and PAC productivity expert who founded The Showalter Group to help associations and corporations increase their grassroots and PAC effectiveness. In fact, after collaborating with Amy, over 85% of her long term consulting clients have experienced an increase in budget, staff, and senior management recognition.

Amy has galvanized thousands of grassroots evangelists and staff for her clients who want to advance their cause politically. For nine years she directed the efforts of the highly acclaimed Nationwide Insurance Civic Action Program (CAP). During her tenure, over 2,000 public affairs professionals across the country ranked Nationwide's program as one of the top two corporate grassroots programs in the country. (Ed Grefe and Martin Linsky, The New Corporate Activism)

She has published over 40 articles on grassroots and PAC best practices, and is a magazine columnist. Her insights have been featured in the Washington Times, The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News, and the Baltimore Sun, to name a few. She is the author of "105 Ways to Build a Relationship with Your Elected Officials." Her Roots of Success newsletter is distributed to thousands of government relations professionals. Amy is a co-founder and producer of the annual Innovate to Motivate Conference, the largest national conference of its kind for political involvement professionals.

Amy has worked "inside" the system as a Legislative Aide to Ohio Senate President Richard Finan. She then lobbied for the small business members of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce. It was at the Chamber where she readily recognized her limitations as a lobbyist and recognized her talents as a grassroots and PAC volunteer motivator.

She is a faculty member of the U. S. Chamber's Institute for Organization Management, and serves on the board of the Washington Area State Relations Group and is Vice-Chair of the Government Relations Section Council of the American Society of Association Executives.

Amy has a BA in Political Science from Wright State University and a Master's Degree in Human Resources Administration from Central Michigan University.

She and her husband, Randy Boyer, co-exist with their three Siberian Huskies in the greater Cincinnati area.

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