The ENGAGEMENT Strategist™
Meredith Berkich helps direct selling companies build stronger teams, stronger leaders and stronger organizations by maximizing one of their most important competitive advantages: their people.
For more than 30 years, Meredith has built and led high-performing teams on both sides of direct selling – as a successful field leader and independent entrepreneur before moving into corporate leadership roles. Those included Global President, Chief Sales Officer, Chief Growth Officer and North American President for multiple global organizations across health and wellness, beauty, home decor, and renewable energy.
More importantly, Meredith has spent much of the past 15 years at the helm of some of the fastest-growing companies in direct selling – including one company she led past the $1 billion milestone, growing it from $256M to $1.1B in two years. She hasn’t simply observed what modern direct selling success looks like. She’s been in the middle of it, guiding organizations as they navigate extraordinary growth, develop leaders, strengthen culture, engage the field and adapt as the channel itself has changed. As an independent leader, she built and sustained an 80% annual retention rate on her own organization—proof that what she teaches, she’s also lived.
That experience gives Meredith a rare perspective. She understands what executives are striving to accomplish in the corporate office and boardroom, but she also understands how those strategies and decisions are experienced in the field. She knows what it takes to create engagement at every level of the organization and how trust, leadership, accountability and connection translate into sustainable business performance.
Her most recent work centered on two related concepts: strengthening the Human Advantage that allows great strategies, systems and technology to deliver their full potential, complimenting the Human-to-AI partnership that will define the next era of the channel—helping leaders determine where technology accelerates the work, and where only a human leader can close the gap.
Meredith’s contributions to the sector have been recognized with two-time honors as one of Direct Selling News’ ‘Most Influential Women in Direct Selling,’ along with the DSA Rising Star Award and DSA Ethos Award, both accepted on behalf of the companies she led as president, and multiple DSN Bravo Awards. She is also the author of the upcoming book The Connection Gap.
Today, Meredith brings that experience to companies as a fractional executive, strategic advisor, executive coach, speaker and facilitator. Whether an organization is scaling, navigating change, developing its next generation of leaders or working to better align corporate and field, Meredith helps leaders strengthen the Human Advantage, and the Human-AI Partnership—that turns corporate vision and strategies into measurable results.
Why Direct Selling Companies Hire Meredith:
- Fractional Executive Leadership
- Strategic Executive Advisory
- Salesforce Engagement
- Keynote Presentations & Workshops
- Organizational Culture & Team Effectiveness
- Sales System & Training Development
- Change Management Design
- Corporate & Field Alignment
- Board Advisory & Liaison
- Executive Coaching
