Amy Balliett

Amy Balliett (born 1982, Cleveland) is an entrepreneur living in Seattle, Washington. She is best known for being the founder and CEO of Killer Visual Strategies, an award-winning visual communication agency located in Seattle.

Early entrepreneurship and experience

At age 17, Balliett became the manager of the Linwood Park Stand. The stand was already an established penny candy store and ice cream parlor in the center of the park. Balliett managed the business for two summers before attending college at Wright State University for two quarters. In the spring of 2002, Balliett transferred from Wright State to Cleveland State University to attend CSU's First College program. In just two years, she graduated with a four-year BFA in Film with a minor in Diversity Marketing.

Upon graduation, Balliett moved to Seattle, Washington, where she began a career in online marketing and SEO. She has headed SEO at several companies.

Balliett made news in 2008 as the person responsible for starting the Join the Impact organization with friend Willow Witte in response to the passage of Proposition 8 in California during the 2008 US elections. Join the Impact organized the National Day of Protest on November 15, 2008. The protest took place in more than 400 cities in every state in the country and in ten countries around the world. The protest was attended by an estimated one million people worldwide.

Balliett is included on a list of out influential people in The Advocate's "Forty under 40" issue of June/July 2009.

Killer infographics and visual strategies

Balliett's Role

In 2009, Balliett and her then-cofounder partnered to build lead generation–based websites, but in the fall of 2010, the business pivoted to an entirely new model: visual communication design. In the years since, Killer Infographics has become the leader in its industry, driving visual strategy and campaigns for such global brands as Microsoft, Boeing, Adobe, Nikon, Starbucks, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the United Nations. In 2019, Killer changed its name to Killer Visual Strategies.

Considered an expert in her field, Balliett speaks at dozens of conferences every year, and has presented at such conferences as SXSW, Adobe MAX, SMX Advanced, SMX West, Brandemonium, and the Seattle Interactive Conference. She is also an Inc.com columnist, a teacher at the School of Visual Concepts in Seattle, a guest lecturer at the University of Washington, and a LinkedIn Learning and Lynda.com instructor.

About Killer Visual Strategies

Killer Visual Strategies, formerly known as Killer Infographics, is an industry-leading visual communication agency that executes visual content strategies across a diverse array of media, including infographics, motion graphics, augmented reality, interactive experiences, and more. Killer's custom-designed campaigns help clients speak visually to the audiences who matter most.

An Inc. 5000 company for four years in a row (2016–2019), Killer has won more than 30 awards for excellence in visual communication. It has designed and executed successful visual strategies for a myriad of Fortune 1000 companies, including Amazon, Boeing, the Discovery Channel, Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, and Microsoft.

Nonprofit Donations

As of early 2020, Killer Visual Strategies had donated more than $4.5 million in services to nonprofits since it was founded in 2010.

External links

• The Visual Marketer: A weekly column for Inc. written by Amy Balliett. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
• LinkedIn Learning Instructor Amy Balliett: Bio and full course list. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
• Killer Visual Strategies company site.
• Octopus, Gangster (November 12, 2008). "Meet Amy Balliett: Prop 8 Activist Taking on the System". Daily Kos. Retrieved 2008-11-14.