Amanda Dean, BBA

Chief Financial Officer | Business Financial Consultant | Behavioral Health Advocate | Entrepreneur

Amanda Dean is a seasoned financial professional, entrepreneur, and nonprofit executive whose career spans more than 25 years across accounting, behavioral health administration, client accounting services, and community-centered entrepreneurship. Her work is grounded in integrity, excellence, and a faith-informed commitment to helping individuals and organizations move from survival to stability—and from stability to purpose-driven success.

Amanda currently serves as Chief Financial Officer for Discovering Solutions, Inc., c/o Our Safe Place, where she oversees financial strategy, compliance, internal controls, budgeting, and sustainability planning for programs serving women and children in transitional housing. Her leadership supports trauma-informed, dignity-centered services that restore hope, structure, and opportunity for families rebuilding their lives. Amanda approaches this work as both a professional calling and a ministry of stewardship, believing that sound financial systems are essential to long-term impact.

In addition to her CFO role, Amanda works as a Business Financial Consultant and Client Accounting Specialist (2009–Present), providing bookkeeping, payroll, tax compliance, and advisory services to small businesses, nonprofits, medical practices, and service-based organizations. She is highly experienced in QuickBooks Desktop and Online, payroll platforms, sales and use tax filings, W-2 and 1099 reporting, reconciliations, and financial statement preparation, and is known for her accuracy, clarity, and ability to manage multiple clients in regulated environments.

Amanda’s professional foundation was built through long-standing accounting roles, including Acquisition Management, Inc. (1998–2009), where she supported multi-entity investment operations and assisted CPAs with audits and financial documentation over a 12-year period. She later served in public accounting as Office Manager / CPA Assistant with HITS Financial (2010–2015), managing payroll, tax filings, QuickBooks setups, tax return preparation, staff supervision, and client communications for individuals and small businesses.

Her commitment to behavioral health administration deepened through leadership roles with The Counseling & Training Center (2015–2019) and It Takes a Village Counseling Services (2019–Present), where she provides accounting, payroll, and HR support. In these roles, Amanda has worked closely with clinicians and leadership teams to ensure ethical financial practices, compliance, and operational stability; always with a heart for children, families, and adults navigating mental and emotional health challenges.

Alongside her accounting and nonprofit work, Amanda is a lifelong entrepreneur.

She is the founder and owner of Impressive Linens by Amanda (January 2010–Present), a wedding and event coordination business born from her love for celebrating life’s most meaningful moments. Weddings hold a special place in Amanda’s heart—not just as events, but as covenant milestones. Through this business, she has coordinated and designed weddings, graduations, and professional events while managing budgets, vendors, contracts, marketing, and full operational logistics.

Earlier in her entrepreneurial journey, Amanda owned After Dark Lounge, Inc. (2009–2013), a 30-and-up cultural venue featuring jazz, old-school R&B, comedy nights, ballroom dance classes, and community experiences. This venture strengthened her expertise in business operations, compliance, financial oversight, and community engagement.

A defining element of Amanda’s leadership is her transparency and testimony. Having learned powerful lessons through past financial challenges, she now champions financial literacy, accountability, and a poverty-free mindset rooted in wisdom, discipline, and faith. She is deeply passionate about helping others understand their financial worth, correct course without shame, and build sustainable success through informed decision-making and renewed mindset. Her life and work reflect a redemption narrative; proof that setbacks can become strategy and that stewardship leads to freedom.

Amanda holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Albany State University. She leads with compassion, clarity, and conviction, believing that when people are equipped with the right systems, support, and spiritual grounding, transformation is possible; for individuals, families, and entire communities.

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11

In His Grip,
Ms. Amanda Dean
"I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing." John 15:5