We built the firm we wished had existed.
Meridian Six Partners was founded on a simple observation: the household and personal support staffing industry wasn't serving people well on either side of the table.
Candidates with exceptional backgrounds were being ghosted, subjected to inappropriate screening, or placed in roles that were never properly defined. Clients with real needs and high standards were working with agencies that didn't take the time to understand their household or the person they were about to welcome into it.
We stepped in to change that.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
This work is personal.
We treat it that way.
Integrity over speed
We prioritize the right match over the fast one. A placement that doesn’t hold isn’t a placement it’s a problem deferred. We take the time to get it right.
Absolute discretion
Privacy is not a service we offer. It is the foundation of how we operate. What you share with us about your family, your home, or your search stays with us.
Mutual respect
We hold clients and candidates to the same standard of professionalism. Every interaction, from first conversation to final placement, is handled with clarity, care, and intention.
Candor
We say what needs to be said, even when it's not the easy thing to hear. If a role isn't clearly defined, we'll say so. If a candidate isn't the right fit, we'll say that too. Honesty is how we protect everyone, clients and candidates alike.
Where we come from.
Meridian Six Partners was founded by Ami Graves, a senior HR executive whose career was built on one conviction: that how you hire says everything about what you value.
After decades leading people operations and talent strategy for high-growth organizations, Ami saw firsthand how differently the private household world operated, how rarely the professional rigor of corporate HR translated into this space, and how much that cost the people on both sides of a search.
The gap wasn't just professional, it was personal. Ami was living it herself: juggling a demanding career, kids, a household that didn't run itself, and aging parents who increasingly needed support too. She went looking for the kind of trusted, well-vetted household help her own family needed, and found an industry that operated on guesswork and hope — the opposite of everything she'd spent her career building.
She founded Meridian Six to close that gap. To bring the discipline, compliance, and candidate-first standards of executive HR into a world that had gone too long without them. Today, that means serving busy leaders, executives, business owners, and entrepreneurs, and just as often, parents simply trying to hold it all together. Whether you're running a company, a household, or both at once, the standard shouldn't change.
We work with a select group of clients and candidates.
The right placement is too important to approach any other way.
MEET THE TEAM
The people behind Meridian Six Partners.
Exceptional environments are built on exceptional people. Our team brings together executive HR leadership, talent acquisition expertise, luxury hospitality experience, and hands-on household management — a combination that most firms in this space simply don't have.
Ami Graves
Founder & Principal
Ami brings decades of experience as a senior HR executive, with a career defined by leading people operations and talent strategy for high-growth organizations. She understands what exceptional hiring looks like, what it costs to get it wrong, and what candidates deserve from the people who represent them.
She founded Meridian Six with a commitment to professionalizing the world of household and personal support placement, bringing the rigor, compliance, and standards of corporate HR into a space that had long operated without them.
Ami personally oversees all search engagements, candidate representation, and the strategic direction of the firm. Every placement carries her name, and she treats it that way. She leads client relationships and search engagements in the Indianapolis area.
Sonja Lezama
CLIENT EXPERIENCE & OPERATIONS LEAD
Sonja's background is in luxury hospitality, an industry where discretion, precision, and anticipating needs before they arise aren't aspirational values, they are daily practice. She brings an intuitive sense for what busy households actually need and the standard of care they deserve.
Her role is to ensure that every interaction with Meridian Six Partners, from first inquiry to final placement, reflects the same care and professionalism our clients expect from the people we place. She oversees the end-to-end client and candidate experience, keeping every engagement seamless, professional, and rooted in trust.
Sonja is based in South Florida and leads client relationships and operations in the region.
Aleigh Hall
CLIENT SUPPORT COORDINATOR
Aleigh comes to Meridian Six Partners with firsthand experience in the very role many of our clients are trying to fill. As a personal assistant/house manager for a family in Fort Lauderdale, she's lived the day-to-day reality of the job — the judgment calls, the shifting priorities, the trust it takes to be let into someone's household and routine.
That perspective shapes how she supports the search. Aleigh helps source and screen candidates and works closely with them to prepare for the roles they're stepping into, so they arrive ready rather than guessing.
Aleigh also provides short-term and project-based support to clients through Meridian Six Concierge — bringing the same hands-on experience to temporary coverage that she brings to candidate preparation.
GET IN TOUCH
If this sounds like what you’ve been looking for, let’s talk.
Whether you’re a client navigating a search that requires more care than most firms can offer, or a candidate ready to be represented the way you deserve, we’d like to hear from you.