AMY'S BIO

Hi! I'm Amy, an ICF-certified coach, author, and leadership development facilitator based in New York City.

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My work lives at the intersection of leadership, learning, and the deeper question beneath both: what actually matters in the end?

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I started thinking about that earlier than most.

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Surviving two near-death experiences before I turned 25 made the weight of every decision I was making feel suddenly, unmistakably real. And as I pieced my own life back together, I also couldn't stop wondering how other people were deciding what to do with theirs. What we choose. What we avoid. What we say yes to. What we postpone.

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Since then, I've spent my career exploring those questions with people across every level of responsibility and every stage of life. I've facilitated senior UN leadership teams navigating climate change in Bangladesh. I've worked with middle managers at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority rebuilding trust inside a fractured organization. I've coached a 19-year-old trying to decide whether to bet on herself when making a career switch. I've sat with high school students wrestling with how they can get through college as more resilient versions of themselves.

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The contexts couldn't look more different. But the work is surprisingly consistent: getting honest about what you value, noticing what might be getting in the way, and choosing what it would mean to move forward.

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Whether I'm in a room with fifteen people or sitting one-on-one, the question I try to make space for is the same: What would it look like to show up more fully — in your work, your relationships, and your own life?

 

I first started writing about that question in my debut essay collection, Twenty-One Years Young, published in 2020 and described by The New York Times as "honest, refreshing and, at times, gut-wrenching." Publishing a book in the middle of a pandemic felt, briefly, like an ending — like I had written my way to some kind of answer. I hadn't. What the book actually did was open up more questions, and more conversations, than I knew what to do with. And those conversations made one thing clear: I didn't just want to explore these questions on the page. I wanted to sit with them in real time, alongside other people. That realization led me to pursue coaching certification outside my 9-to-5, a Fulbright Scholar placement teaching English in Taiwan, and eventually an Ed.M. in adult learning and development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education — to better understand how people process uncertainty, navigate loss, and find their voice in chaotic times.

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Through storytelling, coaching, and a lifelong commitment to learning, I'm still exploring my own purpose. And I feel honored to help others explore theirs.

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If you've been sitting with a question you haven't quite been able to answer yet — about your work, your direction, or what comes next — that's exactly where I like to start. Let's chat.