About Amy Gleklen

Contact Information:

p: 301.642.9950
f: 301.760.7566
gleklen@nextgameplan.com
www.nextgameplan.com

 

Coaching Profile                                                           

Amy is a certified leadership coach and founder of Next Game Plan, specializing
in career and leadership coaching.  With both an MBA and a master’s degree in
counseling, Amy’s passion is working with people to help them discover their
unique career playbook as they move to the next level of responsibility and
leadership.  Amy tailors her coaching to her client’s needs to help them obtain
new awareness, make intentional commitments, and develop new practices. 

Amy has her own individual coaching practice and has partnered with the Wharton
School to provide coaching to its second year MBA students.  She also leads
Relaunch Circles for iRelaunch.

Background

As a leadership coach, Amy partners with her clients, by combining coaching with tools and assessments, to help them leverage strengths and identify areas for development on the road to becoming better and more successful managers and leaders.   Assessments can include an in depth study of personality, strengths, 360 feedback, culture, skills and values to help clients achieve a new level of understanding and clarity, on a much deeper level than they could obtain on their own. 

As a career coach, Amy works with clients individually, develops and leads career transition coaching workshops and programs, and helps clients manage their transitions to a new career.  She works with MBAs, women relaunching their career after a break, and with teens and young adults.  She also leads workshops for corporate and governmental clients on career management and Myers-Briggs and speaks publicly on “Getting into your Career Zone.”  Amy is one of a select few career coaches recommended by the Wharton Alumni Career Management Office.

Before becoming a coach, Amy has followed her own playbook with over 20 years of corporate, small business, and nonprofit experience, including Merrill Lynch; Biden for President; Booz, Allen & Hamilton; and as director of Compass, a DC-based nonprofit.  Her background includes leadership roles in management, finance, sales and operations.

Areas of Expertise

Amy specializes in both leadership/management coaching and career transition and management.

Education

Amy has an MBA from Wharton Business School and an undergraduate degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.  She combines this business training with a Masters degree in Counseling from Johns Hopkins, and leadership coaching certification from Georgetown University. 

Amy is an ACC ICF certified coach and certified in a variety of assessments including Myers-Briggs, Strong Interest Inventory and Leadership Circle 360.  She completed a 12-week course in Positive Psychology through the University of Pennsylvania in 2009.