Amy Wilson Cheney helps professionals decide what’s next and navigate the conversations that shape their careers. Her work includes preparing for interviews, communicating their value, becoming more visible at work, discussing career growth, and stepping into leadership.
Through individual coaching, workshops, and speaking, Amy helps people clarify what they want, articulate their strengths, and prepare for conversations that can feel difficult or unfamiliar. Her approach combines structured frameworks with reflection, practice, role-play, and specific feedback.
Amy brings 25 years of sales and leadership experience, including executive roles at Bloomberg and Dataminr. She built and scaled teams in technology businesses, hired and developed sales and sales engineering professionals, and interviewed candidates across product, marketing, operations, and partnerships. That experience informs her understanding of how people demonstrate their potential, build relationships, and grow within organizations.
At Cornell’s Johnson School of Management and Cornell Tech, Amy co-developed and co-teaches Personal Selling, helping MBA students communicate value through listening, thoughtful questions, and practice. She also serves as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Cornell’s Center for Regional Economic Advancement and delivers Career Value Storytelling workshops for university audiences, helping students and professionals develop a clear, compelling answer to “Tell me about yourself.”
Amy holds an MBA from Cornell’s Johnson School of Management, a BA in Economics and English from Bucknell University, and is a Certified Professional Coach through iPEC. Originally from Southern California, she lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.
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