Who Is Amy Krymkowski?
Amy Krymkowski is the Founder and CEO of Better Path Coaching, where she works with accomplished professionals and leaders navigating career transitions and leadership evolution. A Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with a background in human resources, employee relations, and leadership development, Amy is known for her holistic, human-centered approach that helps leaders align ambition with purpose, clarity, and long-term fulfillment. Her work spans private coaching, organizational partnerships, and leadership programs, supporting clients from mid-management through the C-suite as they reimagine what’s next in their careers and lives.
There are moments in a career when everything looks right on paper, title, trajectory, reputation, yet something essential feels off. For Amy Krymkowski, that moment arrived not at the beginning of her professional life, but near the height of her corporate success. It was a season defined by achievement and respect, and paradoxically, by self-doubt. The unease wasn’t a failure of competence; it was a signal of misalignment. That realization would become the catalyst for a reinvention, one that now defines her work guiding leaders through change with clarity, integrity, and purpose.
As Founder and CEO of Better Path Coaching, Amy helps accomplished professionals and executives, often in midlife, navigate career transitions that honor both ambition and authenticity. Her coaching is grounded in lived experience, informed by decades of experience across human resources, coaching, and leadership development, and distinguished by a human-centered approach that invites leaders to reimagine what success can look like when it aligns with who they are becoming.
Listening for What’s Not Being Said
Amy’s professional foundation was shaped early by a dual interest in psychology and people systems. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a Women’s Studies certificate from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, followed by a master’s degree in Human Resources and Labor Relations from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. That academic grounding led her into human resources roles across complex organizations, from manufacturing and consumer goods to biotechnology, where she developed a rare combination of analytical rigor and empathetic insight.
In HR, Amy learned to listen deeply and objectively, often in moments of tension or uncertainty. Investigating employee relations cases required her to hear not only what was said, but what was avoided; to recognize patterns; and to build trust while navigating high-stakes environments. These skills would later become central to her coaching practice, though with a critical shift in purpose.
“In HR, I was in service to the institution,” she reflects. “In coaching, I’m in service to the individual.”
From Corporate Expertise to Transformational Coaching
The turning point in Amy’s career came weeks before an internal team offsite, where she was asked to design and facilitate an exercise focused on professional and personal clarity. Initially hesitant, she agreed, and watched as colleagues moved beyond metrics and titles to articulate what truly mattered to them. When a peer later told her,
“You were made for this,” the words resonated deeply.
Shortly thereafter, Amy made a bold decision: she stepped away from her corporate role and took a professional sabbatical. What followed was a deliberate pivot into executive and career coaching, one rooted not in abandoning her past, but in redirecting it.
Since founding Better Path Coaching in 2020, Amy has worked with leaders from mid-management through the C-suite, helping them navigate transitions without losing momentum or identity. As a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation, she brings additional credentials in mental fitness, group coaching, and Inclusion and belonging. Her work extends beyond her firm through partnerships with organizations such as Baird, Chief, LiveRamp and Skyline Group International, where she has coached executives and senior leaders as well as through other leadership programs and initiatives supporting high-performing women.
Amy’s methodology blends structure with reflection. Frameworks like Reflect, Reimagine, Restart help clients move through uncertainty without rushing the process, an antidote to what she sees as one of the most common leadership challenges during transition: impatience.
Creating Space for Alignment and Confidence
What distinguishes Amy’s impact is her ability to normalize transition as a strategic leadership skill rather than a setback. She challenges the “starting over” myth that keeps many accomplished professionals stuck, reframing experience as transferable capital rather than sunk cost. Through thoughtful experimentation and calibrated risk-taking, she helps leaders recognize that growth doesn’t have to be linear to be meaningful.
Clients consistently describe profound shifts in confidence and clarity. One executive shared,
“Working with Amy gave me a greater sense of peace and preparedness. I feel more confident handling difficult conversations, and I’ve learned that I can lead with thoughtfulness, ease, and balance while still achieving my goals.”
Another reflected, “Amy played a pivotal role in my professional journey, helping me become a better communicator and a more grounded leader through introspection and connection.”
These outcomes are not accidental. Amy is intentional about creating environments where leaders can question inherited definitions of success, explore identity shifts, and build decision-making frameworks anchored in values. As she often reminds clients, alignment is not a one-time achievement, it’s a practice.
Vision for the Future: Permission to Evolve
Amy does not speak often about legacy. Instead, she focuses on possibility. In a world of accelerating change, where technology, longevity, and identity are reshaping careers, she hopes leaders give themselves permission to evolve.
“I want people to trust the process of transition,” she says. “To see their experience as a competitive advantage, not something they’re walking away from. And to make decisions from a place of values and fulfillment, not just obligation.”
Through her work, Amy is helping redefine leadership for a new era, one where success is measured not only by outcomes, but by alignment; not only by achievement, but by sustainability.
Editorial Note
The story of Amy Krymkowski reflects a deeper truth about modern leadership: sustainable success requires alignment, not endurance. Her journey invites leaders to pause, reflect, and reconsider the paths they are pursuing, not through pressure or reinvention for its own sake, but through clarity, intention, and self-trust. For executives navigating transition or questioning what comes next, Amy’s work offers a compelling reminder that the most meaningful progress begins when ambition is guided by purpose.
