Founder, PREP Legal Coaching
Attorney · Coach
“You don’t have to lose your soul to have a great legal career. I’m living proof, and I’ll show you how.”
Amy Kluesner is a corporate attorney with 15 years of experience across BigLaw and two in-house General Counsel roles at PE-backed companies, and she’s done all of it while raising three boys, discovering she has ADHD, and finding a way to love what she does.
Today, through PREP Legal Coaching, Amy coaches young lawyers who are navigating the same terrain she once walked: the pressure to prove yourself, the creeping imposter syndrome, the sense that success is supposed to feel different than this. She helps them find their footing, professionally, personally, and purposefully, so they can build careers that sustain them rather than consume them.
An Intentionally Unconventional Path
Amy grew up in Nashville as the first in her family to attend college. She earned her B.S. from Vanderbilt University, then spent five years as a Dominican Sister, an experience that profoundly shaped her worldview and her approach to everything that followed. Notre Dame Law School came next, and so did a career that has never fit a single mold.
Those years in religious life were not a detour. They were the foundation. Living in discipline and community, Amy developed her approach to leadership, negotiation, and purpose-driven work, building a strong foundation in virtue, clarity of purpose, and human understanding that now defines her as both a highly effective attorney and a trusted coach.
Her rare combination of legal expertise, spiritual depth, and real-world perspective sets her apart. She is transparent about navigating a high-performance career while managing personal challenges, including discovering neurodivergence later in life, and that openness is precisely what allows her to connect so deeply with lawyers and entrepreneurs who are navigating their own pressure, identity, and growth.
Her clients feel it immediately: this is someone who has done the work, inside and outside the law, and is here to help you do yours.
The Hard Chapters Are Her Credentials
Amy knows what it’s like to sit in a BigLaw office and wonder if everyone else got a manual you didn’t. She knows the weight of being the GC who has to make tough calls. She knows what it feels like to discover, later than most, that her brain is wired differently, and to learn to lead with that as a strength rather than hide it as a liability.
She is a wife and mother of three energetic boys and has built a practice she genuinely loves. Not despite the hard chapters, but directly as a result of what she learned in them.
What She Coaches On
- Overcoming imposter syndrome: Silencing the voice that says you don’t belong, and replacing it with one that knows you do.
- Building a values-driven career: Designing a legal career around who you actually are, not who you think you’re supposed to be.
- Navigating neurodivergence: Thriving with ADHD in a profession that wasn’t designed for it.
- Balancing Ambition and Family Life: How prioritizing family while excelling in your profession makes you a more balanced lawyer, not a lesser one.
Leadership & Community Impact
Amy’s credentials, from AmLaw 100 to in-house GC, are not listed here to impress. They’re here so you know she has sat exactly where you’re sitting and found a way through. She handles high-stakes M&A transactions, healthcare acquisitions, and complex corporate work because she loves the craft. She coaches because she wants you to love it too.
Amy has spent her career as a passionate mentor to young lawyers, a champion for women in demanding careers, and a guide to entrepreneurs and business owners seeking to align professional success with deeper meaning and purpose. Her coaching clients include lawyers, solo practitioners, entrepreneurs, and women navigating the intersection of leadership and family life.
She speaks regularly on topics spanning law, business, leadership, and personal growth, including building a value-driven career, overcoming imposter syndrome, navigating motherhood in high-performance roles, integrating spiritual principles into business and leadership, and discovering and thriving with ADHD later in life.
Featured podcast appearances:
- Dental Entrepreneur Woman Podcast: “The Balancing Act: Spirituality, Law, and Business”
- Pillars of Purpose Podcast: “Episode 51: Amy Kluesner: Big Deals & Bigger Lessons”
If you’re a young lawyer who is grinding but not thriving, who chose this profession with intention and is wondering where that intention went, PREP Legal Coaching is where you start.
