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Gloria A.

Gloria Anglon

NBC-HWC | Mindful Life Coaching for Clarity & Intentional Growth

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Studied at University of Southern California

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Admissions Committee at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Gloria's Offerings

Custom hourly · $199/hr

Get help with Communication Skills, Goal Setting, and .

Gloria also coaches for PhD Programs, Master’s Programs, Mental Health & Wellness, and Career Coaching. View all.

Gloria’s Life Coaching Qualifications

Coaches professionally

Experience level: Director

50+ people coached for Life Coaching

I help people navigate decisions, transitions, relationships, competing priorities, recurring patterns, and questions about what they want more of in their lives. As an NBC-HWC with more than 20 years of experience supporting people through change, I bring thoughtful questions, practical reflection, mindfulness, and attention to the context around you—not just the problem in front of you. Together, we may clarify what matters, notice patterns shaping your choices, reconnect with strengths, relationships, and sources of support, and explore a wise, workable response. That response may involve action, a boundary, a conversation, asking for support, rest, waiting, experimentation, acceptance, or letting something go. Sometimes it may also mean making more room for joy, meaning, creativity, or possibility. You bring the goal, set the direction, and remain the decision-maker.

Gloria can help with:

Communication Skills

Goal Setting

Mindfulness

Personal Growth

Resilience

Self-Reflection

Stress Management

Work-Life Balance

Gloria also coaches for PhD Programs, Master’s Programs, Mental Health & Wellness, and Career Coaching. View all.

About Gloria

I’m Gloria Anglón, an Afro-Latina, first-generation college graduate with more than 20 years of experience helping people navigate graduate education, important decisions, transitions, and change across MIT, Harvard, Maryland, and USC My work connects two areas I care deeply about: helping people navigate graduate education more wisely and partnering with people as they navigate decisions, relationships, transitions, and the systems that shape their lives—with greater clarity, agency, care, and connection. My approach is collaborative and systems-aware. I bring deep experience in graduate education, thoughtful questions, practical strategy, mindfulness, and attention to what is happening within you, in your relationships, and in the cultural and institutional contexts around you. My role is not to decide for you. It is to help you see more clearly, reconnect with your strengths, supports, and what matters most, and find a way forward that feels wise and workable.

Why do I coach?

I coach because capable people deserve to thrive—not just endure. Across more than 20 years in graduate education, I saw talented people gain meaningful opportunities while still navigating unspoken norms, competing expectations, self-doubt, isolation, and pressure to keep performing. I believe people grow best when they feel seen, supported, and connected to what matters most. Coaching creates space to notice what may be hidden—within ourselves, within our relationships, or within the systems we’re navigating—and to reconnect with strengths, community, purpose, belonging, and possibility. Sometimes our work is about solving a problem or making a decision. Sometimes it is about making more room for joy, meaning, connection, or a greater sense of possibility.

Work Experience

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Assistant Dean

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

May 2017 - July 2020

Admissions Committee

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Assistant Director

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

August 2015 - May 2017

Admissions Committee

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Assistant Director

Harvard University

August 2011 - July 2015

Admissions Committee

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Program Coordinator

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

August 2010 - July 2011

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Assistant Director

University of Maryland

January 2003 - June 2010

Hiring Manager

Gloria was also given offers to work at

  • University of Michigan Logo

    University of Michigan

  • The Ohio State University Logo

    The Ohio State University

  • Barnard College Logo

    Barnard College

  • Boston University Logo

    Boston University

  • University of Virginia Logo

    University of Virginia

  • Harvard Graduate School of Education Logo

    Harvard Graduate School of Education

Education

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University of Southern California

PhD, Education

2020 - 2027

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Harvard University

Certificate of Completion, Administrative Fellowship Program

2011 - 2012

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University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Master, Applied Sociology

2010 - 2011

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Providence College

Bachelors of Science, Political Science, Sociology, and Business

1995 - 1999

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Overall Rating

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