Speaker, Growth Strategist + CEO

5,000+ Leaders Turned into Strong Decision Makers | Ecosystem Driver

Christina L. Glancy is a leading voice for growth strategy and legacy building. As the founder of At First Glance Solutions she leads digital transformation strategy programs across the globe from the East Coast to Haiti and Ghana. She has 12+ years of experience scaling leadership education programs, digital literacy, accelerators, and workforce initiatives. She’s an expert at aligning marketing vision with objectives to fuel product adoption, partner engagement, and social impact.

Where Christina came from 

Christina was born, raised and educated in Pittsburgh, PA. Toggling between a blue collar family and a white collar education is where she discovered her passionate for having tough conversations that expose the pathways to growth and sustainable solutions.  

Navigating a loud, large, intersectional and mutli-racial family put her communication, negotiation skills to work across personality type, insecurities, culture and hierarchies towards common goals anchored in legacy.  

She’s on a mission to help enterprises on the rise implement growth strategies that prevent burnout.

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What Christina built 

Across her career, Christina has supported 5,000+ enterprises on the rise to grow their brands with strategic storytelling, partnership and marketing.

Before starting At First Glances Solutions Christina experienced a steep learning curve navigating the pressure, expectations and power dynamics of corporate.  Christina’s work ethic made her stand out but professional services requires a level of consideration blue collar beginnings didn’t teach.

To date she’s invested $100K in her thought leadership to learn legacy building tools like emotional regulation, digital transformation, negotiation and skill preservation.

Every investment she made in herself she flipped into an opportunity. She’s launched marketing campaigns that engaged 75,000+ participants across seven continents, trained 1500+ founders in digital adoption and go-to-market readiness as the Community Manager at the Global Startup Ecosystem. She led multi-year initiatives that expanded program visibility by 30% and improved the DMV’s workforce data literacy by 45% where she was awarded Ecosystem Builder of the year.    

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Why Christina built At First Glance Solutions

A decade of untangling high-performing leaders' complexity from misaligned teams and unclear strategy taught Christina how to pinpoint the moment where growth stalled before it scaled. That’s why clarity, positioning, intentional execution are the foundation of every engagement taken on.

If you are building something and need a strategic thought partner who has been in the room with NASDAQ, Goldman Sachs, and Google, that is the work we do at AFG.

Explore Christina’s work at At First Glance Solutions

Ecosystem Partners 

Frequently Asked Questions

  • My expertise sits at the intersection of strategy, executive leadership, and growth.

    I help leaders and organizations:

    • Scale operations and strengthen organizational infrastructure with strategy 

    • Build strategic partnerships to increase revenue opportunities

    • Train executive leadership teams to navigate organizational growth and change

    • Design high-impact programs

    • Position leaders as trusted authorities

    • Improve stakeholder engagement

    Rather than offering isolated solutions, I focus on aligning people, processes, and strategy to produce measurable outcomes.

    • Professional services firms

    • Athletes 

    • Technology startups

    • Workforce development organizations

    • Economic development organizations

    • Government agencies

    • Chambers of commerce

    • Higher education institutions

  • The organizations that see the greatest value are often experiencing one or more of these challenges:

    • Rapid growth that has outpaced internal systems

    • Difficulty converting relationships into revenue

    • Teams operating without clear accountability

    • Leaders spending too much time working in the business instead of on it

    • Programs that need stronger execution and measurable outcomes

    • A desire to increase visibility, influence, and strategic partnerships

  • I don't start with marketing.

    I begin with a strategy.

    Strong brands are built upon the groundwork of a strong strategy. 

    Before increasing visibility, I work with clients to clarify their positioning, strengthen operations, align leadership, and establish scalable systems. Marketing then becomes an accelerator for competitiveness, not a substitute for organizational excellence.

  • While every engagement is unique, clients typically experience:

    • Greater strategic clarity

    • Improved executive decision-making

    • Stronger internal alignment

    • Increased operational efficiency

    • Expanded partnership opportunities

    • Enhanced organizational visibility

    • More effective stakeholder engagement

    • Sustainable growth strategies

    Success is measured through clearly defined objectives established at the beginning of each engagement.

  • IteInfluence is built through consistency, credibility, and strategic visibility.

    I work with leaders to strengthen:

    • Executive presence

    • Communication

    • Thought leadership

    • Stakeholder engagement

    • Public speaking

    • Relationship-building

    • Strategic networking

    The goal is to help leaders become recognized experts who inspire confidence and drive meaningful action.m description

Influence is the currency of your leadership and competitiveness.