MY STORY

Born in Kazakhstan, raised in Russia, taught in Spain, settled in France.

In terms of profession, I tried various things before making my own Big Jump and finding the right occupation for me.

 So let's start from the beginning

Previously I worked in:

• Advertising and Marketing

• Human Resources

• Translation

• Modelling

• Hospitality

Yep, quite a range of jobs there, in none of them I stayed for long. For those short periods of time I managed to achieve:

• Managed the launch of the national TV commercial of big international car brand (Land Rover) after barely a month working in the team.

• Presented to the CEOs and management team (in two different organisations) ideas and insights based on Design Thinking research on improving the working environment in the company. It was my initiative. 

• Participated and guided design research projects for startups and big 

• international companies

• Simultaneously interpreted business conversations (FR,EN,RU)

TRYING SO MANY DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS

helped me to realize, that I'm quite a pain in the ass for any boss: I have too many ideas, I take initiative and most importantly I speak up.

I desperately needed the freedom to express all the energy I had boiling in me for a while, so I dived into a search for a RIGHT profession for me.

Based on the various personal development trainings, books, long self-interrogation process, conversations with psychologists, coaches about their profession, I understood that I've been already "practising" coaching for a while. The only difference was that it wasn't paid and it was with my people around me.

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Because on the BASIS of the most fulfilling occupation for me was something that I did naturally (☝️take a hint about how to define your passion) :

-Sharing what I know

-Constant learning and development

-Helping people to maximize their potential.

AND WHO KNEW

this activity had a name, it called coaching.

Moreover, I even had a specialization defined: professional orientation.

That always inspired me, I have always passionately talked how important it is to do what you love (soon I realized it's even more important loving what you do), and even managed to help people find their vocation without realizing it.

I finally accepted who I was, and launched my coaching practice in 2016:

B2C

• As a coach, I've been helping my clients to Jump Big by achieving their goals and make big positive changes by elaborating clear action plans and dealing with inner obstacles. Magic happens in individual and group sessions. Clients reviews, check here.

For B2B projects with a focus on innovation and corporate well-being, I combine coaching with DT tools where:

• As a Design Thinking Facilitator (which is a teacher, psychologist and a strategist rolled into one), I  guide participants (from 5 to 20+ mixed audience) through an innovative process towards identifying  root causes, re-framing challenges and generating ideas

• As a Well-being Project Leader, I manage an innovative project through 3 stages: Research, Analysis, Co-creation and Recommendation. A recent project was with a goal to improve well-being for 50+ employees in  #1 France export insurance company Euler Hermes (part Allianz).

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This is about my professional path. 
I can't say it's a smooth ride. More a bumpy one. Even when I found MY profession, it turned out it wasn't all that it caught out to be: it's not all easy and fancy as on Instagram pictures. Moreover, passion is not equal money. And that it is actually about very different mindsets that you either have or acquire through EXPERIENCE, not just visualization.