Businessman, founder of Evolution Place, program architect and leader, Evolution consultant, speaker, coach, moderator, facilitator, practitioner

Over 30 years of experience advising owners and managers of major Russian and international corporations; executive, entrepreneurial, non-profit and consulting experience; teaching МВАprograms.


Tools and Formats:

• Team, operational, and strategic sessions
• Transformational modular programs (duration 1-2 years) for various industries and businesses
• Individual and team evolutionary coaching
• Facilitation and moderation
• Mentoring

Projects and Open Programs:

• Author and architect of the program "EVOLUTION. Adaptability Practices" https://evolution.place;
• Author, architect, and host of the program "Evolutionary Leadership Practices" for leaders and consultants https://evolution.place/evoledership;
• Co-founder and partner of EvoGym projects https://evogym.place
• Co-founder of projects http://evolution.to, http://heartful-leader.ru

Professional Interests and Research Areas: Personal and corporate evolution and transformation, vertical and integral leadership, maturity and responsibility, neuroleadership, mental health, state management, sources of strength, energy, and motivation, mindfulness and intuition development practices, narrative approach and communication management, managing large systems, critical and innovative thinking, action research, decision-making in a new reality, complexity management, authentic communication and transformative power, how to create, implement, and change, how to build partnerships and collaborate, how to create close relationships, and how to make life within and around us fulfilling, joyful, and authentic.

Certifications and Education:

• Systemic Leadership Program, Transition Studio, 2026
• Certified Perspectives Assessment Practitioner, Talent Q, 2026
• Certified Zetic Interpreter, Psychometric Assessment Interpretation (ZETIC), 2026
• Enneagram Coach Certification, International Enneagram Association (IEA), 2025
• Certified PCM Trainer, Process Communication Model®, Russia, 2024
• Certificate in the Foundations of Neuroleadership, NEUROLEADERSHIP INSTITUTE (Dr. David Rock), 2024
• Professional Retraining Program "Clinical Psychology", HSE University, 2024-2025
• Dialectics by Otto Laske, 2025
• IFS: More Self by Guthrie Sayen, 2024-2025
• Enneagram, International Enneagram Association, 2024-2025
• Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, GALLUP®, 2023
• STRUCTOGRAM® International Trainer, IBSA AG, Switzerland, 2022
• The Art of Achievements, AOA, USA, 2022
• Vertical Development for Organizations, GLA, UK, 2021
• Theory U by Otto Scharmer, PFP-Presencing Institute, Germany, 2018
• Vertical Leadership Development, Global Leadership Profile, GLP®, © William R. Torbert LLC and Elaine Barker, Ltd. UK, 2018
• ITC Facilitator - Immunity-To-Change, Bob Kegan, Minds at Work, USA, 2017
• Clean Language, Ancora Imparo, Moscow, 2017
• "Vertical Leadership Development", Susanne Cook-Greuter, Center for Leadership Maturity, California, USA, 2016-2017
• Transformational and Integral Leadership Program, MetaIntegral, California, USA, 2015
• Mindfulness Practitioner, USA, 2012; Moscow, 2014-2015
• Executive Coaching, University of Cambridge, UK, 2014
• 360-Degree Assessment, Odgers Berndtson, 2014
• Facilitator, Sam Kaner School, USA, 2013
• Executive Coaching, UC Berkeley, USA, 2012
• Hogan Assessments®, 3 Minute Mile, UK, 2011
• MBTI®, OPP UK, 2010
• Top Executive Assessment Methodologies, Human Asset Review®, LeaderFit®, Odgers Berndtson, 2009
• Business Course "Organizational Development, Coaching, Facilitation, and Training in Business", 1998-2000
• Three Higher Education Degrees:
• Mathematician (MIEM, 1993)
• Cultural Studies (UNIK, 1996)
• Psychologist (MPSI, 1999)

Evolution consultant, speaker, program leader, coach, moderator

Over 16 years of experience in executive development, assessment and executive search at Pynes & Moerner, Odgers Berndtson and Evolution, lecturer at MBA programs.

Main areas of advisory: Alexander develops and runs strategic and team sessions, executive development programs on such subjects as stress and emotion management, mental health, reputation management, personal and team leadership, vertical development, action inquiry, innovative thinking, integral leadership, emotional intelligence, change management, communication management, coaching. Individual consultancy and supervision in such domains as stress management and self-management, reputation management, career advisory, excelling at assessments and interviews.

Tools and formats: strategic, operational, team sessions; corporate Evolution programs — transformational programs (spanning 1-2 years) for various industries and businesses; individual and team coaching; facilitation.

Professional and research interests: mental health and stress management, neuroscience, personal and team leadership, effective communication techniques, perspective broadening, mindful management, individual crisis management strategy; delivering corporate transformation programs for various industries and businesses; individual consultancy.

Projects: author and leader of Mindful Management program aiming at development of a coaching culture

Certificates and degrees:

• Vertical Development for Leaders, Global Leadership Profile, GLP®, ©William R. Torbert LLC and Elaine Barker, Ltd. UK, 2018
• Clean Language, Ancora Imparo, Moscow, 2017
• Evolution Development Practitioner Course, Moscow, 2017
• Evolution, Moscow, 2016
• Psychodrama in Coaching (by Elena and Ekaterina Lopukhina), 2014
• 360 Review, Odgers Berndtson, Moscow, 2014
• Facilitator. Sam Kaner School, USA, 2013
• Executive Coaching, UC Berkeley, USA, 2013
• Hogan Assessments®, 3 Minute Mile, UK, 2013
• MBTI®, EY, OPP, UK, 2013
• Executive assessment methodologies Human Asset Review®, LeaderFit®, Odgers Berndtson, 2009
• Short-term programs at Wharton and INSEAD by Profs. Ingemar Dierickx, Stuart Diamond.
• MD (Pediatrics, Cardiology), SMI, 1982).

Evolution consultant, program leader, coach, moderator, head of EvoGym

Over 20 years of experience in advising owners and executives of major Russian and overseas corporations, HRD experience, entrepreneurial and executive experience.

Main areas of advisory: projects revolving around team and executive leadership potential assessment and development, implementation of competence management systems, facilitation of change, HiPo development. Eugenia develops and runs strategic and operational sessions, executive development programs on team and individual leadership, individual coaching projects.

Tools and formats: strategic, operational, team sessions; corporate Evolution programs — transformational programs (spanning 1-2 years) for various industries and businesses; individual and team coaching; facilitation, moderation.

Professional and research interests: corporate transformation programs for various industries and businesses; personal and team leadership, coaching management style, effective communication techniques, conflict management, perspective broadening, mindful management; conflict mediation; individual consultancy - support in development, stress management, self-management, networking and communication, inquiry into perspectives and positions of others.

Projects: cofounder and partner in EvoGym. Author and leader of Mindful Management program aiming at development of a coaching culture.

Certificates and degrees:

• Vertical Development for Leaders, Global Leadership Profile, GLP®, © William R. Torbert LLC and Elaine Barker, Ltd. UK, 2018
• Clean Language, Ancora Imparo, Moscow, 2017
• Evolution Development Practitioner Course, Moscow, 2017
• Stress Resistance Program (Anton Vorobyov), Moscow, 2016
• Heartful Leader program (by Anastasia Gosteva & Eugenia Volyanskaya), Moscow, 2013 - 2014
• Psychodrama in Coaching, by Elena and Ekaterina Lopukhina, Moscow, 2014
• 360 Review, Odgers Berndtson, 2014
• Facilitator. Sam Kaner School, USA, 2013
• Executive coaching, UC Berkeley, USA, 2013
• Hogan Assessments®, 3 Minute Mile, UK, 2013
• MBTI®, EY, OPP, UK, 2013
• Executive assessment methodologies Human Asset Review®, LeaderFit®, Odgers Berndtson, 2009
• Degree in Social Psychology (RSHU, 1997)

Evolution consultant, speaker, program leader, coach, moderator

Over 15 years of experience in advising owners and executives of major Russian and overseas corporations on matters such as communications and reputation management, executive experience at major Russian companies, entrepreneurial and executive experience.

Main areas of advisory: Maxim develops and runs strategic, team and operational sessions, executive development programs on team and individual leadership. Personal and group coaching, development-related consultancy.

Tools and formats: strategic, operational, team sessions; corporate Evolution programs — transformational programs (spanning 1-2 years) for various industries and businesses; individual and team coaching; facilitation, moderation; mentoring.

Professional and research interests: adaptability and transformations, vertical development and integral leadership, managing social communicative context, reputation management, conflict management, linguistic origins of conflicts, development and implementation of strategy/mission/values, building executive teams, personal and team leadership, vertical development, action inquiry, change management, emotion and stress management, maturity and responsibility, mental health, self-management, decision making in the new normal, authentic communication and transforming power, partnering and collaborating.

Projects: Founder and Managing Partner at Special Communications Agency (http://scagency.ru), Maxim learned his sociocommunicative management art at the legendary Privy Councillor agency where he dealt with diverse electoral campaigns and socially tense situations. He advised such clients as Gleden Invest (operates AZIMUT Hotels, KR Preperties, Metropole Hotel, Petrovsky En Route Palace, Karat Plant, Istra Valley, etc.), Copernicus Group, MIAN, Miel, VTB, TopPhysio, Sapsan Group, Yandex, AIC and many others.

Certificates and degrees:

• TalentQ certification program: Personality Assessment System in Business - Perspectives Questionnaire, 2026
• Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in Clinical Practice, Nancy McWilliams, The International Academy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, 2026
• Zetic certification program: Interpretation of Psychometric Questionnaire, 2026
• Additional Professional Education in Clinical Psychology, HSE University, 2025
• Master's degree in Psychology (HSE University, 2025)
• Vertical Development for Leaders, Global Leadership Profile, GLP®, © William R. Torbert LLC and Elaine Barker, Ltd. UK, 2020
• Hogan Assessments®, Moscow, Assessment Systems, 2020
• Evolution Development Practitioner Course, Moscow, 2020
• Professional Coaching (ICF), Fowler International Academy, USA, 2020
• Adizes Institute Expert in Business Transformation, USA, 2020
• Clean Language, Ancora Imparo, Moscow, 2019
• Red Pill Practical Neurophysiology (A. Kurpatov), Russia, 2019
• Evolution, Transformative and Integral Leadership Program, Moscow, 2019 
• Certified Kinesiologist (Institute of Kinesiology, Russia, United Kingdom, USA), 2014
• 2 tertiary degrees — in Pedagogy (MPU, 2001) and Law (MFLA, 2011), postgraduate student of Philology (VSPU)

Evolution consultant, program leader, moderator

Over 10 years of experience in consulting and mentoring owners and executives of major Russian and international corporations. More than 20 years of executive experience with largest Russian companies; experience as a Chairman of a CIS bank, entrepreneurial and executive experience, founder and head of a medtech start-up, a sizeable business angel portfolio.

Main areas of advisory: Ilya develops and runs strategic and team sessions; he implements projects around executive and team leadership potential development, facilitation of change and transformation; development and implementation of strategies, mission, values, corporate culture, potential assessment and talent development; Board-level communication and interaction, individual consultancy - support in development, potential assessment, self-management, networking, inquiry into perspectives and positions of others.

Tools and formats: strategic, operational, team sessions; corporate Evolution programs — transformational programs for various industries and businesses; individual consultancy; team facilitation and moderation.

Professional and research interests: corporate transformation programs for various industries and businesses; personal and team leadership, coaching management style, effective communication techniques, perspective broadening; individual consultancy - support in development, self-management, networking and communication, inquiry into perspectives and positions of others, sources of strength, energy, motivation, decision making in the new normal.
Management of personal and team transformation projects.

Projects:,the founder and CEO of Diagnostics at Home (https://www.mydnd.ru/), Chairman of Alfa Bank Kazakhstan 2015-2021, active business angel (over 10 projects), Ilya leads diverse practices in open enrollment and corporate Evolution programs.

Certificates and degrees:

• Hogan Assessments®, Assessment Systems, Moscow, 2021
• Evolution Development Practitioner Course, Moscow, 2021
• Evolution, Moscow, 2018, 2020
• Special Course for Top Management, INSEAD, 2016-2017
• School of Strategic Management, Prague, 2014
• Executive mini MBA, 2013-2014
• Translating Strategy Into Action, Skolkovo, 2014
• Omsk State University, Dept. of Economics, 1995-2000

Evolution consultant, instructor, coach, moderator

9 years of experience in implementing transformations in corporations as a COO, VP for Business Development, consultant. 13 years as a lecturer at Moscow Aviation Institute. Practitioner and instructor at Evolution since 2020.

Main areas of advisory: individual consultancy. Executive development programs in domains such as integral development, adaptability, vertical development, action inquiry, emotional intelligence, change management. Organizing and running workshops, team, project and strategy sessions.

Tools and formats: team, strategic, project sessions; transformational programs for diverse industries and businesses; individual consultancy, facilitation, moderation.

Professional and research interests: individual consultancy - support in development, self-management, relationship building, inquiry into perspectives and positions of others, team and personal adaptability; personal potential boosting; development of practices and transformational programs for diverse industries and businesses; effective communication techniques, perspective broadening;

Certificates and degrees:

• Hogan Assessments®, Assessment Systems, Moscow, 2021
• Evolution Development Practitioner Course, Moscow, 2021
• Vertical Development for Leaders, Global Leadership Profile, GLP®, ©William R. Torbert LLC and Elaine Barker, Ltd. UK, 2020
• Evolution for Facilitators, Moscow, 2019
• Evolution, Moscow, 2019-2020
• ICF, coach (ECI), 2019-2020
• M.Sc., 1996-2002

Evolution consultant, mindfulness expert and trainer, coach, moderator

Over 8 years of experience in creating and delivering mindfulness, stress reduction, self- and emotion management workshops for Evolution and otherwise. Over 15 years in HR management.

Main areas of advisory: individual, team coaching, facilitation, moderation, strategic sessions, stress management trainings and courses, emotion and self-management, multimodal psychotherapy (compassion focused therapy, focused acceptance and commitment therapy, emotionally focused therapy, transactional analysis, internal family systems).

Professional and research interests: stress management, emotion and self-management, anxiety reduction, mental health, neuroscience of mindfulness, perspective broadening, mindful management, individual crisis management strategy; development of practices and transformational programs for diverse industries and businesses; individual consultancy, bodily practices, contextual behavioral science, mindfulness-based therapy, short-term therapy, evidence-based therapy.

Projects: author and program leader of Mindfulness Practice (targeting stress management and quality of life improvement), Natalia runs regular mindfulness workshops and retreats.

Certificates and degrees:

• Team Psychological Safety Practitioner, Leader Factor, 2025
• Certified Enneagram Coach, GT Coaching International, IEA, 2025
• EATA, Transactional Analysis in Organizations, 2025
• Process Communication Model® trainer, Sensemakers, 2024
• Hogan Assessments®, Assessment Systems, 2023
• HARTHILL Leadership Development Profile Authorizations®, HARTHILL, 2023
• Evolution Development Practitioners, Moscow, 2021
• Internal Family Systems Introductory Workshop, Moscow, 2021
• Compassion Focused Therapy Chairwork, Tobyn Bell,Ph.D 2021
• The Therapeutic Relationship in Compassion-Focused Therapy, Russell L.Kolts Ph.D, Presenter Inland Northwest Compassionate Mind Center, 2021
• Compassion Focused Therapy, basic course, Center for Contextual Behavioral Therapy, Moscow, 2020
• Introduction to Emotion-Focused Individual Therapy,  Leslie S. Greenberg, Ph.D., C. Psych, York University, 2020
• Certified MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) Trainer. Mindful Academy Solterreno, 2020
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Word of Psychology, 2019
• Certified MBСТ (Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy) Trainer, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Association, 2019
• Consulting Transactional Analysis Psychologist, Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, 2018
• Certified Transactional Analysis Coach. ICU, MIP, 2018
• Certified Transactional Analysis Consultant (ЕАТА) ТА 101, 2017
• Certified Coach, ICF, Erickson Coaching International, 2017
• Certified Hatha Yoga Instructor, Moscow Yoga University, 2016
• Business Trainer (Marilyn Atkinson, Erickson Coaching International), 2016
• Corporate programs 2000-2009: HR Management (Management Centre Europe), Talent Management (MCE), Organizational Development (MCE), Project Management (p.m.Office), Lean Tools (CBSD), Kaizen Office (WLA), Assessment Center (RHR International Ecopsy), Competence Interviews (SHL), Train the Trainer (Mark Kukushkin)
• BA in Psychology (Institute of Psychology and Sociology, 1997).

Evolution consultant, leading practitioner, expert in commercial communications.

20+ years background in global companies, leading business units, sales, marketing and people development. 10+ years in business transformation, global brands and services launches as a member of Management boards.
Led мultiple customer-insights centric projects for Top tier global and Russian companies (Construction & development, FMCG, pharma, Luxury goods, media & entertainment) including awards winning in Russia and globally.
Ability to drive business results throgh meaningful corporate culture development based on empathy, professional intimacy, personal leadership presence, and effective communication skills.
Motivational speaker and change facilitator.
Member of faculty and co-curator of MBA program by British High School for Arts and Design and MGIMO.

Major field of expertise:
Sales force engagement, motivation and result.
Personal and team development, authentic leadership style evolution.
Matrix and distributed teams effectiveness and collaboration;
Top management and HiPo motivation;
Develop a deeper connection to personal talents, and build soft skills that strategically address business challenges.
Corporate values synchronization;
Burn-outs reboost;
Communication excellence;
Teams, strategies and challenges assessments.

Formats and methods
Strategic sessions, business games, personal consulting; brainstorms moderation; facilitation; master classes and projects development.
Personal/leadership/team roadmap creation that is ready to be implemented immediately.

Professional interests and research focus:
Leadership and corporate transformation. Personnel and leaders personal growth that enhances company performance and inspires teams to set and achieve more ambitious goals.
Cross - functional and cross- industries collaboration.
Partnership phenomena - how to create meaningful ideas, proactive teams and build into trends and big systems.
Entrepreneurship mindset development within corporate structures.
Positive disruption and change management.
Work-life balance personalized, actionable plan.
Surpass operational and communicational barriers to quickly responding to market demands.

Education and certificates:

• Leadership development consultant, EVOLUTION (Program of leadership transformation), Moscow 2020
• EMBA, HEC Paris 2017
• Digital innovation, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, 2016
• Doing Business in Asia, Culture that matters, Tsinghua University, China, 2017
• Business disruption by Scott Galloway, New York University Stern School of Business, 2019
• Leadership psychology Marshall Goldsmith, USA, 2011
• Certified trainer in SPIN ©, 2006
• Master of Sociology, Moscow State University, 2001

Experience:

• 2020 – present - Consultant, mentor, facilitator at Evolution (https://evolution.place)
• 2020 - present - Member of faculty and co-curator of MBA program by British High School for Arts and Design and MGIMO.
• 2020-2022 - ESG Council member Conde Nast, New York
• 2010 - 2022 Publisher & Commercial Director AD and Glamour brands, Conde Nast, Russia

Консультант по развитию, ведущий практик, коуч, модератор, эксперт в бизнес менеджменте

Более 20 лет опыта операционного управления крупными российскими и международными компаниями, включая стратегический маркетинг и развитие бизнеса. Более 10 лет экспертизы в области трансформации, управления изменениями и развития лидерства. С 2024 года — сертифицированный консультант PCM. С 2026 года — консультант и ведущий практик в Эволюции. Управляющий партнер АДВ+ Экспириенс (входит в коммуникационную группу АДВ), президент Российской ассоциации маркетинговых услуг (РАМУ).

Основные направления консультирования: сопровождение собственников, CEO и команд в изменениях и трансформациях, управление изменениями и состоянием, оценка и развитие лидерского потенциала руководителей и команд, стратегическое мышление, адаптивность, диагностика профиля и зон роста по PCM (Process Communication Model), маркетинговые коммуникации. Инструменты и форматы: индивидуальное и командное консультирование, фасилитация, модерация, стратегические и трансформационные сессии, воркшопы, диагностика профиля и зон роста по PCM, трек-коучинг, выездные горные программы для лидеров.

Профессиональные интересы и темы для исследования: личная и бизнес-трансформация, целеполагание и управление результативностью, развитие лидерства, внедрение организационных изменений, ценностно-ориентированное управление и роль смыслов в принятии стратегических решений, балансировка внешних вызовов и внутреннего потенциала компании, принятие нестандартных управленческих решений для обеспечения устойчивости бизнеса в условиях неопределенности, горы как инструмент трансформации и проверки управленческих гипотез.

Увлечения: походы в горы (совершила восхождения на Эльбрус, Казбек, Килиманджаро), плавание, бег, горные лыжи

Сертификация и образование:
Программа «Тандемократия», Школа управления Сколково, Москва, 2025
Сертифицированный консультант Process Communication Model (PCM), Москва, 2024
Консультант по личностному развитию, Эволюция, Москва, 2023-2024
Leading Digital Business Transformation, International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Lausanne, 2018
Disruptive Innovation, Harvard Business School (HBS), Boston, 2017. Бизнес-коуч, Erickson International Coaching University, Moscow, 2014
Executive MBA, Wharton Business School, Philadelphia, 2014
Leading Change & Organizational Renewal, Harvard Business School (HBS), Boston, 2013
High Performance People Skills, London Business School (LBS), London, 2012
MBA (General Management), Kingston University, London, 2004
Финансы и кредит, Финансовая академия при Правительстве РФ, Москва, 2000

Evolution consultant, instructor, coach

Over 10 years in advising executives and top management teams in large Russian corporations, over 10 years in HR.

Main areas of advisory:
Individual and team advisory. Development and delivery of project and strategy sessions, focus groups, practices; development of corporate L&D programs.
EMDR and IMTT therapies – individual psychotherapy.

Tools and formats:
team, strategy, projects sessions; corporate programs; individual and team advisory; image transformation therapy (IMTT), FSAP protocol, EMDR therapy.

Professional and research interests:
individual consulting, self-regulation, emotion management, effective communications, personal potential development, mental health. Coaching in management. Learning and development program design.

Certificates and degrees:

• IMTT Advanced Course, Moscow, 2024
• IMTT Basic Course, Moscow 2023
• Evolution Development Advisor Course, Moscow, 2022
• Evolution, Moscow, 2020-2021
• EMDR part 1, part 2, Moscow, 2020
• Process Communication Model (PCM), Moscow, 2018
• Organizational Coaching, International Coaching Academy, Moscow, 2016
• Hogan Assessments®, Assessment Systems, Moscow, 2014
• SPSU Dept. of Psychology, St. Petersburg, 2003

Evolution consultant, expert in group dynamics, coach and moderator

Over 15 years in developing executive teams and delivering comprehensive development programs for owners and the C-suite of Russian and foreign companies. Teaching and consulting in MBA and EMBA programs at Skolkovo (Russia), IMD (Switzerland), CEIBS (China) and INSEAD (France).

Evgeny’s industrial expertise spans financial services, oil & gas, power, manufacturing, construction, agriculture, FMCG, pharmaceuticals, media, public sector, IT and consulting represented by both the largest corporations and fast-growing mid-sized companies from various countries.

Main areas of advisory: supporting executive teams in change and transformation projects at the level of owners, CEO, C-1 and functional teams; strategy development and implementation; managing conflicts and complex group dynamics; executive coaching; resilience and stress management; presentation skills, public speaking, storytelling; teaching coaching, mentorship and facilitation skills.

Tools and formats: strategy and team sessions, facilitation and moderation; comprehensive executive development and change support programs; individual and team coaching, GRC psychodynamic consulting.

Professional and research interests: effective team communication; corporate and personal transformations; system interaction, group dynamics, individual and collective unconscious, Jungian psychoanalysis, vertical development and integral leadership, action inquiry, effective communication, mental health and self-regulation.

Certificates and degrees:

• Jungian Psychoanalysis, Institute of Analytical Psychology and Postgraduate Education, 2020-2022
• Group Relations Conference (GRC), The Tavistock Institute, UK 2019
• Stakeholder Centric Coaching® (SCC) (Marshall Goldsmith, USA), 2018
• Hogan Assessments®, Assessment Systems, Moscow, 2016
• Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytical Business Consulting, HSE, 2013-2015
• ICF: Individual and Team Coaching, Train the Trainers, etc. ICA, ECI, 2010-2013
• Somatopsychology and Psychocatalysis (Andrey Ermoshin), 2013
• MBTI®, OPP UK, 2012
• Transactional Analysis, Moscow Institute of Analytical Psychology and Psychoanalsyis, 2008-2009
• Leadership and coaching workshops by Prof. Stanislav Shekshnya, INSEAD, 2008
• Degree in Economics (London School of Economics and Political Science and HSE), 2006

Meditation coach, creator of the Present Moment Mindfulness Development Program

Long-term practitioner, Irina has been teaching meditation since 2011. Taught by Mingyur Rinpoche, a widely recognized Tibetan master, and other outstanding teachers of the Tibetan tradition. Trained as a meditation instructor at Tergar, international meditation center, she takes follow-up courses in Tergar centers around the world every year.
Irina runs workshops and retreats, supporting individual and group sessions. In a more down-to-earth way, she’s a marketer who devoted around 20 years to corporate promotion strategies and knows a thing or two about the life of corporations.

Entrepreneur, Founder of thehimalayas.ru, Facilitator, Architect of Evolutionary Journeys, Interpreter of Eastern Philosophy, Curator of Transformational Processes for Leaders and Teams
I specialize in designing and leading meaningful journeys as a tool for personal and organizational transformation.

For more than 15 years, I have lived in Asia, including 10 years in Nepal, where I continue to study Eastern philosophy and contemplative practices, including Eastern psychology and meditation in the context of leadership. My work brings together embodied awareness, field practices, and strategic thinking.

Areas of Practice

• Evolutionary journeys and retreats for business owners and executives.
• Individual and group support during periods of change.
• Integrating developmental frameworks—including Vertical Development, Barrett, SCARF, Teal, and GRC—into the dynamics of transformational journeys.
• Field inquiry as an approach to exploring values, purpose, and identity.
• Creating spaces of trust, reflection, and strategic renewal.

Methods and Formats

• Author-designed journeys and expeditions.
• Individual and team strategic sessions in the format of "journey + meaning."
• Evolutionary Check-up for leaders and teams through movement, embodied experience, and immersion in local culture.
• Supporting people through transitions: moments of identity shift and key stages in the life cycle of a business.
• Interpreting Eastern traditions as practical tools for meaning-making in business.

Projects and Partnerships

• Lead facilitator and curator of international journeys at Evolution Place.
• Designer of immersive travel programs for leadership teams and business-owning families.
• Consultant on strategy development through practices of presence and cultural immersion.

Professional Interests
Transitions and crises as catalysts for growth, vertical leadership, maturity, SCARF and the neuropsychology of influence, Eastern models of thinking in business, collective intuition, subtle facilitation and trust, movement as a way of thinking, place as a mirror of inner experience, and the journey as both a metaphor and a practice of leadership.

Evolution Consultant, Lead Practitioner, Coac

Over 15 years of leadership experience in major Russian companies, leading initiatives in organizational design, business process reengineering and automation, operational and project team development, and the delivery of large-scale cross-functional transformation projects.

Areas of Practice

• Individual and team consulting, leadership development for executives and teams, change and transformation support, building and strengthening cross-functional collaboration, and leadership development in the areas of integral development, adaptability, action inquiry, emotional intelligence, change management, state management, and conscious management.

Methods and Formats

• Team, strategic, and project sessions; individual and team consulting; workshops and practice sessions; facilitation and team moderation.
• Professional Interests
• Individual consulting focused on personal development, emotional and state management, sources of strength, energy and motivation, effective communication, realizing personal potential, exploring alternative perspectives, adaptability, and mental well-being. Personal and team leadership, conscious management, and the methodology and design of transformational and leadership development programs.

Education and Certifications

• Fundamentals and Practice of the Modern Enneagram, IEA APSS, 2024
• Applying Hogan Assessment Tools for Personal and Team Evolution, Evolution Place, 2024
• Development Consultant, Transformational Leadership Development in Contemporary Contexts, Evolution Place, 2023–2024
• Business Process Optimization, Synergy, 2024
• Evolution Program, Evolution Place, 2021–2022
• MBA, Strategic Management, 2021–2022
• Degree in Economics, 2003–2007

Psychologist, somatic education trainer, lead seminar facilitator on somatics

• 10 years of experience in teaching and practicing somatic education; dozens of international somatics workshops delivered
• individual sessions on clinical somatics and functional integration (Feldenkrais method)
• diverse Somatix360 group courses (online)
• Video lessons (Somatics for the Daily Life course, Forbes Ontology program on Embodiment, Katya Zilbershteyn Somatics Youtube channel)
• collaboration with Evolution Personal Development programs
• assisting trainer of Hanna Somatics at the Ingle Institute for Somatic Education

Main areas of practice:
expansion of body-mind awareness, chronic pain management, post-trauma rehabilitation, self-regulation, rediscovering natural grace of movements, expansion of self-image through kinesthetics, sensorimotor re-education.

Professional and research interests:
non-violent attitude and development of kindness to oneself and others, individual transformations, attention management, community creation and development, authenticity, re-education strategies, holistic approach, finding strength in one’s resources and potential, finding stability in a fast-changing environment, curiosity, joy and beauty.

Tools and formats:
individual and group sessions (online and offline), bodywork, workshops, cross-discipline collaboration, short- and long-term projects for diverse audiences (seniors, pregnant women, yoga teachers, osteopaths, martial artists, businessmen, etc.).

Certificates and degrees:
• Международная сертификация инструктора метода Breath-Body-Mind Level One Instructor 2026
• Somatic Experiencing Professional Training ADV1, 2026
• Elizabeth Bloom Approach Somatic Education, 2022
• Yochanan Rywerant’s Professional Program in Feldenkrais Somatic Education, 2017 — present. Qualification: Feldenkrais practitioner (program under way)
• The Ingle Institute for Somatic Education, 2012-2014, Qualification: somatics trainer
• Moscow Gestalt Institute, 2007-2011, certificate of participation
• Moscow City University of Psychology and Education, 2006, Qualification: PhD in Psychology
• Moscow Pedagogical State University, 2001, Qualification: Education Psychologist

Expert in commercial communications

Over 13 years of executive experience in Russian and international companies focusing on top manager assessment and development, sales and marketing. Over 40 executive search and assessment projects for media, marketing, finance and FMCG verticals. Over 100 campaigns in strategic marketing, sales psychology and customer acquisition. Focus on sales efficiency through the development of human potential in teams and high adaptability to modern changes.

Professional and research interests:
effective team-level collaboration, vertical development and integral leadership, mindfulness and awareness development, psychology of decision-making, management of internal and external conflicts, individual and group coaching, effective communications, mental health and self-regulation.

Certificates and degrees:

• Dept. of Global Economy and International Relations, HSE, 2013
• Leader as Communicator, Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute, 2013
• Hogan Assessments®, Moscow, Odgers Berndtson, 2014
• Sales.Negotiations training by Sergey Azimov, Moscow, 2017
• Sales in Times of Change training by Vladimir Yakuba, Moscow, 2021
• Tools of an Aspiring Leader program at Yandex.Practicum, 2023

Experience:

• 2023, Sales and Marketing Director @ Metacorp digital gaming agency
• 2022-2023, CEO @ tech startup (Dubai)
• 2017-2022, Sales and Marketing Director @ rta: digital agency
• 2011-2017, executive search consultant @ Odgers Berndtson (Moscow)

Over 15 years of entrepreneurial experience and 10+ years of professional experience working with individuals and teams

Core Areas of Consulting
Executive coaching and psychological support for business owners and top executives, focused on mental health and sustainable performance.
Key areas include: stress and burnout management, procrastination and self-regulation, self-esteem and confidence issues, anxiety, fears, phobias and panic attacks, psychosomatic conditions, eating disorders and weight-related challenges, money mindset and financial behaviors, relationships and interpersonal dynamics, personal life strategy development.
Team development and organizational consulting focused on emotional resilience enhancement, stress reduction, burnout prevention and recovery

Methods and Modalities
Biopsychosocial Programming Method (BPSP)
Hypnotherapy
Executive and transformational coaching
Emotional Imagery Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Parts Therapy / Internal Parts Work
Body-Oriented Psychotherapy
Target Lifestyle Design Methodology

Professional Interests and Research Areas
Unconscious programming aligned with client goals and objectives
Development of structured intervention protocols with fast and predictable outcomes
Interdisciplinary work at the intersection of psychology and physiology, including:
Psychosomatic conditions
Obesity, eating disorders, and weight management
Vision-related conditions
PTSD
Infertility and related psychosomatic factors
Applied spirituality

Education and Certifications
Evolution Program, 2026
PhD in Psychology, supervised by Vladimir V. Kozlov, 2024
PCC ICF Certification, 2024
ICF Level 2 Program, 5 Prisms, 2023
ACT in Action, with Steven C. Hayes, 2023
All Hypnosis. New Format, ICEAH, 2022
International-Level Coaching Program, 5 Prisms, 2022
Emotional Imagery Therapy, N.D. Linde Center, 2021
Hypnosis Techniques in Psychological Counseling, NADPO, 2021
Psychosomatics and Body Psychotherapy: Theory and Practice, Professional Retraining Program, NADPO, 2021
Regressive Hypnotherapy (Makulov Method), 2021

• Saint Petersburg State University of Economics, Faculty of Management, 2010

Serial Entrepreneur, Facilitator, Expert in Personal and Corporate Strategy

Over 20 years of experience launching local and global innovation projects, including strategy development, team building, fundraising, and M&A. Extensive experience in hardware development, big data solutions, financial and retail technologies, and large-scale consumer products.

Areas of Practice

• Designing and facilitating strategic and team sessions.
• Individual consulting focused on personal strategy and state management.
• Methods and Formats
• Strategic, working, and team sessions.
• Individual consulting.
• Facilitation and team moderation.

Professional Interests

• Personal and corporate strategy, bringing innovative products to market, developing adaptability and creative potential, agency, and passion-driven leadership.

Projects

• Founder of Techno Ashram, a project dedicated to developing adaptability.
• Co-founder of the fintech startup Swoo, integrating traditional and crypto retail payments across the CIS and African markets.
• Co-founder of the Koshelek mobile application, which reached more than 14 million active users by 2021 and was acquired by T-Bank.
• Contributed to the launch of innovative hardware products, including YotaPhone and Synqera.

Education and Certifications

• Compas360, Lumiknows, 2025
• Development Consultant Program, Evolution Place, 2025
• Strategic Mastery: Personal Strategies, Gennady Konstantinov, 2022
• Evolution Program, Evolution Place, 2021

HR and Compliance Expert, Entrepreneur, Evolution Consultant

Over 10 years of leadership experience in major Russian companies across compliance, administrative operations, and HR. Extensive experience supporting organizational transformation, building teams and management systems, and consulting executives.

Areas of Practice

• Individual consulting, designing and facilitating team sessions, supporting organizational change, developing leadership potential, and strengthening effective team collaboration.

Methods and Formats

• Team and project sessions, individual and team consulting, facilitation, moderation, and mentoring.

Professional Interests

• Individual consulting, state and emotional management, neurophysiology, mental well-being, relationship building, personal and team leadership, conflict management, effective communication, and supporting change.

Education and Certifications

• Evolutionary Leadership Program, 2025
• Evolution Program, 2024
• Compensation and Benefits Manager, Higher School of Economics, 2023
• HR MBA – Learning & Development, Higher School of Economics, 2022
• Adizes Roles & Styles Professional, Adizes Institute, 2021
• Degree in Law, 2009

Over 20 years of experience in commercial leadership roles within major Russian and international companies, including ZTE Corporation, Oracle, Klaes, Koshelek, T-Bank, and RetailTech, with more than 8 years as Commercial Director. Extensive experience in building high-performing commercial teams in technology companies, B2B marketing, leadership development, creating and monetizing new services and products, business integration and transformation, and developing employee potential.

Areas of Practice
Individual and team consulting in sales, customer success, and service monetization; supporting changes in marketing and commercial strategy; customer loyalty and customer experience; team selection and development; mindfulness practices and state management.

Methods and Formats
Mentoring, individual consulting, strategic session facilitation, and training programs.

Professional Interests
Product monetization, sales and customer success, long-cycle negotiations, effective communication, marketing strategy, the economics of intention, loyalty programs, customer experience, unlocking talent and human potential, developing early-career professionals, attention and state management, group dynamics, meaning in business, in-depth interviewing, and podcasts.

Education and Certifications

• Development Consultant, Transformational Leadership Development in Contemporary Contexts, Evolution Place, 2025–2026
• Evolution Program, Evolution Place, 2023–2024
• Mini MBA in Loyalty, July Agency, 2018
• Sales Foundations, Oracle, 2013
• Adyghe State University, Degree in Economics and Business Management, 2001

Over 18 years of experience in HR and organizational development as an in-house transformation leader, serving as Head of HRBP & HR Operations, Senior HRBP, Deputy HR Director, L&D, Assessment & Internal Communications Director. Extensive experience in designing management and development systems, organizational design, productivity improvement, transformation support, employee engagement, and corporate conflict resolution.
Worked across organizations ranging from 350 to more than 7,000 employees in technology, digital products, finance, insurance, investment ecosystems, the public sector, and urban transformation initiatives, including Yandex and the Government of Moscow.

Areas of Practice

• Supporting business owners, CEOs, and executive teams through organizational change and transformation.
• Organizational design and improving organizational effectiveness, including structures, roles, cross-functional collaboration, and process efficiency.
• Leadership assessment and development for executives and teams, including senior leadership.
• Designing talent management, succession planning, and leadership development systems.
• Building high-performance cultures through communication, shared KPIs, and team effectiveness.
• Supporting complex negotiations, corporate conflict resolution, and strengthening teams' and leaders' ability to reach sustainable agreements.

Methods and Formats

• Strategic and working sessions.
• Facilitation.
• Executive consulting, executive coaching, and mentoring.
• Leadership assessment and diagnostics (Hogan, Wave, and others).
• 360-degree feedback architecture.
• Design and implementation of corporate leadership development programs.
• Corporate mediation and negotiation interventions.

Professional Interests
Building and developing high-performance executive teams (CEO/C-level) and guiding them through transformation with a focus on financial performance, decision-making speed, and organizational effectiveness.

Transformational leadership and leadership maturity.

• Designing executive team interaction: roles, agreements, decision-making principles, and accountability.
• Executive team dynamics during uncertainty, including tension, polarization, functional competition, and hidden conflict.
• The influence of leadership behavior on innovation culture and organizational adaptability.
• Executive coaching at critical leadership transitions.
• Corporate mediation and restoring collaboration between leaders and functions.
• Negotiation strategies in complex organizational situations, including escalation, deadlock, and relationship rebuilding.

Education and Certifications

• Master of Science (MSc), International Human Resource Management, Kingston University (Faculty of Business and Law), UK
• CIPD Advanced Diploma (Level 7), Human Resource Management, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (UK)
• Chartered Member (MCIPD), Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (UK)
• CEDR Accredited Mediator, Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR, UK)
• Hogan Assessment Certificate
• Saville Wave Accreditation
• SCAnR™, Emotional Intelligence Academy
• Development Consultant, Transformational Leadership Development in Contemporary Contexts, Evolution Place
• Evolution Group Relations Conference (EvoGRC), Evolution Place
• Evolution Program, Evolution Place
• Certificate in Learning & Development Practice (CLDP), CIPD
• MBA Intensive, PwC Academy
• Negotiation & Influence Programs, SellWell
• Degree in Economics, Russian New University

More than 20 years of experience supporting organizational transformation, executive team development, and strategic initiatives across technology companies, media organizations, international businesses, and development institutions.
Practical leadership experience as Deputy CEO, Chief Operating Officer (COO), HR Director, CEO, entrepreneur, and consultant. Worked with organizations during periods of growth, scaling, mergers and integration, organizational transformation, and the development of new management models. Supported business owners, CEOs, and executive teams in situations of high complexity and uncertainty.
Helps leaders, executive teams, and organizations become more agentic by designing the conditions in which collective thinking emerges, mature decisions are made, and new opportunities for development become possible.

Areas of Practice

• Designing and facilitating strategic, operational, and team sessions.
• Supporting organizational transformation and executive team development.
• Consulting business owners, CEOs, and executive teams on organizational development, management system design, leadership development, and change.
• Designing and delivering executive and team development programs, organizational diagnostics, organizational development, and strategic planning initiatives.

Methods and Formats

• Strategic, operational, and team sessions.
• Organizational development and transformation programs.
• Leadership and executive team development programs.
• Individual executive consulting.
• Executive coaching.
• Facilitation and moderation of strategic conversations.
• Organizational diagnostics.
• Research and analytical projects.

Professional Interests

• Developing agency in leaders, teams, and organizations.
• Organizations as living systems.
• Organizational dynamics.
• Collective thinking and group processes.
• Vertical Development.
• Organizational maturity.
• Strategic conversation as a driver of organizational change.
• Organizational architecture.
• Partnership ecosystems.
• The interaction between individuals, teams, and organizations.
• Territorial development as a complex social system.

Projects

• Contributed to the development and transformation of organizations of national and international scale, including Yandex, Afisha-Rambler, RBC, RU-Center, CityAds Media, and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives.
• Founder of the Center for Expertise and Integral Models, a research and consulting company.
• Participated in the development of methodological frameworks for the creative economy of the Russian Federation, territorial development initiatives, and research products for business and the public sector.

Education and Certifications

• Higher School of Economics — Psychoanalysis and Business Consulting (currently enrolled)
• Moscow International Higher School of Business
• Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics
• Professional Development Program Evolution
• TalentQ
• Zetic
• Vertical Leadership Development (VLD)

Evolution Consultant, Lead Practitioner, Coach

Over 20 years of experience as an HR Business Partner in major Russian and international companies, including Tele2 and Yandex, as well as startups. Extensive experience in consulting executives and teams, leadership development, supporting growth, and guiding business transformation.

Areas of Practice

• Individual and team consulting, designing and facilitating strategic sessions, workshops and practices, leadership assessment and development, and supporting organizational change.

Methods and Formats

• Team and strategic sessions, corporate development programs, facilitation, moderation, mentoring, and individual and team consulting.

Professional Interests

• Authentic leadership, leadership development, unlocking personal potential, effective communication, state management, and personal and organizational transformation.

Education and Certifications

• Harthill LDP Authorization Training Program, 2026
• Hogan Assessments®, Assessment Systems, 2024
• Certified PCM Trainer, Process Communication Model (PCM), 2024
• Applying Hogan Assessment Tools for Personal and Team Evolution, Evolution Place, 2024
• Development Consultant, Transformational Leadership Development in Contemporary Contexts, Evolution Place, 2023–2024
• Evolution Program, Evolution Place, 2021–2022
• ICF Coach, Erickson Coaching International, Moscow, 2016
• M.A. in Business Psychology, Higher School of Economics, 2009
• B.A. in Psychology, Higher School of Economics, 2007

I’ve been working with people and groups for almost twenty years — first in large-scale event production, and then increasingly closer to what happens inside people and between them, rather than on the surface.

Over that time, I’ve worked on film premieres and film festivals, online conferences, academic talks, and closed retreats. The formats have varied, but the question has always been the same: what does it take to make something real possible in a group?

My background is in linguistics and economics in Russia, philosophy at Oxford, a Master of Decision Analysis at Minerva, systemic leadership at Transition Studio, and coaching methods — driven by a desire to understand how thinking works and what influences it.

Today I work at the intersection of facilitation, content design, and coaching. I speak English, German, and of course Russian — and a little French, when there’s a no way out.

Certified Customer Experience Leader (CCXP), Strategist, Executive in Banking and Investment Services, Speaker, Mentor

With more than 20 years of experience in financial services, Olga has held leadership roles at some of Russia's leading financial institutions, including Alfa-Bank, Sber Private Banking, and Bank Zenit. Her expertise spans business strategy, customer experience transformation, operational leadership, and wealth management for HNWI and UHNW clients.
Since 2025, she has served as Deputy Executive Director at Wilco Wealth Management, where she is responsible for strategic development, financial oversight, investor relations, and market expansion.

Areas of Practice

• Strategic leadership and market expansion.
• Financial management and risk oversight.
• Wealth management and investment strategies for HNWI and UHNW clients.
• Customer experience design and premium service models.
• Business process optimization and corporate governance.
• Leadership development and executive mentoring.

Methods and Formats

• Designing and implementing customer experience standards.
• Process automation and digital transformation.
• Managing large branch networks and contact centers.
• Customer-centric models in private banking.
• Strategic and operational sessions.
• Mentoring and executive coaching.

Projects and Experience

• 2025–Present
• Deputy Executive Director, Wilco Wealth Management
• Responsible for strategy, financial performance, and investor relations.
• 2020–2024
• Director of Customer Experience, Sber Private Banking
• Designed premium client service models, led digital transformation initiatives, and further developed the private office model.
• 2019
• Head of SME Division, Bank Zenit
• Led the expansion of a nationwide network across 27 cities, developed lending portfolios, and strengthened relationships with SME clients.
• 2007–2019
• Alfa-Bank (11+ years)
• Held leadership roles in customer experience, strategic development, and corporate banking. Contributed to higher customer satisfaction, optimized the federal service network, and supported the bank's digital transformation.

Professional Interests
The development of wealth management in emerging markets, strategic leadership and business transformation, customer experience in financial services, leadership development, and organizational culture.

Education and Certifications

• CCXP – Certified Customer Experience Professional (CXPA)
• Master's Degree in Psychology, Saratov State University