Why Others Work With Me
Elena Vassilieva - Innovation Coach for Leaders
Supporting Agile Transformation
You are a thoughtful executive leader who guides your organization through a digital transformation while adapting to emerging business models.
“Elena helped me with Agile transformation of a company that traditionally relied on the partnership with a distributed dealership network and relationship with an existing customer. To stay in business, we had to redesign our technology and to move to a cloud based digital platform. This required transforming the entire organization and creating a new way of working. Elena had a great vision and professional skills that helped me to identify possibilities for growth and to mitigate the risks of losing valued customers.”
- S. N. [TrueCar]
Engaging with Millennials
You are a seasoned professional leader who brings on young new hires to drive innovation. How do you help a millennial generation of professionals to better integrate into the company’s culture with ease, and to foster and shepherd their enthusiasm and motivation?
“Elena challenged me to delegate a responsibility for a small but highly visible project to the young woman whom we hired for her outstanding academic research. Elena worked side by side with both of us to make sure we created a collective sense of trust and partnership that allowed me to feel confident that the project would be completed on time.” P.G. [Grinder]
Aligning Leadership and Values
You are leading the organization that goes through mergers and acquisitions. You need to align stakeholders from the different companies to agree on the business model and technology strategy as well as integrate two disparate cultures.
“I asked Elena to design and facilitate a value stream mapping workshop that helped stakeholders from the different business domains to see the company innovation strategy and agreed on business priorities.” - N.C. [TrueCar]
Collective Innovation Culture
You are a head of HR leading the company’s effort to become a digital workforce, attract millennials talents and keep experienced workers.
“Elena worked with me to transform our HR department to become an Agile People organization and to align with the company digital transformation strategy. She has great professional experience, and she is very skillful in organizational development.” - L..M. [Marketshare]
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Build on Values
People who have worked with me expressed the value I added to their personal leadership.
“Elena has a vision and commitment, and her knowledge ignites energy – she delivers results in a highly professional way. She always looks at the whole picture and inspires people to succeed in a complex changing environment.
Elena focuses on results and creates an emotionally rich process of discovery. As a client, you feel safe to explore more and to take the next steps, even if you do not know what to expect.” - D.M. [Neustar]
Authentic Leadership
I believe that the effectiveness of a leader is in creating authentic followership. I help leaders to discover and deploy the unique facets of themselves that inspire people to trust and follow them.
“The Agile culture is hard to implement if you haven’t experienced it yourself. Elena pushed me to think what made me a good leader in my organization, and she helped me to craft a safe way for me to try a new approach to win as an Agile leader”. O.D [Tenable. Inc]
Digital Transformation
I serve as a trustful adviser for clients who need to evolve company business models and to migrate into a digital transformation in order to thrive in the competitive market.
"I wasn’t sure how to mitigate the risks of adapting to the new technology and to satisfy our existing customers at the same time. Elena helped me to believe in myself and to believe in my teams. She advised and consulted me on the digital transformation strategy, while reflecting on my beliefs and assumptions, As a result I was able to engage customers in the technical innovation solutions we proposed”. A.C.[ TrueCar]
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