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Alexandra
Borges
Alexandra is an ICF certified leadership and change coach with a degree in Change Management and Organizational Development. She supports companies of different sizes - from fast scaling Tech companies, to Social Impact Organizations to large consumer good corporations - through 1:1 coaching, team coaching and facilitation. Her work helps leaders and their teams understand each other better, build an environment of trust and productive challenge and create more value for themselves, their teams and the organization. She comes in when leaders and high potentials need to shift their way of approaching challenges, when teams and organizations grow from one stage into an other and when the current ways of working are no longer enough for the challenges ahead. Before starting her own business NuVerve, she spent over 15 years in fast-scaling, high-paced organisations, including 13 years at Google and YouTube in Germany. Over the years she has facilitated over 200 workshops including organisational development and large-group facilitation. She can also be booked as a speaker at events, especially around female leadership, leadership in times of AI and High-performance/ high-trust environments Trusted by clients at: Beiersdorf, Statista, PeekVision, ReKindle Collective, L'Oréal, The Nasio Trust, Google, Check Point, Observador
Carmen
Katz
Carmen Katz is a fractional COO, operations consultant and community builder based in Lisbon, with more than 15 years of experience across marketing, operations and membership communities. She spent nearly six years at YPO, where she grew from community manager to Operations and Member Engagement Director for a network of close to 16,000 members. Today she builds and runs operations for founders and communities through her company BizFlow Partners, serves as Chapter Head of Portugal for Work Lekker Network, is operations and community manager for Hermanas, and is leading the launch of a new community that is not yet public. She holds an MBA from Henley Business School, where her distinction thesis studied what drives membership and engagement in professional networking organisations. She also created Find the Stuck, a method that helps founders see which part of their business is leaking before they spend money on fixing the wrong thing.
Dasha
M Goulart
Dasha helps tech companies turn organic growth into a repeatable growth channel. Organic growth is often fragmented: SEO handled separately from content, AI visibility treated as a trend, trust signals overlooked entirely, so I help to connect the system behind it. Dasha's work usually includes positioning, search strategy, content architecture, AI visibility, review and reputation signals, and market analysis. The goal is to get steady qualified demand, stronger conversion paths, and an organic engine will compound over time. Dasha works best with founders and lean marketing teams in tech, especially in B2B SaaS, edtech, marketplaces, and expansion-stage products. Dasha is the strategic owner who helps teams decide what to build, what to stop, and what moves organic growth forward. Background: built organic growth, reputation and content systems at Semrush, iFood, and TripleTen.
Ekaterina
Kirichenko
After 20 years in global corporate business, working across business development, strategy and transformation in 10 international markets, Ekaterina now works with founders and growing businesses as a strategic advisor and mentor. Ekaterina helps businesses unlock their next stage of growth through three areas: 1. Strategy, Leadership & Team Performance Helping founders turn growth ambitions into clear strategic priorities - and build the leadership, team structures and accountability needed to execute them. This includes strategic sessions, team effectiveness and supporting founders and managers as they move from hands-on operations to leadership. 2. Founder Partnership & Governance Helping business partners align on the things that are often left unspoken: roles, responsibilities, decision-making, contributions, expectations, conflict and exit scenarios. The goal is to build strong founder agreements before misalignment starts limiting the business. 3. Business Development & Investment Readiness Helping founders sharpen their strategy, product-market fit and commercial focus, identify growth opportunities and build stronger relationships with potential investors, corporate partners and buyers. The goal is not just to grow the business, but to make it more scalable, investable and potentially acquirable. Earlier in her career, Ekaterina held senior leadership roles at global corporations including IKEA, Bacardi and Lamoda.
Irina
Shurmina
Irina Shurmina is an expert in strategic networking, professional visibility, community, business development and public speaking. She is a founder of the Ladies Who Talk community and Talk Academy. Irina is also an official Lovable Ambassador & Lisbon City Lead. She brings AI to the lives of professional to help them bring their ideas to life and optimise the go-to-market strategy and customer journey. Before moving into entrepreneurship, she spent 14+ years in international law firms as Counsel and Head of Practice at CMS, BCLP, and other firms, working with clients including Nike, Clarins, Nestlé, MARS, Cisco, TEVA, Johnson & Johnson, and Unilever. Irina has trained 3000+ people in terms of corporate trainings and workshops as well as community events.
Kristina
Kutan
Kristina Kutan is a strategic integrator, exited founder and COO who helps leaders and organizations turn ambitious ideas into clear strategies, practical operating systems and coordinated action. She has built and scaled operations across technology, education and private capital. As the founder of travel-tech company flOasis, acquired in 2022, Kristina brings first-hand experience of entrepreneurship, growth, uncertainty and organizational transformation. Her corporate work includes designing leadership and learning systems for 3,000 employees, supporting a network of 10,000 instructors, building a management school for 1,200 leaders and introducing company-wide operating frameworks. Kristina works both personally with founders and senior leaders and with their wider teams. She supports leaders navigating growth, strategic transitions and periods of significant change—helping them clarify direction, strengthen their leadership approach and build organizations capable of executing what they intend. She also designs and facilitates leadership workshops, executive sessions and offsites focused on new-age leadership, emotional intelligence, team alignment and the evolving relationship between human judgment and AI. Kristina is an ICF-certified coach, former educator and recipient of the Influential Businesswoman Award. She has been featured in Forbes, GQ and Authority Magazine, spoken at Web Summit and mentored founders through international startup programs.
Lena
Shakurova
Founder @ ParsLabs. Trusted AI Advisor. Helped 100+ leaders adopt AI automation Lena Shakurova is the founder and CEO of ParsLabs, an AI consultancy that helps organizations design, evaluate, and deploy trustworthy AI automations. Since 2018, she has worked with more than 110 global organizations designing and building production-ready AI automations. She holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence with a background in computational linguistics, combining technical expertise with conversation design and user research to create AI systems that are both effective and responsible. Lena is a recognized advocate for responsible AI, leading the Responsible AI Collective and advising teams on ethical AI design, user experience, and system design. Through consulting, training, and public speaking, she helps organizations build AI that users can trust while navigating the rapidly evolving future of human-AI interaction.
Liliia
Bikbova
Liliia is an international coach and facilitator who believes people are wonderfully different, and that's the power. Liliia helps her clients design the work and lifestyle to suit them: their personality, desires and goals. Liliia believes that her clients are wise enough to create solutions, so she is not a teacher, she is a partner. Liliia creates brave and safe space for clarity, transformation and decisions. Liliia works with entrepreneurs, leaders and their teams. Liliia used to run a business as a co-owner. Liliia does understand what it is like to rule the business, be a leader and a part of the team. How to be a person who wants to live deeply connected to the dearest people and themselves.
Lizaveta
Hilman
Liza Hilman - Nutritionist and Health Coach with an MSc in Clinical Nutrition, and PhD candidate in Health Sciences in Portugal. Author of a best-selling book in CIS region «Помирись с Едой» (Make Peace with Food). Over the last decade worked with 500+ clients, spent three years as a Health Coach at the NHS in the UK, and led the nutrition department at the biomedical holding Atlas. Host of three podcasts: Nutrition Uncovered, LH Mentoring and Kasha v Golove - with 200 episodes.
Luísa
Vasconcelos
Luísa works with leaders and organizations who operate at a high level and expect the same from those who advise them. Luísa's clients come to her when clarity becomes essential, when identity needs refinement, and when the next chapter demands a more intelligent, more human way of leading. With over two decades of transformation consulting and executive coaching across Europe and the Middle East, Luísa brings a rare combination of strategic precision and emotional depth. Luísa reads people and systems with accuracy - understanding the invisible dynamics that shape culture, decisions, and leadership presence. Luísa's work is consistent, intentional, and deeply human‑centric. It is designed for those who value discretion, depth, and the kind of clarity that quietly elevates how they move through the world.
Marina
Bezuglova
Dr Marina Bezuglova is a keynote speaker, executive coach, consultant, and author working at the intersection of human-centered transformation, leadership, and wellbeing. Drawing on more than 20 years of executive experience in international organisations, including GfK and Ipsos, she helps leaders build cultures in which people and business can thrive together. Her keynotes and L&D programmes focus on empathetic leadership, sustainable performance, wellbeing, and the purposeful use of AI and automation to improve the experience of work. Marina is the founder of Wellbeing Lab and the author of Balancing on the Edge and Finding Serenity Amid the Chaos.
Miriama
Hudakova
Miriama helps organisations strengthen business travel safety, event risk management and duty of care through practical, people-centred advisory. Drawing on more than ten years of international humanitarian, diplomatic and business experience including deployments with the EU, OSCE, various NGOs and the German Red Cross. Miriama helps companies recognise that risk is experienced differently depending on who someone is and where work takes them, and translates that into ISO 31030-aligned travel policies, event safeguarding measures and duty-of-care training that protect both people and organisations.
Paola
Del Bosque
Paola designs and facilitates workshops for companies with international teams, cross-border operations, or multicultural client relationships. Through interactive, practical workshops and training sessions, employees build the awareness and skills to navigate cultural differences in communication style, feedback, hierarchy, and collaboration. This helps global teams reduce friction and improve how they actually work together. Problems Paola solves: -Friction in multicultural teams -Rework and delays in nearshoring and offshoring projects -Misread signals with international clients -Miscommunication during M&A integration -Onboarding gaps in cross-cultural fluency Paola works in English and Spanish. She also speaks French and Portuguese fluently. Based in Lisbon and working internationally.