Svetlana Dimovski
MCC Executive Career Coach for Fortune 500 Leaders | 750+ Clients
Studied at Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern)
Works at Dharma Growth LLC
Available Thursday at 8:00 PM UTC
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Svetlana's Offerings
Custom hourly · $597/hr
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Svetlana’s Career Coaching Qualifications
Coaches professionally
Experience level: Executive
Do you see your career as a strategic asset? This executive career coaching engagement is for senior professionals in Fortune 500, global, or complex enterprise environments who are making thoughtful decisions about their next leadership chapter. You may be considering an internal promotion, preparing for a Director-to-VP move, submitting your executive promotion package, evaluating an external opportunity, repositioning after a major transformation mandate, returning to the market after a long tenure, or deciding whether your next chapter belongs inside a company, in advisory work, in a founder/operator path, or across a portfolio of roles. At this level, career strategy is not simply about resumes, interviews, or visibility. Those may matter, but the larger work is about judgment, positioning, timing, fit, and leadership narrative. It is about understanding where your experience creates the greatest enterprise value — and how to communicate that value with clarity, credibility, and authority. As an MCC executive coach with 20+ years across Fortune 100 innovation, organizational transformation, people systems, coaching, board service, and business building, I bring a strategic and developmental lens to senior career decisions. Our work is confidential, rigorous, and grounded in respect for the complexity of the choices before you. Depending on your priorities, we may focus on: • Clarifying your context and the leadership chapter you are ready to pursue • Defining the roles, environments, and mandates that fit your strengths and ambitions • Strengthening your executive narrative and your unique market positioning • Translating a complex or nonlinear career into a coherent leadership story • Preparing for promotion conversations, executive interviews, or senior stakeholder discussions • Thinking through internal versus external moves, advisory paths, entrepreneurial options, or portfolio careers • Examining the leadership identity, confidence, and presence that your next chapter will require This kind of coaching is not for transactional job-search coaching. It is a strategic career partnership for accomplished leaders who want strategic career leverage and a clear, credible, well-positioned next move that is personally congruent. If you are exploring your growth direction or weighing an important career decision, I invite you to book an introductory call so we can clarify whether this kind of work would be a good fit.
Svetlana can help with:
AI-Powered Job Search
Career Planning
Cover Letters
Freelancing
General Exploration
Interview Prep
Job Search Strategies
Leadership
Networking Strategy
Personal Branding
Professional Networking
Resume Review
Salary Negotiation
Skill Building
Svetlana also coaches for Executive Coaching and Leadership Coaching. View all.
About Svetlana
Hi, I’m Svetlana, a Master Certified Coach and executive leadership advisor. I help senior professionals, people leaders, founders, and high-potential operators step into a new executive mandate or a broader leadership scope with greater clarity, presence, and capacity they can sustain. My work is especially useful when you are preparing for a leadership promotion, navigating a complex career transition, stepping into a larger executive role, strengthening your executive presence, or rethinking the kind of leader you want to become next. I bring 20+ years of experience across Fortune 100 innovation, organizational transformation, people systems, executive coaching, team coaching, board service, and business building. I have delivered thousands of hours of professional coaching to 750+ senior leaders and executive groups across 30+ industries worldwide. Clients often come to me when they sense that their next chapter requires a different level of clarity, strategy, influence, confidence, and communication. My coaching blends strategic rigor, systems thinking, whole-person development, and practical executive counsel. On Leland, I focus on executive coaching, strategic career growth, executive presence, leadership capacity, and senior-level transitions. I can help you clarify your next move, strengthen your leadership narrative, prepare for higher-stakes conversations, and build the capacity to lead with more authority, humanity, and executive range.
Why do I coach?
I coach because I have seen how much changes when capable people are met with the right kind of partnership at the right inflection point in their lives. At certain moments, the real work is not just to make the next move, but to understand what the next move is asking of you. A promotion, career transition, founder challenge, or expanded leadership mandate is often more formative than expected. These inflection points can call for new capacity, new language, new boundaries, and sometimes a whole new layer of identity. My clients are usually not looking to be fixed or told who to become. They are looking for a space where they can think more clearly, test assumptions, make sense of complexity, and practice leading from a more grounded and conscious place. I coach because I care about the inner growth that becomes visible not only in stronger decisions and communication but also in greater self-trust, self-confidence, and inner alignment.
Work Experience
Task Group Member
Forbes Coaches Council
November 2022 - November 2024
The Forbes Coaches Council is an invitation-only professional organization for senior-level business, career, and executive coaches. It provides members with credibility, visibility, and opportunities to publish thought leadership content on Forbes.com Executive Coaching, Strategic Thinking and +4 skills
Partner, Coaching and Facilitation
Chief
May 2022 - June 2024
Chief is a private network built to drive more women into positions of power and keep them there. Chief is the only organization specifically designed for senior women leaders to strengthen their leadership journey, cross-pollinate ideas across industries, and affect change from the top-down. Executive Coaching, Leadership Development Coaching and +3 skills
Premier Fellow Coach
BetterUp
May 2019 - May 2026
As a Premier Fellow Coach with BetterUp, I support leaders navigating growth, transition, uncertainty, and performance pressure. The work brings together leadership coaching, career growth, well-being, and resilience to help members strengthen clarity, confidence, and sustainable effectiveness in real organizational contexts.
Vice President, Customer & Growth AI Transformation
Pact
March 2018 - October 2019
A nonprofit international development organization founded in 1971, Pact works on the ground in over 40 countries to improve the lives of those who are challenged by poverty and marginalization. We strive for a world where all people are heard, capable and vibrant. Executive Coaching, International Development and +14 skills
Executive Coaching
Dharma Growth LLC
May 2017 - December 2024
Bespoke transformational coaching for peak performance, holistic well-being, and self-actualization, focusing on unique talent. Work with the originals, change-makers, innovators, and the firsts. Specialties: giftedness, neurodivergence, twice-exceptionality, sensory intelligence, holistic/integral coaching, leadership development, and executive presence. Whether you are a private client or a part of a corporate-sponsored coaching program, your coaching journey will be highly personalized to you. We don’t coach for standards and competence. We coach for the future, differentiation, and your unique brilliance. Awards: Winner, Best of Arlington 2025 Awards: Nominee, The Coach of the Year Award 2023 Executive Coaching, Sensory Integration and +16 skills
Certified Master Coach
Dharma Growth LLC
October 2016 - Present
I lead Dharma Growth LLC, a deliberately small executive counsel, coaching, and advisory practice for senior leaders, founders, CHROs, Talent Leaders, and executive teams navigating reinvention, succession, Human+AI transformation, and complex organizational change. The work sits at the intersection of leadership, transformation, organizational effectiveness, and human capacity — helping leaders and teams turn ambiguity, pressure, and strategic change into stronger judgment, clearer alignment, and more durable organizational capability. Engagement focus areas: • Private executive counsel and coaching for CEOs, founders, C-suite leaders, successors, and senior executives • Human+AI adoption, leadership readiness, and responsible transformation • Executive coaching for leaders in transition, scale, reinvention, or increased visibility • Systemic team coaching for alignment, trust, decision quality, and execution • Strategic facilitation for boards, executive teams, offsites, and private forums • CHRO-sponsored coaching with clear confidentiality, governance, and sponsor alignment • Leadership and team assessments tied to development priorities, business goals, and role readiness Representative outcomes: • Clearer executive judgment, presence, and stakeholder communication • Stronger senior-team alignment, trust, and decision quality • Faster execution with fewer silos, escalations, and avoidable friction • Greater leadership capacity during scale, transition, succession, and transformation • Stronger adoption of new behaviors, strategic priorities, and ways of working My approach integrates evidence-based coaching, organizational effectiveness, and strategic systems thinking. Engagements are rigorous, human-centered, and pragmatic — designed to translate complex aspirations into observable behavior change, better decisions, and measurable organizational progress. Guiding principles: curiosity, rigor, care, pragmatism, and possibility. ****** svetlanadimovski.com Executive Coaching, Entrepreneurship and +19 skills
Sr Manager
BASF
March 2011 - October 2016
Hiring Manager
Sr Scientist and Innovation Ecosystem Manager
Procter & Gamble
August 2005 - March 2011
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Education
Emeritus
Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Business, Business Administration and Management, General
2019 - 2020
Program done in collaboration with Columbia Business School Executive Education & MIT Sloan Executive Education
Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern)
Kellog School of Management Executive Leadership Program, Organizational Leadership
2013 - 2016
Kellogg Executive Scholar in Leadership
Drexel University
PhD, Materials Science and Engineering
University of Novi Sad
MS, Mechanical Engineering
Wharton Executive Education
Certificate, Executive Compensation
International Coaching Federation
MCC Credential, Coaching
The MCC is the highest ICF credential, held by fewer than 4% of coaches worldwide.
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