Jelena is an award-winning Career Fulfillment Coach, speaker, author and Forbes Coaches Council contributor. She is passionate about helping conscious, aspiring professionals thrive in the careers they love. With 25 years in international recruitment and education management and CTI coaching qualification, she brings together unique insights into how recruiters think and how personal coaches work. Having lived and worked in 3 countries, she speaks 4 languages and is passionate about cross-cultural competence and communication.

Working in managerial roles with career development, sales, business development, candidate selection and talent acquisition, from start-ups to University Career Service, to growing SMEs in Japan and the UK, Jelena has developed strong business acumen and commercial awareness that allow her to coach clients from a variety of industries and seniority levels. Jelena has also worked with spiritual teachers such as John DeMartini and Deepak Chopra and infuses love, joy and spirit into her coaching and everything she does. Through WhatWork, her career coaching consultancy, she offers individual and group coaching for Career Transitions and Career Development.

She often speaks at events on Career Fulfillment, How to Make Conscious Career Decisions, Effortless Networking, Interview Skills for the 21st Century, to name a few. Jelena has coached numerous clients from financial services, consulting, media, tech and public sector and her clients have found roles at PWC, Deloitte, Amazon, Imperial College, UNICEF, Frontier Economics, Tottenham Hotspur FC, Oxford Instruments, HSBC, Goldman Sachs, to name a few, or have successfully started their own businesses.

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Expert has studied at University of Belgrade