Elena Kanavina is an expert in team building, an Erickson coach (PCC ICF), a financial lawyer with an education from the Higher School of Economics and University College London and a 10-year career in international banking law, studied coaching from the founders of the method (Timothy Gallwey, Marilyn Atkinson, Miles Downey, Marshall Goldsmith). Since 2019, as a team coach, he has been accompanying the development of teams in the companies Eapteka, SberMarket, Samokat, mos.ru, Sibur, Yandex.Lavka, etc. Uses his own method of working with teams, including psychodynamic consulting techniques , mentoring and coaching, which became the basis for writing this book. “Team sessions with my top managers brought together very different people and laid the foundation for subsequent success. Individual coaching with Elena helped me sort out all my thoughts and ideas, choose priorities, discard unnecessary things, focus and prepare as much as possible for the crisis, which for me turned out to be a window of opportunity of incredible size.” Anton Buzdalin, founder of the Eapteka company and investor “Working with Elena was a very valuable experience for me. The most important thing is that we learned to understand each other better and really felt like a team. This is the special value of team coaching.” Sonya Panina, Head of the Content Department at Yandex.Lavka “When working with Elena, it is possible to reach agreements during the session and work on the quality of team interaction. Everything that we design before the sessions can be fully implemented during the process. Elena is great at holding attention and directing the team.” Igor Rozhkov, Director of the Marketing Department at Samokat “Elena and I worked at one of the largest pharmaceutical companies to find joint solutions with teams that could not agree. We were able to develop an action plan and implement it. Elena managed to show our team the effectiveness of team coaching tools.” Anastasia Khrisanfova, Managing Partner of HR consulting company UpScale11
