hey! I'm Jana :)
Honestly, which woman doesn't know this feeling? No matter how strong or confident she is. No matter how on point she finishes projects, leads teams, drives company culture forward. How often does it happen that we're somehow... in between roles at the end?
Getting the shitty tasks, playing the firefighters, and our success ends up not being seen (or seen with a colleague's name on it). These moments where suddenly our directness, our presence turns into this small, quiet mouse and we don't even understand what's happening.
When it's about us, when we don't want this promotion like that, but differently, or that we need xyz on top, in those moments we suddenly see hierarchy, question ourselves and become the little, modest girl.
Let's use this awareness to make our own role more visible, to make our place clearer and turn hierarchy into a dialogue.
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English, German, French. 1:1 online. Based in Paris.
What we can look at together:
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When you're the girl for everything (aka team lead in real) and feel your fire burning out: Why do we think we have to be available for everyone? What's this actually costing you? And what would boundaries look really like?​
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When you want responsibility but are left out of important decisions, let's figure out what you've already tried, what's actually going on here, and what we can realistically change.
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When asking for what you need feels like begging: You're in a key position, but somehow asking feels... weird, uncomfortable. Why is that? And how do you ask for what you simply have the right to ask for?
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When you're ready to move from "am I allowed to?" to "this is what I need": How do you make that switch? From asking permission to just... deciding.
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When your success is taken away from you: You do the work, he gets the recognition. What's happening here? And how do you make sure people see what YOU did?
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If you want to discover how to grow out of "the quiet mouse and the girl for everything" role, to finally say "this is what I need", then we should work together:
Working with me is about us figuring out together what's really going on and what actually needs to happen. You bring the questions, the dreams, the doubts, the ideas. I bring perspective, experience, and honest reflection. We think, reflect together, say things out loud, and move forward when needed. At your pace, in your reality.
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What you get
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A space where you can speak freely, no masks, no pretending, no interruptions
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Questions that challenge old patterns and open up new perspectives
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Honest feedback and mirroring
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Space to test and try things out without judgment
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Accountability to actually follow through between sessions
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Honest support from someone who’s been through similiar transitions
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An equal exchange on eye level, not from above, not I-know-it-all
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An understanding of the complexity of international careers, roles, and systems, both professionally and privately
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What you don't get
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Pressure or homework
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Generic advice or solutions
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Judgments about your path, your pace, or your decisions
Let’s talk. 30 minutes free of charge to find out where you stand, what's on your mind and whether we want to work together.
The conversation is confidential and totally pressure-free. In English, German, or French.
We'll talk about:
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Where you are now and what needs to change
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What is going well and what feels stuck
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What support might look like
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Whether the chemistry is right
Start with a conversation
If we decide to work together
You'll get:​
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Confidential 1:1 online sessions (1 hour, every 2–3 weeks)
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A starter package with 3 sessions to start (€465 total / €155 per session)
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Flexible scheduling that works with your calendar
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Sessions in English, German, or French
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Payment plans available
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What you don't get:
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Pressure
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Judgment about your choices
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Personal advice or solutions
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Investment: €465 for 3 sessions. After that, we’ll see together how to continue.
Born in Kazakhstan, growing up in Germany, one year in the US, then moved to Paris by myself when I was 32. Without noticing, I moved between systems, between cultural and societal expectations. Experienced the pressure to perform, adapt and prove.
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For over 11 years, I worked in international business: organised trade shows, conferences, led teams, built strategies, did negotiations. Outside of work, I made myself small in unhealthy relationships/friendships where I didn't dare to say what I really thought, wanted or needed. Instead, I was that nice, understanding woman I thought I "should" be.
​I've been on my own journey. Through systems, countries, languages and identities.
I still remember, back then:
when I told a colleague that I was the only woman in the room and felt like a stupid plant. Just sitting there, not saying anything. And I blamed myself because I thought I wasn't competent enough, not professional enough although I was good at what I did. Not once did it cross my mind to ask myself: Could this be the system, not me?
My job looked really good on photos. But I kept on feeling this longing. Not for more status, not for a higher job title. But for more truth.
At 36, I left that security, my job (trust me, for someone with an immigration background, a major privilege and guilt clash), took a pause for some months and started coaching training. I'm a Certified Executive Coach with a triple accredited certificate (International Coaching Federation, Association for Coaching and European Mentoring & Coaching Council) from Henley Business School.
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​Painting and writing help me to be without rules, to express my thoughts and feelings straight from the moment, without constantly thinking "is this beautiful, is this good, is this right?. It's like training to be myself, to get away from all those "it has to look realistic etc", away from all the "it must..."
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I keep getting to know myself, through my therapist, through a coach. I just keep discovering who I am.
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We rely so much on our brains, on the intellectual, and that's important, yes, but... I heard this from philosopher Charles Pépin: with our ears we learn and discover, with our eyes we see in new ways, with our skin we absorb so much...Our intuition, the feeling...THAT is intelligence, too, that we throw aside in offices.
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At 36, I started over again. At almost 37, for the first time in a real, healthy relationship. Having the courage to let an empty space just be there. Daring to disappoint others, not out of bad intention, but out of self-respect. Learning how creative I actually am.
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I ask critical questions, live in my own way, say no. Through questioning I see more of the system, of patriarchy, and realize that many worries, many doubts are not mine.
