Evelina is a founder and CEO of Elite Mind, Organisational Development and Design Consultancy using behavioural science to create workplaces that are good for humans. Elite Mind team are the leading experts in diagnosing people's issues that hinder organisational performance, designing custom employee experience journeys and measuring the impact of people support interventions.
As an executive coach, Evelina is on a mission to apply the latest research in human science to equip leaders with tools for impact, resilience and high performance. Having experienced burnout, recovered from a tumour, and successfully established a thriving business in a country where she arrived without speaking the language, Evelina is passionate about passing on her life lessons to help businesses enhance their leadership potential and improve operational excellence without compromising individual health, wellbeing and inclusion.
She is known as ‘Mrs Purpose’ for helping organisations create inclusive cultures aligning individual values with organisational strategy and vision. With her strategic story-telling skills and expertise in instructional design and training delivery, Evelina combines practical tools with empathic connection to capture hearts and minds, and create a lasting behavioural change.
As an academic researcher, Evelina has spent over two decades decoding complex ecosystemic relationships between individual wellbeing, performance and the working environment. She has led a research team to design psychometric assessments, national strategy frameworks and impact measures for organisational health & wellbeing. In her 121 therapy practice, Evelina specialises in affective and psychosomatic disorders, trauma and stress.
Evelina is a keynote speaker, panellist, guest lecturer, contributor to HR Zone, Talent Zone and Brainz magazines, Awards Judge for Culture Pioneers and CIPD People Management Awards, board advisor and mentor for impact startups.