About Lana

Svetlana Dimovski, PhD, PCC, NBC-HWC

Interim Chief Growth Officer

Svetlana is an executive coach, Kellogg Executive Scholar in Leadership, and Chopra Center Certified Instructor in Primordial Sound Meditation. Svetlana is a Premier Fellow Coach at BetterUp, the official member of the Forbes Coaches Council, and an affiliate member of the Institute of Coaching, McLean/Harvard Medical School. Svetlana is a Board of Directors member for the ICF Thought Leadership Institute. She holds a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering (Drexel) and a postgraduate diploma in digital business (Columbia/MIT Sloan).

Bio

Svetlana Dimovski, Ph.D., ICF-PCC, NBC-HWC, is a credentialed global executive coach, Kellogg Executive Scholar in Leadership, and Chopra Center Certified Instructor in Primordial Sound Meditation. Svetlana is a Premier Fellow Coach at BetterUp, the official member of the Forbes Coaches Council, and an affiliate member of the Institute of Coaching, McLean/Harvard Medical School.

Since starting her professional coaching practice, Svetlana has delivered 2,300+ one-on-one client coaching hours with executives, leaders, and career professionals across the globe in over 30 industries and all sectors. As a contract partner to BetterUp, Chief, and Growthspace, Svetlana supports private and corporate-sponsored coaching clients to envision, plan, and achieve their growth aspirations. 

Svetlana’s professional career experience before coaching includes 20 years of scientific research, strategy & innovation management, senior leadership in academia, Fortune 50 companies, and an international development non-profit organization. She holds a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering (Drexel U.) and a postgraduate diploma in digital business (Columbia U./MIT Sloan).

Personal Outlook

Panta Rhei. Carpe Diem. I recognize that everything flows. What makes the difference in the greater impermanence of life is how we choose to use our energy, where we focus our curiosity, and what we choose to organize and optimize for. I focus on the growth and nurture of human potential and organize for love, awe, and joy.

I also believe in the creative capacity of every person to transform their life. I trust the process, and I have unwavering faith in the resourcefulness of our human creativity. Growing up in the Former Yugoslavia during the civil war, hyperinflation, and disintegration of the country, I directly witnessed the complexity, strain, and tremendous resilience of the human spirit. Through those experiences, I gained a humbling appreciation for the regenerative powers of hope, curiosity, and love in times of greater uncertainty and broader social trauma. In my coaching sessions, I aspire to provide unconditional positive regard, radical acceptance, and a grounding presence for my clients who are navigating complex organizational or social climates or many unknowns of personal transformation.

Coaching Style

Evidence-based, transformational, integral, and holistic.

Endorsements

  • "This is the best first discussion I could have ever hoped for regarding career development and unleashing my talent and potential for the future!"

    — Leadership and Organizational Development Leader, HR Services, USA

  • “Thought-provoking. The discussion prompted me to develop a couple of new ideas of how to advance certain goals. Svetlana has helped me search/consider tactics for personal development in specific ways.”

    — General Counsel for a $2B industrial engineering company, USA

  • “Life-changing session. It has been a joy to work with Lana. She helps me see that I have more wisdom inside of myself than I ever knew.”

    – Educational Consultant, Fulbright Scholarship Fellow, USA

  • "Awesome session. Really great insight on anchoring habits in core values to make them more organic. Transformational advice that I'm still thinking about."

    — CTO, Top Global Management Consulting Firm, USA

Proudest Accomplishment

An accomplishment is to daily and fully show up to miracles and mysteries of life. Most recently, I joined ICF Thought Leadership Institute as a Board Member.

Ice Breakers

Most Grateful For

I’m grateful for an ever-present strong sense of connection to an abundant well of hope, love, faith, and wonder, the nature that provides for all of us, and loving people in my life.

The Last Book I've Read...

"Your Next Five Moves" by Patrick Bet-David