Coach, recruitment leader, relentless builder.
"I figured most of it out alone. No one softened the path. No one sat me down and said, 'You're not broken for wanting a different life.'"
I was born and raised in Split, Croatia, part Italian, fully Mediterranean in my need for sun, good food, and strong opinions. I've been living abroad for 15 years now, currently in Amsterdam with my boyfriend Marc and our corgi, Galileo.
My career has taken me through McKinsey, Google, Facebook, project44, and Uber, across recruitment, management, and everything in between. Five countries, fifteen years, and enough corporate lessons to fill a memoir I'll probably never write.
I grew up in Croatia in the 90s, during the war. Overweight, closeted, in a place where neither was easy and there were bigger things to worry about. Transformed my body, came out, burned out, rebuilt.
Why Breakthrough Collective
For thirteen years I saw myself as a corporate guy. That was my identity, my world, my plan. Until it wasn't. And that fragility, realizing how much of yourself you can hand to a company, changed everything. It was time to build something of my own.
I started coaching and fell in love with something I hadn't anticipated: breakthrough moments. The exact second clarity replaces confusion. I found those moments beautiful, and I wanted to create more of them.
I also wanted to build something beyond one-on-one work. A community. A tribe. We live in the most connected era in human history, and somehow people are lonelier than ever. "What can we build together?" got replaced by "What can I get from this?". That shift costs us more than we realize.
"When the right people support each other, BREAKTHROUGHs aren't just personal. They're COLLECTIVE."
