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. The first time I was laid off, I found coaching. The second time, I built something of my own.
Realizing how much of yourself you can hand to a company, and lose, changed everything.
I started coaching and fell in love with breakthrough moments: the exact second clarity replaces confusion, something shifts, and you move forward differently than you walked in.
I also wanted to build something beyond 1:1 work. A community. A tribe. A collective. Because some of us never had that. And we know exactly what it cost. We live in the most connected era in human history and somehow people are lonelier than ever. Because "What can we build together?" got replaced by "What can I get from this?".
"When the right people support each other, BREAKTHROUGHs aren't just personal. They're COLLECTIVE."
