Who We Are

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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” RUMI

Julia partners with wise, high-impact executives committed to creating a positive difference in the world by staying true to their values and purpose.  She works across cultures and languages, helping people deepen their understanding of themselves, others, and their worlds.   

Julia has 20+ years experience coaching C-Suite executives, Senate-confirmed officials, including cabinet members, and their teams worldwide in Fortune 500 companies, US government, universities, law firms, non-profit and international organizations.  Her clients make bold, life-changing decisions, get promoted, improve cohesion and motivation in their organizations, but most importantly report a greater sense of personal power, inner peace and satisfaction with their lives inside and outside their workplace.

As a professional language interpreter, Julia speaks and listens for officials at the highest levels of business and government, including President Bush in the Oval Office, chairmen of all major oil companies, President of the World Bank. This experience fuels her ability to bring full presence, backbone and ease to her C-Suite coaching. While her interpreting work can be glamorous and exciting, what she enjoys the most is interpreting people to themselves. She has the repertoire and the skillset to help clients find freedom to hear, value, and express their truth.

Julia’s top values include  freedom, kindness, excellence, and joy. She is creative, analytical, intuitive, kind, imperfect, and irreverent. She is fascinated by everything that makes human being truly alive, and is passionate about helping people connect to their voices, focus on what’s essential so that they could make the impact they are meant to make.

Tamara is an accomplished corporate professional and education consultant. She has dramatically shifted her career to help people become healthier, stronger, and happier through personal fitness and dance training. She believes that finding your best way to be physically active is at least as important as finding a suitable profession, as it gives you the pleasure of doing something very good for your health, day after day, for many years. 

Having worked for the United Nations Development Programme, George Washington University, and Science and Technology Centers in Ukraine and Russia, among others, Tamara feels comfortable in any corporate setting, where now she shares her dynamic energy inviting all to move freely and with joy.

Besides being a NASM-certified personal trainer, Tamara has experience and education in Gestalt Therapy and somatic coaching. Her skilled communication, warm acceptance and empathy allow her to develop long-term relationships with her clients. She builds individualized self-care programs, incorporating fitness training, education on their bodies' needs, and coaching them through the process of establishing lifelong routines that they can successfully implement despite the pressures of modern busy lives. Tamara's style is fun, warm, accepting, and also focused on results and accountability.

Tamara is a lifelong learner continuously expanding her professional knowledge. She has additional certifications in Weight Loss, Pre & Postnatal Exercise, and Progressive Ballet Technique. Tamara is also a passionate dancer with 30 years experience, and she is sharing her dance passion through group and private teaching.