Coaching for Professionals Navigating Change, Challenge, or Growth
Hi, I’m Sergei Shishkanov. I help professionals navigate meaningful change — whether it’s stepping into leadership, facing burnout, rethinking your career, reimagining your next steps, or simply feeling that something in your work or life needs to evolve.
If you’re in a place where change is happening or needs to happen, I’m here to help you move through it with clarity and confidence.
If you’re in a place where change is happening or needs to happen, I’m here to help you move through it with clarity and confidence.
Who I Work With
For professionals who want to grow, evolve, or make reals shifts in their work or life.
My clients are people who’ve reached a point where the old way of doing things no longer works — and something new is needed.
This often looks like:
- Stepping into leadership or taking on more responsibility
- Starting or growing a business
- Leaving a role, voluntarily or not
- Changing careers or industries
- Managing a new team or organization
- Adapting to bigger expectations
- Redefining lifestyle, work, or identity
If you sense that something in your work or life needs to evolve, I help you move through it with clarity and confidence.
30% Welcome Discount for New Clients
Full refund after your first session if it doesn’t feel like the right fit.
A Glimpse Into the Process
A client came to coaching feeling burned out and “disconnected.” Through our work, she began noticing how often she ignored signals of fatigue. As she practiced slowing down and making different choices, her energy returned, her boundaries strengthened, and her confidence grew. Within a few months, she felt more at ease — and more like herself.
A client came to coaching feeling burned out and “disconnected.” Through our work, she began noticing how often she ignored signals of fatigue. As she practiced slowing down and making different choices, her energy returned, her boundaries strengthened, and her confidence grew. Within a few months, she felt more at ease — and more like herself.
About me
I’m a Gestalt-trained coach with more than 110 hours of coaching experience (as of December 2025).
Before coaching, I spent 20+ years in sales and marketing in the medical device industry, including 15+ years in leadership roles.
In my late 30s, I immigrated to the United States.
In my late 40s, I navigated a major career transition myself.
Today I’m an entrepreneur with a history of building successful businesses, and a lifelong learner in psychology, behavior change, and well-being.
This lived experience deeply shapes how I support people through change.
Before coaching, I spent 20+ years in sales and marketing in the medical device industry, including 15+ years in leadership roles.
In my late 30s, I immigrated to the United States.
In my late 40s, I navigated a major career transition myself.
Today I’m an entrepreneur with a history of building successful businesses, and a lifelong learner in psychology, behavior change, and well-being.
This lived experience deeply shapes how I support people through change.
My Coaching Style
My coaching style is Gestalt-based and non-directive.
I won’t give you pre-made solutions. Instead, I help you build awareness of your patterns, strengths, and blind spots so you can make more informed choices.
I create a space where you can safely explore complex situations. My style is curious, reflective, and gently challenging. I ask questions that invite new perspectives and support your growth.
Clients often tell me:
“I came in with a problem and left understanding myself better — not just the situation.”
This is what Gestalt coaching does best.
I won’t give you pre-made solutions. Instead, I help you build awareness of your patterns, strengths, and blind spots so you can make more informed choices.
I create a space where you can safely explore complex situations. My style is curious, reflective, and gently challenging. I ask questions that invite new perspectives and support your growth.
Clients often tell me:
“I came in with a problem and left understanding myself better — not just the situation.”
This is what Gestalt coaching does best.
What We Can Work On Together
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Stepping into a new role
Stepping into a new role at work or in life and wanting to feel more confident, grounded, and ready for what it requires. -
Improving relationships
Wanting to improve communication, boundaries, or connection in a personal or professional relationship. -
Navigating a major life change
Going through a significant transition and wanting clarity, steadiness, and a clearer sense of direction. -
Changing habits
Wanting to shift daily habits, energy, or routines to create a more sustainable and aligned way of living. -
Feeling stuck
Feeling stuck in a situation, decision, or pattern and wanting movement where things have felt stalled. -
Breaking a repeating pattern
Noticing the same pattern showing up again and again and wanting to understand it and relate to it differently.
Frequently Asked Questions
Coaching is a structured, collaborative conversation designed to help you see yourself more clearly and make grounded choices.
It’s not advice, not therapy, not “fixing.”
It’s a space where you pause, become aware, and understand what is actually happening — inside and around you.
As your coach, I help you:
You already have the capacity for change. Coaching helps you access it.
It’s not advice, not therapy, not “fixing.”
It’s a space where you pause, become aware, and understand what is actually happening — inside and around you.
As your coach, I help you:
- Slow down enough to notice
- Make sense of patterns, habits, and reactions
- See new possibilities where before there were none
- Choose actions that feel aligned, not forced
You already have the capacity for change. Coaching helps you access it.
Each session centers on what matters most right now: a decision, challenge, relationship, or transition.
Together we:
Together we:
- Clarify what you want
- Notice what gets in the way
- Explore new perspectives or actions
- Anchor the learning so it becomes part of your daily life
Coaching is especially useful when you’re:
- Navigating career or life transitions
- Stepping into leadership and want to strengthen influence or communication
- Feeling stuck or uncertain about next steps
- Managing stress or burnout
- Wanting more meaning, confidence, or alignment
- Facing repeating patterns you’re ready to change
- Not therapy or medical treatment
- Not consulting or advising
- Not someone telling you what you “should” do
- Not performance evaluation
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Sergei Shishkanov
Leadership & Development Coach
