Private coaching
Vana Cristina coaches chief executives, founders and senior leaders privately. The work is about presence, decision-making, relationships, and the personal patterns that quietly shape how someone leads — because a company can only go where the person at the top can go.
What leaders bring
A decision that has been sitting on the desk for three months. A relationship on the leadership team that has gone quiet in a way that matters. The suspicion that the pace being kept is not survivable for another two years. A promotion that came with more authority and less certainty.
Underneath most of it is the same thing: the leader is carrying more than they can put down, and there is no one in their life they can think about it with honestly. Spouses are too close to it. Boards have an agenda. Teams need them steady.
That is the vacancy this work fills — one person who is senior, impartial, and entirely off the record.
Formats
One-to-one
Private coaching for chief executives, founders, and senior leaders. Regular sessions focused on presence, decision-making, and the personal patterns that shape how they lead — because the company can only go where the person at the top can.
Small groups
Working with a leadership team as a living system: how decisions actually get made, where trust has thinned, and what is not being said in the room. The aim is a team that can disagree well and commit fully.
Company-wide
An ongoing relationship with the company itself — coaching several leaders in parallel, advising the board or founder on succession, culture, and the human dynamics that strategy decks never capture.
Her approach
Vana does not run a model over you. She listens to the whole situation — the business, the relationships, the personal history feeding both — and names what she sees. Her work is organised around peaceful leadership: the conviction that ambition and inner peace are not opposites, and that better decisions come from a quieter mind.
Engagements begin with a conversation with the leader and, where relevant, the person sponsoring the work. Everything said in coaching remains private to the person being coached.
Common questions
Senior leaders: chief executives, founders, partners, and executives one level below the top who are being asked to lead at a new altitude. Vana also works with companies who want several of their leaders coached in parallel.
Regular private sessions, usually every two weeks, with access between them when something urgent lands. Sessions follow what is live for the leader rather than a fixed curriculum.
Yes. When a company sponsors the work, the company is told that coaching is happening and nothing more. Everything said in coaching remains private to the person being coached.
Two things. She has built and exited companies herself, so the commercial conversation is real. And she reads people quickly and precisely — clients consistently describe pattern recognition that surfaces the actual issue early.
Send a note through the Work With Vana page. She replies personally, and if it looks like a fit she will suggest a first conversation.
Working together
Tell Vana what you are leading through. She reads every note herself and replies personally within two business days.
