Ilya Minkov

Executive Coach

👋 Hi there!
My name is Ilya.
For the last 7+ years I've been working with startups: investing, helping grow, and fundraising. I also built my own mental health startup dedicated to help young adults to improve their relationships with their parents.In 2023, I got training as an executive coach. And now as a great addition to my day, I help people gain clarity and explore the next steps toward their goals through coaching.

Be open to outcome and not attached to outcome

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Coaching

One-on-One Coaching: A Journey Towards Your GoalsIn the world of coaching, it's not about the coach being the star – it's all about you, the hero of your own story. One-on-One coaching is a conversation, where a coach is an enabler and a coachee plays the main role. I practice non-directive coaching, meaning that I am as a coach not there to tell you what to do. I am there to help you gain more clarity on the topic and assist with setting up an action plan to follow and achieving the goal.Our PartnershipI see my relationships with coachees as partnerships with a clear common goal. This partnership is judgment-free, supportive and trustworthy.The Coaching JourneyCoaching is a journey, not a one-time event. We typically engage in 4-6 months long partnerships. Each session is 60 minutes long and we meet every 2-3 weeks.What Coaching Isn'tThis is not therapy, nor it is sports coaching when a coach teaches you how to play tennis 🎾.
Instead, it's a collaborative process designed to empower you to discover your own solutions and reach your full potential.

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About me

My whole career of 7+ years I've been around startups: building, investing and helping them grow. I genuinely love founders and always try to find ways to give them extra value and help them achieve their results. That's why I decided to get Executive Coaching training. Periodically, I felt that advice or mentoring is insufficient, and I was looking for this missing puzzle. Coaching has become this piece that helps me support other people 🧩.Diverse Coaching FocusHaving said that, it doesn't mean that I can only coach startup founders. In any case, a coachee is the main hero of the journey, who knows his/her situation and context the best. My role is to help the person to come to the “aha” moment and build on that.My TrainingI got the training at Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute.The Coaching Hat 🧢To the coaching session, I wear the "coaching hat" meaning that I might very very rarely offer my advice, and only if that's what is needed at the moment by the coachee.

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