For those looking for more meaning in their careers
Leadership and career coaching for professionals in consulting and finance who are ready for a bigger role, a career pivot, or a more aligned and meaningful next chapter.
Mila Kozak, MBA, ACC
years of experience
20+
executive leaders coached
450+
workshops lead
80+
The view from the top isn’t what you expected
You worked hard to get here.
The promotions, the reputation, the international career, the responsibility.
But lately, you may find yourself wondering:
“Is this really the path I want long term?”
“Why does success feel less fulfilling than I expected?”
“Do I stay, push higher, pivot, or start over?”
“What would a meaningful next chapter actually look like?”
You're not burnt out, and you're not unhappy either.
You're at an inflection point, and you sense that the next chapter deserves more thought than the last one did. You want to move, but on your terms this time. Not your manager's terms. Not your parents'. Not the version of success you inherited at twenty-five and never paused to question.
This is usually where our work begins.
How I can support
Leadership Coaching
You're not looking to leave, but you're looking to lead differently - with more presence, more influence, and a clearer sense of where you're taking your career over the next decade.
Best for you if: You're considering a promotion, a broader remit, or stepping into a more visible leadership role, and you want to do it from a place of clarity rather than reaction.
We’ll navigate:
✓ promotion and broader leadership scope
✓ confidence and executive presence
✓ communication and influence
✓ sustainable performance under pressure
Career Coaching
The pivot. The industry change. The decision to build something of your own. You've outgrown the path you were on, and you know it. You want to build the next chapter in a more meaningful way.
Best for you if: You're considering a pivot, a new industry, a founder path, or a deeper redefinition of what success means to you.
We’ll navigate:
✓ career clarity and direction
✓ CV, LinkedIn, and positioning
✓ networking and interview confidence
✓ navigating meaningful career change
My approach
Practical strategy combined with deep inner work, because the biggest shifts happen internally first.
My work combines 3 pillars.
The strategic
Career direction, decision-making under uncertainty, positioning, and leadership growth. We do this work rigorously, drawing on two decades of my own experience in senior finance and consulting roles at Deloitte, EY, and Time Inc.
The mindset
The beliefs, self-doubt, and internal patterns that quietly shape your decisions, confidence, and growth. This is where deep, lasting change begins, and where iPEC Core Energy Coaching, the Energy Leadership Index, and NLP do their deepest work.
The nervous system
Your nervous system. How you hold pressure in your body. Learning to lead with calm, clarity, and presence instead of pressure and constant overperformance. Through trauma-informed and somatic practice, we build the embodied capacity to lead from presence rather than adrenaline.
I work this way because external success built on an unexamined inner foundation tends to feel hollow once you arrive, and because I've lived this.
Certifications
Why I do this work
I’ve lived some of the cases that I handle. I’m here to guide you while you do it too.
I have lived the questions my clients ask. Across career in financial leadership and consulting/advisory environments, spanning five countries and two continents, I built the career that looked successful from the outside. Yet, I was running on momentum rather than meaning and without alignment with who I had become.
The turning point came from the inner work that included nearly a decade-long journey through mindfulness, meditation, coaching, and the pilgrimages on the Camino de Santiago.
They taught me that lasting external success is built from a strong inner foundation and alignment, and that real expansion becomes possible when we face and transform our inner narratives. That shift changed my trajectory and is the reason I do this work – to offer individuals the combination of transformative inner depth and strategic clarity.
My clients have great things to say
“Mila supported me in expanding my impact. This included development of actionable plans with defined priorities, deliverables, and risk mitigation strategies in the new professional area. As part of this work I became more aware of the negative self-talk, gained more clarity and confidence. Mila’s coaching was structured, insightful, and outcomes-driven, while still creating space for creativity and self-reflection."
— HUSSAIN, MASQAT, OMAN
“I definitely recommend Mila as a coach. She is thoughtful, present, and grounded. Mila’s coaching helped me navigate change with clarity and confidence. She has supported me through some of my biggest transitions. I’ve grown through our work together. Her warmth, integrity, and strength make working with her both impactful and transformative."
— PETA , NEW YORK, USA
“Mila coached me through a period of immense change and growth. She created a safe space that enabled my development. I felt ‘at home’ during our sessions. I appreciated how she championed me while holding me accountable for the actions I committed to take. As a coach, Mila is empathetic, compassionate, and patient."
— DAVID, SAN FRANCISCO, USA
Frequently Asked Questions
Couldn’t find the answers you were looking for? Let’s connect over a brief discovery call.
-
Most executive coaching focuses on performance in your current role - how to manage up, run better meetings, navigate a difficult stakeholder. That work has its place, but it doesn't address the question you're actually asking, which is whether the role itself still fits. My work integrates strategic career thinking with deeper inner work on mindset, beliefs, and nervous-system regulation. The result is a coaching partnership that helps you decide what's next and builds the inner foundation to sustain it.
-
According to the ICF study
85% of people who receive coaching report increased self-confidence,
70%+ report improvements in work performance, communication, and relationships, and
99% describe themselves as satisfied or highly satisfied with the experience.
At the organisational level, a global study by PricewaterhouseCoopers found that companies investing in coaching see a mean return of 7 times their initial investment, with 86% of organisations reporting measurable ROI.
Beyond performance, research shows meaningful improvements in stress management, resilience, and wellbeing, all of which are foundational to sustainable leadership.
The conclusion the data points to is that coaching is one of the highest-return investments a professional can make in their career, leadership, and life.
-
Often, the people who benefit most from this work are the ones who've already succeeded at the goals they set in their twenties and now find themselves quietly questioning whether those goals were ever really theirs. Coaching at this stage isn't about filling a gap—it's about creating the space to ask better questions, examine the beliefs that have been driving you, and design the next chapter with the wisdom you have now rather than the assumptions you started with.
-
Energy Leadership™ is a research-backed coaching framework developed by iPEC that helps you understand how your energy (conscious and unconscious) influences how you lead, communicate, and respond to challenges. It offers a powerful lens to shift from stress and reactivity into clarity, confidence, and purpose-driven action.
-
Greater clarity and direction. You will gain a clear, grounded sense of what you want next and more confidence to pursue it.
Stronger leadership presence. You will learn to lead with calm, authority, and authenticity, shifting from reactive patterns to more conscious leadership.
Measurable mindset shifts. Research across 30,000+ participants shows that coached leaders consistently raise their level of constructive energy, with significant improvements in leadership competencies, communication, and decision-making.
Career momentum with meaning. Whatever your goal is, you will move forward with a strategy that is more aligned with your values.
Sustainable performance and wellbeing. You will build the energy management tools and resilient habits to sustain high performance.
-
My structured packages run two to four months, with bi-weekly 60-minute sessions, the ELI assessment and debrief, and email support between sessions. The two-month Accelerate package suits clients with a defined near-term decision. The four-month Elevate package is for deeper work—usually when both the strategic and inner dimensions need significant attention. We'll discuss which fits in our exploratory call.
-
It's a 60-minute conversation, free of charge. We'll talk about where you are, what's prompting you to consider coaching now, and what you're hoping might be different a year from now. By the end you'll have a clear sense of whether we're a fit—and if we're not, I'll happily point you toward someone who is. There's no sales pressure, because this work only produces results when both people genuinely want to be in the room.
-
Yes. While I'm based in the Netherlands, my coaching is conducted entirely online, and my clients are spread across Europe, the UK, and the US. The work translates well across geographies- what matters more is whether you're at the kind of inflection point this coaching is built for.
Book an exploration call
/placeholder for calendar embed