Executive & C-Level Coaching

Elevating strategic clarity, presence, and influence at the top.

What It’s About

Executive & C-Level Coaching with Kalina Terzieva is designed for senior leaders who carry both complexity and visibility — the ones who must lead transformation while maintaining trust, resilience, and focus.

This coaching helps you move beyond performance metrics into strategic presence — integrating self-leadership, systems thinking, and emotional intelligence to sustain impact across your organization.

Whether you are a CEO, founder, or executive team member, this experience offers a confidential, reflective, and transformative space to think, decide, and lead differently — especially in times of uncertainty.

It helps you lead with clarity when the path is unclear, build resilient organizations that adapt and thrive, and cultivate the confidence to navigate complexity with impact.

Outcomes You Can Expect

Systems intelligence

See the bigger picture, connect patterns across silos, and activate the real levers of transformation.

Political agility

Read invisible dynamics, influence with integrity, and build strategic alliances that accelerate change. 

Executive presence

communicate with confidence, depth, and authenticity.

Resilience & sustainable performance

lead with calm under pressure.

Cultural impact

create alignment and psychological safety at scale.

Tools & Frameworks

All programs integrate proven, science-based tools to ensure measurable and lasting impact. Here are some of the tools or references I work with :

  • Leadership Agility Compass – Joiner & Josephs
  • Systems Thinking – Senge’s Fifth Discipline
  • Immunity to Change – Kegan & Lahey
  • Emotional Intelligence – Goleman
  • Neuroscience of Leadership – Rock’s SCARF Model
  • Polarity Management – Barry Johnson
  • Integrated Model of Group Development – Susan Wheelan
  • Working Genius – Patrick Lencioni

Coaching Programs

Program 1 — The Strategic Clarity Program

From complexity to calm confidence.

Duration : 6 months | Format : Individual Coaching

Purpose
For executives navigating volatility, competing priorities, and complexity — this program helps you think systemically, lead adaptively, and act with clarity.

Objectives

  • Understand your organization as a living system.
  • Identify feedback loops and leverage points for transformation.
  • Strengthen decision-making under uncertainty.
  • Connect personal purpose with corporate strategy

Approach

Integrates systems thinkingneuroscience, and leadership agility. You’ll learn to perceive interdependencies, decode organizational patterns, and apply leverage strategically rather than reactively.

Format

  • Duration: 2 × 90-min sessions per month
  • Diagnostic, recalibration, and integration sessions
  • Optional: systems-mapping workshop or shadow coaching

Program 2 — The Transformational Leadership Lab

Expand your influence. Master political dynamics. Elevate your organization.

Duration : 9 to 12 months | Format : Individual Coaching  (options group)

Purpose
For CEOs, founders, and C-suite executives driving large transformations who must navigate not only structures and strategy but also political and relational dynamics that define influence and trust.

Objectives

  • Decode formal and informal power networks.
  • Develop political agility grounded in ethics and empathy.
  • Turn resistance into alignment through emotional intelligence. 
  • Foster collective accountability and sustainable transformation.

Approach

Blends executive coachingorganizational systems work, and political intelligence tools: Power & Influence Mapping • Polarity Management • SCARF Model • Integrated Model of Group Development • Mindfulness & Positive Psychology

Format

  • 2 × 90-min sessions per month
  • Quarterly reflection retreat (half-day)
  • Optional: executive-team facilitation

Coaching Programs

Program 1 — The Strategic Clarity Program

From complexity to calm confidence.

Purpose
For executives navigating volatility, competing priorities, and complexity — this program helps you think systemically, lead adaptively, and act with clarity.

Objectives

  • Understand your organization as a living system.
  • Identify feedback loops and leverage points for transformation.
  • Strengthen decision-making under uncertainty.
  • Connect personal purpose with corporate strategy
 

Approach
Integrates systems thinking, neuroscience, and leadership agility.
You’ll learn to perceive interdependencies, decode organizational patterns, and apply leverage strategically rather than reactively.

Format

  • Duration: 6 months
  • 2 × 90-min sessions per month (virtual or in person)
  • Diagnostic, recalibration, and integration sessions
  • Optional: systems-mapping workshop or shadow coaching
 

Outcome Example

“Seeing my organization as a system changed everything. I now lead patterns, not people.”
EVP, Financial Services

Program 2 — The Transformational Leadership Lab

Expand your influence. Master political dynamics. Elevate your organization.

Purpose
For CEOs, founders, and C-suite executives driving large transformations who must navigate not only structures and strategy but also political and relational dynamics that define influence and trust.

Objectives

  • Decode formal and informal power networks.
  • Develop political agility grounded in ethics and empathy.
  • Turn resistance into alignment through emotional intelligence.
  • Foster collective accountability and sustainable transformation.
 

Approach
Blends executive coaching, organizational systems work, and political intelligence tools:
Power & Influence Mapping • Polarity Management • SCARF Model • Integrated Model of Group Development • Mindfulness & Positive Psychology

Format

  • Duration: 9–12 months
  • 2 × 90-min sessions per month
  • Quarterly reflection retreat (half-day)
  • Optional: executive-team facilitation
  • Access to micro-learnings on neuroscience & political awareness

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Our Testimonial

John Doe
John Doe

VP Strategy, Financial Sector

Kalina challenged my leadership with surgical precision — every session opened new insight and impact.

 Tech Startup
Tech Startup

CEO, Tech Startup

Her approach combines neuroscience, business acumen, and empathy. The results were tangible across the executive team.

John Doe
John Doe

VP Strategy, Financial Sector

Kalina challenged my leadership with surgical precision — every session opened new insight and impact.

Global
Global

OO, Global Operations

I’ve worked with many coaches — Kalina’s is the only approach that linked strategy, emotion, and system-level thinking.

 Tech Startup
Tech Startup

CEO, Tech Startup

Her approach combines neuroscience, business acumen, and empathy. The results were tangible across the executive team.

Global
Global

OO, Global Operations

I’ve worked with many coaches — Kalina’s is the only approach that linked strategy, emotion, and system-level thinking.

Build resilient, high-impact organizations.

Whether you’re a CEO, founder, or senior executive, I will help you create the strategic space to think, decide, and lead with confidence — even when the path ahead is unclear.

👉 Book a confidential discovery session and explore how you can strengthen your leadership impact and build a more adaptive organization.