About me

My professional journey started with the role of a programmer. Many years ago I chose this profession, as it seemed promising path, and, moreover, not tied to the country which you live in. That time I did not know much about professions in general. As well as about myself. But I decided to try.

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First course at university was really challenging for the girl who did not ever program before, but I managed to adapt even with good results. Programming gave me a useful skill of solving problems, and "try new approach until it works" attitude towards them.   

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Along with university studies, I started to work as a programmer and continued this path for several years. During that period I understood one thing about myself: I like to help people. And this was primary - not just to write a program, but write it to solve some problem the user has, create new functionality that optimizes a process, make the system more user friendly. And the closer I was to this bigger goal, the more I liked my job.

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I started to participate in client training, made my own training for business analysts, became interested in psychology. And soon I learned about coaching.

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I opened the door of Riga Coaching School 6 years ago. This door not only led me to knowledge and practical experience as a coach. It transformed the way I think. It's positive, constructive, at the same time deep and powerful approach filled a place in my head and in my heart. And it is still there :) I realized, that I want to have it as part of my life.

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You might think that the story ends up here. Not yet :) Although I was happy to find the thing I liked so much, coaching was too far from my daily programming routine. I felt sad about not fulfilling my life with the whole potential I have. And missing part here was connecting my work in IT with my hobby. 

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When I joined agile team at work, I realized that agile culture with servant leadership, adaptability, IT-close-to-business and self-organizing teams is really resonating with me. A lot of coaching principles are actually build-in in agile approach. Agile Days Riga conference put all the dots on "i". Scrum Master became the role I definitely wanted to try.

 

I bit risky but still feeling 'right', I made a challenging decision to change both at once: current position and company. I started as a Scrum Master, and actually - never regretted that move. I learned a lot about team dynamics, facilitation, training, mentoring, organizing and planning, business and organizational change mastery. Agile and team development along with coaching, became my passion. 

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I know that in my further journey I will open many interesting areas, as I never stop learning. In fact, I truly enjoy the process of deepening and widening my knowledge, I am explorer in my deep self. And it gives me the sense of fulfillment when the skills I have and the things I know can help people to uncover their potential, open new horizons for the dreams to become reality. 

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Happy to support your discovery,

Anna