I work with entrepreneurs and senior professionals who have already tried changing strategy, contractors, markets. Each time the decision was reasonable. Each time the result repeated. I help see what logic stands behind your decisions and why it keeps producing the same outcome.
This is not coaching. It is a second opinion on a situation you have already been working on yourself. A diagnostic conversation in which you see the architecture of your decisions.
Background. My first business I built from scratch: from the idea and personally typesetting the first newspaper issue to delivering the print run by hand. The advertising model was built in before launch, born from mistakes in a previous project. From one newspaper grew a media group: dozens of publications, our own printing house, an internet provider in the St. Petersburg market.
After the 1998 crisis I led a major restructuring and created DBC, a consulting project serving both the holding's businesses and external clients. In parallel I launched educational ventures, cafes, hotels. Then sold DBC to its team. Worked in Finland. Completed the Georgetown Leadership Seminar. Moved to Canada.
Every transition between countries and businesses was a rebuild — not only of the company, but of myself as an entrepreneur. Now I work with those at the same point. Not with beginners. With those who already have everything except clarity about the direction.
How it works. Each engagement passes through three stages. First, we read the consequences of your decisions as diagnosis. Then we see the structure that produced them. Only after that do we assemble a new one.
Who I work with. Entrepreneurs and executives in transition — between countries, between business models, between roles. People who already have the resources, the experience, and the reputation, but cannot see where the next step leads. I do not work with beginners. My work begins where simple answers have run out.
Working language is Russian. English engagements may become available in the future.