Ivana lives with her husband in Surrey; she worked for many years in the City in finance but decided to change career direction when her children were born. She attended Canterbury Christchurch University and gained a Post Graduate Diploma in Advice Guidance and Counseling as well as the Diploma in Careers Guidance and subsequently worked for many years as a Careers Advisor.

 

She has interviewed thousands of young people providing one to one careers advice and guidance, mentoring, counseling and coaching. She also works with adults, coaching and delivering training on a variety of areas from personal development to employability skills.

 

It was her passion for wanting to see people reach their true potential that led to her training to be a Master Neuro Linguistic Practitioner with the co-founder Dr Richard Bandler and Paul McKenna and Thought Field Therapy Diagnostic level Practitioner. She was also chosen to be an assistant several times on Paul Mackenna’s weight loss events.

 

"It used to really frustrate me when adults and often teenagers as young as 14 would write themselves off as not being able to achieve their dreams in life. Combining NLP and TFT as well as my training as a Careers Adviser has enabled me to achieve some amazing results during my interviews and why I love what I do so much".

 

She divides her time between seeing private clients, delivering various training programmes, working with adults and teenagers and co-presenting a radio programme on Brooklands radio called ‘Just Women’.

 

In her spare time she enjoys doing a bit of stand up comedy, eating out, then burning it off by taking hot yoga classes.