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Oksana Nevdakha

Warsaw,14

Summary

Organizational coach working at the individual, team, and organizational levels as a coach, trainer, facilitator, mentor, and consultant. The main areas of work are team collaboration, feedback culture, mental health, goal-setting, personal development, and leadership maturity.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Organizational Coach

MacPaw Inc.
12.2020 - Current

My role as an Organizational Coach covers the three areas I work with: individual, team, and organizational.

I help to support and enhance organizational changes by providing coaching, consultation, education, or facilitation.

My latest accomplishments were:

  • Developed and conducted a “Feedback workshop” as a part of the onboarding process that boosted Feedback culture.
  • Co-created and conducted the organizational-wide education "Facilitation School" that increased teams' autonomy and self-organization through the increased number of facilitators in the company.
  • I led the production of an email digest about Mental Health that raised awareness and played a great part in overcoming a complicated experience we have as Ukrainians. It has been delivered continuously for two+ years and has an 80% open rate.
  • Conducted "Mental heals for leaders" workshop as a part of the Organizational initiative for Mental Health awareness.
  • Implemented innovative formats to facilitate meetings for 80+ people and increased involvement and attendance rate.
  • Constantly supported the development of strategic sessions and plans throughout the organization.

Education:

Mental Health for Business

TA 101 (Transactional Analyses)

Psychodynamic coaching

Existential coaching

Conflict management

Characterology in Organizations

Team Coach

MacPaw Inc.
10.2018 - 12.2020

My role as Team Coach was created as a result of expanding my area of influence. Now, I was definitely not only a Scrum Master but also a coach, mentor, tutor, and facilitator for scaled teams, cross-teams, and organizational initiatives.


My main contributions were:

  • Consult and helped into implementation with product scaling (based on Less approach)
  • Developed and conducted workshops for the company's OKR implementation
  • Conducted Nonviolent Communication trainings and supported practical groups on regular basics for 2 years
  • Launching teams and helping to build effective trusting relationships


Education:

Less Practitioner (CLP)

Organizational Coaching School

OKR basics

Nonviolent Communication practitioner

Facilitation: strategic sessions

Graphic Facilitation

Public Speaking (Presentation Skills)


Scrum Master

MacPaw Inc.
03.2016 - 10.2018

My role as Scrum Master in MacPaw included more than SM in Scrum framework does. But at the start, there were a lot of awesome mistakes and experience that helped me to grow.


My main contributions were:

  • Supporting Agile transformation in Marketing Department (implemented a Scrum framework and support changes 5 functional teams into the cross-functional)
  • Conducting training and workshops about Agile Principles and Practices, Scrum framework, Kanban method.
  • Mentoring and coaching PO-s and team members to force their growth and help them remove impediments
  • Facilitated scrum meetings, workshops, brainstorms, discussions, decision making.


Education:

CSM (Certified Scrum Master);

Kanban management professional (I and II levels);

Conscious communication skills course;

Graphic Facilitation (I, II, III modules);

NVC (Non-Violent Communication) practitioner.

Marketing Specialist

MacPaw Inc.
05.2014 - 03.2016
  • Main responsibilities: Google Adwords optimisation and managing; Competitors research and monitoring; Marketing research and analysis; Sales Promotions; Co-manage email marketing and learn activities; Participation in products launches; Products support on download sites (updating versions, descriptions, etc); Regular reporting.

Junior Marketing Specialist

MacPaw Inc.
02.2012 - 05.2014
  • Main responsibilities: Google Adwords optimisation and managing; Competitors research and monitoring; Marketing research and analysis; Sales Promotions; Co-manage email marketing and learn activities; Participation in products launches; Products support on download sites (updating versions, descriptions, etc); Regular reporting.

Office manager

Alfa Bank Ukraine
05.2011 - 02.2012

My first job was where I learned how to communicate with people, help them solve their problems, and negotiate conflicts.

Skills

  • Coaching (executive, psychodynamic, existential, mental health)
  • Education and courses (development, conduct, gather feedback, improve)
  • Facilitation (strategic sessions, decision making, process supporting etc)
  • Group coaching (conflict resolution, team formation, relationship building)

Personal Information

I’m a proud mother of a 4-year-old girl who constantly inspires me and helps me reflect on and deepen my knowledge, especially in my role as a coach.
I’m also a passionate desktop game enthusiast with a small collection at home, and I truly enjoy spending time with friends immersed in games.
I can’t imagine my life without engaging in Quest or Quiz games, where we answer intellectual and logical questions on a wide range of topics.
Though I’m definitely a dog person, I also have a deep appreciation for the cuteness of cats.

Languages

Ukrainian
Native language
English
Upper intermediate
B2
Polish
Elementary
A2

Timeline

Organizational Coach

MacPaw Inc.
12.2020 - Current

Team Coach

MacPaw Inc.
10.2018 - 12.2020

Scrum Master

MacPaw Inc.
03.2016 - 10.2018

Marketing Specialist

MacPaw Inc.
05.2014 - 03.2016

Junior Marketing Specialist

MacPaw Inc.
02.2012 - 05.2014

Office manager

Alfa Bank Ukraine
05.2011 - 02.2012
Oksana Nevdakha