Marina Kruk
Executive Coach and Founder, Mindshift360 Over 25 years in enterprise leadership, three businesses built, and one life rebuilt twice
I had to rebuild myself twice, and the second time I did it on purpose.
I came to this country as an immigrant and lost my father to cancer when I was 21. I build a profitable life from nothing and lost every part of it in the 2008 recession-my home, my business, my car, my money. As a single mother with a toddler, I moved across the country and started all over again.
Then I rebuilt myself completely, back to the top of the corporate world. And when a multi-year contract disappeared over corporate politics, I finally understood what I had been avoiding: I had done everything right, twice over, and my life still was not mine to direct. I was not living my life. I was living the one I had been programmed to want.
So I left, with no backup plan, and became a coach. Today I am living in my purpose — the best life I could ever have imagined.
I do not help people fix what is broken. I help them decide who they want to become and create actions to get there.
How I work
I value authenticity.
I am always completely honest in my feedback, and I am not afraid to share my perspective regardless of how it lands at first. What makes that survivable is that I speak from love and I stay in the room while it lands. As someone who is going through this process all my life, I am resilient and strong to go through the hard part with you and hold your hand.
I give you tools, not just questions.
Most of my clients come to me after years with therapists and other coaches. They tell me the same thing every time: they were allowed to talk, they were asked good questions, and nobody ever handed them an instrument. What you learn here — how to pause, how to hear which voice is yours, how to release fear, shame and guilt, how to change a behavior that no longer serves you — you keep for life.
I reframe.
Clients tell me this is the thing they value most. What you have been calling weakness was usually survival. That is not a kindness; it is a more accurate reading of your own history.
I measure.
You complete questionnaires before we begin and the same questionnaires at the end, so change is documented rather than merely felt. Every session has a survey before it and two questions after it. I bring over 25 years of enterprise program management to inner work, and it shows.
My job is to become unnecessary.
The program closes when you are comfortable using the tools to self regulate your life. More than seventy-five percent of my clients renew each year — not because they need me, but because they want to feel confident using the tools in self regulation and explore their true purpose so they can find ultimate happiness in life.