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Extraordinary Leadership is a leadership transformation company that merges executive coaching, deep identity and energy work, and leadership advisory to help executives and teams lead with boldness making lasting impact & living a legacy behind.

We don’t just develop skills. We help leaders evolve from within to drive exponential business growth, team transformation, and a new era of leadership.

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Senior Executive Leadership Coach

Positive Intelligence

Mental Fitness coach | Positive Intelligence

net4tec

Developed and lead 2 editions of a leadership development program for female leaders, focusing on building highly effective teams and growing talents.

EntreNous Program- Building Highly Effective Teams  - design and facilitation 

Kongsberg Automotive

Head of 2 global project purchasing teams serving 2 different Business Units.
Member of BU management teams and Purchasing management team.
Reporting directly to VP Global Project Purchasing & dottet line to (Sr) Executive VP of Business Units (Heads of Business Unit).
My mission was to implement a newly transformed organization focused on project execution, initiation & lead of supplier VAVE and supplier integration in customer projects on time and budget. Build organizational knowledge & develop teams and talents.

Global Project Purchasing Manager

DENSO

My mission was to strengthen the regional purchasing organization and supply base in Europe covering 11 plants. Together with my team of 3 project and commodity leaders, 7 purchasing executives and leaders in Europe we developed and implemented a regional direction and processes in key areas: supplier and risk management, organizational competency, and Supplier Relationship Management. 
Together with my team, we covered the area of raw materials and parts. 
One of my key roles was to develop my own team, guide and develop my members to become regional leaders.
Reported directly to Head of European Purchasing.

European Purchasing Manager

I initiated and led an establishment of a regional direction on Supplier Management for parts and raw materials, through new cross-functional cooperation. I led a project of 7 strategic buyers and managers from different locations in the European procurement organization that focused on developing key regional supplier management processes. 
I recruited, onboarded, and supported the development of a new European purchasing team.
Reported to Head of European Purchasing and dotted line to VP BU Purchasing.

European Purchasing Team & Regional Project Leader

My mission was to assure cost targets and supplier excellence for the whole portfolio of Aluminium & Flux (Raw Materials) for 7 plants in Europe and spend of 80mln€. 
The responsibility was from benchmarks and internal analysis, vision and strategy definition, guidance on market and price trends, alignment with key top stakeholders in regional management and BU’s to execution in cooperation with cross-functional stakeholders and plant buyers including contract management and negotiation of long-term agreements.
Beyond the above key role, I actively contributed to leveling up commodity management in the organization by establishing a regional standard

European Commodity Manager

I led an aluminum extrusion area and was responsible for strategy development and execution, supply base management, and cost management for 7 plants with a spend of over 40mln€.
Beyond that, I proactively contributed to the development of the regional commodity management function for raw materials, by building a supplier market and capability knowledge, and process efficiency.

European Commodity Buyer

FAURECIA AST, Mouzon, France

Responsible for assuring supplier readiness and meeting cost targets for French customers' projects. Managed suppliers for injection molding, stamping parts, and textile.

Project Buyer

Where inner expansion lead to quantum leaps in
leadership, organization & business.

Do you want to multiply your impact, grow your organization & business beyond limits, set a new standard & shape a new way of leading?

Do you look for 'out of standard' approach to leadership success? 

I partner with impact- and growth-driven CEOs, executives & founders who are ready to lead from a new paradigm -  where energy meets strategy, and success comes from within - effortlessly with  fulfillment &  joy.

My clients activate their highest potential, gain deeper clarity, elevate energy, and tap to intuition that transform their leadership & business growth.

This is what I call the New Leadership Paradigm — leading with vision, aligned energy, elevated consciousness, and magnetic presence, not pressure or overdrive.

It’s how extraordinary leaders unlock exponential impact, results & legacy with joy & ease.

My clients become legacy leaders attracting new opportunities effortlessly.
🚀 Leading boldly with clarity and conviction
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Who am I?

Transformational & strategic partner to senior leaders with 15 years of corporate experience.

A visionary founder shaping the New Leadership Paradigm -  extraordinary success and fulfillment with more ease.

Dedicated to evolving leadership and unlocking true human potential.

Integrating neuroscience, energy, and quantum consciousness to leadership.

Grateful to partner with leaders from various organizations and businesses - including Maersk, Abbott, Chanel, Roche, and GE.

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Dagmara Asbreuk

Starting your own business is one of the most exciting and demanding - career transitions.

Guiding many leaders through their transition into entrepreneurship, and building my own business, one truth became very clear:

Entrepreneurship is more than a career move - it’s your own evolution.

Your business grows to the level of your own growth.

I see there are at least 2 camps on how to build your business:
1️⃣ Chasing best strategies, working very hard, pushing a lot - ending up in exhaustion

2️⃣ Building a business from aligned inner place & from the new paradigm of leadership (energetic, intuitive, conscious)

I am choosing the number 2.

That path definitely requires an inner growth & shift in leadership paradigm.

👉 Here are 9 beliefs that were paradigm shifting in my business.

Some of them are opposite to traditional approaches.

To succeed with your business, you must become the leader your vision and business require. 

That is a strategic priority, not a nice to have.
Everything starts there.

Which beliefs do you run your business with?
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I guide CEOs & Executives to be legacy leaders of the new paradigm - evolving organization, business & life to new dimension | Executive Leadership, Transition & Transformation Partner | Keynote Speaker

9 beliefs that shifted paradigm in my business

You Don’t Need to Push Harder - You Need to Restore Flow.


You can have the right strategy, vision, and goals but when your flow is blocked, even the smallest action feels heavy.

You start doubting yourself.
Overthinking. Procrastinating.
Feeling disconnected and depleted.

Recently, a client came to me feeling exactly that.

Her nervous system was protecting her - not because she wasn’t capable, but because it didn’t yet feel safe to expand and move forward.

That’s where the real shift begins.
- From doing more → to being more aligned.
- From forcing movement → to creating safety, space, and trust inside.

This is how leadership evolves in the new paradigm - Quantum Leadership.

Leading with awareness of the Law of Resonance.
Prioritizing inner state alignment before action and strategy.

Because who you’re being - not just what you’re doing - shapes your results.

Flow can not be forced.
Flow is a natural state of inner alignment where everything begins to move again with ease and less efforts.

Every journey to restore flow unfolds through three natural stages:
1️⃣ Regulate 
Calm the nervous system, create inner safety, let energy move again.

2️⃣ Elevate 
Release resistance, rebuild confidence, expand capacity for ease and trust.

3️⃣ Stabilize 
Anchor habits that sustain flow and hold more success with grace.

When you restore flow, clarity returns.
Confidence expands.
Creative momentum reignites.

You don’t rise by pushing harder - you rise by aligning deeper.

Your next executive role won’t come because of your experience.


At this level, your expertise and results are already expected.

They’re the entry ticket - not the differentiator.

What truly makes the difference in landing your next executive role and thriving in it - is your magnetic presence & energy you radiate when you speak, listen, and lead. 

The way people feel when they’re with you.
The trust, calm confidence, and certainty you radiate.
That quiet power that makes others feel “I want to work with this person.”

Because presence speaks louder than any resume.

And it’s what creates opportunities that logic alone can’t.

In my work with executives navigating transitions, I often say:
👉 “It’s not about doing more - it’s about becoming & being more.”

To create your next chapter intentionally, you need:

1️⃣ Aligned clarity from within - knowing not just what you want next, but who you’re becoming to succeed.

2️⃣ Courage in letting go - of identities, beliefs, patterns, or environments that no longer reflect your potential or next level.

3️⃣ Embodied presence - transpiring trust, confidence, certainty, and your next-level self.

These shifts help you become magnetic - naturally attract the right opportunities, clients, and roles.

People feel it.
They trust you.
They choose you.

Whether you’re preparing for your next executive move, attracting strategic clients, or elevating your leadership team - the path begins with you “Becoming magnetic”.

This is what we focus on in the first phase of The Legacy Leader™ - helping executives reconnect with their essence, elevate their state, and embody the leader their next level requires.

If you’re standing at the edge of your next chapter - let’s explore 
the faster, and most aligned way forward.

Every time you’re called to your next level…

It’s because your soul desires expansion.

It wants you to grow, serve at a deeper level, impact more people and live from your fullness.

And that requires you to rise.
Again. And again. And again.

After all, you’re not here to play small.
You’re being invited to lead from the bigness of who you truly are.

There are two ways your next level calls you forward:

1️⃣ You aspire for more.
More impact.
More meaning.
More joy, abundance, growth, fulfilment.
More alignment in your career - bigger roles, broader influence, deeper purpose.

2️⃣ Life pushes you forward.
Through challenges, stagnation, misalignment, disconnection, or results that no longer match who you are becoming.

Both circumstances lead to the same invitation:
Rise higher from within.

Every time you choose to rise higher, above the current self and paradigm.

You rise to your truest, highest and most powerful self.
And everyone you lead rises with you.

And here’s the truth:
Each time you go through this process, supported and equipped - you move through it faster.

Your leadership expands faster.
Your impact grows faster.

👉 So here is a reflection for you today:
Where are you invited to rise?
What legacy are you invited to step into?

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✨ If you know you’re meant for your next level - not someday, but now, then The Legacy Leader™ is your space.

It’s where CEOs, executives activate multidimensional growth, and rise into leaders who set a new standard - for themselves, their teams, and their organizations.

📩 Get in touch if you want to explore this evolution.

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✨ Lifting the baseline you operate from
✨ Releasing what no longer belongs to your path
✨ Shaping the next version of you
✨ Expanding safety in your body to hold more
✨ Strengthening your ability to lead your mind - so it supports, not sabotages, your expansion
✨ Elevating your state
✨ Embodying new ways of thinking, being, and leading

Your soul desires expansion.

Here’s a reminder I returned to in my own leadership journey this year -
and one I believe many leaders need to hear.


For a long time, we’ve been taught that growth is about becoming.
Becoming better.
Becoming stronger.
Becoming more confident.
Becoming our “next-level self.”

But here’s the truth:
Leadership growth is not about becoming.
It’s about embodying the powerful & true you - you already carry inside.

The one your mind often tries to doubt, minimize, or confuse.

The shift happens when you move from:
❌ “Who do I need to become?”
to
✨ “Who am I being called to embody right now?”

Because the truth is:
Your highest identity isn’t somewhere in the future.

It already exists within you - waiting to be attuned to, not chased.

You do not need to create it.
You need to attune to the frequency that already exists.

This is the paradigm shift that changes everything:
→ your decisions
→ your presence
→ your energy
→ your clarity
→ your impact

Leaders don’t rise by striving.
They rise by remembering their truth and attuning to its frequency.

So if you’re in a season of transition, uncertainty, reinvention or stuckness -
let this be your anchor:

You already hold the identity your next chapter calls for.
Your work is to attune to it - not become it.

This is what we do in The Legacy Leader™ - guiding CEOs, executives, and founders in attuning to their higher identity, so multidimensional growth becomes inevitable.

Want to know more. Let's connect.

Most leaders and teams challenges don’t come from strategy.

They come from inner patterns leaders need to master.

This week on the Extraordinary Leadership Podcast, I sat down with Christopher Salem - workplace strategist, bestselling author, and EQ expert - to unpack the real drivers behind high-performing teams:

How leaders manage emotions, communicate, and create psychological safety.

What moved me most was Chris’s honesty.
He shared how early emotional patterns shaped his leadership… until he chose to break through and lead from clarity, grounded presence, and intention.

In this episode Chris share his simple yet powerful framework - “Five Things You Can Control,” - any leader can use to build psychological safety, ownership, and sustainable high performance:

In this episode we unpack each of the 5, and especially:
✅ How assumptions destroy trust and what to replace them with
✅ Shifting from reactivity to grounded response
✅ Aligning behavior with the leader you want to be
✅ How attitude shapes influence
✅ Taking aligned action that actually moves the needle

If you want to elevate your communication, team collaboration and impact as a leader - this conversation is a must.

👉 Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dKFcQ3Tr

The 5 EQ Drivers to Master in Leadership and with Teams with Chris Salem

Your mind cannot realize what your body cannot hold.


This year reminded me how vital it is to strengthen the body’s capacity - the nervous system’s ability to hold expansion toward bigger visions and goals.

Because no matter how strong your mindset - if your nervous system isn’t ready, it will slow you down.

In my work with executives, embodiment of the next-level self is always at the forefront - because you cannot realize your next chapter without elevating your inner baseline.

The version of you that got you here - your current identity, beliefs, emotional range, and energetic capacity - cannot take you there.

That’s why ambitious leaders who focus only on strategy or skills often repeat the same patterns again and again.

Because the same inner architecture keeps recreating the same results.

To realize your next-level vision, the baseline must elevate.

👉 The challenge is this:
Your current baseline feels safe and familiar - to both your mind and your body.

So when you step into a new level of growth, discomfort and resistance naturally arise.

The mind starts to overthink, confuse, sabotage.
The body contracts, freezes, or numbs out.

👉 whispering: “You want to expand… but I’m not ready yet.”

If you push through this phase, your nervous system moves into overdrive -
and eventually, it will force you to stop.

It might look like tiredness, exhaustion, lack of clarity, disconnection, procrastination, or even physical symptoms.

You are not falling behind - it’s a sign of expansion.

And your body says: “Pause. Integrate. Expand your capacity within.”

This is where true leadership transformation happens.
The nervous system becomes your gateway.

When your body- nervous system - feels safe to hold more- you can hold higher levels of responsibility, vision, and impact.

➡️ That’s when leadership becomes magnetic.
➡️ That’s when influence feels effortless.
➡️ That’s when results multiply.

Grateful for the new discoveries and somatic tools I now bring to my clients who are navigating the same expansion.

Because…
Your vision cannot grow beyond what your body - nervous system - can hold.

👉How much capacity are you allowing your body to build for the next level you’re stepping into?

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Fractional CFO | Helping Founders Scale Beyond $2M ARR with Strategic Finance & OKRs | Founder @ FounderFirst

I didn’t grow up pitching VCs or building apps.

I grew up in Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria, where I didn’t speak a word of English and didn’t know anyone in tech.
But I knew how to spot opportunity, adapt quickly, and keep going.

At 17, I taught myself English. At 19, I earned a scholarship to study in the U.S. 
I came with a suitcase, less than $300, no backup plan, and did whatever scrappy thing it took to stay afloat.

Then on April 15, 2015, something clicked.
The startup world found me. And for the first time, I felt like I fit.
The chaos, the creativity, the responsibility - it was mine to carry, mine to shape.

What started as a leap into the unknown became a decade of building behind the scenes.

Since then, I’ve worked with more than 20 early- and growth-stage startups, both VC-backed and bootstrapped, across B2B SaaS, Fintech, and Edtech. 
I’ve helped scale revenue from $500K to $20M, grow teams from 10 to 200, and build finance and ops functions from scratch.
I’ve navigated pivots, layoffs, down rounds, near-bankruptcies, exits, and helped founders get to the other side.

In 2024, I launched FounderFirst to do exactly that: support founders and leadership teams with the structure, clarity, and tools they need to grow sustainably.

What I Do:
- Finance: Fractional CFO support, modeling, forecasting, and investor-ready reporting
- Strategy: OKRs and operating models that don’t die after kickoff
- Coaching: For founders and finance leads navigating the messy middle

When I’m not working with founders, you’ll find me planning my next national park hike or deep in a great book (suggestions always welcome).

Curious what's possible on your scaling journey?

Don't be a stranger. Book an intro call: https://shorturl.at/kjU5J

Mariya Valeva

Victoria Beckham spent £70K a year on office plants.
And £15K more to water them.
She admitted it, in her Netflix documentary.

Everyone laughing at that.
But I totally respect her honesty.
At least she admitted her mistakes.

Because futile spending isn’t always a wall of designer greenery.
In a scaling business, it hides in plain sight.

Here’s what it actually looks like:
– A senior hire brought in too early (with no clear role)
– “Just in case” software subscriptions no one questions
– Monthly retainer agencies where no one knows the deliverables
– Internal teams doing what AI could now do faster, cleaner, cheaper
– A “culture budget” that’s really a morale patch for broken systems

None of these feel like bad decisions at the time.
They feel necessary. Strategic. Progressive.
Until one day, the runway’s shorter, the burn’s higher, and you can’t quite explain where the money went.

Futile spend isn’t just wasted cash.
It’s a signal.
That the business is operating without enough visibility.
And fixing it doesn’t mean cutting everything.

It means learning to ask:
“Is this helping us grow or just helping us feel in motion?”

Victoria had her plants.
You probably have something too.

She sold her company for $1B.
Then she bought 3 football teams.
But that’s not where her story starts.

It starts in South Korea.
With two parents who gave up their wedding savings so their daughter could go to America.
Michele Kang arrived in the U.S. with nothing but a dream and a dictionary.
She didn’t speak English.
She didn’t have money.
But she had this unshakable belief: “My place is not here. It’s out there. And I’ll figure it out.”

So she studied, obsessively.
Worked 16-hour shifts at Dairy Queen to pay tuition.
Got into the University of Chicago.
Then Yale.
Then leadership roles at Northrop Grumman, where she 4x’d their healthcare division.
And in 2008 - in the middle of a recession - while battling breast cancer, she launched Cognosante from her garage.

A decade later?
She sold it to Accenture for over $1 billion.
Most people would retire after that.
She didn't.
She bought a football team.
Then another.
Then another.
- Washington Spirit
- Olympique Lyonnais Féminin
- London City Lionesses

And built Kynisca Sports, the first global ownership platform for women’s football.
But this isn’t about owning teams.
It’s about owning change.

Michele is pouring millions into women’s sports science, athlete health, and gear designed specifically for women.
Because for decades, women have trained in systems built for men.
She’s not here to play along.
She’s here to build a whole new game.

You raise millions.
You expand fast. Headcount triples. Tools stack up.
And for a while, it all feels like progress.
But growth without control?
It’s just burn in disguise.

Capital doesn’t fix messy ops. 
It funds them.

Whether you're SaaS or brick-and-mortar, the pattern repeats:
- If your customer retention is weak → capital hides it with acquisition.
- If your pricing is off → you just lose more per customer.
- If your team lacks focus → you scale confusion, not output.
More capital = louder problems.

Real-world contrast:
→ Ample Hills Creamery
Raised fast. Scaled hard.
Melted down under logistics chaos and margin collapse.
→ Canva
Raised $570M. Sat on it for years.
Built lean, kept their burn low, nailed PMF, then scaled.

Overfunding isn’t reckless. 
It’s misaligned.
Startups raise like growth is guaranteed.

SMBs borrow like demand will catch up. 
But capital without discipline is a liability.

It doesn’t buy time. It buys pressure.

Before your next round, ask:
✅ Is your revenue repeatable, or just dependent on you?
✅ Can your ops double without doubling complexity?
✅ Does every dollar or hire move a metric you’re actually tracking?
If the answer’s “sort of” or “we think so,” pause.
Because adding more fuel to a shaky engine doesn’t get you further, it just burns faster.

📩 This week’s newsletter goes deep into this topic, check it out here → https://lnkd.in/ej3GB8dc

Every shortcut you take in the name of “speed”?
You pay for later: in churn, margin erosion, or internal chaos.

There’s no such thing as a free launch.
Most problems don’t come from incompetence.
They come from trade-offs made too fast, and cleaned up too late.
Shipping before you're ready.
Patching metrics to impress investors.
Letting a half-baked finance stack run a multi-million-dollar business.

You can raise on momentum.
But you scale on precision.
The companies that go the distance don’t build the most features.
They build the clearest systems:
– Ops that don’t collapse when headcount doubles
– Reporting that doesn't need a team to interpret
– Pricing and margin models that actually scale
– A decision-making culture that doesn’t burn out your team by Series B

Apple didn’t scale because they built the best hardware.
They scaled because they knew where not to cut.
The goal isn’t perfect.
The goal is aligned, intentional, and resilient.
Most companies look strong from the outside.
But behind the scenes?
They're duct-taped together.
Which one are you building?

*video credits: growasentrepreneurs

$450 million. A dream of levitating pods at 1,000 km/h.
An idea inspired by Elon Musk.
Richard Branson on the board.
Dubai’s DP World at the helm.
A media darling. A startup darling.
And then… silence.

By the end of 2023, Hyperloop One shut its doors.
No commercial projects.
No passengers.
No real-world deployments.
Just a skeleton crew liquidating assets.

The last chapter of what was once the future of transportation.
But this wasn’t a simple tech failure. It wasn’t just “too early.”
This was a perfect storm of hype, misalignment, and systemic blind spots.
And the story behind it holds brutal truths for every founder.

It started in 2013, when Elon Musk published a white paper.
He didn’t want to build it. He wanted to spark it.
And Hyperloop One jumped on the chance.
They assembled a team, raised millions, hired talent from NASA and SpaceX.
The pitch?
A new era of transport.
Faster than planes. Cheaper than rail.
Jet-speed pods floating in near-vacuum tubes.
The vision caught fire.

→ Investors flooded in.
Richard Branson joined the board.
Dubai’s DP World invested heavily - not just money, but political capital.
Meanwhile, Hyperloop One opened a test track in Nevada.
They ran demo after demo.
Wired. Bloomberg. Forbes. Everyone covered it.
The startup ecosystem was hypnotized.
But behind the curtain, the cracks had already formed.

→ The tech wasn’t cooperating.
Maintaining a vacuum over 100+ miles was exponentially harder than it looked.
Maglev in a tube sounded cool… until engineers ran the math on G-forces, expansion joints, and emergency exits.
Their best test pod?
172 km/h — not even 15% of the promised 1,200 km/h.
Still, the press releases kept coming.

→ The boardroom wasn’t any better.
Infighting between founders. Lawsuits.
Leadership turnover.
And when Branson publicly criticized Saudi Arabia, he resigned.
That’s when DP World took control.
And DP World didn’t want to shuttle people through tubes.
They wanted cargo. Logistics. Infrastructure.
The company quietly pivoted.
No more “flying humans through tubes.”
Now it was “maybe we can move containers... eventually.”
Internally? The mission was lost.
Externally? No one noticed yet.

→ Then came the final blow: reality.
Governments had no idea how to regulate a hyperloop.
Meanwhile, infrastructure costs ballooned.
To build even one usable route would cost billions, with no proof it would ever work.
So they burned cash.
Delayed decisions.
Until, one day, it was over.

And Hyperloop One - once the poster child of “thinking big” - became a cautionary tale.

Innovation doesn’t fail because of lack of imagination.
It fails when vision outpaces execution.
When systems didn’t match the scale of the story.

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