Lena Sesardic

Etsy Store Owner & Artist

Baddie Women's Circle

A bi-weekly virtual circle for the women who are letting go of a life, relationship, career or version of themselves that “makes sense” on paper for something that’s unorthodox but feels fully aligned.

Founder & Facilitator

The Authentic Advantage

AI & ChatGPT Business Coach

Tulum Girlies Group 👯‍♀️

Founder, Community Manager & In-Person Events Host

TikTok

I create funny & educational TikTok videos about the "casual" side of LinkedIn (handle: @contently_lena.)

My TikTok wins:
- Went from 0 to 100k likes and 13k followers in 14 days
- 15M+ views to date on TikTok
-50+ viral videos
-2000+ downloads of my free LinkedIn Profile Scorecard in 2 months from TikTok
- Collaboration with LinkedIn Marketing Partner, Transmission agency


Want me to create an engaging TikTok video for your brand? Email me at hello[at]lenasesardic[dot]com. 💌

Content Creator & Influencer

GrowthMentor

I'm a GrowthMentor helping product managers, marketers & founders with product management, content marketing, LinkedIn marketing, customer discovery & idea validation.

𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝘆 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲 & 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗜 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗳𝘂𝗹. 💜

Growth Mentor

Medium

I contribute my writing on lenasesardic.com to two Medium publications:

Start it Up - the largest Medium publication in the world
Product Coalition - the largest Medium publication for product management

I'm also part of the Medium Partner Program.

Contributing Writer

Aviso Wealth

Managing the new NEI Investments website to make sure all content is up-to-date, on brand, and driving key metrics.

Using my PM mindset to run experiments and find new growth opportunities for the new website.

Senior Content Publisher

Product Owner

Transparent Media Studio

Product management can be a little nebulous if you've never been a PM before. Which is why tech companies hire a PM veteran like me to help them write about the craft in a credible way that converts leads to clients.

With 4+ years experience in the industry, I know the PM principles & concepts like the back of my hand and am familiar with the key thought leaders and schools of thought in the space.

You can hire me to do the following:

◆ SEO-optimized blog posts
◆ Newsletters
◆ Emails
◆ Ebooks
◆ Social media posts
◆ White papers

I also offer ghostwriting services for executives in the PM space.

If you want to work with me, send me an email at hello@lenasesardic.com 💌

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My clients have included companies like Userpilot.com and Arc.dev. You can check out my writing samples attached here.

Freelance Writer / Ghostwriter

-Mentored/advised venture teams in idea validation, customer discovery and mindset.
-Mentored/advised aspiring product managers in how to break into product management.
-Collaborated with individuals & teams on various startup-related projects or side projects.

Mentor, Advisor & Collaborator

Be your unapologetic self & create epic LinkedIn content that converts 😈 //They call me "the LinkedIn Therapist"

Ready to build your Second Brain? 🧠

The Second Brain Project is a 4-week live cohort to help coaches, creatives, and business owners build a high-functioning network of GPTs that automate their workflows, multiply their time & use AI the way it was meant to be used: as your second brain.

By the end of the 4 weeks, you’ll walk away with:
✅ 5–15 GPTs that think like you
✅ A plug-and-play GPT Playground to use instantly
✅ Systems that actually run without your brain being the bottleneck
✅ Confidence to keep building GPTs that save time, increase capacity, and sound just like you


📌 WHAT'S INCLUDED:

- 4 x live weekly trainings (with replays)
- GPT Builder Pro (your personal GPT-building assistant)
- Playground of plug-and-play GPTs (e.g. Sales Call Decoder, Content Sculptor)
- My 6-Step GPT Your Brain Method
- Second Brain Architecture Template (Google Sheet + Notion)
- Bonus GPT Naming Guide

⏰ FAST PASS BONUS:
If you sign up within 48 hours (by Thursday at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CEST), you’ll also get:

🔓 Early Access to the GPT Library (April 28)
📞 Bonus Live Q&A Call with Me (May 6)


You're already paying $20/month for ChatGPT Plus, but you're using 5% of what it's actually capable of.

This isn’t just about ChatGPT. This is about you building a real system that:

- Thinks like you
- Speaks in your voice
- Handles work you don’t want to do

A system that scales your business & gives you your brain back.

Join The Second Brain Project: https://natural-temple-f15.notion.site/The-Second-Brain-Project-1d9921c15bdc80d09cb8ef9e0607f1fa?pvs=4

Founder & LinkedIn "Baddie" Business Coach 😈

I can help you confidently sell your 4- or 5- figure offers on LinkedIn and get high-calibre clients so you can generate more revenue for your biz, raise your prices and work less!

I’ve been in Albania the past 3 weeks and here’s what I’ve been up to:

(I left Valencia to explore other cities I may want to live in Europe since my business is 100% remote.)

1. Living in a cash society.

Albania is 90% cash which has made my weekly money ritual where I pull my expenses a nightmare.

I’ve been logging my expenses in the Tricount app to track my expenses accurately.

2. Building out N8N automations.

I’m taking 1-2hrs every day to build out new automations for my business so I can teach my clients to do the same.

This week I ran a temporary Cloudflare tunnel to authenticate Slack with my local N8N instance which was totally new to me (but free.)

3. Running by the beach

I recently went through a medical procedure where I couldn’t work out for 1.5 months so I’m back to moving my body and there’s nothing better than running by the beach.

4. Tonnes of outreach

I’m done doing 100% inbound lead gen and have been doing proactive warm outreach to create more opportunities and it’s been working amazing.

Running a 100% remote business while travelling has been amazing but there’s been a lot of adjustments.

What have you been up to this past month that’s interesting to share? Would love to compare notes in the comments.


P.S. Things are super quiet in Durres, Albania because it’s more of a summer city but we’ve found a fun sheesha bar where 2 Albanian singers are about to come on.

🧠 Build a team of AI employees that think like you & scale as a founder without a big team. //Make AI the operator, you be the visionary 👑 //Ex-product manager in tech 👩‍💻

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Why I proposed using Gemini inside a recent AI pilot I designed for a company instead of building a shiny new AI tool.

A lot of AI consultants want to come into a company guns a’ blazing to build fancy new AI tools because more AI = more ROI, right?

Nope.

With this company, I heard the founder talk about a culture of resistance to AI inside the company. Specifically, a fear of AI taking their jobs.

I also heard him say that the latest procurement of an AI tool got delayed.

So I knew the easiest way to quickly bring in ROI was to train the team to use an AI tool they already were using in their daily workflows, just better.

There’s nothing worse than bloating your organization with more AI tools without first fully leveraging the tools you have at hand.

A Gemini Gem may not be as “fancy” and “impressive” as the latest AI tool on the market, but it’s the perfect way to get a quick ROI lift.

0 friction, 100% adoption.


By the way, if you're a founder, CEO, COO or CPO of a growing company that's looking to unlock revenue by solving for bottlenecks between your CS and/or Product teams, DM me and we can chat about designing a pilot together.

If you think that using AI in your sales means setting up full-blown automations that spam all your connections, let me give you a different perspective.

While yes, there is a lot of that going on LinkedIn (🙄), I want to show you how I use AI in my sales while maintaining a human-centred approach.

Basically, I still write all my outreach messages and DMs myself.

But I use AI as my operator in the background to help me have better conversations.

Here’s what that looked like for me last month:
→ 19 leads generated
→ 9 sales calls booked
→ 6 opportunities generated
→ 3 deals closed, 3 still in the pipeline
→ Every message still written by me

This is what I did behind the scenes with AI:
👉 Used AI to research prospects on LinkedIn to get ideas for potential angles for my outreach messages
👉 Analyzed DM convos to spot buyer intent and guide the convo naturally to a sales convo
👉 Reverse-engineered the posts driving inquiries + profile views to understood why they worked
👉 Prepped for sales calls by uploaded all context into AI + layered in frameworks like Never Split the Difference
👉 Broke down sales call transcripts after to craft sharper follow-ups and spot what I missed in real time

Zero automation I have no control over.
Zero fear that my messages didn't sound like me.
100% confidence I'm still selling as a real human being.

The part I love the most is how using AI as my co-pilot like this allows me to see my blind spots and become way better at sales way faster.

So many of you have been approaching me the past few weeks for help with generating business leads on LinkedIn using AI while maintaining a human-centred approach.

I'm going to be sharing something very soon where I'm not only going to teach you how to elegantly leveraging AI to get clients on LinkedIn (without losing the human touch), but I'm also going to guide you as you implement these strategies alongside other founders just like you.

I'm so excited, I can't wait to share more!

Nov 2024: running a scooter rental business in Tulum, Mexico.

Nov 2025: helping businesses solve revenue bottlenecks with AI systems.

Here's what I've learned about launching & pivoting businesses as a 7x entrepreneur (with lots of failures too.) 👇

1. Move as soon as you sense demand.

I've never waited to have the perfect branding or website to start a business. The moment I detect demand for a service, I take messy action and start serving clients right away.

2. Don't wait until you feel like you know everything.

You learn most things on the job and waiting until you're an "expert" just delays you from getting started.

Remember: there's always someone a few steps behind you and throwing yourself in the deep end is how you're forced to learn quickly.

(Plus, for my scooter rental business I could always ask ChatGPT which handle break controlled which tire so I was good. 🤭)

3. Know that you can always reinvent yourself.

There's nothing more painful than holding onto an old business or old identity. If you've built (or tried to build) a business before, you can totally do it again!

4. Different niches/business models... same foundations.

I thought operating an in-person physical business would be completely different. Like unrecognizably different.

But at the end of the day, it was the same mechanics (pun intended) in the back-end.

5. Pivots can take months to fully complete.

I used to think pivots were something you did in 1-2 months, but this year has taught me that it can take way longer for you to truly settle in your new zone of genius.

Entrepreneurship is such a humbling experience.

Have you launched or pivoted multiple new businesses in your time as an entrepreneur? What have you learned?

The O AB

Help tech and scaleups sales management teams build Sales Operating Systems that scale.
Some things that are included: 

- Sales strategies and how to penetrate markets
- Social Selling on LinkedIn
- Sales cycle structures with onboarding processes

Sales Management Advisor

Intro

Stratsys

Working with Stratsys commercial team, thought leaders, and management team to win.

Advisor

United Spaces

Supporting the sales management team with both tactical and strategic work:

- Sales structures
- Sales strategies
- Proactive sales training

Karma

Happy to share that I converted my employee stock option program to shares.

Shareholder

Daily ADHD

Unfiltered podcast in Swedish, covering ADHD in 15 minutes together with Elin Erkenswick

ADHD på 15 minuter (listen on the link below)

For people who live close to ADHD. 
For people who have ADHD. 
For people who think they have ADHD. 
You’re never alone.

Podcaster

Ångaloppet

My role as a co-founder has been including almost everything like:

- Managing partnerships, suppliers, and customers
- Marketing strategies to a hands-on Social Media strategies
- Building the world's largest SwimRun-event

Ångaloppet is the world's largest Swimrun-festival with over 4 000 visitors each year and is located just outside of Nyköping, Sweden. 

Swimrun is a sport you mostly do in pairs of two and the races we have during this weekend is:
22 km, 11 kr, 7 km, 5 km, 3,3 km and 1,6 km. The last two are for a child and a parent. 

It started out in 2011 when my brother and I turned 50 together and we wanted to make a memorable birthday-party for our friends. Our hearts are still beating to make Ångaloppet unique and special for our participants, officials and audience that comes to visit. 

Our vision is that Swimrun should be for everyone and that's why we deliver numerous different races so that the whole family can come to Ånga and participate.

Skills: Founder, Entrepreneur, Project Management, Partnerships, Negotiation, Suppliers Management, Partner

Co-founder

Adviscent AG

Adviscent specializes in innovative investment content management and distribution solutions for Private Banks that increase AuM by 11%+!

Sting

Part of STING's Expert Coach network where I support their portfolio companies with coaching and workshops regarding:

- Setting up and optimising Sales Management, Sales Porcess and hands on trainings
- How to get started with LinkedIn, approaching customers & investors and how to market themselves
- Photography and videography to build their digital presence 

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Sting enables talented people to turn their ideas into sustainable businesses. The support we offer includes qualified coaching in business development, a business angel network, a venture capital fund, a recruitment service, and an international network of investors, business contacts and experts. We contribute to the success of Sweden’s future technology companies by helping them to grow and compete internationally.

Business Coach

Netigate

We're in Netigate's revenue function. In the first months, we've increased the amount of booked outbound meetings by over 185%. My role has only been 80% and  we've still had an eNPS of 50.


We'll create business opportunities for our Sales Executives. The team is spread out Stockholm, Hamburg, and Frankfurt.

As the Head of this team, I'll lead the people to climb and take on more responsibility while meeting their goals.

Head of Inside Sales

Being part of Netigate's Growth team I'll be focusing, as the Head of Partnership, on:

- Discover new partnerships around the world 
- Finding ways to scale our business rapidly 
- Help and coach our SDR's 

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Netigate is an established and rapidly growing SaaS company. Our purpose is to promote the customer, employee and consumer voice in everyday business decisions to help our customers focus on the right activities. Our feedback solution is trusted by over 1500 of the world's leading brands - such as Spotify, DB Schenker, Vodafone, Continental and EnBW.

Do you think that we can create a great partnership together? Shoot me a DM and let's talk!

Head Of Partnerships

Helped 60+ B2B SaaS scaleups increase their sales | @Netigate +185% outbound meetings and @Ebbot +83% in closerate | SaaS Sales Leader Report 2024 dropping soon | ADHD Advocate

Omsätter ditt tech eller scaleup under 70 miljoner ARR? 

Då tappar du ca. 10-30 miljoner i värdering om ditt säljteam inte:


- Kan bygga och kommunicera tydligt cost of inaction tidigt i processen.
- Guida kunden genom köpprocessen med ömsesidig handlingsplan.
- Säljer på ett enhetligt och skalbart sätt. 


Det jag pratar om är ditt Sales Operating System.
Det ska kunna skala till 150+ miljoner i ARR. 

Är du inte 100% säker att ditt SOS kan göra det?

Då kan du ta hjälp av mig. 

Innan du läste det här har jag:

✅ Hjälpt 65+ tech & scaleups att bygga sina säljprocesser.
✅ Har personligen sålt för över 100 miljoner. 
✅ Ökat winrate med 50%+ flera gånger.

Ett axplock av bolagen som tagit min hjälp är Stratsys, Trapets, CompileIt, Wint, Visma, Position Green, Intro, Screens, HeyTilda, Adviscent med flera.

En scaleup-VD sa efteråt:

"Det är första gången den ekonomiska köparen och business usern pushar igenom det tillsammans utan några riktigt invändningar."

Om du är VD eller grundar på ett företag med under 70 miljoner i ARR och vill skala din säljorganisation utan att anställa fler.

Skriv "SOS" till mig för mer info. 

Sitt inte och vänta på:

🚫 Ett mirakel
🚫 Ny finansiering
🚫 Att ekonomin ska vända

Ta kontroll över din försäljning idag.
Eller låt bli. Ditt val.

Theo Zätterström 🎉

VDn hade anställt 3 grymma säljare på pappret.

Men ingen lyckades sälja.

"Vi behöver hitta rätt person," sa han.

Jag sa: "Eller så behöver vi bygga rätt system först."

Han såg nyfiken ut.


Så jag frågade:

• Hur onboardar ni nya säljare?
"Vi kör igenom produkten och sen... sätter igång."

• Vilken process följer de?
"Ehh... de gör lite olika."

• Hur mäter ni vad som funkar?
"Vi kollar på stängda deals."


Det här är inte ett people-problem.
Det är ett system-problem.


När vi anställer säljare utan system:

• De hittar på egna processer
• Onboarding tar 6-12 månader
• Nästa anställning blir "den rätta"

Vi kastar fler människor in i kaos. 
Kaos föder mer kaos. 



När vi bygger systemet först:

• Alla följer samma process
• Vi vet exakt vad som driver resultat
• Nya säljare klarar metrics på 4-8 veckor

Vi kan skala förutsägbart
Det är ett Sales Operating System

Bygg systemet. 
Låt folk följa det med framgång. 


Har du blivit anställd i kaos?

Hjälper VD & grundare att bygga säljprocess som levererar, oavsett konjunktur till 150+ miljoner i ARR. | +185% outbound meetings @Netigate and +83% in closerate @Ebbot | SaaS Sales Leader Report 2024 | ADHD Advocate

Jag har blivit med podd (igen) 🤩

Här är grejen ↓


Jag kommer intervjua personer som:

• Varit grymma på att skala säljteam
• Byggt kommersiella strategier & processer
• Har själva GJORT jobbet, inte bara pratat om det


So far har 5 personer velat bli intervjuade. 

Men vem tycker du jag ska intervjua?

Främst tänker jag:

• VD, grundare eller säljchefer
• På tech, AI eller SaaS-bolag
• Gjort en eller flera resor 


Är det du eller någon du känner? 🙏

Tack för alla tips 👏

Jag gjorde en assessment för en kund på 5 timmar.

I slutet sa VD:n:

 “Fan, vi har fokuserat på helt fel problem.” 

Här är vad han menar: 👇


När vi startade igång sa han:

“Vår produkt är en nice to have, inte need to have.
Kunderna gillar den, men de prioriterar inte att köpa.”


Så jag intervjuade säljteamet:

- Hur får ni kunden att förstå kostnaden av att INTE göra något?

“Vi… pratar om vad vår lösning kostar jämfört med problemet?”


- Och hur hjälper ni kunden att prioritera detta mot andra projekt?

“Tja… vi försöker pusha på att det är viktigt?”


- Har ni ett ramverk för att bygga ‘cost of inaction’?

“Ett vad?”


Där var problemet.
Det var inte att produkten var “nice to have.”

Säljarna lyckades inte få kunden att PRIORITERA problemet.


Skillnaden är enorm:

“Nice to have-produkten” gör att kunden:

• Gillar lösningen
• Men väljer att vänta
• För problemet känns inte akut
  
  
“Oprioriterat problem”:

• Kunden HAR problemet
• Men ser det inte som top 3
• För ingen hjälpt dem räkna på det
  
  
När säljare säger:
“Det här kostar er jättemycket.”

Kunden tänker:
“Okej, men jag har 10 andra saker som också kostar pengar.”


När säljaren hjälper kunden räkna:

“Just nu kostar det här problemet 200k i månaden om inte det löser sig". 


Sen hjälper säljaren att prioritera:

1. På en skala 0-100%, hur viktigt är problemet att lösa?
2. På en skala 0-100%, hur svårt är det att lösa?
3. Är det 100% rätt timing att lösa problemet?


Är svaren "rätt" blir det enkelt för att kunden tänker:
“Varför har vi inte fixat det här redan?”


Då kan säljaren enkelt fråga:

"Om min lösning var en snitslad väg att fixa problemet, skulle du vilja se hur det såg ut då"?


Efter assessment byggde de ett ramverk hur säljarna:

• Kvantifierar kundens problem
• Tydligt visar cost of inaction
• Hjälper kunden prioritera
  
  
Plötsligt var produkten inte “nice to have” längre.
För de slutade sälja produkten.


De började sälja lösningen på ett akut problem.


Känner du igen det här?

Varje år gör mina syskon och jag något jävligt roligt!

Det är att:


• Inte ge några presenter
• Utan åka på en syskonresa varje år

Vi har valt att alltid resa inom Sveriges gränser!
Varför då?

För det finns så mycket att se i vårt avlånga land 😍

Vi har varit i:

• Abisko
• Lofsdalen
• Sörmland
• Högbobruk
  
• Trollmarker
• Gotland
• Visingsö
  
• Leksand
• Vadstena Kloster
• Stockholms Skärgård

Och i år var vi i Karlstad och Sunne.

Besökte Lars Lerins museum och Selmas spa.
Såklart hann vi med en discgolfrunda!


Presence > Presents


Var i Sverige tycker du att vi ska åka nästa år?

10 av 20 platser till Soloresan 2026 är redan bokade.

3 anledningar till varför folk åker: 👇


1.	Fokustid

På morgonen sitter alla tillsammans i tystnad.
Vi jobbar på den viktigaste arbetsuppgiften.
Det tar ca. 60-90 min.


Jävligt coolt vad alla lyckas göra då!

Magiskt.”

2. Rätt människor

Alla driver egna bolag.
Alla förstår dina problem.
Inget behöver egentligen översättas.

“Samtal som faktiskt flyttar nålen.”


3. Struktur som funkar
Inte bara “inspiration”.
Konkreta verktyg och nätverk du tar med dig hem.

Så att du blir en bättre företagare (& skidåkare).

“Proffsigt team.”


🇳🇴 Trysil, Norge
📅 19–22 mars 2026

Vi håller det litet (max 20) så alla hinner prata ordentligt.


Intresserad? Skriv “SOLO” i kommentarerna eller DM. 🎿

Igår läste jag för 3445e gången:


"AI won't replace you, but (role x) with AI will". 


Börjar den inte bli liiiiiiiiiite uttjatad?

4 veckor sen letade jag efter en teknisk medgrundare. 

Sedan dess har 3 saker hänt med bolaget: ↓



1. Vi hittade den perfekta tekniska medgrundaren

2. Intervjuat över 15 personer inom området 

3. Byggt vår första prototyp

Så jävla kul!


Nu bokar vi upp möten med 10 potentiella användare som får chansen att ge oss feedback 🙏

Intresset känns starkare än vad jag hade hoppats på!

Det är en sjuk känsla 😃

Igår såg jag galen ut på kundmöten 👀

⬇️

Senaste månaden har jag haft en bländande punkt i mitt synfält.

Rättare sagt på vänsterögat.

Det är den röda pricken på bilden.


Så var jag hos ögonläkaren och fick en vätska i ögat.

Så pupillen blev svinstor!


Riktigt bra icebreaker 😂
Synd att det inte var halloween!

Fick höra att det här var vanligt bland ”unga män”.


Riktigt bra komplimang att få bli kallad ung 😍


Hoppas din fredag är grym ✊

VD och säljare behöver en översättare 😂

5 exempel ↓


VD säger: “Uppdatera CRM:et.”
Säljare hör: “Slösa tid så du inte tar target.”


VD säger: “Fokusera på rätt kunder.”
Säljare hör: “Du är keff på att kvalificera.”


VD säger: “Vi behöver en forecast.”
Säljare hör: “Hitta på siffror och le ordentligt.”


VD säger: “Tänk långsiktigt.”
Säljare hör: “Oroa dig inte för target.”


VD säger: “Bygg relationer.”
Säljare hör: “Sluta stänga kunderna.”


Har du en klassisk översättning? 😂

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