As a female entrepreneur in the professional services space, Nikoleta launched her firm, Nikoleta & Associates, in 2013 and has grown the firm together with her team in the technology, retail, and financial services sectors.
Uniquely able to bring clarity and calm in times of emotional flux, Nikoleta promotes an approach for business based on mutual benefit and shared vision. She is experienced as a challenging but supportive leader, with an eye for vigilant process improvement and next-generation visioning.
With Nikoleta’s business acumen and depth of understanding of human dynamics, she brings a refreshing perspective to growth, leadership, and traditional change management topics.
Albazini brings an innovative perspective and a strategic horizon to all Albazini engages in. With a foundation in design and art, Albazini is known for crafting signature visuals and assets that enable executives to share impactful stories and move through ambiguity with care and clarity.
Through his leadership across multiple functions at Nikoleta & Associates, Albazini shapes approaches that connect strategy to implementation, always keeping client value top of mind. Albazini brings human-centered, design-informed solutions—blending a unique mix of strengths to the team. A key outcome of this is the contextualizing of complex content that strengthens team alignment and accelerates change.
The entrepreneurial spirit shaped by early startup experiences continues through today. Albazini’s personal commitment to his own learning and mastery inspires the team day to day to stretch more and be interested in what is possible.
With an academic foundation in Political Science and International Business, Sophiya brings a systems-informed, globally attuned lens to all Sophiya engages with. At Nikoleta & Associates, Sophiya plays a key role in client relationships and the firm’s expansion into new markets, blending organizational context with meaningful capability development.
Sophiya’s experience includes reframing traditional change, strategic planning, and government relations. Whether collaborating with senior leaders, advancing value-driven strategies, or building internal capability through initiatives like the Horizon-Lift training program, Sophiya works at the intersection of strategy, communication, and leadership enablement.
Atop Sophiya’s role in client relationships, Sophiya leads the firm’s thought leadership and value proposition development—bringing the same focus on clarity, alignment, and depth of quality that Sophiya does within enterprise client contexts to the firm’s market presence.
Kelly’s orientation beautifully blends business strategy, organizational culture, and capability development. With time spent as a Chief People Officer, together with over 20 years’ experience in Senior Executive People and Culture Leadership roles across industries, Kelly bridges business and organizational acumen to enable healthy and acquisitive change and growth.
As a trusted coach and advisor to CHROs and senior leaders, Kelly guides towards organizational health through the flow of enterprise objectives, talent, and capability levels calibrated with business priorities. Kelly’s reflective, strengths-based perspective enables capability at the organization, team, and individual level. Certified as a Gallup CliftonStrengths® Coach and in the Leadership 360 Circle Profile, Kelly elevates leadership teams with an eye to levers such as culture, decision-making, organization structure, capabilities, and end-to-end team member experience.
Kelly’s perspective and approach is grounded in the premise that meaningful change happens when people, strategy, and systems evolve together—unlocking possibilities in each moment, including ones of inherent tension.
Aylene’s interest and her recent MSc in digital management and business administration provide a solid foundation for her work in digital transformation, organizational readiness, and capability within the consulting practices. Starting in the strategic research team, Aylene has become a core member of the team launching and managing the 18-month business and growth strategy for the firm.
Often playfully, yet kindly joked about, Aylene’s preference for structure and organization, along with her core strength in personal discipline, serves as both a stabilizer and a leader in the projects and processes she participates in. Current expertise that is part of Aylene’s portfolio includes leading the preferred partner development with a Microsoft tech stack organization and shaping the Around the Organization study with a focus on key roles including digital transformation and operations.
Wenchi’s focus, centred on facilitating client value and experience, is the foundation for creating a premium experience for every client. Addressing opportunities to deliver value with humans at the heart – is Wenchi’s day-to-day focus.
With her past experiences in visualization and growing business acumen, Wenchi brings a blended perspective of creativity and strategy across fronts. While the nature of client value varies by firm, at Nikoleta & Associates, Wenchi leads this area with a focus on building deep client understanding to create thoughtful and mutually beneficial engagements. One of Wenchi’s many talents is listening, articulating and developing dynamic solutions where deemed valuable and mutually beneficial. We capture this attitude in our ethos and in alignment with our value to ‘Uplift Human Experience.’
Mayank brings a multi-faceted lens to all his work. With a background in experience and interaction design, Mayank blends a technical orientation with thoughtful involvement in supporting consistent, high-quality client experiences.
Skilled in front-end development, digital channel management, and design, Mayank brings strong capabilities in visual storytelling—core to the firm’s approach, website evolution, and CRM platform management.
Most recently, Mayank is leading the development of Canopy, an enablement platform for team scaling, template and asset sustainment, shared learning, and collective ways of working. Mayank’s personal interest in exploring what is technically new to enable innovation contributes to new platform and automation efforts—including AI integration—positioning the firm for long-term longevity and relevance.
Rohan has been building digital strategy growth solutions and leading product design and delivery teams for close to 20 years.
Rohan is a storyteller and digital strategist at heart. His training in top tier consulting firms and respective enterprise clients has laid the groundwork for recent entrepreneurial ventures. Rohan’s vigilant orientation as a life learner underpins all this business success which is sprinkled with a myriad of Rohan’s impactful capabilities.
Victoria was the first member of the Beyond Internship program, launched during COVID. Since then, Victoria has assisted in multiple aspects and projects across the firm, including Go-To Market, Staffing, and Strategic Research. With a degree in commerce with a twist of marketing, Victoria leverages this background day-to-day.
Victoria’s attitude of keeping the needs of the whole business in mind is something the team can always rely on. Most recently, Victoria has been enabling the scaling of the Operations team with both near and mid-term thinking. The capability of the Operations team is core to the quality of client service delivery, the backbone of the business.
Heather has devoted most of her professional career to her passion: organizational design and everything associated with it.
This may include large-scale restructures, mapping out new organizations, and managing the transitions that accompany these changes. As a key member of the team since the firm’s inception, Heather provides guidance and expertise in these areas, both to clients and internally.
Most recently, Heather was a key contributor to the team that delivered HR Due Diligence for a Merger & Acquisition project and is looking forward to the next one.
Having started his professional career in the medical arena, Michael’s first chapter was as a surgeon in the oral maxillofacial field before he ventured into the leadership coaching domain.
Michael is a patent owner and a published author, most notably in healthcare. The breadth of his experience, from healthcare to scaling a business, and most recently, coaching and advising executives, allows Michael to solve problems and see opportunities from multiple perspectives.
Entrepreneurship and nurturing businesses are integral components of his DNA. What remains consistent is his commitment to partnering with business leaders to support their success, just as he did when helping patients. This is what matters most to Michael.
Change Re-framed, Leadership & Organizational Capabilities Accelerated.
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