About me

Hi, I’m Jaana!

I’m a Career Mentor and Recruiter with twenty years of experience in the field of career coaching and executive search.

I have coached people across various business sectors and organisation levels. I have worked with professionals from different nationalities, ranging from Chile to the Middle East, and from North America to several EU countries. 

Having made a career change myself, I know what I’m talking about. Before moving into consulting, I spent ten years leading teams of 20-100+ highly educated professionals in the financial industry.

I live in Helsinki, love France, and speak Finnish, English, and Swedish (to be precise, Finland-Swedish), and I can coach in all these languages. I can also manage easy everyday situations in German and make a fool of myself in French.

I hold a university degree in Social Sciences from the University of Helsinki majoring in Practical Philosophy and minoring in Social Change and Communications. I've studied Law at the same university in my youth. Additionally, I have a coaching diploma from the Finnish Coaching Association and currently I'm attending a further education program on solution oriented coaching. I volunteer as a mentor in work-life workshops organised by the Finnish Refugee Council.

I discovered my true academic passion - social philosophy and global distributive justice - only later in life. In my younger years, I envisioned myself as a lawyer, but after completing my  thesis on the history of law, I realised I was heading in the wrong direction. Positive law, i.e., the rules and regulations, did not interest me at all.

However, I’ve come to understand that jurisprudence and social philosophy have much in common. In coaching, the combination of these two fields with my experience benefits my clients. I have lived through many economic cycles, ups and downs, and I know what it is to try to maintain work-life balance with a family. 

Over the years, I’ve learned that most problems can be turned into solutions. If you have confidence in yourself, you can do almost anything. You can learn new things and educate yourself, your can gain competence via experience, get rid of wrong kind of self-beliefs, and learn to have confidence that you will cope in dire situations, too. 

In your career, you need focused, determined, and systematic work. As women are still underdogs in corporate world, it's good to have a coach or a mentor to support and inspire you.

By participating in my coaching programs, you’re taking a step closer to success in your career, whether you’re actively seeking a promotion or a new job, or planning a complete career change.

I’m living proof that it’s never too late to change life’s fundamental projects!

Remember: If nothing changes, nothing changes.

If you feel bored or frustrated in your current job, or are planning to climb the corporate ladder but are not sure how to do it, feel free to reach out to see if we’re a good fit to work together.

Let's find out if I can help you and if our personal chemistry aligns.