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Welcome!
I am Anastasia Evstigneeva.
Leadership and group dynamics consultant, organisational psychologist

I work with entrepreneurs, leaders and teams to unlock their potential and support them to achieve ambitious business goals and sustain these changes through the tools of deep psychology





"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change"
Albert Einstein
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
I can assist if you are a team leader or entrepreneur facing challenges such as:
Launching or scaling your business
Adjusting to a new leadership role
Understanding team or organizational dynamics
Navigating rapid business changes
If you struggle to achieve your business goals, face psychologically-driven challenges within your team, find yourself in repetitive behaviour patterns, I can help. My expertise lies in increasing self-awareness for leaders, teams and organizations
TOP REQUESTS TO ME:
  • Struggling to achieve business goals despite your potential
    1
  • Needing support for leadership development
    2
  • Understanding what triggers inefficiency and destructive behavior in your team or organization
    3
  • Developing team flexibility and adapting to changes
    4
EFFICIENT BUSINESS STARTS
WITH A LEADER'S AWARENESS
My services encompass the full organizational spectrum
  • Leader
    1-1 psychoanalytic coaching

  • Team
    Diagnostics and team coaching sessions
  • Organization
    Corporate culture audit and organisational changes
WORKING WITH TEAMS
I offer three collaboration options or can create an exclusive proposal tailored to your needs
Express diagnostics
(1 week)
Includes a quantitative team assessment and initial hypotheses on business growth opportunities
Team Development
(4 months)
Includes an in-depth team diagnostics and work on set goals over four months
Team Development
(1 year)
A deep dive into strategic team objectives and internal challenges that limit its effectiveness
APPROACH
Deep psychology for business
PSYCHOANALYTIC 1-1 COACHING
Psychoanalytic coaching, as used in INSEAD BUSINESS SCHOOL, uniquely combines:

  1. Deep psychology (psychoanalysis) - Identifying inefficient patterns and internal obstacles in your life, that prevent you from achieving your goals, but lie beyond your understanding
  2. Coaching methodology - Working with your specific request, creating an action plan and launching changes
This blend enables rapid, sustainable changes compared to traditional therapy or coaching.

Format:
Individual psychoanalytic coaching sessions
(50 min, usually once per week)
ORGANISATIONAL CONSULTING
Psychodynamic organisational consulting, developed in Tavistok, combines group dynamics, systems thinking and psychoanalysis

This approach explores various levels of organizational dynamics (individual, team, organization) to identify root causes. Tools include deep interviews, shadowing, organizational drawings, team coaching and more

Format:
Step 1. Team (or organisational) diagnostics
Step 2. Launching changes via regular team sessions of tailor-made design
CASES
I formalize projects in stories and use many details that reveal the essence of approach.
All titles, names and photos are deliberately removed to preserve the privacy of clients
  • "The startup only earns enough to cover salaries"
    How startup increased its revenues by 115% in 4.5 months
    Read
  • "Entire team vs one. To fire or keep?"
    How the conflict was resolved after root causes been found
    Read
  • "Non-independent team"
    How the team became independent and highly motivated after 4 months of work
    Read
MY EXPERIENCE
  • 15+ years
    in business and consulting
  • 1 000+ hours
    working with clients
  • 10 000+ hours
    studying organisational psychology
ABOUT

  • I am a practice-oriented psychodynamic organisational consultant, member of ISPSO (International Society for Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations)
  • Master in psychology, qualified as psychoanalytic business consultant (High School of Economics, Russia + INSEAD), ICF certified business coach
  • I speak business language - 15 years in banking & consulting in London, Vienna and Moscow, incl. executive positions
  • Degree in economics + CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst)
  • PSY Element is the project that I run with the colleagues with a portfolio of diverse clients. We work with business of different scale, but my primary focus is startups and financial industry
  • My mission is to cultivate conscious leaders and organisations, instill awareness among leadership teams, foster a human-centric organisational culture, empower teams and unlock their true potential. I understand business, have a track record of success, and am committed to helping you achieve your professional goals efficiently and enjoy this journey

With the colleagues at the largest financial institutions conference SIBOS. London, 2019
CLIENTS
PUBLICATIONS
MEDIUM
Hidden Risks of Startups: Psychological Challenges That Can Undermine Success
The startup world often glamorizes rapid growth, groundbreaking innovation, but beneath this glittering facade lies an understated yet critical factor: psychological dynamics…
Read here
"BUSINESS-SECRETS"
Hidden threats: why startups collapse due to psychological factors
The main psychological problems of startups and what to do with them
Read here
"EXECUTIVE.RU"
"Can I be myself at work": how psychological safety affects the effectiveness of teams
Why psychological safety can become a new measure of team effectiveness
Read here
CONTACTS:
+351 920 472685
evstigneeva@psyelement.com
Lisbon, Portugal