About Me

I am a multipotential person. In practice, this means I use the same core skill set across seemingly different worlds: business, art, charity, and education. It is at the intersections of these fields that my strongest work emerges.

Business

I have been running my own business in creative and consulting services since 1997. My strongest expertise lies in high-level English translation, copywriting, and web development.

Over nearly three decades, I have worked with a wide range of companies, institutions, and individuals. I maintain long-term collaborations with Czech glassworks and design brands. Our diverse projects included many scientific translations, a historical encyclopedia for the Prince of Liechtenstein, as well as several screenplays.

This experience allows me to speak the language of business, brands, and creative teams fluently. I enjoy working with international groups and am skilled at building common ground between people from different disciplines and cultures.

Personal Development

For more than thirty years, I have been engaged in personal and spiritual development—first through my own journey, and soon after as a course facilitator and guide in one-on-one consultations.

My expertise lies in unblocking people’s creativity and guiding them through personal change. I use a variety of tried-and-true empowerment and transformation techniques, as well as original worksheets and tools.

Over the last 9 years, I’ve been developing Value Anatomy, a methodology that maps more than 1,400 human principles and qualities. It required input from experts in therapy, bodywork, philosophy, history, religion, animal behavior, linguistics, as well as hundreds of hours of discussions with AI.

Today, I naturally integrate this depth of experience into coaching and educational work within organizational and business contexts.

Charity

I co-founded Pomocné tlapky (Helping Paws), the first Czech non-profit organization dedicated to training assistance dogs for people with disabilities.

For two decades, I helped organize, teach, and promote animal-assisted therapies—primarily involving dogs and dolphins. I authored methodological materials in this field and contributed to professional publications.

These projects taught me that it is possible to “do the impossible.” Pomocné tlapky now operates with an annual turnover of approximately €320,000, has placed over 400 trained assistance dogs, and the term assistance dog is firmly embedded in Czech legislation.

Artistic Work

I create scanography—large-format fine art prints of flowers, leaves, feathers, and other natural structures. (Yes, they work beautifully in offices and waiting rooms as well.)

My most frequent form of creativity is writing but most of it was for clients or specific purposes. I am working on several books, ranging from novels to personal development titles. They are waiting their turn, but they will come. Stay tuned.

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Extensive Know-How & Original Tools

Beyond business, branding, and strategy, my work draws on several deeply interconnected fields and perspectives. These are not just personal values. They are areas I’ve spent decades studying, practicing, teaching, and developing original methodologies for. Together, they form the backbone of my consulting, whether we address them explicitly or not.

I grew up in communist Czechoslovakia, where personal freedom was not a given. As a teenager, I came across Michael Jackson’s Man in the Mirror. As I translated the lyrics, one line stopped me cold: “If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and then make a change.” Each time I heard the song, that idea quietly reprogrammed my mind toward possibility and inner autonomy. When the Velvet Revolution came, I was ready. Today, my work is about restoring inner freedom first. When that happens, people feel lighter. They breathe again. They can look in the mirror without wearing a mask.

Illness entered my life early: a serious liver infection, my mother’s stroke, and close friends living with disabilities. As a teenager, I began studying health and encountered a then-radical idea, the body–mind connection. Later, I spent a decade living with chronic fatigue syndrome, with no clear answers from either doctors or healers. I explored both science and alternative approaches, training in several modalities. I’m not a practicing healer, but many of my closest friends are doctors, therapists, and healers, and we regularly discuss everything from neuroscience and stress physiology to hormones and fascia. This allows me to support pressured business leaders with practical guidance on self-care and to connect them with trusted experts and resources.

Nature is not just a place I go to recharge, it’s a central lens through which I see the world. For decades, I have a professional interest in the human–animal bond and the ways animals support and heal us. I often use animal metaphors and archetypes in my work because they’re universally understood, even by children. Through my art, I developed a deep appreciation for plants and their intricate details. Gardening, garden-to-table cooking, and working with herbs are essential parts of my life. Following my grandmother’s path, I’m an avid amateur herbalist and make my own natural cosmetics. I encourage my clients to reconnect with nature, live in alignment with seasons, and enjoy the outdoors as our most reliable source of energy.

For me, spirituality isn’t a belief system, and you don’t need to be religious to engage with it. It’s about cultivating a strong, resilient spirit and learning to listen to your inner GPS. That takes training: openness, adaptability, intuition, orientation, and the ability to think beyond pure intellect. I began this work over 35 years ago and formed a worldview early on that hasn’t changed, only matured. Drawing from traditions across cultures and returning to my European roots, I’ve developed a grounded, nature-based approach that respects individual paths. I help clients build emotional and spiritual intelligence through effective, no-nonsense practices such as meditation, self-reflection, and conscious movement.

I unblocked my own creativity in 1996 through a self-guided process and soon began helping others do the same. Since 2010, I’ve been periodically returning to teaching creativity—because there are few things more rewarding than watching people unblock and use their talents. Alongside my creative career, I’ve spent decades exploring the creative process itself, discussing it with hundreds of artists, entrepreneurs, and creative professionals. Creativity has since become a business buzzword, but for me it’s far more than problem-solving or idea generation. Creativity adds flavor to life. It’s the difference between merely functioning and truly feeling alive. I help people rediscover it, trust it, and allow themselves to flourish.

For over thirty years, I’ve been part of Prague’s international community, collaborating daily with people from different countries, mentalities, and value systems. I’m married to an American, spent time working on a project in Turkey, traveled extensively by motorcycle, and often stay with friends abroad rather than in hotels. English is my working language, Czech my native one, and I’ve studied another five. My mentor predicted that I would be a translator not only between languages but between the spiritual and the mundane, between men and women, between professional fields, different generations and world views. This now allows me to help diverse teams find shared ground and build philosophies that actually work across borders.

In 2017, I began developing Value Anatomy, a comprehensive map of human values encompassing over 1,400 principles and qualities. It’s a unique methodology that shift focus away from characteristics and behaviors toward values (principals and qualities), enabling us to uncover the sources of motivation and energy. Values are not abstract ideals; they are decision-making engines. Value Anatomy provides a framework for quick orientation that helps clients understand themselves and gain power, both individually and as teams.

Empowerment isn’t about adding something new. It’s about restoring access to what’s already there and creating an authentic link to inner resources. Much of our energy loss comes from living out of alignment with our values. I help clients identify healthy sources of power and rebuild confidence step by step. Empowerment isn’t about digging in the past but about using what’s available in the present. A momentum builds: each small step creates more clarity, energy, and agency, which, in turn enables my clients to take on bigger challenges.

Leadership is widely misunderstood. Research increasingly confirms what experience shows: effective leadership today relies on relational, intuitive, and anticipatory skills — many of which would traditionally be seen as “feminine.” I work with leaders who value people, integrity, and long-term growth, supporting both men and women in expanding their leadership range beyond outdated models of authority and control. This is sometimes called heart-based leadership, but I prefer the term conscious, because that covers both connection to people and intent.

Transformation isn’t a buzzword. It’s a process with a natural structure. While many experts promise to deliver a transformation, few actually understand its components, often omitting essential steps. Transformation is scalable and similar phases repeat in personal growth, ancient rites of passage, organizational changes and even social revolutions. I developed a framework called The Mechanics of Transformation to map these patterns and make them usable in practice, when guiding individuals, teams, and organizations through fundamental lasting changes.

Practice, Practice, Practice

Everything we work on together is grounded in experience and decades of practice: real projects, real people, and real-life situations. Yes, I’m a lifelong student – I research and learn several hours per day. But my approach is creative, not necessarily scholarly: grab an idea > play with it > experiment > test > use > create outputs > implement or teach > move on to the next idea.

What I do constantly improves and evolves. It’s always fully customized, with tools and methods selected or invented for each project. I almost never do the same thing twice, because what we do depends on your need. I’ll do what I can, learn what I can’t and know my limits enough to reach out to experts when needed.

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If you are looking for someone creative and flexible who will help you change your project or company, contacting me is the right decision.

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