Aleksei Groshenko

  • Global Executive & Leadership Coach (PCC ICF)

  • Leadership, Sales & Soft Skills Trainer

  • Cultural Transformation Consultant

  • Organizational Psychologist (MA)

  • Entrepreneur

  • Certified in WPB5, CCL 360, PerSight, ISI, FIRO-B (eligible)

  • Bilingual: English, Russian

  • Based in California. Coaching worldwide.

I help senior managers and rising executives navigate pivotal transitions in their leadership journey—when clarity fades, confidence wavers, and alignment breaks down.

You’re no longer satisfied with performing well. You want to lead from a deeper place—one rooted in presence, purpose, and strategic clarity.

That’s where I come in.

I don’t offer surface-level tools or productivity hacks.
I offer a trusted, high-level partnership to help you resolve the root challenges: emotional fatigue, identity shifts, misalignment with values or culture.

This isn’t about “doing more.”
It’s about becoming more of who you truly are—so you can lead with quiet authority, authentic impact, and renewed energy.

My Journey in Numbers:

  • 20+ years of leadership development & transformation

  • 18,000+ employees empowered across industries

  • 5,000+ managers and 5,000+ salespeople trained

  • 450+ internal coaches developed

  • 2,200+ individual coaching hours

  • Clients in 170+ companies — including 28 from the Fortune 500

Trusted by Leaders from Top Global Companies

Clients in 170+ companies — including 28 from the Fortune 500

🧬 The DNA of My Coaching & Training Style

What defines the way I work—and why it creates real, lasting transformation.

1. Root-Cause Clarity

My superpower is seeing the root cause behind leadership challenges—whether it’s emotional overwhelm, identity conflict, or a loss of purpose. I don’t just coach the symptom—I help clients shift from the inside out.
My intuition allows me to sense what hasn’t yet been said—guiding us straight to the heart of the matter, with precision and care.

2. Human-Centered Approach

My coaching is deeply human-centered. I see the person before the role. I meet my clients where they are—with empathy, presence, and zero judgment.
It’s not about fixing people. It’s about helping them become more of who they already are—and lead from that place.

3. Safe, Grounded Presence

Because I feel safe in myself, my clients feel safe being real—with themselves and with me.
That’s when real breakthroughs happen.

4. Sprinter Mentality and the Zone of Proximal Development

I’m a sprinter by nature. Once I see the root issue, I help my clients define their Zone of Proximal Development—the space where real change becomes possible—and take clear, focused steps toward immediate breakthroughs.
My coaching is not about endless reflection. It’s about finding the right lever, shifting it, and letting momentum do the rest.

5. Strategic Guidance with 100+ Frameworks

I don’t just listen—I guide. With over 100 leadership models, psychological frameworks, and strategic tools at hand, I help clients map their inner and outer world, understand what’s happening, and see their next move clearly.
This guidance is backed by deep intuition, structured intelligence, and integral thinking.
I see patterns, interdependencies, and invisible connections—so clients not only solve problems, but start to navigate complexity with confidence.

6. I Live What I Teach

I strive to be an example of everything I share with my clients. I’m a practitioner, not just a guide—I actively apply the same tools, frameworks, and mindsets in my own life and with my team.
I’m a playing coach—walking the path, not just pointing to it.

7. Life as a Game of Conscious Creation

I believe that anything is possible. I see life as a game with rules to understand, accept, and apply in order to create what truly matters.
And this mindset only becomes available when we’re fully connected to ourselves—physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.

8. Culturally Attuned & Universally Human

Born in Russia, based in the U.S., and working with leaders around the world—I bring a multicultural lens to every coaching conversation.
I connect deeply with people of all ages and backgrounds, building uniquely personal partnerships that honor who they are and where they come from.

9. Magnetic Energy & Transformational Presence

My sessions are often described as “life-changing” not because of what I say, but because of the energy I bring into the space.
Clients feel seen, supported, and deeply energized.
I create a space where inspiration meets clarity—where something shifts inside and action becomes inevitable.
I’m not just a coach—I’m a catalyst.

Professional Credentials:

What My Clients Come to Me For:

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Leadership Integrity and Authenticity

·      Don't know how to manage group dynamics and you solve all problems through individual meetings.
·      Fear building trusting relationships, lest you lose the authority of a manager.
·      Try to rescue everyone and do the work for your employees.
·      Don't manage responsibility and don't know its boundaries within the company's structure.
·      Don't understand the difference between a manager and a leader.
·      Use only one leadership style and want to learn about others.
·      Want to learn how to balance the emotional and rational perception of the situation and find informed decisions
·      Want to learn about systemic thinking and leadership.

Career Growth and Promotion

  • Feel stuck in your current position and unsure of what steps to take to advance.

  • Lack clarity about the skills or experience needed to get a promotion.

  • Fear that you might not be good enough for a higher position, leading to self-doubt.

  • Struggle with showcasing your achievements effectively to your superiors.

  • Feel uncomfortable initiating conversations about career progression with your manager.

  • Don’t know how to negotiate for a better role, salary, or responsibilities.

  • Find it difficult to take initiative at work, often waiting for tasks rather than seeking new opportunities.

  • Are unsure of how to build visibility within your organization to get recognized for your contributions.

  • Want to create a career development plan that will keep you on track towards your desired goals.

Corporate Politics and Managing Up

  • Feel overwhelmed by the unwritten rules and dynamics of the workplace and are unsure how to navigate them.

  • Find it challenging to understand the informal networks that influence decision-making in your organization.

  • Fear speaking up or sharing your opinions in meetings, especially when influential stakeholders are present.

  • Struggle to balance the interests of different departments or stakeholders, leading to conflict and confusion.

  • Feel isolated or left out of important discussions and decisions, impacting your confidence and motivation.

  • Don’t know how to gain the support of key players who can influence your career positively.

  • Find it difficult to deal with office politics and the competition for recognition or resources.

  • Want to learn how to strategically align yourself with decision-makers and influence outcomes effectively.

Strategic Thinking and Stakeholder Management

·      Do not have a clear vision of their ideal life and career
·      Do not know how to set ambitious, achievable, and motivating goals
·      Do not know how to transition from vision to goals, roadmap, and action plan
·      Do not know how to effectively work with stakeholders to achieve their goals
·      Want to learn how to use Walt Disney's Strategy and the SMART model, as well as the Stakeholder Map
·      Want to learn how to unite and align a team around a common vision and common goals
·      Want to make informed decisions that will lead to their goals.

Change Management

·      Lack the ability to create conditions for change within their team.
·      Are unfamiliar with the four components of change and how to manage them.
·      Don't know how to prepare their team for changes.
·      Are uncertain about how to communicate team changes without eliciting resistance.
·      Are not skilled in handling their team's resistance to changes in a group setting.
·      Want to learn how to organize changes in the most effective manner.
·      Seek to be a leader guiding their team to victory through periods of change.
·      Aim to cultivate a team that embraces and even initiates change!

Communication and Networking

·      Can’t manage your anger and negative emotions when communicating with other people.
·      Feel hurt and perceive yourself as small and vulnerable when someone says or thinks something bad about you.
·      Don't know how to react when someone yells at you or puts pressure on you.
·      Are afraid to talk to people who are above you in rank, status, or social standing.
·      Don't know how to say "no" in a way that won't offend the other person and won't ruin the good relationship.
·      Want to learn how to establish trustful and partnership-based relationships and communicate on equal terms.

Deep Listening and Building Relationships

·      Are unaware of the existence of 2 levels of connection.

·      Believe that respectful and functional communication is sufficient for collaboration and cooperation.

·      Struggle significantly in building trusting relationships with their managers, colleagues, and stakeholders.

·      Do not see the need to develop friendly relationships in the workplace.

·      Are reluctant to share about themselves, their interests, and their dreams.

·      Show little interest in the personal affairs of their colleagues and employees beyond work.

·      Seek to learn how to cultivate sincere, open, trusting, and strong relationships with managers, colleagues, partners, and clients.

·      Aim to learn how to be both vulnerable and strong at the same time.

·      Aspire to become a leader who inspires trust and confidence, requiring few words to do so!

Stress-Management and Self-Regulation Skills

·   Often experience stress and anxiety
·   Get angry or upset when things don't go the way you want
·   Dislike changes and try to avoid them
·   Experience professional or emotional burnout
·   Don't find pleasure in what you do
·   Feel discomfort in uncertain or ambiguous situations
·   Afraid of failures and difficulties, and procrastinate on what you desire
·   Want to learn how to be in a state of flow and enjoy life

Self-Awareness and Consciousness

·      Often get angry at other people and circumstances
·      Blame yourself for failures and can't start acting
·      Wait for suitable situations and opportunities instead of creating them
·      Frequently think that you won't succeed or can't cope with challenges
·      Struggle during the decision-making process for important matters and don't know how to proceed
·      Don't know your core values and try to please everyone and be good
·      Want to become the author of your life and not be dependent on circumstances
·      Want to believe in yourself and get rid of the limitations in your mind.

Self-Motivation and Motivating Others

·      Don't know how to motivate themselves and their team.
·      Are not skilled at identifying the motives of individual employees and the team.
·      Lack knowledge about the hygiene factors of work that do not provide motivation.
·      Are not proficient in delivering inspiring speeches and presentations.
·      Want to learn about motivation on six logical levels.
·      Want to master the art of creating inspiring and motivating presentations.
·      Want to maintain their own motivation and that of their team at a high level every day.

Time-Management and Prioritization Skills

·      Feel stressed that you can't get everything done.
·      Have numerous tasks and don't know where to start.
·      Are unsure of how to plan your day.
·      Are always or frequently late.
·      Often get distracted and can't stay focused.
·      Don't know how to set inspiring goals.
·      Are uncertain about how to be more productive and efficient.
·      Don't understand the difference between productivity and efficiency, and how to manage both.
·      Can't stop thinking about work outside of working hours.

Presentation and Ideas Selling

·      Fear and feel anxiety during presentations in front of a large audience.
·      Don't know how to create and use presentations to achieve their goals.
·      Lack the skill to sell their ideas to their managers and gain their support.
·      Are unsure how to engage and motivate team members in a new project.
·      Struggle to build collaborative relationships with the audience and find WIN-WIN cooperation opportunities.
·      Don't know how to engage the audience in a dialogue during a presentation.
·      Want to learn the three fundamental stages of sales.
·      Want to excel in presenting ideas and engaging people in projects.

Team Building and Group Dynamic

·       Lack the ability to build a unified team from individual specialists.
·       Are unaware of the different levels of team formation.
·       Cannot assess the cohesiveness level of their team.
·       Do not have a list of exercises and activities to foster team cohesion.
·       Do not know how to determine the values and rules of the team.
·       Do not employ dynamic rules for team management and development.
·       Want to become professional team builders.
·       Want to be leaders of a true team, not just a group of individuals.
·       Want to learn how to create strong, creative, and effective teams.
·       Want to learn how to manage a team based on the team's rules and values.

Delegation and Performance Improvment

·    Do not know why their employees are struggling with tasks.
·    Cannot assess the adequacy of an employee's competencies before delegating a task.
·    Lack the skills to manage responsibility and empower their employees.
·    Are unfamiliar with the four components of competence and how to evaluate them during delegation.
·    Are not adept at working with components like knowledge, skills, attitudes, and motivation.
·    Want to learn how to manage responsibility and empower their employees.
·    Want to be confident that the employee has taken on the responsibility and assigned tasks will be completed with quality and on time.
·    Want to learn how to receive gratitude from employees for the opportunity to carry out tasks delegated by the leader.

Giving and Receiving Feedback

·      Consider giving feedback to an employee as a difficult conversation.
·      Don't know how to give feedback as a valuable gift.
·      Are unsure how to create a safe environment for feedback exchange.
·      Struggle to inspire and motivate employees through feedback.
·      Lack knowledge of different approaches to giving feedback.
·      Themselves struggle to receive feedback from employees and superiors.
·      Want to learn how to use feedback as a tool for development and goal attainment.
·      Aim to make employees anticipate and desire feedback.
·      Want to master the art of giving and receiving feedback.
·      Seek to create a self-developing team that consistently exchanges feedback both internally and with external stakeholders!

Coaching Conversation

·      Are not aware of the differences between a Coach, Mentor, Psychologist, and Consultant.
·      Use a directive leadership style and do not know how to be a non-directive leader.
·      Are not skilled at asking powerful, forward-moving questions to their team members.
·      Do not believe that their employees and teams are much smarter than themselves.
·      Want to become Coach Leaders or service-oriented leaders.
·      Want to learn how to trust their employees and aim to unlock their potential in every dialogue.
·      Want to start marveling at the wisdom and innovation of their team members.
·      Want to be the best leaders for their teams!

Rest and Work-Life Balance

·      Work more than 8 hours a day, including weekends.
·      Don't know how to strike a balance between work and other aspects of life.
·      Constantly feel tired.
·      Don't allocate enough time for themselves and their loved ones.
·      Aren't living their own lives the way they want to.
·      Want to learn how to relax and live their lives with quality and harmony.
·      Want to discover how to relax physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
·      Want to create an effective supportive environment for themselves.
·      Want to be energetic, joyful, and happy!

Frameworks I Use in Coaching and Trainings:

  • Transactional Analysis

  • Spiral Dynamics

  • Integral Leadership

  • Agile, Scrum, Kanban

  • Situational Leadership

  • Coaching Approaches in Leadership

  • Group Dynamics

  • Logical Levels Pyramid

  • 4 Types of Mindset

  • Change Acceptance Curve

  • Project Management

  • Prioritization Matrix

  • Stakeholder Mapping

  • 4 Components of Competence

  • 2 Types of Motivation

    and others

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