Counsel for the
decisions executives are
remembered by.
SVETLANA DIMOVSKI, PhD, MCC
I work with chief executives and senior leaders at the moments that ask the most of them — when the company and the person at the helm are being remade at the same time.
A scientist by training, a global business leader by experience, and the holder of the highest credential in the coaching profession. What that adds up to in practice is straightforward: clearer thinking, wiser decisions, and a leader who stays themselves under pressure.
HOW I HOLD THE WORK
What a leader is really choosing
when they choose a counsel.
Credentials may open the door. However, the valuable transformation comes from many other things, built over a particular career.
I see what's forming
I began my career as a materials scientist, trained to notice how change begins below the surface. That discipline still shapes how I listen.
In work with senior leaders, the real issue often appears first as a small signal: a shift in judgment, trust, readiness, alignment, or authority. My role is to help bring that signal into focus and awareness before it becomes the problem everyone is forced to manage later.
I think in systems
Engineering and two decades in global business taught me to read structures and dynamics: how decisions move in an organization, where trust holds, where it begins to fray, and which lever actually changes the system.
That is how I work with senior leaders — with the person and the system in view at the same time. Because leadership is rarely only about knowing the right move. It is knowing when the organization is ready to receive it.
I stay steady
I grew up in the former Yugoslavia during the civil war and the collapse of the system around it. I learned early what pressure reveals, and how quickly certainty can disappear. This taught me to meet human complexity without flinching.
In working with senior leaders, steadiness is part of the counsel: staying present when the room becomes charged and helping people make conversation matter.
I keep perspective
Pressure has a way of making everything feel immediate. I help widen the frame without losing the detail: what is happening now, what has been building over time, and what the situation is really asking for.
In executive leadership, perspective is the differentiating discipline of seeing what matters while others are pulled toward what is loud, familiar, or urgent.
THE SHORT BIO
About Svetlana
Svetlana Dimovski, PhD, MCC, is the founder of Dharma Growth LLC and an executive counsel, leadership coach, and strategic advisor to CEOs, founders, senior executives, leadership teams, and boards. Her work helps leaders navigate growth, transition, reinvention, high-stakes decisions, and AI-era transformation through The Ground Work™, a whole-person approach to grounded leadership, clarity, and impact.
HOW I WORK
Direct enough to be impactful. Steady enough to go deep.
The hardest moments in a career rarely call for a single quality. They ask for two at once — judgment and maturity, ambition and restraint, speed and values, technology and human sense. Most leaders are strong in one of each pair. The work is learning to hold both. The present times need integral leaders and a thought partner who can steady the pressures and polarities at once.
What conversation feels like
Warm, direct, and intellectually serious. The conversation is spacious enough for honesty and rigorous enough to create momentum. You will be listened to closely and challenged respectfully when a challenge serves the work.
What you leave with
You leave with insight you can use: in how you influence, communicate, decide, relate, and lead under real conditions. Not something to just think about, but something that changes what you do next.
“Who we become can remain a habit or be made into a choice. My work is helping people meet that choice with clear eyes.”THE OFFICIAL BIO
Official biography: Svetlana Dimovski, PhD, MCC
Svetlana Dimovski, PhD, MCC, is an executive counsel to Fortune 500 chief executives, founders, and senior leaders navigating growth, transition, and reinvention. She is the founder of Dharma Growth, a practice built around one-to-one work with leaders at consequential moments, and the methodology she calls The Ground Work™.
Her career spans more than two decades across research, innovation, and business leadership. As Vice President of the Transformation Lab at Pact, she designed a new transformation unit, operating model, and impact portfolio. At BASF, she built an award-winning open-innovation capability, managed multimillion-dollar budgets, and helped scale innovation-leadership programs across a global enterprise. Earlier, at Procter & Gamble, she held roles in innovation, partnership development, and R&D, supporting major consumer brands.
She holds a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Drexel University, a BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering, a postgraduate diploma in Digital Business from Columbia Business School and MIT Sloan via Emeritus, and the Kellogg Executive Scholar credential in Leadership. She is an ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) — the profession's highest credential — and currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the ICF Thought Leadership Institute.
She advises boards on the human dimension of AI-era transformation, and has served as a strategic advisor on AI ethics and governance for products affecting vulnerable populations. She works with leaders worldwide and is based in the Washington, DC area. A fuller account of her training and credentials is available on the credentials page.
Practice
Dharma Growth
Founder · Executive Counsel
Governance
Chair · ICF TLI
Thought Leadership Institute
Credential
ICF Master Certified Coach
The profession's highest level
Background
PhD · Materials Science
25+ yrs · P&G, BASF, Pact
TRI-CREDENTIALED EXECUTIVE COACH
Verified and easy to check.
i.
ICF MCC
Master Certified Coach — assessed competence and ethics
ii.
EMCC EIA/ITCA
Practitioner and systemic team coach
iii.
NBHWC NBC-HWC
National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach - health matters
iv.
Kellogg
Executive Scholar in Leadership
IN THEIR WORDS
What leaders say afterward.
She had an immeasurable impact on our membership — leading her groups and unlocking the potential of the executives in them.
HEAD OF GUIDE SUCCESS · CHIEF
My whole perspective on careers has shifted, thanks in large part to our conversations.
SVP of Strategy · Higher Education
Thought-provoking discussion… prompted me to develop a couple of new ideas for advancing certain goals.
General Counsel · Industrials manufacturing
She delves into the story behind the story to find what's really at the root. A perspective I'd never been given before.
Chief Data & Information Officer · Pharma
I restored my courage to face the challenge I once escaped from.
Senior Leader · International Development
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