Cassie Kolyda

Founder & CEO of StraDia Coaching, an international company helping High Powered Women to start and grow profitable businesses or Successful Careers in the corporate arena doing what they are passionate about.

Her true passion is to Empower Women raise their Profile in male dominated arenas, develop Unique Personal Brand to Stand Out, market their expertise, monetize their knowledge, leverage their time, add new revenue streams, not settle for less than they are worth!

An early start Entrepreneur Entrepreneur at the age of 6, launched, published, run the school Newsletter, at 14 she was running her own jeweller business, designing and selling her own creations. She loved building model planes and old time ships while trying to see how they worked.

An exciting Academic Life Not wanting to accept the “Status Quo” that Engineering was not for women, she chose the “Road less travelled” and studied BSc Control & Computer Engineering and an MSc Digital Signal Processing. She was the only female in both her BEng & MSc Degrees. She won a sponsorship for the full Tuition her Master Degree.

Corporate Arena “Breaking into the Boys’ Club” Over 20 years of international business experience working for major multinational companies where she held a number of Senior Executive positions in Business Management Consulting, Sales, Marketing, Training & Development, HR, Organisational Change Management.

At the age of 25 she was managing multi-million Telecommunications accounts and her clients were BT, Telstra, Deutch Telecom, Telia Sonnera, KDD Europe.

Participating in the EU (European Union Committees & Projects) - Worked in major European Union’s Projects for Career Development and Training Tools.

• A contributing member of the committees that established and developed the European Coaching and Mentoring Standards.

Awards Won a number of sponsorships and awards thought her Academic and Professional Career. Also selected to participate to BT’s Fast Track Leadership Program and successfully graduated.

Certified Coach and NLP Practioner

Living Her Dream & Making a Difference in the World

Wanting to create something that made a difference in the world she launched StraDia Coaching. Her company’s mission in life is to enable women and a few smart men build successful businesses, stand out and build their Unique Personal Brand. Our clients also include: Doctors, Lawyers, small Business owners, Freelance Professionals etc. Active Volunteer in projects helping women excel in their careers beyond the glass ceiling, launching their business and achieve personal fulfilment.

Unstoppable Mompreneur Being a mom of two young children ( a girl and a boy) and running a successful Coaching Business she knows that time is precious and has helped her mompreneur clients (Engineers, Financial Sector Directors, etc) to monetise their knowledge and experiences and leveraging their time while adding new revenue streams to their bottom line.