You might need me when...
- Cross-functional teamsCross-functional friction (Product × Eng × GTM) slows delivery; you need agreement on priorities and interfaces.
- Reorganization and org changesAfter a reorg/layoffs, rebuild trust and alignment fast: clarify ownership, decision rights.
- Integrating AIYou’re integrating AI into workflows and need to pick the right bets, roles, and decision rights.
- Strategy discussionA new VP/CEO or Chief of Staff needs to align the LT, set crisp objectives, and run a high-quality strategy discussion.
- Remote or hybrid teamYou’re a remote or hybrid team that hasn’t met in person for months and needs a reset on norms, trust, and decision flow.
How it works
30 min
30 min
We talk
Tell me what's going on. Not the polished version — the real one. I'll ask questions you probably haven't been asked before.
1-3 days
1-3 days
Team diagnostic
I look underneath. I read the room — literally. Communication patterns, team dynamics, what's said and what isn't. Most of the time, the real issue shows up in the first hour.
from 1 day
from 1 day
We work on what actually matters
Not a 12-week program. Not a framework. We go straight to the root and move fast — because usually, you can't afford to wait.
Result
Result
Your team gets unstuck
And you'll know exactly why it got stuck in the first place — so it doesn't happen again.
Ways to work with me
It depends on what you're dealing with — the size of your team, where you are as a company, and how deep the work needs to go.
- Offsite / Strategy Session1 – 3 daysWhen your team needs to realign, reset, or move through something together. I design and facilitate the whole thing — you show up, I take care of the room.
- 1:1 with a leaderFrom 1h.When the block is at the top. We work directly — on decisions, dynamics, blind spots, whatever is actually in the way.
- Organizational DesignEmbeddedWhen the whole system needs redesigning. I come in as your organizational partner for 6 to 18 months — part of the team, not a consultant parachuting in. Culture, structure, team design, decision-making — built to last.
Hi, I'm Anastasia and I don't look like a typical consultant.
I started my career as an M&A lawyer. For 7 years I built systems — deals, structures, agreements that had to hold under pressure. Then I made an unusual move: I turned that same lens on people and organizations.
For the past 15 years I've been developing leaders and designing teams across the USA, Europe, and Central Asia. I've worked inside boardrooms and on the floor with engineering teams. I've sat with a tech lead in crisis two weeks before a major release — and helped him come back.
Over the same 15 years, I've been a practitioner and instructor of Qigong — a discipline about how energy moves through living systems, and what blocks it. It sounds different from organizational design. It isn't.
What I bring isn't a methodology. It's 22 years of understanding how systems work — human, organizational, and everything in between.
Global Impact Award – Women Changing the World Americas Awards, 2024; ex-Board Member, United Nations Association, San Francisco; Founder of Humantica.ai – Predictive Team Analytics.
I started my career as an M&A lawyer. For 7 years I built systems — deals, structures, agreements that had to hold under pressure. Then I made an unusual move: I turned that same lens on people and organizations.
For the past 15 years I've been developing leaders and designing teams across the USA, Europe, and Central Asia. I've worked inside boardrooms and on the floor with engineering teams. I've sat with a tech lead in crisis two weeks before a major release — and helped him come back.
Over the same 15 years, I've been a practitioner and instructor of Qigong — a discipline about how energy moves through living systems, and what blocks it. It sounds different from organizational design. It isn't.
What I bring isn't a methodology. It's 22 years of understanding how systems work — human, organizational, and everything in between.
Global Impact Award – Women Changing the World Americas Awards, 2024; ex-Board Member, United Nations Association, San Francisco; Founder of Humantica.ai – Predictive Team Analytics.
Leaders and teams I’ve worked with
Something's not working. Let's figure it out.
Anastasia Totok
Organizational Designer