UPCOMING EVENTS
Inna Gorbulenko is an executive and systemic team coach, coach educator, facilitator and founder of Up&Above. She partners with senior leaders, entrepreneurs, management teams and organisations to navigate complexity, unlock potential and create meaningful, sustainable change. Combining extensive executive experience with a systemic coaching perspective, she brings together strategic thinking, deep inquiry and practical business understanding. Her work is grounded in curiosity, partnership and a belief in people’s and teams’ capacity to learn, evolve and achieve more together.
Inna’s professional career spans more than 25 years, including executive roles in marketing, procurement and HR, business ownership, consulting and coaching. She is Founder of Up & Above that offer coaching training and leadership programmes.
She has designed and delivered leadership development, executive coaching and team coaching programmes for organisations across different industries and international markets. Her corporate clients include Severstal, Gazprom Neft, X5, Avito, Semrush, Stockholm School of Economics, Royal Academy of Management in Oman, North Oil Company in Qatar and WHOOSH, among others.
Inna is the author and lead trainer of accredited coaching education programmes, including Systemic Coaching for Organizations (ICF Level 2) and Systemic Approach to Team Coaching (ICF CCE and AATC accredited). She has also designed and delivered programmes in executive presence, self-disruptive leadership, team management, stakeholder management and coaching skills for leaders and HR professionals.
Inna’s approach integrates her own experience as a business leader with a deep understanding of organisational dynamics, leadership challenges and human development.
Her areas of focus include executive and leadership development, systemic team coaching, leadership in complexity and turbulence, organisational and cultural change, stakeholder relationships, team effectiveness and the development of coaching cultures. She works with individuals, teams and organisations, exploring not only personal goals and behaviours but also the wider systems in which people operate and create results.
Inna has developed her own framework for systemic leadership growth, built around five key components of leadership development. The framework focuses on not simply acquiring new management tools and competencies, but transforming the way leaders see systems, understand relationships, interpret complex situations and choose how to act.
Inna is an active member of the international coaching community. She is an ICF PCC Markers Assessor, an accredited ICF Mentor Coach at PCC and MCC levels, an EMCC Mentor (EIA) and an accredited Supervisor (ESIA EMCC and CSS ICF). She contributes to the development of professional coaching standards through assessment, mentoring, supervision and coach education.
Through her work at Up & Above, she is committed to advancing systemic coaching, strengthening the professional community and making high-quality coaching education accessible to coaches and leaders.
Years of business experience
25+ |
Countries visited
63, & counting |
Coaching hours
4,000+ |
Languages of practice
English & Russian |
A book that shaped her
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland |
A guiding motto
To seek, to find and never surrender |
Favourite composer
Chopin |
Greatest pride
Her son |
Away from work, Inna enjoys travelling, discovering different cultures, reading and exploring new perspectives. Her curiosity about people and the world is as strong as ever whether she is visiting another country, learning something new or helping others discover possibilities they hadn’t seen before.
Inna holds an Executive MBA from Stockholm School of Economics and is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She holds the ICF Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC), Mentor Coach Specialization (MCS) at PCC and MCC levels, and Coaching Supervisor Specialization (CSS). With EMCC, she is an accredited Senior Practitioner (EIA) and Supervisor (ESIA). She is also an IDC Master Coach in Leadership and Communication. Her professional education includes systemic team coaching, psychological consulting, leadership development and more than 800 hours of business and professional coaching training.
Explore executive coaching, systemic team coaching and leadership development opportunities at with Inna via [email protected]
