SPEAKER, FORTUNE GREECE MOST POWERFUL WOMEN SUMMIT · SPEAKER, CYPRUS FINTECH SUMMIT · FORMERLY SWIFT, MASTERCARD · LSE · MSc CBT
Under pressure, your nervous system decides before you do.
The strategies that once kept you safe, and made you exceptional, run quietly in every meeting, decision and relationship. Left unexamined, the whole company starts organising itself around them.
FIGHT
The controller
Pushes harder, holds every decision, finds delegation unbearable. The team stops thinking for itself.
FLIGHT
The accelerator
Overthinks, over-works, changes direction to outrun discomfort. Urgency replaces strategy.
FREEZE
The avoider
Postpones the hard conversation, the hire, the exit. Problems compound in the silence.
FAWN
The rescuer
Carries everyone, says yes too often, softens what must be said. Exhaustion dressed as loyalty.
Insight alone doesn’t change a leader. A different choice, repeated, does.
I KNOW THIS PRESSURE FROM THE INSIDE
I didn’t study high achievers. I was one.
I built a perfectionist’s career in finance and technology across London, Brussels and Athens: SWIFT, Mastercard, Cardlink (now Worldline), leading teams, and later running a start-up as its CEO. From the outside, it worked. Inside, the pace was unsustainable: burnout, and a cancer diagnosis before I turned thirty.
That moment sent me inward. I retrained in psychology and became a CBT psychotherapist, to understand what really drives us, and how to lead without abandoning ourselves.
Today I bring both worlds into one room: the commercial reality of performance, and the neuroscience of why we repeat what no longer serves us.
THE METHOD
AFYPNISIS
Αφύπνιση: Greek for awakening.
A five-stage method that combines CBT, neuroscience and lived leadership experience.
01 REVEAL
See the pattern behind your decisions.
02 RELEASE
Stop carrying what is no longer yours.
03 REGULATE
Stay clear when the pressure rises.
04 REALIGN
Choose what you are really building.
05 EMBODY
Become the leader you choose to be.
Lead as who you truly are.
Build what matters from within.
PRIVATE ADVISORY
Private one-to-one advisory for founders, CEOs and senior leaders, built around you and your aspirations. Fewer meetings, more precision.
FORMAT
In person in Athens, online wherever you are, or on location with you. Sessions in English or Greek.
COMMITMENT
Begins with a six-month engagement, then continues month by month for as long as the work needs.
PRIVACY
A clear written agreement on privacy, records and communication from the very first conversation.
RECENT STAGES
In conversation with the people shaping business.
FORTUNE GREECE · MOST POWERFUL WOMEN SUMMIT 2026
Desire Over Duty: Rewriting Success in the Age of Longevity
A one-on-one discussion with psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Savvas Savvopoulos on resilience, balance and meaning as the new measures of success.
CYPRUS FINTECH SUMMIT 2024 · MAIN STAGE
Understanding and Prioritising Wellbeing and Psychosocial Hazards in Corporations
Why psychosocial risk belongs on the leadership agenda — and how organisations can identify and prioritise it.
“Your insights into the critical role of employee wellbeing and how to address psychosocial hazards in the workplace were eye-opening.”
— Cyprus Fintech Summit
FOR ORGANISATIONS
Keynotes, leadership sessions & psychological safety.
For leadership teams and conferences that want the psychology of performance without the clichés.
Keynotes
The leader’s nervous system; control, trust and delegation; ambition without burnout.
Leadership team sessions
Working sessions for executive teams on the patterns that slow decisions and drain energy.
Psychosocial risk & wellbeing
Certified in Leading with Care and Safety and PERMAH wellbeing — practical support for managing psychosocial risk at work.