Join Tatiana for a 30 minute session. Thursday 26 February at 12:30 UK. Zoom

Live 30 minute workplace friendly reset with Tatiana Poliakova

From inner critic to inner power

Stop letting your inner critic drive your leadership.

For high performing leaders who look confident on the outside, but carry the mental noise, pressure, and second guessing on the inside.

Join from your desk. Q&A via chat.

If any of this feels familiar, you’re in the right place.

This is what high performance looks like when your inner critic has the steering wheel.

  • You replay meetings in your head.

  • You over prepare because “good enough” feels dangerous.

  • You delay decisions because certainty feels safer than clarity.

  • You succeed, then your mind scans for what you missed.

  • You care for everyone else needs, then slowly built resentment

This is not a motivation problem. It’s your nervous system doing what it was designed to do: detect threat, protect belonging, avoid risk.

That is why the inner critic gets loud when something matters.

You don’t need to silence the voice. You need to stop obeying it.

What To Expect

If you work in high stakes role, you know the feeling:

you deliver, you perform, and your mind still questions whether it was enough.

At Adaptaa, we run these short sessions to support our community with real tools, not theory.

No selling, no pressure.

Just 30 minutes to reset, refocus, and take your seat back in the driver’s chair.

In 30 minutes, I’ll guide you through:

  • Why the inner critic gets louder when something matters

  • A simple way to name the voice and create space fast

  • The Back Seat Method so you stay in charge under pressure

  • A guided meditation to reset your nervous system in real time

  • Chat based Q&A so you can stay in work mode

  • No pressure to speak. Cameras optional. Chat encouraged.

One tool. One shift. Take it into your next meeting.

About Tatiana

Executive Coach | Partner at Adaptaa | Speaker | Healthy Intensity | Nothing to Prove

Tatiana Poliakova

Executive Coach and Partner at Adaptaa

Tatiana is a trusted advisor to leaders and founders in high-pressure environments. She helps them turn tension into opportunity and intensity into fuel, leading with presence, clarity, and self-trust rather than perfectionism or proving.

Before coaching, Tatiana spent 23 years in international investment banking, running teams and negotiating complex deals across New York, London, and Frankfurt. She knows what it means to perform at the highest level while listening to a harsh inner voice beneath the surface.

Today, her work supports people to reconnect with what matters, face fear without handing it the wheel, and build careers and lives that feel true.

Tatiana holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a Professional Certificate in Coaching from Henley Business School (ICF, EMCC, ACF accredited). She is also a certified team coach, writer, and speaker on healthy intensity, courage, meaning, and women’s leadership.

TESTIMONIALS

What others are saying

Real words from leaders who wanted success without the inner cost.

"Eye opening"

“My sessions with Tatiana were eye opening. They opened me to risk-taking and a leap of faith in myself. After our work together, I had more of an unwavering belief that i could make my own destiny and have everything I wanted without limitations or trade offs.”

GABBY, SENIOR EXECUTIVE
FINANCIAL SERVICES INSTITUTION

"Helped me explore new parts of myself"

“Throughout our conversations I find myself being challenged by Tatiana in ways that I have never experienced. These challenging conversations helped me explore new parts of myself that I haven’t accessed before. Before I signed up with Tatiana, I was hesitant regarding taking this step. I listened to my gut and it paid off. Tatiana does to my mind what my personal trainer does to my body, takes me to places within myself that provide me with exponential growth. I don’t know how she does that.”"

MO
Serial Entrepreneur and Mountaineer

"Changed my world"

“Tatiana is one of my biggest and significant encounters in life who completely changed my world. Her sessions made me question many things and encouraged me to make important career steps”

INESSA
Senior Project Manager in a Pharmaceutical business

This is for leaders who are ready to stop letting their inner critic set the agenda.

Join us for 30 minutes and leave with one practical tool you can use in your next meeting.

Ready to take back the wheel?