Laura Köönikkä
CEO, coach, keynote speaker
Specialized in:
Coaching, speaking and helping leaders and teams. Finding potential, conseptualizing, creating new and processing change. Helping people to understand their capacity to change and manage themselves and others during hard times. Certified coach in neuroscience of change.
Why do you create:
I have never thought that something would be impossible. Creating ideas and fostering our minds continuously without limiting believes is a possibility we tend to forget sometimes. I have to create new when I’m alone or in a team or with my clients. Going forward is the only solution since going back in time is impossible. Every day is a new beginning and it’s also a possibility to decide to do something differently. I create because I appreciate myself and others, I create to avoid bitterness with lack of perspective. I appreciate present moment, it deserves our attention.
What random things are inspiring for you at the moment:
Green, sunrise, attitudes and opportunities. Critical awareness and coping mechanisms. Dreaming of getting lost in a Central european city on a chilly Saturday morning. Honey, paintings with thick texture and moss on rocks.
Photo: Vuokko Salo
Bio
Laura is the founder of Confidants. She has been working as an entrepreneur since 2013. Before her entrepreneurial journey she has been working as a creative director, chief curator, curator, mentor and a researcher. Through her own Finnish Art Agency she has curated several exhibitions abroad for different institutions and organisations such as Espace Louis Vuitton art foundation in Tokyo, Kunsthall Grenland in Norway and Temple Bar and Gallery in Dublin.
She has conseptualized projects and exhibitions since 2003 when she started her career as an arts professional. She holds a masters degree in Art history and has studied art history in Jyväskylä and Bergen universities. In 2018 her career took a huge turn when she started to work as a workcounsellor/coach for companies, leaders and teams. She has graduated from from Helsinki University as workcounsellor and has certified as a coach. She is a keynote speaker, facilitator, educator and coach.