Do What You Love

Elena Agafonova

Your Happiness & Transformation Coach

Midlife Career Transformation Coach | Author | Speaker

I help professionals in their 40s and 50s reinvent their careers with confidence — without starting over.

Whether you’re feeling stuck, unfulfilled, or uncertain about your next step, I offer a structured approach to career transitions that work.

📖 Author of The Midlife Career Pivot

🎯 VIP 1:1 Coaching – Personalized guidance for a successful career shift

🎤 Speaker & Trainer – Helping midlife professionals build purpose-driven careers

Elena Agafonova

Single Sessions

  • First chemistry call
    Let’s get acquainted! It’s always easier to see if we can create something great together when we meet and chat.
    30 min
  • Welcome back
    For any client that have already been using my services and would like to meet again for a single coaching session. Welcome back!
    60 min

Recurring sessions

  • Discover your old blocks and new possibilities
    This is a package of 3 sessions for people who have own scenarios of what to do next in life but they are not sure and want to discuss all pros & cons. Main focus on limiting beliefs or 'immunity to change" and practical ways to overcome it so you stop the self sabotage preventing you from a positive change.
    90 min
  • Overcome limiting beliefs and try first new steps
    5 sessions package is ideal for those who have a vision for their future but seek to overcome limiting beliefs and need my support taking their first steps in a new direction.
    90 min
  • Personalized support on a new journey
    This offer is perfect if you're embarking on a new journey and require personalized support due to high uncertainty or turbulent circumstances. It includes a 6-month subscription with up to 12 biweekly sessions. PLUS Q&A WhatApp or Telegram chat between the sessions on request. Please book your first 6 sessions in advance.
    60 min

Digital Products

  • Free Chapter of "The Midlife Career Pivot"
    Is It Too Late to Make a Change? With actionable insights and real-life examples, The Midlife Career Pivot shows how professionals like you have successfully created a fulfilling second act— no matter their age. From Insight to Implementation: Creating Your Actionable Career Strategy
  • Your Pathway to Happiness
    Embark on a journey to a happier life with daily practices those efficiency has been scientifically proven.

Books I've written or read and highly recommend to you

  • The Midlife Career Pivot: A Practical Guide to Reinventing Yourself
    Feeling stuck in a career that no longer excites you? Wondering if it’s too late to make a change? If you’re in your 40s or 50s and searching for more meaning and purpose in your work, The Midlife Career Pivot is your roadmap to creating a career you love.
  • Stop Missing Your Life by Cory Muscara
    Stop Missing Your Life is a journey into the heart of what we need for real growth and happiness. How to achieve true Presence: a quality of being that comes when we’ve peeled back the layers that prevent us from being our full, integrated selves.
  • Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization
    Unlock your potential and finally move forward. This persuasive and practical book, filled with hands-on diagnostics and compelling case studies, delivers the tools you need to overcome the forces of inertia and transform your life and your work.
  • Loving What Is, Revised Edition: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
    The Revolutionary Process Called "The Work" I discovered that when I believed my thoughts I suffered, but when I didn’t believe them I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. – Byron Katie
  • The Happiness Trap (Second Edition): How to Stop Struggling and Start Living
    The Happiness Trap is for everyone. Whether you’re lacking confidence, facing illness, coping with loss, working in a high-stress job, or suffering from anxiety or depression, this book will show you how to build authentic happiness from the inside out.
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How I can help you

As a professional coach with over 15 years of experience, I specialize in helping individuals who are eager to reinvent their careers and start anew at any age. My own journey of radical career transformations—from a foreign language teacher to a top manager in business travel, and from an entrepreneur in consultancy to an MBA lecturer and writer—provides a wealth of real-world insights. This experience has been further enriched by mentoring thousands of individuals. Every project, book, and online course I offer is rooted in practical experience and has been thoroughly tested and proven successful.

For more details and recommendations of my mentees, please visit my LinkedIn profile.

Do not see a suitable time slot for a session? Press the button "Ask me a question" above and drop a message with your options. I'll come back to you and we arrange a discovery call as soon as possible.

Contacts

  • Email

    eagafonowa@gmail.com

  • Linkedin

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/elena-agafonova-98023622/

  • Facebook

    https://www.facebook.com/MidlifeCareerPivot

  • Instagram

    https://www.instagram.com/newmecoach/

Skill Highlights

  • Build motivation

    Love to inspire and motivate people. Easily explain complex issues and help find a quick way out of a "dead end": career, relationships, business.

  • Optimism and Positive thinking

    Share positive energy and help to feel self-confidence.

  • Prevent Burnout & Understand Procrastination

    Assist to realize true reasons for procrastination, disappointment or burnout.

  • Find Purpose and Happiness

    Develop the ability to see new perspectives and resources.

Happiness & Transformation Certificates

  • Unlocking the Immunity to Change

    May 2014 - Jul 2014

    Honor Code Certificate. Professor Robert Kegan and Lecturer Lisa Lahey launched a HarvardX course, Unlocking the Immunity to Change: A New Approach to Personal Improvement. This course helps students apply Kegan and Lahey's psychological theory about personal change to improvement goals of their own.

    Harvard Online

  • The Science of Happiness

    Oct 2022 - Dec 2022

    Verified Certificate. The course about the foundations and practical insights into human happiness including: Introduction to the Science of Happiness, The Power of Social Connection, Compassion and Kindness, Cooperation and Reconciliation, Mindfulness, Mental Habits of Happiness, Gratitude, New Frontiers and Happiness "Fit".

    University of California, Berkeley

  • Building Personal Resilience. CBT foundation

    May 2023 - Jul 2023

    Verified Certificate. Building Personal Resilience: Managing Anxiety and Mental Health, led by Harvard Medical School professor Dr.Marques, includes a toolbox of science-based skills that help exercise the brain to build the cognitive flexibility/strength that are the foundations of resilience.

    Harvard Online

  • Managing Happiness

    Dec 2023 - Feb 2024

    Verified Certificate. Led by Harvard professor, author, social scientist, and former classical musician Arthur Brooks, this course introduces cutting-edge survey tools, the best research, and trends in social science, neuroscience, and philosophy to help learners unlock the strategies to create a more purposeful life, full of long-lasting enjoyment and satisfaction.

    Harvard Online

  • Mindfulness Daily with Tara Brach

    Feb 2024 - Apr 2024

    Certificate of Completion. Mindfulness Daily with Tara Brach & Jack Kornfield. A 40-day online training in mindfulness meditation with two of the world’s most respected meditation teachers, Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield.

    The Radical Compassion Institute