Dr. Špela Trefalt

Špela is an experienced coach working with professionals who want to combine extraordinary career success with meaningful lives outside of work. Over her 15+ years of coaching, Špela has honed a focused approach to coaching that helps her clients achieve tangible improvements in short periods of time.

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Špela believes deeply in her clients’ ability to combine successful careers with meaningful lives. She knows that there is no single effective solution and helps clients find what works for them in their specific circumstances. Her coaching experience and her extensive research background enable Špela to share evidence-based strategies for setting boundaries, accomplishing goals, and feeling good about one’s choices.

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Špela’s clients appreciate her unwavering support of their ambitions, her deep understanding of human psychology, her focused and analytical mind, and her sense of humor.

Špela’s professional background includes higher education, human resources management, HR consulting, and anchoring TV shows. Over her 20+ years in academia she researched how attorneys and consultants can combine highly successful careers with meaningful lives outside of work. Now Professor Emerita at Simmons University in Boston, she continues to incorporate the latest research into her coaching.

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She is a mom of two young girls and a wife of a gastroenterologist. Špela earned an undergraduate degree in law from University in Ljubljana in her native Slovenia, an MBA from University of Kansas, and a doctorate in business from Harvard Business School.