Leadership doesn’t mean holding it all and vision doesn’t mean doing it alone.
You didn’t get here by accident.
You built something real and something that works.
Your business has depth, clients and a mission you care deeply about.

But the pressure to sustain it all has become too much.
The calendar is packed. Your brain is full.
Your sales don’t feel stable even when what you created is literally changing the language industry for the better.
And sometimes you quietly wonder… is it supposed to feel this hard?

I want you to know: you’re not broken. You’re just done performing.

You’re done selling from pressure.
Done carrying your company like a one-person show.
Done shape-shifting for strategies that don’t fit your actual body or values.

What you want now is vision-led, human business growth. And that’s where I come in.

I work with ambitious, emotionally intelligent people in languages who are ready to grow sustainably without abandoning themselves.

My clients are educators, service providers and business owners who know they’re here to lead, but are too wise for bro-marketing, pushy sales tactics, or advice that wrecks their nervous system.

They don’t want hype.
They believe in language and connection.
They want clarity, not chaos.
They want a business that feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside.

They’re not here to burn out.
They’re here to build something that lasts and makes a difference

In the last two years, I’ve reached consistent 20k months, led an industry-wide summit that brought hundreds together and coached nearly a thousand educators and business owners across the globe. From the outside, it looked like success and in many ways, it was.

But behind the scenes, I was outgrowing the version of myself who built it all on overdelivering and performance.
I burned out. I unravelled.
I met my mother for the first time in 30 years.
I faced the trauma I had buried, began to understand my neurodivergence and started listening to what my body and nervous system had been trying to tell me for decades.

What I’ve learned is this:
Sustainable success doesn’t come from hustle or hiding. It comes from self-respect. From clarity. From building in a way that’s honest about both your ambition and your humanity.

That’s what I do now. I activate visionary language leaders into action: action that’s aligned, embodied, and powerful. Not by pushing harder. But by showing you how to move from your core, not your conditioning.
Because when you do? Everything expands.

If we met at a retreat or over a weirdly strong coffee, this is what I’d tell you (somewhere between hanging upside down in my aerial yoga hammock):

🇵🇱 I'm Polish, but I don't feel very Polish.
I live in the UK (but I'm not English either). I'm a forever in-betweener (in other areas of life too). I'm also fully bilingual.

✨ I used to think I had to earn being trusted.
So I worked harder than anyone else. Picked up all the slack. Became everyone’s backup plan. It made me respected. And so tired.

🌀 I’m neurodivergent and demand avoidant.
This means I often rebel against my own calendar. But I’ve learned to build a business that works with my brain, not against it.

🌱 I’m obsessed with the nervous system.
Not just because it’s trendy; because understanding mine changed how I sell, teach, parent, rest, and lead. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

💍 I live in a loud, love-filled home with my partner Luke (the soulmate kind), our brilliant, radiant, neurodivergent son Leon, a grumpy cat named Fang and a clingy sausage dog named Libby. It’sooooo messy.

🎧 I listen to everything on 2x speed. Nothing can ever happen too fast for me. I'm learning to slow down, though...

😜 I still whisper “maybe I should just get a job” when I’m overwhelmed.
And then I remember I’m not meant to do this alone. That’s the whole point of this work, to stop pretending we’re machines.

🌝 I'm A Gemini Sun, Leo Rising, Aries Moon and a non-typical Projector with talents in Activating, Maximising and Futuristic Planning (the Gallup ones). I love a bit of pop psychology (and the real one too) and personality quizzes 😉

💎 My clients call me a mix of business coach, catalyst, therapist, strategist, and witch.
I’ll take it. I care about the parts of your business that can’t be tracked in a spreadsheet. And I’ll never try to fit you into one.

I work with language business owners who are:

👉 No longer okay with “just getting by”

👉 Quietly wondering if they can keep doing it all

👉 Done with hustle culture, bro marketing, and advice that erases their humanity

👉 Ready to lead in a way that feels like them again

👉 Looking for sustainable sales, cleaner strategy, and a deeper kind of clarity

They’re people like you: Visionary. Exhausted. Brilliant.  And they don’t need hand-holding, they need someone who gets it.

Ola Kowalska Coaching offers consultancy and coaching for visionary language industry leaders. Copyright © 2026 Ola Kowalska Coaching. All rights reserved.