Clients Say
Director NAND Design at Micron Technology Inc.
Kalyan
Process length: 12 meetings
I would like to thank Raya for taking me through 12 excellent training sessions as part of Skillsoft executive coaching. Raya was very approachable and each session was tailored to meet my needs. The training materials provided were invaluable and informative. She has a practical approach with emphasis on applying concepts learnt in real time while the coaching sessions are in progress with follow-ups on the results and review sessions made the sessions highly engaging and fruitful. I would like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt gratitude to Raya for helping me with these educative training sessions.
Feb 12, 2024
Lead Product Manager - Merchant Onboarding
PayPal
Process length: 12 meetings
I am writing to wholeheartedly recommend Raya as an exceptional coach and mentor. My interaction with her during the PayPal Advanced Learning Program (ALP) was nothing short of transformative.
Raya possesses a unique ability to blend strategic thinking with empathetic guidance. Her approach to coaching is deeply rooted in encouraging openness to new ideas, fostering growth in leadership, and cultivating personal well-being. The frameworks she shared were not only innovative but also practical, enabling me to apply them seamlessly in both my professional and personal life.
One of Raya's most commendable qualities is her patient listening. This skill allowed us to co-discover tailored applications of her frameworks, significantly enhancing my effectiveness as a team leader. Under her mentorship, I have found a new sense of peace within myself, enabling me to manage chaos with remarkable ease.
Raya's impact on my professional journey has been profound. She has not only been a coach but also a catalyst for self-discovery. Her contributions extend beyond mere strategy and delve into nurturing the holistic development of individuals she works with.
I am immensely grateful for the opportunity to have been coached by Raya. Her guidance has been a beacon of light, illuminating pathways to personal and professional growth. I am confident that her coaching will be an invaluable asset to anyone fortunate enough to work with her.
Wishing Raya and her family the very best. Stay safe and take care.
Jan 17, 2024
Data Analytics Team Lead
Your coach rating: 5 out of 5
Overall program experience: 5 out of 5
Learned how to focus on clear goals and leave irrelevant things behind. Understood how to ask for what they want. Improved the communication at work and helped to manage the mentees right. Impacted the job search and process. Influenced communication with the management. Replaying some personal situations on 1:1 meetings was very helpful. Raya was always available and supportive. She knows how to direct the right changes.
Jul 30, 2023
Data Scientist, Team Lead, Speaker, Entrepreneur
Your coach rating: 5 out of 5
Overall program experience: 5 out of 5
I learnt how to track my communication patterns, my ups and downs. I learnt how to observe the situation from a different point of view and how to change a personal perspective. Personal meetings were amazing. Discussing specific cases helped improve some skills and overcome some challenges. Had a great impact on personal life. Helped set the goals and move forward.
Jul 20, 2023
Researcher, lecturer, algorithm developer, statistician and consultant.
Your coach rating: 5 out of 5
Overall program experience: 5 out of 5
Clear, transparent, easy to understand. In personal meetings many highlighted Raya’s inspiring vibe and drive. She pushes forward and tunes for the right actions. Helps change the perspective and open up the horizons. The survey was very helpful, and made participants look at some of their patterns.
Jul 18, 2023
Senior Advertising Account Manager, Taboola
Your coach rating: 5 out of 5
Overall program experience: 5 out of 5
I feel I am getting a clear guidance on how to execute the project I am currently working on with long term guidance and sustainable solution for my way of working. Discovering new things about my self at work and life and It is very valuable to have Raya's perspective and coaching to my growth.
I feel very comfortable talking with her even when I am facing difficult topic on development and weakness. By knowing this I think I can shape my strength better. Thank you so much for your time and knowledge for my career advancement.
Jun 27, 2023
Senior Fraud Analyst in Gaming
Your coach rating: 5 out of 5
Overall program experience: 5 out of 5
Rehearsals were the most effective. Clear / clean / painful feedback.
Feb 1, 2022
System Team Lead, Riskified
Moshe Magal
Your coach rating: 5 out of 5
Overall program experience: 5 out of 5
It was very educated coaching.
I learn a lot from you and got some new skills for life.
You reflected on situations to me and thought me new technic and toolsets.
I now fill that I can handle my team (and my kids) better than before.
An old wise man said that mountain and mountain are not meet but people do.
It will be my pleasure in case our roads will cross again :)
Aug 28, 2022
Fraud analysis team leader
Raya is a top level career coach and great person. She helped me a lot with my CV and my self motivation -I received the answer not only to the questions What and How but also to the question Why. She looks at my situation from different points of view and show me different solutions to my problems.
Also Raya is very intelligent person- she can discuss any topic in the world.
May 13, 2022
Full Stack Developer
I would like to say a huge thank you to Raya for her professional approach and for the assistance she has provided. thanks to her, I was able to improve my resume and get a job.
Apr 14, 2022
Project management
Raya always inspires for new challengers. She looks at the situation from different points of view. She is creative, supportive and professional.
Jul 5, 2021
Product Manager, Additive Technology Solutions Hi-Tech Company
Itay
Your coach rating: 5 out of 5
Overall program experience: 5 out of 5
We drilled down to the root of the issues (from childhood) and see how it impacts my day-to-day behavior.
After I finished the program with Raya I received the freedom and ability to talk freely with no constraints or internal politics.
Oct 24, 2021
Business Development & Marketing Consultant
in Israel and Japan
Yuiko Kobayashi
Working with Raya, there are two things that you want to keep in mind if you want to get most out of it. The one, that you are coachable.
The two: that to know what you want and want to create. The clearer you are the more you benefit and be effective.
Our typical conversation goes like this;
I talk and talk.
And she listens to me patiently.
She’s patient when I am beating around the bush and not getting to the point (usually it happens either when I see the problem as something more than I can handle or totally opposite; when I see it so unimportant.)
Then she goes like;
“What do you want to create?”
Everything comes down to this.
When things seem to me too complicated or a life seems (did I forget to say “my” life?) to have too much to handle, Raya is staying there for you rather quietly and goes like that. And this makes my "apparently" complicated life simpler and help straighten my thinking process.
She can be tough sometimes, but never cold or indifferent.
She has a way to make one feel that she cares and supports with love and warmth. She helps you to be practical and at the same time ask you to dream big.
So the question comes down to this again.
“What do you want in life?”,
“What do you want to create?”
“How do you want to live your life?”
Jul 20, 2018
Music Teacher,
Visibility for Disability program creator
Indi Kaur
Raya is a committed listener who has an ability to encourage and empower others in their pursuit for self-discovery.
Raya has an a creative and effective approach in assisting others to carve out visions and projects that are concerned with making positive contribution themselves and their communities. Raya has designed a sequence of sessions, carefully tailored for her clients. These sessions involve reflective discussions and explorations though art and brainstorming as well as mindful practice.
Raya's approach towards communicating and connecting with her clients on multiple levels is uplifting. Her knowledge and wisdom enhances the experience of the course.
I would gladly recommend Raya's Feminine and Masculine Energy Balance program to any one who is looking to expand themselves.
Sep 25, 2021
Protocol and Business Etiquette Adviser
(Russia, Israel, UAR)
Victoria Falman
When you are a Oleh Hadash, in Israel, you, moreover, do not have a fashionable specialty, and your ideas meet with misunderstanding of the“ experienced ” people.
You have two ways.
First: forget about ideas, experience and 3 higher educations and do unskilled labor.
Second: still try to find a worthy place in the new conditions.
And here the help and support of a professional is needed. Raya's coaching helped me a lot. Raya explained to me how it works here, gave very specific advices, thanks to which I mastered new tools for myself, without which there is no way to growth!
Very friendly and supportive. A lot of advices and useful links after the calls were priceless! You understand that here you have a person who is interested in your success, although, it would seem, why all of a sudden?
Highly recommend! Raya, thanks! I am yours forever!
Feb 15, 2021
Architect, 25 years experience in Interiors
Rena Feder Shalem
Raya is a powerful coach. I was working on a project with a team who could not always meet in person, and my project had lost focus and momentum. I was nervous and ambivalent about leading the upcoming conference call. Raya helped me to prepare mentally for the call, as well as to build a strong structure for the call. I began the call by taking responsibility as the team leader and reestablishing our power as a team. This created an atmosphere of integrity, responsibility and generosity in our team communication that helped me focus the discussion while encouraging participation, keep to our agenda, set achievable and manageable goals and finish this very productive call on time. I was empowered as a leader by her coaching, and in turn my team was empowered.
Jul 17, 2018
SW Engineer, Start-up owner
Alexander Khalifer
Raya was my coach for almost a year.
So Honest, Strait, Tough and Laser Sharp. For each and every coaching session I get the being of clarity and ease,
I'm free to see and to discover what's available in any situation, what is the next step to grow, what is the next level to reach. Out of Raya's absolute commitment, she is a stable stand for my authentic being, effectiveness and success.
Apr 18, 2019