“Your legacy is created one day at a time.
What legacy are you creating today?”
~ vera anderson
Beneath their financial success, my clients privately Experience:
- Struggle with losing control, personal identity, and uncertainty as they exit a business
- Discomfort of unanticipated complexities of preserving and managing wealth, and the new skillset it requires
- Burden of unresolved dysfunctional partnerships and relationships from the past and present
- Heaviness of responsibility for current and future generations without having good role models to follow
- Realization that more free time and unlimited resources do not guarantee a happy and fulfilling life
what clients say
“Since our first sessions, much has occurred, but it is not an exaggeration to say that I am a very different person on a very different path. I have successfully wound down value-destroying parts of my business and have in fact made successful exits from others that I expected I’d remain in forever, creating a new path for my life.
Within the first few months, I’d progressed to awareness of my own unawareness, and by implication, all I’d papered over with my relentless focus on endlessly winning the last war. With the help of Vera’s piercing yet compassionate powers of observation, which prompted self-analysis and strategic rigor I was before long ruthlessly pruning dead weight and toxic commitments from my professional and personal life.
I regained some elbow room and oxygen in my thought space through simplifying, prioritizing, and self-honesty more confronting than I’d thought possible. In doing so old wounds and long hidden cognitive biases were found that had progressively distorted my vision and sapped my drive for decades.
These were methodically addressed with practices and habits to fortify mental and physical strength and resilience and I was amazed at the extent to which Vera personalized them to my own profile, implementing alternative solutions where others met unnecessary mental resistance.
My health and spirit continue to grow, and for the first time in many, many years I now see the future as a range of possibilities defined less by what I think I should do, and more by who I want to be.
For guiding me to the beginnings of that life, assisting me in identifying and devising solutions to the obstacles before me, and sustaining the patience to coax my thick head open so that I could see them at all, I will be forever in Vera’s debt.
No matter your level of success, however you define that to be, you will never know what you don’t know. Even those of us who have all the answers don’t have all the questions. As a natural skeptic, I give my assurance that should you have a chance to work with Vera you will be surprised how much more there is and can be to life.”
A. Dunlop - Principal, Private Family Office
The Process
Vera delivers a customized, one-on-one, multi-disciplinary experience to achieve client objectives and enhance all aspects of their life and legacy.
Client outcomes include:
Clear direction for life beyond succession and business exits
New purpose and position of significance in retirement
Positive multi-generational impact on family and in the world
Healthy and vibrant relationships with family and friends
Significant improvement in personal health and mental state
I share your drive for success and personal fulfillment.
As the granddaughter of a Russian diplomat and the daughter of a Russian Olympic coach, I was raised with an expectation of excellence.
I experienced a profound loss in the market crash of 2008 -- not only business and financial -- I lost my business partner of eight years to suicide. From that time, I have been on a personal quest to learn, heal and rise from that low. In doing so I found myself continually seeking and growing toward my own full potential in business, and as an individual.
What I’ve discovered is that life and its pressures and conflicting expectations can create unsustainable lifestyles and destructive belief systems. Everyone goes through this at some point in their work and life, but we don’t always see it, and are all affected differently. I have experienced this firsthand, working as an operating partner for a multinational manufacturing conglomerate, serving on boards of directors in three countries, and launching a number of other businesses.
And I’ve discovered something I am passionate about sharing with others, applying what I’ve learned and tested for myself. My work has now become my legacy and empowers others in a profound way that helps them reach their full potential in business, live a fulfilling life, and enjoy rich relationships. My life’s work is to help others intentionally create their own legacy and recognize and reach their fullest potential.