Empowering impact-focused individuals and businesses to create the seemingly impossible

MARIYA SOSHINSKAYA

Her Mindful Venture

“As we have 2 fundamental needs, to grow and to contribute to something bigger than ourselves.”

Mariya Soshinskaya is a former finance professional turned sustainability advisor, yoga teacher, serial entrepreneur and strategist, advocate for workplace wellness, and leadership coach. Mariya left her career in Corporate Finance in search for more purpose and meaning, which took her to the Netherlands to get a Masters in Sustainable Development & Innovation where she co-founded a sustainable transportation Foundation and became a certified yoga teacher to help her manage stress and anxiety.

As she launched her career in impact investing with the Dutch Development Bank, she also founded and grew a workplace yoga and mindfulness program to a community of over one hundred employees. Yet after nearly 6 years in Development Banking focused on green and inclusive business growth, she witnessed countless burnouts of passionate colleagues and leaders, and nearly burnt out herself twice.

THROUGH THIS JOURNEY, SHE REALIZED 3 THINGS:

1.

Passionate professionals and leaders who haven’t invested in their self-awareness and personal growth are highly susceptible to chronic fatigue and burnout, which decreases their quality of life, negatively impacts organizational performance, and limits their positive impact. Effective team and organizational leadership starts with self-leadership.

2.

The power of mindfulness techniques, meditation, and breathwork to build self-awareness, manage stress, increase emotional resilience, and improve focus to prevent burning out and improve performance in a constantly changing and high pressure environment.

3.

As a business, it is too easy to impact-wash. Climate change and inequality won’t be solved by large multi-nationals incrementally improving their social and environmental footprints. These larger global issues need massive game-changing innovation today, which small and medium-sized impact-focused organizations are more agile and capable of doing, yet often don’t have the strategy and resources to grow.

From these realizations, Mariya left Development Banking and Mindful Venture was born, combining mindful personal development and growth  with world-centric business strategy.  Mariya is dedicated to the growth, resilience, and success of impact-focused professionals and businesses who will push humanity forward to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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Vision - Mission - Values

Imagine a world where everyone is living their dream life, feeling alive, full of purpose, energy, contentment, and in balance through all the changes and challenges that life presents.

A world where everyone is passionate about what they are doing, learning and growing to their full potential, while building amazing lasting relationships and getting healthier as they age.

A world where purpose-driven, world-centric businesses and their leaders are constantly investing in the well-being of their people and disrupting the status quo to push humanity forward.

This is the world that I’m committed to build. I am on a mission to support passionate professionals, leaders, and entrepreneurs - the change makers, disruptors, impact makers, game changers, future makers - to unlock their potential and push humanity and the world forward to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals to create a better future.

My foundational values are woven into every conversation, decision, vision, plan, and action with you:

Imagine a world where everyone is living their dream life, feeling alive, full of purpose, energy, contentment, and in balance through all the changes and challenges that life presents.

A world where everyone is passionate about what they are doing, learning and growing to their full potential, while building amazing lasting relationships and getting healthier as they age.

A world where purpose-driven, world-centric businesses and their leaders are constantly investing in the well-being of their people and disrupting the status quo to push humanity forward.

This is the world that I’m committed to build. I am on a mission to support passionate professionals, leaders, and entrepreneurs - the change makers, disruptors, impact makers, game changers, future makers - to unlock their potential and push humanity and the world forward to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals to create a better future.

My foundational values are woven into every conversation, decision, vision, plan, and action with you:

Connection - Courage - Innovation - Freedom - Authenticity

What others value working with Mariya

“Her presence commanded the room without ever dominating it; this created space for every voice while maintaining purposeful direction throughout.”

Her clarity ensured even the most complex frameworks landed simply and immediately.

- Julius W., Product Manager at Ignite Energy Access

“I am feeling lighter and more balanced.”

I struggled a lot with an overwhelming workload as a Partner in the business and a tendency to overwork. Since implementing the tools we’ve learned while working with Mariya, I’m now ‘at capacity’ rather than ‘over capacity’ and catching glimpses of mental calm throughout my day so I can think more strategically.

- Michael R., Co-Managing Partner of The Landscapes and Livelihoods Group

“Mariya is good at tackling complexity, developing a balanced view, figuring out ways to simplify, and then translating into conclusions and actions.”

I have always appreciated Mariya’s ability to understand perspectives that may be different from her own and to handle such situations constructively.

- Mareike H., ESG Director at Sail Ventures