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I collected 11 themes and stories from my life that can give you an insight who I am and what my journey has been so far.

For my official CV scroll down to the bottom of the website!

1. Explorer

I am curious and I love people. I am an explorer of the world and myself. These drivers give me all the energy day by day and have taken me to many amazing places in the world. I have always been interested both in the hard core and soft stuff: what is behind the numbers, behaviour and humans. I am passionate to enable organisations and individuals to start a transformation outside of their comfort zone. To help them get ready for the agile volatile world and design the Well version of themselves. 

2. Learning

I hold an MSc in Corporate Finance and an MSc in Education. I am an ICF accredited brain-based coach, a yoga and meditation practitioner & teacher. I acquired several great certifications during these years in workshop facilitation, design thinking, agile coaching, project management, change management, etc… I incorporate them in my toolkit. I am open minded and very pragmatic at the same time.

3. Consultant

My professional identity has been defined by being a management consultant for 15+ years leading large scale business transformation journeys globally. My focus has always been on culture, change management, people and leadership development, operational excellence. I worked for several consulting companies over the years. What kept me in consulting for so long is that I enjoyed the variety of people and cultures and problems to solve. Plus the flexibility and traveling.

4. Home

I can feel home in many places around the world, especially in these countries: Hungary where I was born and raised, Switzerland where I moved when I was 30 and have been living here since 10 years now, Spain where my partner is from and where his family lives. I lived several months in the US, Denmark, Germany and the United Arab Emirates. I feel like a world-citizen in my heart, and home is where I have friends and family around.

5. Worker

I used to work only to get paid and to buy what I needed. I had a job every summer since I was 14 years old: selling board games as a sales agent (HU), doing dishes in the kitchen of a summer camp (HU), working at a car factory’s assembly line (DE), being a shop assistant in a fast food restaurant and then at a high end restaurant (USA), until I landed in a summer internship at a strategy consulting firm. Still, I needed some years to experience that work can be something what I truly enjoy, it’s an opportunity to express myself and to create impact in the world. When this clicked, I discovered my true calling.

6. Moving the body and mind

I have always loved movement, especially that connected the body and mind. As a teenager I did aikido, a Japanese martial art for several years. In my twenties I was into running (half marathons) and rock climbing. In my thirties I discovered yoga which transformed my whole life. In 2017 I spend one month in a Buddhist Monastery in Nepal to become a yoga and meditation teacher. In 2019 I went for a 10 day Vipassana, silent retreat in Hong Kong. I am a life-long practitioner of these techniques. I believe the goal is to cultivate self-awareness and these are some of the tools that lead there. Still, there are other ways as well. E.g. these days I like doing cold dips in the lake in the winter and I consider this is a strong mind training.

7. Nature Lover

I discovered nature quite late in my life. As a kid we did not go hiking at all with my family. In 2014 when I chose Switzerland as my new home, one of the main motivation factors was the proximity to nature and mountains. I started to realise the positive impact of nature on me while I had super intense periods as a consultant. For some years I have been using nature in my work in various formats, e.g. co-facilitator in coaching, workshops outdoors, walk & talks.

8. Family

I became a mom in 2020 which was life-changing in many ways. I have to admit I was out of my comfort zone at the beginning, especially that this was in the middle of the pandemic. I consider motherhood as a life experience. I learn probably more from and through my son than I will ever be able to teach him. As my partner is from Spain, we speak 4 languages (Hungarian, Catalan, Swiss/German, English) in our home.

9. Why Wellbeing

In 2016 while working on a dream project in the Middle East as a change lead for a huge transformation program, witnessing colleagues getting burn out and having myself hypertension, I realised that it is not enough if I do my individual wellbeing practice while the company culture around me is toxic. This experience inspired me to look for techniques how I could bring others along, how I could incorporate tools in my workshops, meetings, any interaction to create a Wellbeing Culture around me and in my organisation.

10. Entrepreneur

I have always been inspired by entrepreneurship. Now here I am, I became one! I chose this path as of now at least, as this offered me the best playground for putting my ideas around organisational wellbeing into practice. Would I go back to an employed set up? Yes, I don’t say it is impossible. I like the freedom but… it has also a price, the level of uncertainty at least at the beginning of an enterprise that can create fear and stress. It is a steep learning curve though and I am happy I took the courage to embark on this journey.

11. Today

Inspired by my own wellbeing journey as a busy professional in a highly competitive environment I developed a method around wellbeing which goes beyond the individual focusing on teams, organisations, systems. I founded Wellbeing Designers, an innovative company on a mission to design sustainable work-life, human-centric organisations and Wellbeing Cultures.

Sharing about my WHY in 2019

During one of my travels in 2019 I met a buddhist monk. We started to talk about life and it turned out that he became a monk just recently. Before, he worked for a big multinational company traveling a lot, having a stressful but “successful” life. At one point he decided that he wanted to live a different life. So he became a monk! And you know what I always tell my friends and clients? That you don't have to become a monk to find balance in life:)

This is a very extreme example. However, the conversation with the monk just increased my determination that we have to design individual and corporate wellbeing in a way that not everyone has to become a monk to find balance. As we spend so much time at work, companies and leaders in society have a huge responsibility to help create a culture and a mindset of wellbeing. The advantage is significant; as wellbeing fosters creativity, innovation and happiness.

Industry Experience

2025 - Zurich Insurance Group - Global Head of Wellbeing & DEIB

2023 - 2025 The Josh Bersin Company - Affiliate Senior Advisor

2022 - Wellbeing Designers - Founder & CEO

2021 - 2022: Novartis - Global Leadership Dev. Engagement Lead

2019 - Reka Deak Consulting & Coaching

2019 - 2021: Shake Up the Workplace - Co-Founder

2018 - 2019: Implement Consulting Group - Management Consultant

2014 - 2018: PA Consulting Group - Principal Consultant

2012 - 2014: The Hackett Group - Senior Transformation Consultant

2010 - 2012: KPMG - Senior Advisor

2009 - 2010: MOL Group - Business Development Associate

2009: Roland Berger - Strategy Consulting Intern

2008: Accenture - Analyst Intern

2007 - 2008: Meyer Jabara Hotels - Intern

Locations: worldwide e.g. Hungary, UK, Germany, Denmark, US, UAE, Switzerland

Education

2020 - International Coach Federation - ACC certified Coach

2019 - NeuroLeadership Institute - Brain-Based Coach

2017 - International Yoga Alliance - Yoga and Meditation Teacher

2008 - Copenhagen Business School - Exchange semester

2003 - 2009: Corvinus University of Budapest - MsC in Corporate Finance

2003 - 2009: Corvinus University of Budapest - MsC in Education

2003 - 2008: University of Passau - Deutschsprachiger Studiengang

Certificates

Various Certificates from the Josh Bersin Academy; ORSC Team and Relationship Coaching Fundamentals; Nature as Co-Facilitator in Coaching; Yoga Nidra and Vinyasa Yoga Teacher; Design Thinking Trainer, Driving and Releasing Change Trainer, Project Management