Krysta Tzelepi, is a seasoned solution focused leadership coach, and team facilitator with over 2500 hours of coaching executives at all levels. She is the founder, and managing partner of Treasure Lab PC, an International Faculty Member of SolutionSurfers and a Celemi business partner for Greece and Cyprus. Krysta is also a Certified Professional Co-active Coach, an Authorized Team Facilitator by Team Coaching International – TCI and in 2019, she was trained as a PCC Assessor, for the International Coaching Federation-ICF.
With a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Athens, a B.A. in Psychology from Deree College and an M.A. from Tufts University on a full scholarship, Krysta started her career in teaching and later moved to HR for 10 years. She served as a country HR Manager for Marks & Spencer, as country Learning & Development Mgr for Citibank, before making a shift to Learning & Executive Development with her own consultancy firm in 2000.
As an ICF-accredited MCC coach, since 2010, she is one of the pioneers who brought coaching to the Greek market in 2004 and who later introduced solution focused coaching in Greece. Since 2011, she runs the Solution Focused Coaching School- ACSTH, in cooperation with SolutionSurfers International.
Ιn 2022, Krysta, in cooperation with Leda Panayotopoulou, Assistant Professor of the Athens University of Economics and Business designed and implemented the 1st Coaching Research to be done in Greece: Business Coaching Practices in the Greek Market. The results were presented in conferences and published in professional magazines.
Krysta is a founding member and previous President of the ICF Greece Charter Chapter (2021) as well as a founding member of the Hellenic Coaching Association-EMCC.
At Treasure Lab, together with her colleagues and the client, they co-create coaching & leadership development programs. The programs are practical, contain steps, use coaching as a tool for change and bring tangible results. So far, over 4,000 executives have participated in such programs. Clients are large and multinational companies, indicatively: Alpha Bank, BIC, Diageo, Eurobank, Fraport, JTI, Lafarge, Leroy Merlin, L’Oreal, TITAN and others.
As a speaker, she has participated in HR and Management Conferences in Greece, Turkey, Romania etc. as well as TEDx events.
In November 2019, the Coaching program designed for Leroy Merlin, received the only HR Award (Boussias Communication), in the category of Effective Use of Coaching.
In her free time, among other things, she loves lively discussions with friends, lunches with the family, joyous celebrations and enjoying a glass of wine with the Aegean in the background.
Treasure Lab is a boutique company offering solution-focused coaching and executive development programs, that facilitate change while enhancing performance & engagement.
