Trainers team

Marilyn Atkinson Ph.D. is the founder of Erickson Coaching International and creator of Erickson coaching model focused on solutions.
She observed for years the work of Milton Erickson and named Erickson Coaching International after him. She had a privilege to work directly with Fritz Perls, the creator of Gestalt psychology. During the last 10 years she has been developing highly effective and specialized coaching trainings (ICF ACTP “The Art and Science of Coaching”), that are being held every year in more than 85 countries all over the world. She is author or co-author of 7 books, including book trilogy “The Art and Science of Coaching”.

Predrag is a senior partner at Atria Group. His role in the company is international business development. He is a mentor, trainer and coach with extensive international experience. As a trainer and coach Peđa works with companies and individuals around the world (Serbia, Czech Republic, Portugal, Germany, Poland, India, Singapore, Brazil, Qatar, Austria, Bulgaria etc.). His areas of expertise are: coaching, NLP, leadership development, effective communication, sales and presentation skills. He has had the opportunity to lead several large projects in the area of leadership development and change in corporate culture, as well as number of different training and coaching programs. So far he has more than 1.000 days of training and more than 2.000 hours of coaching. Before he became a professional trainer and coach, Predrag had spent ten years in various sales positions. He worked as a sales representative of US-based “Arrow Electronics” for Serbia and Montenegro, sales engineer for company “Vita Elko” and regional sales manager in the Japanese company “Omron Electronics” for South East Europe. Predrag graduated electrical engineering at the Department of Physical Electronics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. The structure, resistance, and flexibility are the most important characteristics of his work. Some of his titles are NLP Fellow Member Trainer (IANLP), Master Certified Coach (MCC) (International Coach Federation), ICF Mentor Coach, PCM Certified Trainer, Persona Global Master Consultant.

ICF-ACC professional coach by trade, team player at heart. Marija Branovački has acquired many years of experience in working with people in the position of Sales Manager for Serbia in a global pharmaceutical company Sanofi. She has led a number of projects and workshops in the field of people and team development. Business coaching is a part of her day-to-day work and team coaching is the field which she is most comfortable in. By education she is a Doctor of Medicine – she has graduated from the Medical Faculty of the University of Belgrade. She currently holds the position of Head of Growth and Partner at Atria Group. She has led a large number of employee development projects in numerous companies in Serbia and the region. Her area of expertise is working with teams and coaching individuals, focusing on potential development, personal and professional development of employees.

A lawyer and trainer for over 15 years and a member of Erickson’s Training faculty, Silvia developed her career mainly in Intellectual Property, anti-counterfeiting, protection of rights and innovation, allowing creativity to be part of her legal work. She trained and mentored young lawyers helping them develop their capabilities and build their businesses. This work later became her inspiration towards Human Development, which eventually brought her to the amazing world of coaching and Solution Focused Development, transforming her world and empowering her clients. Drawing on her background and line of work in training, mentoring, and entrepreneurship, she became an advocate for the development of creativity and innovation in Business and Talent. An ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Registered Mentor she coaches and facilitates groups and teams of entrepreneurs and business executives. Professionally linked to companies for over 20 years, she founded her own branded company “Beyond Bright Minds” with the mission of bringing more creativity and innovation to education and lifelong learning, talent management, business, environment and to society for global contribution to progress, prosperity and well-being. Silvia is bilingual Portuguese and English working in both languages as a trainer, coach, and mentor.

Elena Antonovska is ICF – Professional Certified Coach and Trainer, with a main focus on deep transformation through coaching and developing individual leadership potential, widening the perspective and supporting motivation, creativity & connection.
Elena is committed to building trust in the process and support clients to gain awareness, maintain openness, create solutions, set goals and take action. She is passionate in uncovering clients hidden resources they can use to achieve results, personal and/or organizational.

Being a leader and entrepreneur herself for over 15 years she is very conscious of the advantages and challenges of the business context and executive`s position.
Owner of Ars Lucida – Coaching & Training and in March 2017 she is selected as Women Manager of the year 2016 in the area of personal & professional development.
Areas of expertise: Management & Leadership, Authentic Leadership, Resilience & Presence, Mindfulness, Deep Coaching, Solution Focused Coaching.