Testimonials

"Absolute tip tier recommendation. With her help I was able to follow through on a goal I've had for over a decade (resign and move out of state from AK to NY)."- Stephen Long

I whole-heartedly recommend Ida and often tell people they should book a call with her if I get a sense they're serious about personal growth. Her open-minded, non-judgmental, targeted inquiry quickly gets me either to the edge of my understanding or face-to-face with some scary thing I need to address in order to grow.- Rai Sur, Cofounder at Sentinel

I am so grateful for Ida - I call her my 'life tactical coach' and she's helped me resolve such a broad category of life challenges, from health to business to relationships to running a 350-person event. I love that she excels in both logistical and emotional layers. When my health was particularly intractable and also required lots of logistics to make progress, she helped me resolve the logistical challenges and offered hope where I was losing touch with it. Now I am much healthier, yay! I consider her a +20% powerup on my general quality and growth rate of my life, and she's been instrumental to my business - I trust her judgement enough to lean on her quite heavily for when solopreneurship starts feeling lonely. I've worked with her for two and a half years now, and the value is only increasing, because now she knows me even better! Big vouch for her ability to support with long-term, years-long projects (my health was one such project).- Elena, bodyworker, former mathematician, ex-MIT

I've worked with her the last year+ and benefited tremendously ... Strongly recommend if you’d like your executive coach to have a complete rationalist/inner work toolkit, while also being easy to get along with.- Jason Benn, Founder of the Neighborhood

Ida is my mental conditioning coach. That's not an official title, but it's the most accurate one I've got. I came to her juggling indie research, standup, and building a startup. I was treating them all like the same kind of problem and discipline. That worked fine until I got past planning.

Most people have advice and that's it, which is like taking rockstar notes from someone who's only ever been in the audience. Ida has actually been on stage. Neuroscience, performing arts, engineering, mental health. So she doesn't hand me advice, she thinks with me. She's supportive in a practical way: we talk things through, and then I go work on the parts I find hard. The gap between what I plan and what I actually do has been shrinking ever since.- Yad Konrad

Working with Ida has been a true joy and help to me! I've been in the process of navigating a career change and starting a solo business venture. Ida has been a sounding board for me when I'm in times of executive thinking overwhelm, and she's helped me simplify my thought processes around things that feel overly complex. She's great at holding space and finding a way to be useful to me even when I'm not super clear what it is that I need to do. Her presence is very grounded, rational, and empathetic; she gives me a good reality check and also space to dream and expand my sense of possibilities. I usually leave our sessions feeling re-inspired and much more clear about my path forward. And I have to add that she's extraordinarily flexible and easeful when it comes to scheduling! Thank you Ida!- Emma Arata

"Ida is great! Highly recommend."- Coleman Hindes, Founder at Mimetic

"I can vouch for Ida being a very helpful person to talk to. She's very patient, asks all the right questions, and always leaves me feeling like I had a really good conversation and I'm happy I used my time this way."- Austin Chen, Cofounder of Manifold