Speaker, Lawyer, Executive Coach and Consultant

Elina is an executive coach with The Preston Associates and the founder of The LightUp Lab, through which Elina seeks to inspire and empower people and organizations through positive psychology, mindfulness and executive coaching. Elina firmly believes that finding meaning and purpose in work is integral to happiness and works with individuals, teams, and organizations to ensure that purpose is at the center of the conversation.

Elina is passionate about entrepreneurship and works closely with founders and leadership teams of dynamic growth businesses. She zealously helps visionaries and disrupters to build rocket ships – and do it with personal purpose, authenticity, and balance.

Elina partners closely with female leaders, facilitating inspiring peer coaching conversations and creating impactful women leadership programs to foster wisdom, growth, and tangible business results.

Elina built her executive experience as an investment management attorney at the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and the Global Markets Department of Credit Suisse. She is an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School, where her course “Positive Lawyering” is an innovative integration of positive psychology principles into the legal profession. Her article “ Positive Psychology Coaching Model for the Legal Profession” will be published in the Journal of the Legal Profession in early 2022.

Elina holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from New York University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. She also holds her M.A. in Psychology from Columbia University, Teacher’s College and has completed the Columbia Executive Coaching Certification Program.