Meet Mania

My name is Mania Kanaki and I am a certified positive psychology coach. I am also a life-and-people-enthusiast, a keen explorer and learner, a challenge-seeker, a dedicated swimmer and a lover of the great outdoors.

I hold a degree in Business Administration from the Athens University of Economics and Business and an MBA in Finance from City University’s Business School. I also hold certifications in Positivity Coaching by ICF, the Science of Happiness by UC Berkeley, Coaching with Positive Psychology by the Wholebeing Institute and Personality Inventory Assessments by Hogan.

For over 16 years I was employed in the banking and finance sector, managing business lending for multinational and local banks. Later, I went on setting up and running my own company, a call center which started off with five people and grew to more than 70. After selling by business, I headed the Greek and Balkans branch of a multinational credit scoring firm, before finally deciding to leave the corporate world for good, realizing that I was longing for something more.

Over the years I have experienced firsthand from myself, colleagues, employees and clients, from friends and working parents, how most people working in today’s fast-paced business world feel not only stressed and pressured, but also without a clear direction or any sense of accomplishment. Many have little regard for their own well-being and even less ownership of any personally meaningful goals.

My own personal quests led me to study Coaching and Positive Psychology. Gaining so much from it myself, I realized that I had a meaningful purpose: To identify great ways to help people move to a new place in their lives. A place where they can realize what they truly want and even more importantly who they really want to be. A place of calm and a sense of purpose and direction which I believe can only be achieved by first getting to feel better every day and then beginning to define and move towards personally meaningful goals, one step at a time.

Having already helped enough people achieve this, I am confident in the value that Coaching with Positive Psychology’s scientifically proven insights and methods can offer to everyone regardless of age or profession and despite any challenges they might be facing in their lives.

For more information, please watch my intro video. Also, make sure you check our clients’ testimonials!