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About
I grew up on the East Coast, studied in Boston, and spent most of my adult life in San Francisco before a year-long sabbatical brought me to New Zealand. I fell in love with the country and made the move at the start of 2025. I still travel regularly between New Zealand and the US. Both worlds feel like home now. I spent a decade in consulting and tech in the Bay Area. But beyond my professional identity, I've always thought of myself as an artist too. I paint, and that instinct for creativity carries into how I work with clients. I'm also a 200-hour certified yoga instructor. Years of practicing yoga and meditating across different countries changed how I think about decisions, resilience, and what good judgment actually looks like under pressure. Now I coach full time and invest in the New Zealand startup ecosystem. I work with ambitious people who are usually at a crossroads between where they've been and where they know they want to go. If that sounds familiar, I'd love to connect. When I'm not working, you can find me painting, on the tennis court, in a fitness class, or out hiking and camping somewhere in the beautiful New Zealand outdoors.
Veronika also coaches for Management Consulting, Product Management, Business Operations & Strategy, Career Coaching, Life Coaching, and Business Analytics & Intelligence. View all.
Veronika’s Break Into AI Careers Qualifications
Coaches professionally
Experience level: Manager
AI Certified
Completed Level 1 of Leland’s AI Builder Program
Veronika has helped clients get into these companies:
I've made this move multiple times. And I'm not talking about job hopping. I mean actually switching between consulting and tech, each time learning something that made me better at helping others do it. Oliver Wyman to pre-IPO tech to a YC startup back to Boston Consulting Group (BCG). I know what actually works because I've done it and I've watched others do it. What I help you with is translating your consulting skills into AI/tech language and landing that job offer. I've been the consultant who was terrified to switch. Let me help you make your next move with confidence.
Veronika can help with:
Cover Letters
Interview Prep
Job Search Strategies
LinkedIn Review
Networking Strategy
Resume
Salary Negotiation
Skill Building
Why do I coach?
Coaching holds significant meaning for me because I've witnessed the powerful effects of guidance and support during difficult periods in my life. Having mentors believe in me enabled me to surmount obstacles and unearth hidden strengths. Now, as a coach, I'm dedicated to passing on this invaluable support by empowering others to embark on their own paths of personal growth and self-discovery. Coaching transcends mere goal attainment; it's about assisting individuals in realizing their inherent potential, overcoming challenges, and embracing a more enriching existence.
Work Experience
Career Coach
Veronika Stephano Coaching
2026 - Present
Coaching two kinds of people: those breaking into top consulting firms, and those looking to move into tech. Bringing a perspective most coaches can only theorize about, based on having made that exact move personally, more than once. Clients have gone on to roles at BCG, Bain, Oliver Wyman, Deloitte, and Apple among others. Recognized by Leland as a Rising Star Coach.
Consultant
Boston Consulting Group
2025 - 2026
Interviewer
Consultant at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), relocated to New Zealand to join the newly launched Auckland office, helping build out BCG's presence and client base in the country. Selected for the 2026 CEO Ambassador class as a People Ambassador, working with senior leadership on key People initiatives shaping BCG's future growth. Focus: building strategic workforce planning capabilities in the age of AI.
Principal Product Manager
The RealReal
2023 - 2025
Interviewer
Principal Product Manager at the world’s largest online marketplace for authenticated, consigned luxury goods (NASDAQ: REAL). Focus: developing ML-powered pricing systems + drop ship infrastructure to unlock new supplier networks.
World Traveler
Sabbatical
2023 - 2023
Pursued a long held dream of exploring 33 countries, with the intention of broadening my horizons and expanding my exposure to different cultures around the world. Highlights include: road tripping across the US, touring New Zealand for a month by van, surfing in Byron Bay, hiking the W Trek in Torres Del Paine, doing a 28 day overland tour from Kenya down to Johannesburg, trekking to Everest Base Camp, becoming a 200-hr certified yoga teacher in Nepal, skiing in the French Alps and Hakuba, Japan.
Vice President, Strategy & Operations
Seer
2022 - 2022
Hiring Manager
First business-side executive hire outside the founding team (CEO, CTO). Owned all business functions plus Product at Seer, a YC-backed SaaS platform reinventing omnichannel retail through shoppable content.
Manager, Strategy & Analytics
The RealReal
2019 - 2022
Hiring Manager
Strategy & Analytics Manager at the world’s largest online marketplace for authenticated, consigned luxury goods (NASDAQ: REAL). Focus: leading Product, Marketing, and Merchandising analytics.
Senior Management Consultant
Oliver Wyman
2017 - 2019
Interviewer
Consultant
Deloitte
2016 - 2016
Veronika was also given offers to work at
Deloitte
General Electric
Education
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
School of Business and Management
Boston College
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Magna Cum Laude, Majors: Finance and Information Systems, Minor: Studio Arts
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Veronika has helped clients get into these companies:
Veronika also coaches for Management Consulting, Product Management, Business Operations & Strategy, Career Coaching, Life Coaching, and Business Analytics & Intelligence. View all.