Virpi Jalonen

Executive Coach, Career Coach, HR, Startup Advisor @The Career Atelier

🧑‍💼 C-level Executive💰 Investor & VC🔥 Startup FounderBusiness Owner👍 Sales & BizDev🗿 HR🧨 Consulting🧮 Education🏐 SportsAngel✨ Business OwnerGeneral PartnerHead HunterHR DirectorHR consultantLife CoachingExecutive CoachHR GeneralistHR Business PartnerTraining&Development SpecialistSoft Skills TrainerPartnerCPOAdvisorCoach

Virpi Jalonen is a highly experienced ICF ACC certified executive coach, career coach, HR director, and startup advisor at The Career Atelier. She has helped +200 people from various backgrounds to reach their career goals and +90 entrepreneurs to start their business and startups to expand their business. She helps individuals and organizations achieve their full potential through strategic planning, talent management, and leadership development. Her expertise lies in her ability to identify and address challenges, improve performance, and drive growth. As a startup advisor, she provides valuable insights and guidance to help startups navigate their way to success. With her extensive HR background, she also excels in creating effective People & Culture strategies that align with business objectives.

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Work Background

EZRA CoachingLeadership Coach

Mar. 2024Finland · RemoteDevelop your leaders. Bring out the best in your people. Increase employee motivation, productivity and retention. Coaching is a superpower. It shouldn't just be for execs. EZRA is a people development platform offering accessible, high-impact coaching - delivered at scale. It's like face-to-face coaching, only more affordable (and you can do it without leaving home.). Coaching, redesigned for the digital age. Now everyone can be better with a coach.

The ShortcutCareer Coach & Head of Career Development

Apr. 2021The Shortcut is the place for professional and social integration in Finland. As Career Coach and Program Lead for The Shortcut's Työ-SIB Career Coaching program (tyosib.fi/en/), my role is to support international talents to build meaningful careers and to ensure great quality coaching services together with our Työ-SIB team. +200 coaching clients. +1000 coaching hours. Facilitating +30 online workshops. Achievements: - Creating, ramping up, leading and implementing The Shortcut's Career Coaching program for Työ-SIB - Scaling the coaching services (program + community) and increasing the client volumes while ensuring high quality and service - Over 100 people employed during the first 1,5 years within all coaching services - Wonderful feedback from clients

NestholmaStartup Mentor

Mar. 2021 - Jun. 2022Helping our startups grow and coaching people to reach their full potential!

NestholmaChief Executive Officer

Jun. 2020 - Mar. 2021Alicante, Valencia, Spain

NestholmaRenewal Strategist & C.O.O.

Jan. 2020 - Jun. 2020Alicante, Valencia, SpainWe at Nestholma engage corporations and startups to collaborate together, going beyond the typical startup hype and making the collaboration actually happen. We help in cultural transformation and are particularly good at helping the financial institutions become more entrepreneurial, agile and resilient. For HR's all over the world, I'm the entrepreneurial booster that can help your cultural transformation to become reality throughout the organization. I can also help people towards new beginnings and support even in the toughest restructuring situations by providing entrepreneurial training and startup accelerator programs for laid-off employees. For startups, I'm a devoted coach. It's so fascinating to see what a team of amazing talents is capable to achieve and my job is to support them on that journey. And inside Nestholma, I'm the C.O.O. Besides handling the operational part I handle anything needed from the wellbeing of our team and business & web development into talent scouting. But what I'd like to aim for is what my 4-year-old daughter whispers to me sometimes before going to sleep: Mom, you're a unicorn.

NestholmaRenewal Strategist

Apr. 2019 - Jan. 2020Alicante, SpainEngaging HR departments into the startup collaboration and transforming organizations together. As a coach and facilitator, I supported both personnel in financial institutions (top banks in Spain) in becoming more entrepreneurial and startups in various areas of team development, leadership, business model clarification, problem and solution validation, project management, resourcing, branding, pitching and idea generation.

The Career AtelierModern Career Coach | ICF ACC certified | Founder

May. 2018The Career Atelier offers modern career coaching with a creative twist. Already over 200 people have reached their career goals after using the methods that are based on The Career Atelier's coaching and career counselling. You can get instant career support with our online courses or book us for team development workshops and personal career coaching. "The Modern Job Seeker’s Toolkit" is full of practical tutorials and tools to help you learn new skills while upgrading your CV and it inspires you to re-imagine your job applications to a whole new level. As a result, you’ll be able to reach your dream job fast! “Towards new beginnings” is an online course specially designed for unemployment and layoff situations to offer support and renewal in challenging career moments. This course helps to overcome the shock of losing a job, inspires to explore various career options including first steps towards entrepreneurship, guides to identify your strengths and helps to walk through a self-development journey towards the new career direction. With inspirational regards, Virpi Jalonen Your Personal Career Coach

FreelanceVarious Projects as Freelancer: Wisar, Business Landing, Distrito Digital Comunitat Valenciana

May. 2018 - Jul. 2019Spain · HybridCareer Coach at Wisar by Talent Revolution S.L. May 2018 - Nov 2018, Sant Cugat del Vallés, Barcelona area https://wisar.pro/ Key responsibility areas: - Career coaching, LinkedIn & CV advice - Interviewing candidates - Live & video recruitment events and career coaching at Ubiqum Code Academy Barcelona and Berlin www.ubiqum.com - Talent matching - Planning and implementing a recordable video interview process in cooperation with www.recright.com Ramp-Up Queen (Business Developer) in Business Landing Services Nov 2018-Jul 2019, Alicante Helped companies expand their business to Spain and to provide support and coaching to accelerate their way to success: - market research - business development - sales - navigating the bureaucratic jungle - piloting a new business venture - Helping teams communicate and collaborate better with the Everything DiSC® - The Culture Catalyst™ training (www.everythingdisc.com). Consultant at Distrito Digital Comunitat Valenciana Dec 2018 - Mar 2019, Alicante Helped and guided over 50 international startups in the application process entering the growing tech hub of Distrito Digital in Alicante. Brought the public sector closer to the startup ways of working. Developed the culture and processes into more agile direction. https://distritodigitalcv.es/

Rovio Entertainment Ltd.HR Manager for Rovio Hatch

Mar. 2015 - Jan. 2019Espoo, FinlandHR partner for Rovio's Business unit Hatch, providing full HR support to both the BU management team and employees. Key responsibility areas: - Setting the HR strategy and priorities for own business unit together with the BU management team and driving them forward together with HR Specialist and team leaders - Planning and implementing defined HR priorities, processes, projects and other activities in own BU (covering all areas of Rovio HR scope): • Talent Attraction and Acquisition • Flock Performance Management (including Rewarding) • Flock Development • Flock Engagement • World Class HR services • Providing support in internal change situation and organizational changes - Setting the priorities, leading projects and supporting HR colleagues in own functional HR area (Employer Branding, Talent attraction, Onboarding, End of Employment). Achievements: - Increasing the Rovio Hatch business unit's employee satisfaction survey results during 1H/2015 by driving the HR strategy and culture together with the Hatch leadership team On maternity & childcare leave Dec 2015 - Jan 2019.

Rovio Entertainment Ltd.Team Leader, Global Recruitment

Oct. 2012 - Feb. 2015EspooEnsuring and developing a world class recruitment and induction process for Rovio globally. Building the new recruitment team setup and cooperation with Business Unit HR managers. Leading and coaching Rovio's recruitment team. Headcount planning. Creating recruitment reporting system. Recruitment contact for Games Stockholm & Games Tampere. Partnership and vendor cooperation. Employer Branding. Cooperation with schools and universities. Orientation and Induction development. Achievements: - Pioneering by taking into usage video recruitment tool RecruitByNet (nowadays RecRight) to Rovio 2013 among the first companies in Finland - Leading Rovio's Global recruitment team with good spirit under big pressure and volumes On maternity leave April 2013 - February 2015.

Rovio Entertainment Ltd.Recruitment & Talent Manager

Aug. 2011 - Nov. 2012FinlandFinding the best talent to work in Rovio! Recruitment and sourcing, talent mining, employer branding, campus and university relations, recruitment trainings, HRD, relocation etc... you name it! Some of the main tasks and projects from the first year and a half at Rovio: - Recruiter for mainly Games business unit, ensuring a high quality talent selection process even with very high volumes and providing daily support for the hiring managers in their recruitment - Developing Rovio's recruitment process, recruitment tool and training model - Having recruitment trainings for the hiring managers - Creating a relocation process to Rovio - Daily support for the employees and managers also in other than recruitment related HR topics - Creating a campus employer branding plan and implementing that together with the HR assistant - Boosting Rovio's employer brand together with Marketing & Communications unit and engaging Rovio personnel to participate into building it - http://www.rovio.com/en/news/blog/163/rovio-ranked-4th-in-student-survey-on-finland%C2%B4s-ideal-employers/ - Representing Rovio in employer branding events and several recruitment fairs, eg. being key speaker at the Universum Awards 2012 - Developing further Rovio's induction and orientation process - Ramping up new sites, building the HR services, establishing the cooperation with local partners and handling the recruitments in Shanghai (until March 2012) Tampere, and Stockholm - Coordinating from HR side the merging of Futuremark employees as part of Rovio Games unit and providing support for the employees during the transfer - Keeping up a positive spirit also in tight situations ;)

NokiaRecruiter/ Talent Acquisition Manager

Dec. 2009 - Aug. 2011End to end recruitment process and internal reorganizing in Nokia's Mobile Phones, Services, Finance & Control and Human Resources units in Finland Region (Scandinavia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe). Responsible for coordinating Nokia's presence in Finland Region's recruitment fairs and other events. Cooperation with Finland schools and students. Coordinating Nokia Finland's summer trainee recruitment and support in organizing a virtual induction program for the summer trainees globally. Administration and development of www.facebook.com/nokiafuturetalent pages. Resourcing. Coaching the Finland Region recruitment team and giving induction for the colleagues. Training and supporting the managers and colleagues with end to end recruitment process and the recruitment tool. Achievements: - Doing employer branding in a new way and interacting with the fans: Valentine’s Day Competition 2011 in facebook.com/nokiafuturetalent. - Nominated as one of the most innovative recruiters in Nokia globally for building employer image and increasing the engagement and transparency by giving career guidance in facebook.com/nokiafuturetalent in the format of Christmas Calendar 2010. - Nokia’s internal annual performance evaluation: Exceptional.

NokiaHR Consultant

Aug. 2009 - Dec. 2009Daily HR support for Finland's managers and employees via resource mail box and HR call center. Developing the way of working. Global Mobility development project. Specialized in recruitment.

NokiaHR Specialist

Feb. 2008 - Aug. 2009Daily HR support for managers and employees, data administration and training of SAP R/3 and other tools. Achievements: - HR Specialist handling all system updates for Nokia's CEO and the Nokia Leadership team. - Supporting the transfer and training of SAP R3 administration work from Finland into India, Chennai (2 month's assignment), with excellent feedback. Ensuring a strong support and cooperation with India HR team during and after the transfer. - Nokia’s internal annual performance evaluation: Exceptional.