Minna Ikäheimonen joins Rokmind
Building growth and coaching change: Minna Ikäheimonen joins Rokmind
Rokmind’s coaching team is strengthened by an experienced business leader, entrepreneur and coach. Joining as Senior Executive Coach, Minna Ikäheimonen helps leaders, entrepreneurs and specialists clarify direction, build growth and turn change into practical action.
Organisations talk a great deal about growth, renewal and change. Real change, however, requires more than a good strategy or a new plan.
It emerges from how people understand the shared direction, the decisions made in daily work and how new practices become part of everyday activity.
This combination is also Minna Ikäheimonen’s particular strength. She examines growth simultaneously from the perspectives of the business, leadership and people.
More than 25 years of building something new
Minna has more than 25 years of experience in building businesses, leading companies and entrepreneurship. She has founded four companies and taken two of them to successful exits.
During her career, Minna has been responsible for launching new businesses, product development, marketing, sales and customer experience. She has also led demanding growth and change initiatives.
Experience has taught her that a good idea or ambitious objective alone is insufficient. Growth requires choices, prioritisation, leadership and the ability to bring people together to build and deliver change.
As a coach, Minna takes a practical view of the client’s situation. She understands what it means to carry responsibility for business results, make decisions under uncertainty and build something new before all the answers are available.
A strong understanding of people alongside the business
Growth and renewal involve more than structures, processes or numbers. They also concern people’s thinking, motivation, competence and sense of safety.
Following her own career change, Minna gained a master’s degree in education, qualified as an adult educator and completed ICF Level 2 coach training. She has already coached more than 400 people towards new goals, professional growth and successful transitions.
This combination gives Minna a broad perspective. She understands both the demands of business and what change requires of people.
In coaching, this is reflected in her ability to help clients identify both their objective and the patterns of thinking, ways of working and possible obstacles that affect reaching it.
A clear, attentive and purposeful coach
As a coach, Minna is clear, attentive and focused on objectives.
She listens carefully, recognises what matters and challenges thinking constructively. At the same time, she ensures that the work moves beyond interesting observations or general discussion.
The aim is for insights to become decisions and decisions to become practical action.
Minna helps clients to:
- clarify their own or their organisation’s direction
- identify the choices essential to growth and renewal
- strengthen leadership through change
- build sustainable ways of working
- use their potential purposefully
- strengthen mental performance in demanding situations
Change is made with people
Change does not happen to people. It is made with people.
This idea connects Minna’s work with Rokmind’s coaching philosophy. Rokmind aims to help clients change their leadership, cooperation and everyday working practices over time, beyond individual training days. The work emphasises practical relevance, shared understanding and changes that clients can take into their daily work.
Minna’s background fits this approach naturally. She brings experience of both strategic direction and practical execution to client work, keeping in view the person through whom change ultimately happens.
Melina Näätänen: “Minna understands what building something new really requires”
Minna has built businesses in practice, carried responsibility for growth and navigated her own professional transition. She understands that change does not happen on slides, but through what people dare to see, decide and do differently. This combination is an excellent fit for Rokmind.
Melina Näätänen
CEO and founder, Rokmind
Minna at Rokmind
At Rokmind, Minna focuses particularly on leadership, business development, change and mental performance.
Her work particularly benefits leaders, entrepreneurs, specialists and organisations who are building growth, renewing their practices or seeking a clearer direction amid change.
A warm welcome to Rokmind, Minna!
Contact details
Minna Ikäheimonen
Senior Executive Coach
minna@rokmind.fi
+358 50 560 3631