Bohdana keeps the CEO, COO, and Head of Delivery moving faster. It sounds simple until you see everything “faster” actually requires – operational questions, communication, process building, and a hiring track that she’s made entirely her own.
For most people who join our team, she’s the first face of Loona. Candidates go through her screening before they meet anyone else, and she stays with them from the first message to the signed offer.
FROM EXHIBITION FLOORS TO EXECUTIVE SUPPORT
Before Loona, Bohdana worked the big exhibition floors in Kyiv – constant conversations, constant curveballs, nothing ever going quite to plan. That’s where she built her instinct for crisis management: react fast, don’t freeze under pressure, look for the solution instead of staring at the problem.
Earlier still, she worked in lead generation for a German company, which is where her sales instincts and her nose for a good prospect come from. Neither job was “assistant” work on paper. Both turned out to be exactly the training she needed.
ALWAYS ONE STEP AHEAD
For Bohdana, the difference between a good assistant and an exceptional one is anticipation.
A good assistant completes the task. A great one understands the context, sees what comes next, and solves the problem before it becomes a problem.
Being an Executive Business Assistant also requires persistence – one skill she continues to sharpen. Following up for the tenth time doesn’t exactly bring her joy. But she’s learned that persistence isn’t personal. Sometimes getting the result simply means sending message number eleven.
SUPERPOWERS IN ACTION
- Fast context-switching across CEO, COO, and Head of Delivery priorities
- Sourcing, screening, and candidate communication – hiring has become her territory
- Discipline that keeps many moving parts on track without losing the details
- Crisis instincts and composure under pressure, courtesy of a few hundred exhibition days
OFF DUTY
A busy week ends at the gym, with a 4 km run to clear her head. Everything else goes to Kyiv’s cultural calendar (exhibitions, festivals, screenings) and long walks with friends that end in coffee and conversation about anything but work. Give her a weekend, and she’ll split it evenly – one day fully at home, one day out at whatever’s happening.
STORIES THAT STAY WITH HER
Her book pick for almost anyone: “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion” by Yukio Mishima – a story about an obsession with beauty so total that the main character ultimately destroys the thing he can’t bear to witness.
With movies, she keeps coming back to “Dead Man” with Johnny Depp – it’s less about a film you watch, and more about the atmosphere you live in.
Her most-used emoji at work: 👀
