20+
research and innovation projects contributed to
Synapse Coaching, by Angela Kondinska
Sustainable focus when the work is demanding.
I help people and knowledge-intensive teams understand how pressure is shaping attention, communication, and recovery, and practise more deliberate ways of responding.
The work combines neuroscience-informed learning, facilitation, and coaching. It runs mostly online in English, with Macedonian and bilingual sessions for teams working with international clients.
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Workshops, facilitation and coaching
Organisations and institutions
Neuroscience-informed learning, facilitation, and coaching for workplaces, universities, and professional programmes. Current areas include sustainable performance, focus, recovery, difficult conversations, and decisions under uncertainty.
Explore organisations and institutions →1:1 and small groups
For you
Individual coaching and small-group programmes for capable people whose work is starting to cost too much attention, recovery, or life outside it.
Explore coaching for individuals →Work with pressure, instead of only pushing through it.
Demanding work rarely announces itself as a problem. It tends to show up as:
Fragmented attention
Short, tense conversations
Harder decisions
Work that follow you home
A team that gets stuck
I work with the patterns beneath: attention, cognitive load, the capacity of the nervous system, communication, recovery, and the conditions that make a different response easier or harder.
Synapse (noun)
/ˈsɪnæps/
The junction where two neurons communicate. A place where information is exchanged, and where repeated experiences strengthen neural connections, supporting learning, adaptation, and change.
The name reflects the territory of the work: the connections between…
Knowledge
Action
Pressure
Response
One person
Another
How the work works
The method builds on established cognitive, behavioural, and neuroscience research, agile practice, and good facilitation. It runs the way any real improvement does: as small, reviewable experiments.
Notice
Understand
Practise
Apply
Review
Iterative: each review feeds the next thing worth noticing.
Supported at every level
I collaborate with the person, the team, or the organisation to understand the real problem, then build the right scaffolding, so the noticing, testing, change, and experimentation are supported rather than left to willpower.
Experience behind the practice
Synapse is an independent practice, built on more than a decade across research, industry, facilitation, coaching, and mentoring.
550+
participants supported through research studies
60+
coaching and mentoring engagements, formal and informal
1000+
participants across workshops delivered or co-delivered
2
organisational research facilities helped establish
These figures describe Angela's career experience before and beyond Synapse Coaching. They are not presented as independent-practice client outcomes.
Selected recent work
Delivered for
Cognitive load, focus and attention for AI researchers.
An interactive session for 15 master's and PhD students at ELIZA, an AI graduate programme spanning seven universities across Germany. We explored how cognitive load, attention, and task-switching shape deep work, and practical ways to organise the day around task types.
Meaningful change rarely comes from insight alone. It becomes possible when people have enough awareness and support to notice a pattern, try a different response, and learn from what happens.
Start with the situation, not the solution.
Whether the concern is yours or your team's, a free introductory call is a short conversation about what is happening, what kind of support might fit, and what falls outside my scope.
Book a free introductory call or email angela@kondinska.com
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