My name Ausra means Dawn in English and Amanecer in Spanish. I was born early in the morning when the sun rises, and when I'm at my Spanish home, I watch sunrises every morning.

For almost 25 years, I have worked in the corporate world as Head of Human Resources and later as Chief People Officer. I have led significant cultural transformations in several international businesses, including banking, pharmaceuticals, FMCG, information technologies, and transportation industries. The last organization I worked with had 20,000 employees.

However, despite these accomplishments, I always struggled to transform my own life. For all those years, I was like a powerful machine, a robot, working tirelessly: 12-14 hours every day, including weekends, with 8-10 meetings daily, overseeing executive boards and large teams, managing strategic projects, and implementing major organizational changes.

In this hectic journey, I even pushed some team members to the point of burning out. They had small kids at home and many other responsibilities outside of work, but as a demanding boss with high standards, I failed to recognize their limits.

From the bottom of my heart, I am thankful to each and every one of my former team members.

Together, we achieved amazing results, but sometimes at the expense of other people's well-being...