Zlata Gromova

Zlata Gromova, Senior Project Consultant with the Center for Professional Learning, is an L&D expert and consultant with 12 years of experience in private, corporate, and government sectors. Starting as a teacher, and later as a coach and corporate trainer, Zlata has always worked with adult learners. Zlata completed her PhD thesis on psychological aspects of resistance to organizational change, a key research interest which sits alongside her other interests in resilience, evidence-based approaches, empowerment, personal responsibility, well-being, edutainment, non-violent approaches, and feedback. As a manager and leader, Zlata has built and led several teams of educators and L&D specialists.

As a Ukrainian originally from Lugansk (Donbas), Zlata has lived through a full-scale war (twice), displacement, family separation, and estrangement. Her experiences of rebuilding life from scratch with a suitcase of 3 summer dresses and a pair of shoes and never going back home since 2014 is now paired with the experience of occupation, nuclear threat, and collective war trauma. But ultimately, she says, her experience is one “of resilience and doing the best one can with what they have where they are.” Zlata loves the show Friends.