About

Lilia Tsalenko is a Talent Acquisition Leader, Executive Recruiter, and Career Coach with over 15 years of experience in executive, full-cycle, in-house, and contingency recruiting. She has a strong track record of enabling companies from start-up to brand-name Enterprise organizations to achieve strategic goals and mission success through high-touch Talent Acquisition practices and execution. Lilia has an innate ability to develop deep rapport and understanding with a technical audience due to her science-based education and successful career in systems software design and development. As an Executive Recruiter, Technical and Product Talent Partner, she is passionate about discovering, engaging, and bringing on board business-critical strategic executive, technical, product, and scientific research talent. She has a successful track record of establishing, cultivating, and developing lasting trust-based business and professional relationships and partnerships with candidates and clients across the world. As a Talent Acquisition Manager, Lilia has built, led, and scaled talent acquisition functions and recruiting teams globally – both in corporate environments like Blockstream and Trusted Health and as a business owner of a boutique executive-style recruiting agency Elti Solutions. As a Mentor and Coach, she has enabled successful and fulfilling career growth and transition for many professionals. Lilia's key values are integrity, transparency, honesty, loyalty, curiosity, collaborative spirit, pursuit of excellence, focus on results, passion for learning. She has broad expertise in mentoring and coaching in career development and transition from academia to industry. Currently, Lilia is the Founder and Principal of Elti Solutions, an Executive & Technical Recruiting, Advisory, and Career Coaching Services company. Her current focus is on Career Coaching and Mentorship, Interview Preparation, and Offer Negotiation consulting services. She is helping executive, mid and early career stage professionals as well as enabling successful transitions from academia into industry. Lilia has worked with companies like Trusted Health and Box as Director of Talent Acquisition / Principal Executive and Technical Recruiter and Senior Executive Recruiter, Technical and Product Talent Partner, respectively. She has also worked as a Research Scientist, designer, product manager, DevOps, Search, Integration, and Senior Software Engineer. In her free time, Lilia loves solving all kinds of puzzles, learning new ideas, working for inspirational leaders, and building great teams one person at a time. She enjoys experimenting and doing things in unconventional ways. She is also an avid world traveler, photographer, foodie, landscape designer and gardener, and Doodle lover.