Nikola Maras

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Mental Fitness Coach at Positive Intelligence

Palo Alto, California, United States

Overview

Nikola is a Mental Fitness Coach specializing in helping tech professionals enhance performance and prevent burnout. With a background as a Head of IT and an MBA, he is a Certified Positive Intelligence Coach (CPQC). People who have worked with him often describe him as calming, insightful, motivational, and intelligent.

Outside of coaching, Nikola has a significant background in politics, having spent twelve years fighting for equality and justice in Croatia. He draws on his experiences in parenting and business to inform his work. Nikola is multilingual, speaking English, Croatian, Serbian, and Bosnian.

He transitioned from a career in technology and political activism to become a coach focused on holistic well-being.

Personality Overview

ROI Conscious

Hard To Convince

Judgemental

They respond well to confident salespeople.  They don’t always try to control the conversation but neither do they like yielding it fully. They can be nudged to make faster decisions by offering what they value.

Topics They Care About

Tech Wellness
Focuses on helping tech professionals double their energy and sleep, elevate performance, and avoid burnout through mental fitness and holistic health practices.
Combating Burnout
He frequently writes about how burnout originates in the nervous system and shares strategies to help leaders operate with calm impact, based on his own experiences.
Leadership Performance
Coaches executives and high-performers to unlock creativity and operate from a state of clarity, confidence, and flow to lead more powerfully.

Media Appearances

Nikola has no verified media appearances

Work History

5-2022
Mental Fitness Coach at Positive Intelligence
1-2023 - 3-2025
Senior Specialist for monitoring, selection, and development of human resources at Hrvatska pošta
9-2015 - 1-2023
Head Of Information Technology Department at Hrvatska pošta
1-2000 - 9-2015
Technical Support Engineer at Hrvatska pošta
9-2022 - 5-2024
Evercoach Ambassador at Evercoach by Mindvalley

Education

2-2020 - 2022
Master of Business Administration - MBA from DOBA University of Applied Sciences
1-2022 - 1-2023
ThePowerMBA from thePower

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Exp : 25 Location : Palo Alto, California, United States Job Level : N/A Designation : Mental Fitness Coach at Positive Intelligence
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Insights For Selling To Nikola

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Make sure that they have the necessary authority, they could present false stature sometimes
  • Be crisp while making the pitch
  • Ask them questions confidently while doing discovery, don’t be apologetic

DONT's

  • Don’t try to be an alpha salesperson, give them equal space
  • Do not give up if they are not convinced, try again with a different approach
  • Avoid repeating yourself or making generalizations

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Nikola is

  • Conviction in the product matters to them, followed by proof points and strong testimonials.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Nikola

  • They may not be very forthcoming, but they will say no if needed.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Nikola move?

  • They are neither the fastest decision makers nor the slowest.
  • Can Nikola take some risk or not?

  • They can take risks but after weighing up the pros and cons.

You And Nikola

Personality Compatibility


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