About us

Bridging business, family, and our passion for the mystery of life. We believe it is possible. How about you?

More about the company

Welcome to the space between worlds. Business and art of mentoring & writing, structure and depths of the soul. To be an outlier is not a flaw, it’s a frontier.

How am I outlier myself?

There’s a force in me that can destroy, and another that knows how to turn that chaos into creation. I’ve learned to build from pain as much as from joy. Being an entrepreneur, a writer, and a soul guide at once isn’t balance. It’s a dance between paradoxes. Sometimes even a fight. It’s not an easy way to live but it brings a great value to me, my close ones, and my clients.

How do I do it?

By staying close to what hurts, and not looking away. I was born a poet into an engineer’s family. A world of systems, logic, and precision. For years, those two forces clashed inside me, tearing and shaping at the same time. Eventually, I learned to let them collaborate. To build with imagination, and feel with structure. That’s how I turn tension into insight, and pain into gold.

What makes us different?

We bridge worlds that rarely speak: business and being, analysis and intuition, reason and ritual. We read Jung, Kafka and Seneca, but also the market and the moment. We use models until they break - because the real work begins where theory ends.

Why Ramla Jay?

Because every true name holds a paradox. Ramla the sand that remembers. Jay the voice that carries. One silent, one wild. Together they form the space between where every transformation is born. It is also the stage name of Elena Kovalcikova, Founder & CEO of the company.

What do we actually do?

We work with people and systems in motion - leaders, founders, families, companies. Sometimes it takes the form of a year-long journey or deep personal mentorship. Sometimes it’s a workshop, a strategy dialogue, or a consulting process that helps a company cross a generational threshold. But in every format, the essence is the same: to reveal what’s true, and help it take form. In life, in leadership, in legacy.

Who is it for?

For those who have already achieved much, and still feel that something deeper is calling. Our work speaks to the ones who live between worlds:

Entrepreneurs and visionary builders - those who create, risk, and re-imagine business.
Artists and poetic souls - those who give shape to beauty, meaning, and the unseen.
Thinkers and intellectual leaders - those who question, teach, and expand the horizon of ideas.

Not for everyone but for the few who are ready to go beyond improvement, into truth.

How does it feel to work with us?

Like walking into a fire that doesn’t burn, but refines. There’s clarity, tension, and release. A rhythm that moves you closer to what’s real. We don’t promise comfort; we promise truth. And when truth lands, it changes everything.

Elena Kovalčíková

Elena Kovalčíková

Founder & CEO

I grew up in the chaos and opportunity of post-revolutionary Czechoslovakia. My parents built businesses from nothing in a place where survival came before vision. I wanted to join them so badly, but was told not to take jobs from people who needed them more. So I learned to wait. And that waiting became fire. Later came my business, literature, success, crisis, heavy addictions ... and, fortunately, return.

Every path I’ve walked, from business to burnout to the desert, shaped what Ramla Jay is today:

A place where the pragmatic meets the poetic, and where every transformation begins with truth.

Meet the team

We work with top-tier companies and individuals that dare to go deeper.

Elena Kovalčíková

Elena Kovalčíková

Founder & CEO

A being between worlds: business and poetry, structure and soul. She grew up inside an engineering family company, learning how things are built, literally. Over the years, she expanded from managing projects and leading teams to guiding people through the invisible architecture of change. Today, she runs her own family business in housing development and supports people on their creative writing journeys.

Martin Černohorský

Martin Černohorský

Co-founder & Mentor

Builder of systems & communities: grounded in both legacy and vision. For years he led and innovated within businesses, strategy, and freedom-driven organisations. He champions the meeting point between structure and spirit, bringing energy, vulnerability, and trust to companies, communities, and families alike. His inner fire and builder’s instinct form part of the foundation that supports Ramla Jay’s work of transformation.

Bohdana Kabátová

Bohdana Kabátová

Mentor & Facilitator

She used to be a banking manager, an entrepreneur, a CEO, and a trainer determined to change the world. She studied coaching in the Czech Republic and the United States. After leaving the corporate world, she went through a deep personal transformation and expanded her work into soul guiding. At Ramla Jay, she facilitates deep group journeys and long-term programmes for leaders and teams.

Václav Beran

Václav Beran

Consultant & Story teller

He spent almost twenty years in the corporate world, helping companies shape strategies, build brands, and craft their stories. He led teams and worked solo before leaving that world to create more freely and truthfully. Today, he supports people, companies, and projects that hold meaning for him. He does so by translating complexity into clear narratives and guiding growth where change can truly begin.

Tereza Černohorská

Tereza Černohorská

Mentor & Author

A global citizen and a village soul in one. For years she worked as a trusted consultant to prominent entrepreneurs, helping them navigate their transformation. She has walked from boardrooms to canyons, from strategy to motherhood. All of this belongs to her: the strength of insight and the grace of experience. Within Ramla Jay, she mentors and supervises, shaping the depth and integrity of our work.

Patrick Zandl

Patrick Zandl

Technology & Writing expert

Weaver of stories and systems. Co-founded Mobil.cz at the dawn of the internet era, shaped digital journalism, and authored many books. Both, fiction & professional literature. His path has always led him toward the edge. Toward the questions larger than code and headlines. At Ramla Jay, he guides writing projects and transforms technology challenges into lasting architecture.

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What people have said about us

Read our clients testimonials. How their lives and pathways have changed throughout the time of working with us.

“In the Sahara, I touched a deep stillness, a grounding, and the joy of simply being in the present moment. My attention was drawn toward new landscapes, new angles of seeing.

I understood that I had set out on a path that will likely never end. At times it may be uncomfortable, even harsh, yet it will always be alive, exciting, shifting, full of change. Above all, it leads me to live more and more as myself. To be truly myself, to feel, to sense, to receive. And that is the greatest gift.”

Katerina ZapletalováEntrepreneur & Philantropist

Under Ramla’s quiet yet relentless guidance, I learned to stand on my own source, to expand, to bring clarity into the chaos of my work.

But the real initiation came elsewhere:

I learned to say no.

A skill so foreign it once felt extraterrestrial, and one that ended up saving me.

Not just in business. In life itself.

Petr HorákEntrepreneur in innovations

Working with Elen had a real impact on me. I found myself more grounded, more open, and more aligned with who I truly am.

Over the past months, I’ve stepped into new professional opportunities, started moving my body again after years of struggle, and even built more authentic relationships. What used to feel heavy now feels lighter, more possible.

I can see the results in my work, my health, and my everyday life – and I’m deeply grateful for that.

Ivan HruškaEntrepreneur in marketing

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