About us · Career Academy LevelUP

It did not start as a business.

It did not start as a business. In 2020, Daria opened a free Facebook community for internationals trying to make sense of the Danish job market: a place for honest answers, free workshops, webinars and Q&A sessions, run in the evenings alongside a demanding HR career, simply because she wanted to help.

Other experts gave their time the same way, and many still collaborate with the academy today. Out of that volunteering grew a structured Career Strategy Course in 2025.

Now, as AI reshapes the job market, the academy is taking its next step: personal career consulting alongside the course, with the same intent it started with.

How Career Academy LevelUP was created.

2020

A free community with over 3,500 participants

Daria opens a free Facebook community for internationals trying to make sense of the Danish job market, with honest answers, free workshops, webinars and Q&A sessions.

2020 – 2024

Experts join in

Other experts give their time the same way. Many of them still collaborate with the academy today.

2025

The Career Strategy Course

Out of that volunteering grows a structured Career Strategy Course. 150 participants have joined since.

2026

Career Academy LevelUP today

Individual consultations, career coaching, AI-powered programmes and support for leaders and teams, with the same intent it started with.

Sandra Umbro

Global Headhunter · Career Advisor · 20+ Years in Recruitment

Sandra is a rare recruitment professional with deep industry experience and a genuinely human approach. With 20+ years in talent acquisition and more than 2,850 global hires, she understands how companies make decisions and how people do. She listens closely, asks precise questions, and sees strengths candidates often miss. Her communication is calm, honest, and grounded, and she builds trust quickly.

Structured, reliable, and highly experienced yet warm and approachable, Sandra is a strong partner for both candidates, companies and Career Academy LevelUP which is why over 20,000 people follow her work on LinkedIn.

Daria Helgogaard

Founder · Career Consultant · Global HR Leader

Daria is the founder of Career Academy LevelUP, a career consultant and HR leader with 20+ years of international HR experience across Novo Nordisk, Microsoft, L'Oréal and Oticon. She built her career in Denmark from the ground up to senior HR leadership, so she understands the Danish job market from the inside.

She brings warmth and honesty to the work, and is at her best helping people recognise strengths they do not always see in themselves.