I discovered many years ago that contributing to personal and professional development of leaders is a matter of vocation. At least for me, it's a vocation. The fact that I have the chance to support people who lead other people to become better and more inspired in what they do inspires me, nourishes me, delights me and gives me energy and inspiration.
I started training in the early 90's, a time when there was an acute need for managerial education and, learning myself and preparing for this profession, I offered everything I could. I have continued to develop and realize how complex, beautiful and dynamic relationships between people are, no matter how simple or elaborate the systems and processes they work with are. And then, I turned my training projects into workshops in which discovering what works and what doesn't, generating solutions and best practices is much more valuable than any concept or theory delivered upfront. Continuing to learn and develop, learning about myself, the people I work with, I took the step towards facilitation, team development and coaching and I believe I found the space where I can make a difference. I got involved with passion and I think that infects the managers and leaders I work with. What is my WHY?
My mission is to accompany leaders in creating added value with their teams and organizations. I am channeling my energy and my intentions to create added value, offer perspectives, facilitate relations and progress through integrity, engagement and objectivity. That's what I think it's about my vocation.
I have few strong values that guides me and supports me in my profession as a coach: telling the TRUTH (and this helps in offering to my clietns that something that they do not hear from others) with profound, deep RESPECT. I do believe in LEARNING and OPPENESS and I take people as they are. NO judgement. I do believe is possible to be ourselves.
My approach in coaching is a systemic, strategic one and takes into account the whole context of the client, where s/he exists, develops, finds challenges, looks for inspiration and awareness.
I started my education in coaching with Academy of Executive Coaching London - AoEC – graduating both Certificate and Practitioner Diploma in Executive Coaching.
I continued training attending the advanced skills program of ICA - certified Bridging coach Program and specialized in systemic team coaching with AoEC - Systemic Team Coaching Certificate .
The systemic coaching approach fascinated me, which is why I chose to continue with the Coaching Constellations UK getting certified in Systemic Team Coaching and Organizational Constellations.
I continued my education and coaching practice in transformational coaching along with Coach Masters Academy Singapore graduating Transformational Master Coach - Mastery Level .
I support the development of professional coaching in Romania through contributions to various coaching events and conferences, training managers to become the coach of the people in their teams. I am a Member of the ICF (see ICF Code of Ethics). I am volunteering for ICF Romania and for the Association for values in Education.
In 2020 I became Registered Mentor - coach ICF and I support my fellow coaches in their journey for the ICF – ACC or PCC accreditations, in strengthening their practice and compliance with coaching standards and competences.
I obtained various certifications and credentials for individual and organizational diagnostic tools. I practice individual Executive coaching - with executives, managers or entrepreneurs. I work with teams to support them in transformation and performance. I facilitate workshops and train managers to use coaching skills in their daily practice.
In 2021, I started volunteering in ICF Romania, and held the positions of Vice-President (2022-2023) and President (2023-2024) working with an extraordinary team of volunteers, in support of the community of ICF coaches in Romania and their professionalization, for educating the Romanian market about what the highest standard in coaching means: "The Gold Standard of Coaching - International Coaching Federation".
ACTC (Acdvanced Certification in Team coaching) is an important career milestone recognizes my commitment to high professional and ethical standards in team coaching, and to my own continued growth and education, fir the benefit of my clients.
"I met CT in an autumn morning when, together with his boss, a nice French man, talking about the support he needed to take over the new role: The director of a division, becoming a member of the Executive Board in a production company, one of the biggest employers in Romania. The job was a regional one, and CT had returned to Romania after an international assignment. Missing Romaniațs facilities for about four years. We worked together a year to ensure that it is fully able to take over the new challenges: To build and refine his vision of the Division and his role asa Board member, the main lines of action. To get to know the key people and understand their relationships and dynamics. To understand their own expectations of how they expected to work together, becoming aware of the potential obstacles, to reframe situations and find internal resources for difficult sutuations. To understand and finally define who he wants to be as a leader of that division. Is he successful today? …He is one of the most active leaders in his company, he has transformed the division and enjoys his results."
"The autumn of 2015 brought me together with a top management team facing a big organizational change. Reorganization of the business at the regional level, brought a lot of new elements around organizing activities, processes, and flows together with client portfolio. Team without new people, and without the need that some people should leave. Apparently good news. I say, apparently, because fighting the familiarity and potential inertia creates more danger around implementation of change, compared to a drastic decision, saying: ” where do the following...full stop!” Or in any case, develops some other organizational pains. My role has been to accompany the team of top managers in reflecting around the steps, and the speed of implementation of the transformation. 2025 common goal, but mostly to develop and regulate the collaborative mechanisms between them. To clarify expectations to offer the possibility to declare and show vulnerability to offer feedback, and to make coherent steps on the journey they became accountable for. Our journey took over an year. After team workshop, something like group coaching, I was working with each of the top managers, individually in coaching sessions, in order to facilitate a more rapid adaptation to the new structure and working ways, to facilitate creation of a vision of their own role in their department, and to calibrate potential difficulties between them. After one year we had a follow up session and we had the occasion to enjoy and celebrate together because they presented in front of the full organization, their results asking their people for feedback. The company has passed very well through the reorganization stage, and today they have a very solid position in the regional market.
We continue with group coaching sessions once every 6 to 8 months and we discuss the relationships and the progress they are making together as a team.
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"The vast majority of management teams have some degree of dysfunctionality. Sometime these are very softly insinuating and they do not become visible if a strong conflict is not a rising, or the business does not report bad results. People are getting used to it, and they use their flexibility to accept things that they don’t like behaviors that are not having a good impact just to avoid shaking the boat. But the boat shakes by itself and valuable managers are leaving the team looking for a less stressful and tensionate environment. I describe here the atmosphere of one of the top management team I was working with, more than one year. At that time, it was an open conflict between the production manager and the maintenance manager, pretty classical for a manufacturing facility. And the maintenance manager says he will leave the team. The teams lead by the two started to act similarly, sometime. The conflict was not open all the time but it was obvious at the second level of the organization. A lot of interruptions in the production. During my first visit to the plant from the other room, I was able to hear people shouting. We started the team coaching process and we worked together over one year, I had individual sessions with each of the team members, and in the team sessions, we brought the most burning topics. That was only one condition: to maintain a safe place, and speak only the truth no matter what. Of course, each of them had his own truth, and putting together personal perspectives, reframing situations and direct negotiation of the resources for a common goal have taken place. Defining, a common goal was the key element that brought the entire team into a ”safe port” and to continue to experience this place whenever the storm came in the way, they were working together."
"To be an Executive Board member in a multinational company is a rewarding place for professional success, and leaders are working many years in a row for this. It is also a very important responsibility and sometimes there is a high pressure on the shoulders of the person that coordinates the work of thousands of people or activities of hundreds of millions of euros. May be very nice from outside, but these people are not superheroes. They have a lot of concern to create a strong impact to be influencing, and to obtain resources for the projects and their organizations. Sometimes a overloaded they travel a lot, and they are overcharged. The fact they followed a very intense journey, and this step may represent the top of their career requires even more a clear vision around the future and around the way they want to offer a legacy to the business they run. What is the role of an executive coach? The way he challenged the person I’m talking about was around the vision around the legacy when he’s finishing his mandate as a CEO. The introspection around impact, personal values, vision around the future and relationships, the answer to the question: ”who do you want to be?”…” I closed the coaching process with inspiration and the peace the time on my way, a good way” . said the leader I am talking about. Was he managing a turnaround in his business? Was he generating growth results? Yes, but this are collateral. The greatest satisfaction has been brought by the dynamic conversations with a lot of sense of humor, pushed to the positive limit of finding inspiration to be a good man and a good leader."
"Large organizations have always the challenge to work in a matrix. The structures are complex with a lot of dotted reporting, and sometimes conflicting objectives, they need to manage the relationships with two bosses, one of them being at a distance most of the time. In executive coaching, supporting the leader to understand, and the depth his interaction style it’s a topic brought by many managers. IC is one of them, local Marketing manager to a division that covers the whole country and has the big concern on how to manage a large network of distributors, cover all the marketing activities and align to the regional objectives together with contributing with results from Romania, if any other country in the region needs it. He’s in a continuous race with a lot of effort and less time for reflection he feels the challenges of working with a directive boss sometime with ambiguous requests, but every time asking in the very last minute for something. We work together few months in order to make progress and feeling ready to negotiate an influence the relationship with his boss that he cherish, buti t makes him feel enough continuous roller coaster. Starting was defining, a personal version of his role designing the most important and valuable aspect for him in the changes he needs to make in the way he looks to this relationship. It seems to be difficult.IC makes progress and our coaching conversations are going many times in revisiting his own personal value, sad his principles of working with his team and his boss."