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Game on! If you're a mid-career professional or executive who feels boxed into the "frozen middle," leading your team or projects through the everyday grind while somehow being expected to get different results doing the same old things, I'd love to work with you.

I've sat on both sides of the table. For 8+ years I led a firm-wide Learning & Development function at an international law firm, reporting to the COO, managing teams across 10 offices worldwide. I coached, trained, and mentored peers, mid-managers, and senior executives from the inside, before I ever called myself a coach. That's why our sessions are grounded in what actually works in a real organization, not just theory.

Since 2017, I've run my own coaching and training practice, delivering coaching sessions and leadership workshops to clients including Google, HP, Bayer, Deloitte, EY, Oracle, and Kinstellar, alongside my associate coaching work with BetterUp, GrowthSpace, QFive, and Intellect. I'm also a TEDx speaker and co-author of "The Psychology and Dynamics of Human Energy: How Aligning Energy To Impact Can Transform The Workplace."

A bit about me outside the job titles: I was born and raised in Bucharest, Romania, and have called Toronto home since 2017. I coach in both Romanian and English.
I discovered running by accident, as a cure for migraines, and it eventually took me through several half marathons.
And despite the TEDx talk and the workshops in front of rooms full of people, at my core I’m an introvert, which is probably why I care so much about our sessions feeling exploratory and human, never 'clinical'.
I love trees and care deeply about reforestation, am the proud mom of 2 young artists and yes, I do have blue hair.

Some of what my clients and I have worked on together:

– Executive presence, leadership style, and building a professional brand, including how to manage up and expand your circle of influence;
– Building and leading effective teams, including hybrid and multicultural teams, trust, psychological safety, and motivation;
– Turning difficult conversations into productive ones, with your team, your peers, or your own manager;
– Leading change and innovation within your team or organization;
– Communication skills you'll actually use: emotional intelligence, public speaking, feedback, conflict resolution;
– Strategic and critical thinking for the decisions in front of you.

Whatever you bring to the table, whether it's one of these or something new entirely, game on, let's find your next move together.