Welcome!

I am Alina, and here is what recommends me

I am excited to share with you the extensive journey I have undertaken to become the coach I am today. My commitment to professional development and continuous learning is demonstrated by a series of prestigious accreditations and diplomas that I have earned over the years. These credentials reflect my dedication to excellence and my passion for empowering individuals and organizations to achieve their fullest potential:

  • Master Certified Coach: International Coaching Federation (MCC ICF) and International Authority for Professional Coaching & Mentoring (AMC IAPC&M)

  • Senior Practitioner Coach & Mentor: European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EIA EMCC)

  • Accredited Supervisor: European Mentoring & Coaching Council (ESIA EMCC)

  • ICF Registered Mentor: International Coaching Federation

  • Certificate in Coaching Supervision: Crucial Difference

  • Certified Mentor Coach: L-CON Global

  • Positive Intelligence Coach: Positive Intelligence

  • ICF PCC Markers Assessment Training: International Coaching Federation

  • Certified Transformational Master Coach: Coach Masters Academy Global

  • The Inner Game Fundamentals & Tools: The Inner Game School

  • Systemic Coaching and Organizational Constellations: Coaching Constellations

  • Certified Professional Transformational Coach: Coach Masters Academy Global

  • The Breakthrough Process for Individuals, Teams, and Organizations: Metasysteme Coaching

  • Trained in Transactional Analysis – TA 101: European Association for Transactional Analysis (EATA)

  • Certified Brief Coaching PURE Coach: SolutionSurfers

  • Certified NLP Practitioner: International Association for Neuro-Linguistic Programming (IANLP)

  • Certified Practitioner Coach: Noble Manhattan Coaching Ltd

  • Summa Cum Laude Graduate: Canadian-Romanian Master of Business Administration (MBA) program, EHEC Montreal Quebec, University of Ottawa Ontario, and Bucharest University of Economic Studies

  • Engineer’s Degree in Electrical Engineering: National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest

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Welcome to my space

I am Master Coach for Top Performers

Masterful Coaching for Top Performance is a state of being that catalyzes people to lead authentically, partner respectfully and boldly express their unique leadership voice.

It supports leaders in fully activating their positive intelligence, enabling them to achieve peak performance, build healthy relationships, and experience well-being and fulfillment in both their work and personal lives.

Experience

With nearly 20 years of leadership experience in organizations such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Muller Dairy, and S&T, coupled with 10 years as a coaching entrepreneur providing professional coaching services to leaders in international organizations, I specialize in guiding ambitious leaders through times of change. 

My Focus is on supporting them to discover and boldly express their authentic leadership voice, which further enables them to leave a sustainable legacy of excellence in their work, life, and in the lives of those they lead, inspire, influence and serve.

My expertise lies in developing leaders who aim for excellence for themselves and their teams through continuous, passionate learning and by creating an organizational environment that inspires creativity and growth. Being a courageous, goal-oriented and thriving leader in the companies I worked for, responsible for negotiating purchasing budgets exceeding 100 Mil. Euro, my passion and determination have inspired and motivated individuals and teams to strive for more and make a significant impact in their workplaces.

I am a firm believer in our ability to transform the impossible into possible. As Master Coach for Top Performers, it is my joy to passionately support leaders on their journey to maximize their potential and inspire them to dare for and pursue what may initially seem impossible, guiding them to find their own way to turn it into reality. I work with leaders committed to making a positive difference in their workplaces by cultivating the mindset, behaviors, and actions needed to achieve peak performance, build healthy relationships, and experience well-being and fulfillment in both their work and personal lives.

Education & Credentials

I am a double Master Certified Coach (MCC ICF and AMC IAPC&M), Senior Coaching & Mentoring Practitioner (EIA), Accredited Supervisor (ESIA) through EMCC, with an Electrical Engineering background and a Canadian-Romanian MBA.

Building on this foundation, I have expanded my knowledge in the fields of clinical psychology & diagnosis, developmental psychology and modern approaches in psychotherapy through the Psychology Fundamentals postgraduate program at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Bucharest.

As Master Certified Coach, I have over 4,000 hours of coaching experience in organizational and leadership engagements. This is supported by 500+ hours of training from internationally accredited coaching schools, including Coach Masters Academy (by Dr. Ben Koh, MCC), SolutionSurfers, and Noble Manhattan Coaching (by Gerard O'Donovan).

My qualifications are further enhanced by international certifications in Mentor Coaching (by Leda Turai, MCC), Coaching & Leadership Supervision (by Jo Birch, ESIA), Systemic Coaching and Constellations (by John Whittington), and supplemented with ICF PCC Markers Assessment Training (ICF), Positive Intelligence Coach training (by Shirzad Chamine), The Inner Game Fundamentals & Tools (by Tim Gallwey), The Breakthrough Process for Individuals, Teams, and Organizations (by Alain Cardon, MCC), Transactional Analysis – TA101 (EATA), PoY Practitioner, NLP Practitioner (IANLP), as well as various leadership trainings including Impetus Team Coaching (by John Brooker) and leadership facilitation in the Effective Personal Productivity Program (LMI).

Volunteering Work

I strongly believe in the transformative power of professional coaching to change lives and build a thriving society. Over the past 6 years, I have been actively involved in various volunteer projects aimed at supporting education in Romania and young entrepreneurs in Europe. My work has included collaboration with courageous and innovative organizations such as the Association for Values in Education (AVE) Romania, Teach for Romania, and Junior Achievement Europe.

Also, as Director of Partnerships and Board Member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Romania Chapter (2-years mandate, April 2021 – April 2023), I passionately promoted the coaching profession in the Romanian coaching and business communities and beyond.

In my role as IGNITE Projects Leader (2022-2024), under the auspices of the ICF Global Foundation, I led four IGNITE projects that are particularly close to my heart: “We Build the Leadership of Exceptional Young People Through Coaching” and “We Build Excellence in the Leadership of Female Entrepreneurs Through Coaching.” These projects aimed to contribute to a thriving society by providing substantial opportunities for students from Volunteers for Ideas and Projects (VIP) Romania - one of the largest student NGOs - and women entrepreneurs in Romania to develop leadership skills essential for personal and professional success.

Industry specialties

  • Information Technology

  • Financial Services

  • Industrial Equipment

  • Beverages

  • Dairy

  • Toys

  • Media

Areas of expertise

  • Leadership Development

  • Boldly and respectfully express own authentic leadership voice

  • Achieve highest performance

  • Create healthy relationships

  • Create wellbeing and fulfillment in work and life

  • Identify and manifest professional & personal Values and Mission

  • Culture Transformation

  • Create Coaching-Centered Workplace

My clients

My coaching clients are leaders who are ready to take responsibility for living a fulfilling and meaningful life. They seek to rediscover themselves and are willing to shed the masks that prevent them from working and living authentically.

By authenticity I mean that emotional state and strong inner belief that, regardless of the situation, context, or the people you interact with, you always feel you are in the right place - where you can speak freely and boldly about who you are and your work.

Many of my clients come to coaching to enhance their performance, redefine and grow their leadership, develop their team or communication skills, create successful career and succession plans, boost their emotional intelligence, integrate effectively into a new role or company, strengthen their influence, or find a balance between their professional and personal lives etc.

And the coaching approach I use to accompany them to achieve any of these desired goals is a sustainable one. It fosters openness and curiosity, enhancing their self-awareness and understanding of what truly matters to them, so they can work and live fully and authentically.

In other words, they courageously explore their fundamental values while deeply reflecting on and challenging how these values align with their beliefs, behaviors, and actions towards their goals.

And it is through this profound reflection, in a coaching space made of trust, respect, challenge and care, that self-learning emerges and consequent, natural, needed shift in thinking, feeling and acting is generated.

Yes, it takes courage to go through this deeply transformational experience toward that place within yourself where, no matter the external context, you just know you have everything you need to succeed and you also know how to manifest it in both your professional and personal life. It takes courage, yes, but it is so much worth it!

Do you have this courage?

Testimonials

“Thank you for guiding me in my journey of personal and professional discovery, with patience and delicacy.

Your questions, so correctly addressed, touched the right buttons and made my inner conversation so meaningful. They made it possible to recognize my own values, and to gradually accept who I am, as I am, without the filters built in time by my limiting judgments.

Although the questions often seemed difficult, I then realized that they are essential in finding the right answers for me. The atmosphere that you created gave me that courage to respect my silence and my inner search, which, let’s say, had not been my ‘friends’ before.

At the same time, you eased my access to the courage I needed to make my voice heard when it was in line with my values, which deserve to be honored.

During our work together I learned that I need to be gentle with myself, as I am with those around me, not to judge myself anymore and to make peace with that part of me who was upset with some choices I made in the past. I also learned to allow myself to believe that I deserve to receive and experience beautiful things and meet beautiful people like you, who are a blessing for my evolution.

I learned to listen more and actively, through presence, intention, observation and connection, showing respect for the voice of those around me. As a result, I do not rush anymore to offer solutions unless they are required, so I no longer feel that frustration about what I can't change.

I gratefully appreciate you accompanied and guided me in searching for my own answers, and practicing asking the right questions.

I wish for you to bring the light and joy of these discoveries to all people you guide.”

Eli Răcuci, Underwriting Manager

“I greatly appreciated how Alina was 100% present in our discussion and I felt her with me throughout our interaction. It was surprising to see how she observed discrepancies between verbal messages and nonverbal behavior, how she mirrored and checked with me on where I wanted to steer the conversation, and what was most important among the initially discussed objectives. I valued how we maximized our time together.

I liked how she takes note of important elements and revisits them, connecting them in our discussion, and how she employed metaphors and storytelling (which I adore).

We had a very useful and enjoyable experience thanks to Alina's personal style and the way she adapted her advanced coaching skills to suit my needs.”

Lavinia Mureșan, Human Resources Manager

“The opportunity to work with Alina came at the perfect moment, just when I was experiencing a professional and emotional block.

From the very first meeting, I felt an instant connection with her, and from that moment, I was confident that I was embarking on this challenging process with the right person who could help me!

What did Alina do? She played with the potential of my creativity. She asked the right questions that helped me find answers and solutions; she supported me, inspired me, and helped me become aware of my inner resources, and most importantly, she guided me to discover how to leverage them.

What did I do? I was emotionally open and professionally prepared for change. I made space for new ideas and found the coolest approach to the weekly meetings with my team, which we renamed "rafting hours". This discovery triggered an explosion of deep feelings of confidence, motivation, and success, both in me and in my team members!

The value of each coaching session lay in learning to view the same things from a different perspective, generating clear actions and putting new ideas into practice without delay. This had an extraordinary impact on my emotional state and professional achievements.

Alina is my ally in my development process, and I wholeheartedly recommend her!”

Valeria Duță, Team Leader Corporate Brokers Support

“Dear Alina, I believe it was meant to be that I met you at this moment in my life. I would definitely be better off now if ten years ago I had read or heard from someone how much coaching can improve the quality of life, mental health, and relationships with others.

You are an empathetic and very open person who manages to make the process of awareness of problems and self-discovery much more convincing. I encourage people who want to take their lives to the next level to participate in such coaching sessions, and to step forward with confidence and openness so that by the end of this process they can find the answers/solutions they didn’t know they needed to become a better version of themselves.

It was a great surprise for me to discover through our conversations that it would help me a lot to have compassion and show empathy towards myself and that I can love myself. Working with you in coaching also convinced me to give personal development books a chance, as I now know how to take from them only the ideas that work for me and support my growth.

In recent weeks, every time I face a situation that would have raised my stress level in the past, I am proud of myself for being able to detach and not become emotionally consumed, while still engaging and dedicating myself to resolving it just as much.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything we have accomplished together in the past months!”

Alina Pavel, Manager of Broker Sales Service Center

“I turned to Alina to try to resolve some specific situations through coaching, and it turned out to be much more interesting than that.

I was going through a period of burnout, at a crossroads with tough decisions about my professional life.

Coaching didn't resolve the situations immediately, but it enabled me to make a mindset shift that soon led to these specific situations being resolved better than I had expected.

For me, the coaching sessions have been a mind-blowing experience. Alina managed to help me reach the "essence" of my thoughts, uncovering patterns I wasn't even aware existed. This awareness gave me a sense of revelation and a lot of clarity. Building my success upon this clarity, both professionally and personally, then became much simpler.”

Paul Sucala, Embedded Software Engineer & Phd Researcher Assistant

“Coaching sessions with Alina represent the most valuable experience among the things I've done for myself lately. In our meetings there were many moments of vulnerability and periods where I searched for answers to questions I had never asked myself before, and the result was revelatory. I rediscovered myself, with my needs and thoughts. I became more aware of who I am, my values, and my choices.

Thank you, Alina, for your openness, for your patience, and for being very skilled at reflecting everything I needed, exactly when I needed it! You knew how to "illuminate" exactly those areas where I needed to look more deeply.

Through coaching, I have learned to have more compassion and understanding for myself and to look at everything that comes my way in my work and life with more openness and curiosity. I can now organize myself better both in terms of professional tasks and in my personal life.

Coaching has been a process of self-reflection, through which it has become much clearer to me that it is up to me alone to make my own mind a friend and a support that works in my favor, guiding me to find the most appropriate way to achieve this.

If you want to set clear goals, or if you already know what they are and want to find the best way to achieve them, Alina is the best person to accompany you on your journey of rediscovery, transformation, and growth. I wholeheartedly recommend her!”

Cristina Luca, Underwriting Manager


“I absolutely must thank you for the privilege you offered me through yesterday's coaching session! The word that comes to mind after this session is: Powerful! Why this word? For several reasons! Firstly, because you supported me with great gentleness, presence, and involvement to clarify (illuminate) an important challenge for me. Further, the session was Powerful because I realized the context in which I will operate in the near and following future. I understood that I can change without it being a burden, that everyone in my professional field faces the same challenge regardless of age, and ultimately, and most importantly, I clearly know what I need to do. Thank you sincerely!

With deep respect.”

Tibor Cseke, Project Manager

”Our coaching session on Friday fragmented me into pieces and then reconstructed me. I'm still putting the pieces together. I can't figure out what happened or how/what made our meeting have such a strong impact on me. You have a special gift, there's no other explanation.

The naturalness in allowing whatever comes and the space that you created motivated me to look courageously into my mind and soul and rebuild my direction. It wasn't easy, but it was surprisingly beautiful and useful.

Thank you again!”

Ana Panseluța Guțu, National Sales Manager

“The session with Alina aligned me with myself and recentered me during a moment of fatigue and overwhelm. The person-centered approach that Alina skillfully masters, her complete attention, and the natural way she brings to light new perspectives and possibilities transform a coaching session into a meaningful and profound experience. I greatly appreciated her method. I feel its impact in my daily life. Thank you, Alina!”

    Iris Golopenta, Corporate Communication Manager

“Rediscovery. If I had to summarize in one word what I feel after coaching sessions with Alina, it would be "rediscovery": rediscovering joy, creativity, voice, and energy.

With openness, involvement, understanding, support, collaboration, cooperation, and proper guidance, I managed to reconnect with my true self. Rediscovering myself and rebuilding the connection with my own resources are just a few of the many essential things I gained from this intense and impactful coaching process.

All you need to bring to your coaching relationship with Alina is openness and the desire to overcome your circumstances. She takes care of instilling confidence, empathy, and energy in you, adding, with each session, a piece to the puzzle of the goals you set for yourself.

Thank you, Alina!”

Florentina Ivănuș, Organizational Development Specialist

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