MENTOR YOUR WAY INTO THE FUTURE

Imagine that you work in a company that brings out the best in you all day, every day. You start your working day with a sense of excitement; you look forward to seeing your colleagues on camera or in person; you know exactly whom you serve and why; and you know that your work matters way beyond the paycheck that you get at the end of the month. Would you – or any of your people – be ready to leave such an organization for a few more bucks offered by a competitor?

The competition for talent has become cutthroat during the last decade. With the skyrocketing growth of remote organizations that know how to provide autonomy and who can afford to hire quality people located anywhere, traditional organizations are under pressure. 

The cost of work has been going through the roof. So has the cost of hiring and retention, driven by massive inflation and geopolitical uncertainties. The Great Resignation is here and it doesn’t plan to stop anytime soon. 

If you had a magic bullet that could turn your organization into a wildly attractive employer who can cherry-pick talent worldwide, accelerate onboarding and productivity, and retain your best people effortlessly, would you go for it? 

At Vornica we are convinced that mentoring is the most effective people development intervention that can accelerate your company thriving now and in the future. 

In fact, we know that newly emerging hybrid organizations cannot take a single step without a high performing mentoring program.  

A mentoring program that is strategically set up and deployed across your organization provides you with: 

1. Engaged and purpose-driven MENTORS who are blowing away silos, driving performance across the board, and nurturing your next generation of leaders, all while developing their own sense of purpose and emotional intelligence. 
2. HIGH-PERFORMING EMPLOYEES who feel welcomed and supported in your company from the first day to their last exit interview.  
3. NURTURING RELATIONSHIPS across the board that cross-fertilize your departments and drive innovations. 
4. A CONNECTED CULTURE where no one feels isolated or alone and no one is left behind. 

More, a strategically set-up mentoring program can: 

1. Ease your ONBOARDING efforts; 
2. RETAIN candidates during their trial periods; 
3. Accelerate your new recruits’ INTEGRATION and PERFORMANCE DELIVERY; 
4. CONNECT people across projects, teams, departments and interests; 
5. Develop a healthy and nurturing COMPANY CULTURE; 
6. Elevate your people’s MANAGERIAL AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS; 
7. Nurture your NEXT GENERATION of leaders. 

With a quality set-up mentoring program you save money by hiring faster, retaining more talented people and avoiding burnout by elevating people’s sense of connection, empowerment and belonging. No one should feel left alone in an organization. 

Based on our extensive people and organization development expertise we can support your organization with: 

1. CONSULTING on imagining, setting up, deploying and evaluating a high performing internal or cross-organizational mentoring program; 
2. EDUCATING your mentors and mentees with our robust tailor-made body of knowledge;
3. EXTERNAL MENTORING for your top leadership, HR and PR experts, and for other associates who could use external skills and expertise;  
4. SUPERVISING your in-house mentors.

We can help you to set up high functioning mentoring programs focused on: 

1. ELEVATING WOMEN TO TOP LEADERSHIP. Our missing at Vornica is to triple the number of women CEOs in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe by 2030. Any organization who is ready to join us in the challenge is our heartfelt partner. 
2. PROMOTING JUSTICE, EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION (JEDI). We know that embodied diversity drives mind-blowing innovation. That’s why we are happy to support you to develop a true diversity mindset across your entire organization. 
3. REVERSE MENTORING. We don’t allow age to prevent thriving at any stage in life. By supporting each other we can expand out horizons and become better human beings.   
4. KNOW-HOW TRANSFER AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT. When talented people leave, organizations bleed. We support you to stop the bleeding by capturing the know-how specific to your people and organization before it’s too late. 

INNOVATION AND INTRAPRENEURSHIP. We support your company to develop the skills necessary to continue on your innovation journey.

Interested in individual mentoring bur your organization is not ready for a full cross-company mentoring program? 

Check NEVER WALK ALONE, our individual executive mentoring and coaching program for women in leadership.  

Our individual executive mentoring and coaching program has been conceived to address the issues of women who are already leading projects and / or teams. Their roles may be at the level of board -2 or -1, or they may be part of a company’s executive team. 

Our programs help our corporate clients to attract and retain more female talent. Our participants often decide to stay longer in the organizations that care for them. Thus, we increase retention and make sure the companies’ pipeline of female talent never goes dry. 

By experiencing more self-confidence and a renewed sense of purpose we support women leaders to take their communications, their leadership and their careers to the next level.

Cristina is a complex people developer with 12 years of experience training, mentoring and coaching some of the most visible leaders and future leaders in TOP 100 companies in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe.

Cristina works regularly with people from companies such as Alior Bank Poland, Asahi Breweries, Avon Cosmetics, Banca Comercială Română, B. Braun, Česká spořitelna, Československá obchodní banka, Coca Cola, DM Group, Erste Group, Foxconn, HSBC, IBM, IKEA Retail, IKEA of Sweden, Komerční banka, Microsoft, Moneta Money Bank, Naspers, Nespresso, Novartis, O2, Raiffeisenbank Czech Republic, RWE/Innogy, Salesforce, UniCredit Bank, Unilever, Ursus Romania, Wrigley/Mars and others. My work span covers countries from Estonia and the Baltics to Romania, Moldova, Serbia, Greece and Cyprus in Southern Europe.

Since 2010 Cristina conducted more than 3 000 training and facilitation sessions for over 50 000 people.

Cristina is a certified Senior Practitioner with the European Mentoring and Coaching Center (EMCC), an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF), a multiply certified trainer of the Enneagram, a complex and dynamic system of personal development, and a trainer of systemic intelligence in organizations.

In 2018 Cristina published You, the Brand – Personal Branding for Career Growth, a book that she wrote in Czech, her fourth language. 

A relentless innovator, Cristina and her team organized the Personal Branding Summit 2019, the first ever fully digital conference in the Czech Republic that took place five months before the Covid pandemic. 

In the past Cristina was also the Chief Mentor of Femme Palette, a global female empowerment organization.

Since 2020 you can find most of Cristina’s work in video and audio format in the video academy CRISTINAMUNTEAN.TV.