35 hours of executive career and leadership development. 25 hours of executive networking and tailor-made experiences. 7 days of self-care, learning, personal and professional growth. One life of benefits.
Do you often feel overwhelmed? Constantly tired and endlessly stretched between the thousand work, personal and family-related priorities that keep landing on your plate? Do you feel like, regardless of how much you work, you are constantly lagging behind, drenched in guilt that you can’t do more – that you can’t be more?
If you answered yes, well - welcome to the club 😊
At Vornica we know that OVERWHELM is the main cause that prevents smart, talented and ambitious women to grow in their careers and leadership. So what exactly is keeping us, women, in this constant state of overwhelm?
In more than 12 years of elevating women to their personal, career and leadership glory we reached one conclusion: the root cause of our overwhelm is that we have fallen under THE SPELL OF OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE.
We love getting things done. Heck, we were socialized to notice THE NEEDS OF OTHERS even before they knew they had them. From the moment we learned how to walk we were trained to notice what needs to be done for others so everyone around us can thrive.
In organizations that need more nurturing than ever before, this quality is a strength. But it can also become OUR DOWNFALL.
Our attachment for getting things done is often combined with our limited capacity to say no. So we end up collecting more and more tasks. More and more operations. More and more demands to be excellent at more and more things. The perfect manager, spouse, daughter, mother, friend, community leader and more. The perfect woman – or else.
As demands increase, the price that we pay for this PERFECTION DELUSION is huge, isn’t it?
Little by little, our physical and mental health starts to suffer. Our energy diminishes. We have no time to stop, reflect and take stock of where WE are heading. We keep on doing and doing and doing move with little to no time to reflect on WHY we are doing all these things in the first place.
If you recognize yourself in the lines above, welcome! You are at the right place. I can’t wait to welcome you with a proper hug in our LITTLE RESTORE & REFRESH LIFE-WORK INTEGRATION NEST IN MADEIRA.
Let’s find together a solution to your overwhelm. Let’s stop for a moment to take stock of your life and work, and to create together a system that will help you to take off some of that weight from your shoulders so you can breathe again, experience more delightful inner alignment and grow in your career and leadership.
Life-work integration is a delicious inner alignment around what really matters to you.
With full mental and emotional presence in the given moment you FLOW EFFORTLESSLY between activities that are you-related, family-related, work-related and / or community-related. No pressure; no rush. Simplicity. Clarity. Fabulous results and a deep sense of PERSONAL PURPOSE AND PRODUCTIVITY.
You are well resourced; you have enough energy for everything that matters to you: your work, your family, your physical well-being and anything else important.
Thanks to our approach you become a source of inspiration for the people in your team – or for your daughters. Even though you grow in your career and you reach your full potential as a leader, you retain this DEEP SENSE OF INNER ALIGNMENT AND PEACE.
You are more than balanced; you are integrated.
You are whole.
YOU ARE IN CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE.
Join us on the magical island of Madeira from February 9th to February 16t, 2023, and we will show you how 😊
Our career and leadership accelerator retreat LIFE-WORK INTEGRATION aims to teach you a method that will help you to slow down, to take stock of your current reality, to gain critical distance, to clarify your priorities and to create a system that will help you to GAIN MORE TIME DAILY while feeling more empowered and more productive.
We will teach you how to understand, evaluate and manage your sources of energy for yourself and your people. You will learn how to master your physical, emotional, mental and purpose-driven energy, so you never run on empty anymore.
At the end of our career and leadership accelerator retreat LIFE-WORK INTEGRATION you will leave with AN ACTION PLAN and with CONCRETE ACTION STEPS SHORT, MID AND LONG TERM that will enable you to avoid burnout, breathe again and make the right moves that will take your career and life to the next level.
The career and leadership accelerator retreat LIFE-WORK INTEGRATION is exquisitely tailored for the smart, talented and ambitious women from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe who want to grow into the C-Suite at the local, regional and global level.
This CAREER AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT RETREAT helps women to develop a personal leadership strategy that removes any barrier that could hold them back from growing in their careers.
Our program increases women’s well-being and sense of empowerment. Thus, our participants decide to stay longer in their organizations that care for them. This is how increase the retention of female leaders and we make sure the companies’ pipeline of female talent never goes dry.
By experiencing more well-being, self-confidence and a renewed sense of purpose we support women leaders to take their leadership and their careers to the next level.
ARE YOU A SMART, TALENTED AND AMBITIOUS WOMAN FROM CENTRAL, EASTERN AND SOUTHERN EUROPE WHO WANTS TO GROW IN HER CAREER AND INTO THE C-SUITE?
Here is what we are going to do together.
During seven days we will teach you a system that will help you to clarify your priorities and to identify the resources that you need so you can move forward, lead and live with more ease and joy.
We are committed to sharing a method with you that will keep on giving. When you leave, you should be able to take our method home and use it over and over again for yourself and / or the people in your team.
By the end of our program you will feel refreshed, reenergized and exhilarated. You will leave with a clear understanding of the secrets of life-work integration, with a strategy and a plan to keep overwhelm at bay AND to grow in your career and leadership as much as you desire.
Our retreat lasts for 7 days – from Thursday, February 9th (program start at 17.00) to Thursday, February 16th (program end at 14.00).
We want to make sure that you have more than enough time for your development AND also for networking, explorations and other eye and soul-opening activities on the majestic island of Madeira.
In order to nurture your executive career & leadership development on the magic island of Madeira we partnered with Tiago Olim, our local concierge and experience designer.
Born and raised in Madeira, Tiago is passionate about designing curated in-person experiences for an authentic local immersion.
He helps retreat leaders, entrepreneurs and brands to achieve their vision by building up tailored made remarkable experiences surrounded by the natural healing landscapes of Portugal.
By joining our career & leadership accelerator retreat LIFE-WORK INTEGRATION you automatically become a member of VORNICA COMMUNITY, our vibrant online community of women in leadership for which we conduct regular events dedicated to personal, career and leadership growth.
More, you also gain 24 MONTHS OF FREE ACCESS to VORNICA ACADEMY, a self-paced career and leadership development platform where you can find numerous video courses aimed at taking your managerial, communications and leadership skills to the next level.
We are aware that career development is a sensitive matter that can bring up a lot of vulnerabilities. This is why we put extra measures in place to protect your privacy and the confidentiality of your current role, organization and specific career challenges.
All smart, talented and ambitious women participating in this program are cherry-picked to make sure that the group dynamics are nurturing for everybody.
The participants are smart, talented and ambitious women working for organizations with 20+ employees active in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. They are women who aim to grow in their leadership and into the C-Suite at the national, regional and global level.
For reasons of privacy and psychological safety we assess participants coming from the same company or from competing organizations / industries individually. If we spot any risk or potential conflict of interest, we discuss it with the participants before enrolling you into our cohort.
The career & leadership accelerator retreat LIFE-WORK INTEGRATION takes place between Thursday, February 9th, and Thursday, February 16th in person in Madeira, Portugal.
We are accommodated together in the magnificent resort Quinta Splendida. Function of your preference you can be accommodated in a single or in a double room.
During our week together you receive cca 35 hours of personal, career and leadership development topped by more than 25 hours of group networking, exploration and island discovery activities.
The price does not include VAT. We strongly encourage you to negotiate the full payment of your 7-day executive career and leadership accelerator retreat by your company. The program includes 35 hours of executive career and leadership development and over 25 hours of executive networking. In case your company wants to split the costs, we offer various payment options, including the full coverage by yourself in 3, 6 or 12 easy installments.
Throughout the program your trainer, mentor and strategic thinking partner is Cristina Muntean, the Vornica founder.
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.
Your career growth can’t wait until the start of our program? No worries. We can offer you individual tailor-made workshops and executive mentoring / coaching so you can gain clarity and meet your goals faster. Book a call, so we can figure out together what’s the best next step for your career and leadership growth.
There are many wonderful organizations that care about their women and support women career and leadership development. We absolutely encourage you to take this program to your direct manager and to your HR business partner / learning & development partner and to negotiate its payment in full.
Just ask us if you need more support when negotiating your retreat payment coverage by your company. We can provide you with a letter of intent and teach you how to negotiate like a Queen. If your company is in no shape to support your growth at this moment, we don’t encourage you to wait. Consider this retreat as a strategic investment into yourself, into your life, into new career opportunities and into a better future.
Yes, you need to stay at Quinta Splendida during our retreat. To facilitate a maximum of interaction and learning during the program and also during informal breaks we invite all our participants to be accommodated in the same location during the entire program.
You can, but we don’t recommend it. Our group program is intense and this should be your precious me-time for critical distance, rest, reflection, relaxation and regeneration.
Absolutely. Even though the program is intense, we want to make sure that we strike a gentle balance between learning, group networking activities and your own me-time dedicated to integration, rest and recovery. Even though this is not holidays, we invite your full presence and engagement throughout the whole program for a maximum of career and leadership growth.
Absolutely. We created a very flexible package of installments that enables you to cover the cost of the program in a one-off full payment or in 3, 6 or even 12 easy monthly installments.
To get the most from this retreat you need to put in the work: join us in the program from beginning to end, go through the study materials, do the self-reflection individual and group exercises, and be as involved as you can be with your colleagues and group during the whole time spent together. Your proactivity will determine your success – and, ultimately, your destiny.
Absolutely, we value anyone who refers our work. Please reach out to us directly, to make sure that we know about your efforts and that we can include you into our affiliate program.
You can cancel your participation in the retreat at least 30 days before it takes place. The deposit is non-refundable; yet, if you cancel more than 30 days you receive back the amount of money you paid on top of the deposit. If you cancel less than 30 days before the retreat all payments made are non-refundable.
Absolutely, you will have access to all course print and downloadable materials for the rest of your life.
Absolutely. A successful graduation certificate is issued to you when you have attended more than 80% of the development sessions in-person during the retreat.
We do provide a 100% satisfaction guarantee. If, following an exit interview, we agree that the retreat was not the right option for you, we offer you an individual executive mentoring / coaching program with Cristina in the same value as the retreat, to cover your remaining open questions and needs.