6 or 12 sessions of executive mentoring and coaching for women in leadership. Time for self-care, critical distance, strategic career planning and leadership growth. One life of benefits.
One of the greatest risks that women in leadership face is becoming so overwhelmed with operational excellence that we stop seeing the forest for the trees. We lose focus and we waste our energy on tasks that could be easily delegated or cancelled altogether. Thus we become more and more overwhelmed; our health suffers, our family suffers, our team and company suffers, and our career and leadership suffers. How to get out of the hamster wheel, regain critical distance and bring presence, joy and ease back into our lives?
Critical distance is the precondition for strategic thinking, and strategic thinking is the precondition for masterful, inspired, and sustainable leadership. As they say, it’s hard to read the label of a bottle from the inside.
To cut through the fog and to notice the issues that really deserve our attention, we need to make regular time for ourselves. Yet let’s not kid ourselves: if we are not used to making regular time for ourselves, just knowing that we should do it is not enough.
What usually helps is having an accountability buddy – a strategic thinking partner who is willing to walk alongside you at every step of your journey. A Virgil for your Dante, if you will – someone who has been there in a way or another and is now willing to stand by your side, so you can succeed as well.
To never walk alone – to make sure that you really manage to fulfill your greatest potential at work and in life – we offer you two types of development services: executive mentoring and executive coaching.
When should you think about using each?
You should ask for mentoring when you know your problem (and probably also the solution), and you want to get there faster.
You don’t have time to learn by mistakes and to fall in all the traps that may lie ahead of you down the road.
What you need is someone who has been there where you want to go in a way or another, who can elevate your understanding of the topic fast, and who can help you to craft a solution that works for you.
A mentor is someone who has been in the trenches and is now willing to go back there to show you how to navigate them and how to get out of there victorious and shiny like a Queen.
On the other hand, you should ask for coaching when you feel trapped.
You don’t see the solution – and you don’t know why you don’t see it. The fog is so great that you can barely see your fingers; it feels suffocating and it’s eating you inside.
The support of a coach is priceless under such circumstances.
An astute coach will be there for you mentally and emotionally. With the help of precise questions your coach will help you to see your issue from a different perspective, and it will support you to clarify your needs, your resources and your next steps.
In essence, your coach is your thinking partner who is holding your attention focused long enough for you to start seeing the right solution emerging in front of you.
When you book your individual 1-1 executive mentoring and coaching program for women in leadership with us, you receive two extra gifts:
Welcome to Planet Vornica, where every smart, talented and ambitious woman from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe can lead, live and thrive!
We work with 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.
Our executive mentoring and coaching programs have 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.
MENTORING TOPICS:
Strategic personal communications and personal branding. Strategic team and internal communications. Emotional intelligence and strategic stakeholder management.
COACHING TOPICS:
Life-work integration – how to avoid overwhelm and burnout. Delegation. Career bottlenecks. Return from prolonged leaves and reintegration in the organization. How to gain influence in a team / company of men. Diverse team management issues.
MENTORING TOPICS:
Strategic personal communications and personal branding. Strategic internal and external communications – storytelling for leadership, media relations and crisis communications. Emotional intelligence for top leadership and sustainable career growth.
COACHING TOPICS:
Life-work integration – how to avoid overwhelm and burnout. Power games in the board – how to survive them and how to thrive as a female leader. Purpose beyond profit – how to generate more societal influence and sustainable change. Career development – your next steps. Diversity and team management issues.
MENTORING TOPICS:
Strategic personal communications and personal branding. Strategic internal and external communications – storytelling for leadership, media relations and crisis communications. First six months as a CEO – how to navigate a complex new environment and how to communicate with power and impact when all eyes are on you. Succession management for women CEOs.
COACHING TOPICS:
Emotional intelligence for CEOs. Life-work integration. Power games in the board and in the greater company ecosystem – how to survive them and how to thrive. Influence beyond the CEO role – ESG and social impact. Career development – your next step. Executive team management issues.
By the end of our executive mentoring / executive coaching program you will have a higher understanding of the topic that preoccupied you. You will have gained clarity on your next steps, and confidence that you made the right decisions. At the same time you will have maintained and nurtured your reputation, so you can achieve even greater things in the future.
A short-term intensive package of 6 (six) 60-minute sessions aimed at helping you to find the right solution for you fast and effectively. The duration of this program is up to three months.
A longer term development package of 12 (twelve) 60-minute sessions aimed at helping you not only to find your right solutions for you, but also to stop, reflect, learn, anticipate your future issues and move forward in delightful alignment. The duration of this program is up to six months.
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.
We will reveal your total investment and your return on investment during our 1-1 call. The reason we choose to do this is because we want to make sure that we understand your needs first, then guide you towards the most suitable solution for you. Book a call so we can start the conversation and map your growth opportunities.
The VORNICA executive mentoring and coaching programs are priced very competitively, in a manner that reflects their quality, direct career growth impact and the length of experience that went into them. Various flexible payment options are available to make sure that the programs are open to any smart, talented and ambitious woman from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe who is a great fit and who wants to invest in her 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 offer 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 program 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 executive mentoring / coaching program as a strategic investment into yourself, into new career opportunities and into a better future.
Absolutely. We created a very flexible package of installments that enables you to cover the cost of the executive mentoring / coaching program in a one-off full payment or in 3, 6 or even 12 easy monthly installments.
To get the most from our work together in your executive mentoring / coaching program you need to be willing to put in the work: arrive at our meetings in time, be fully present (no multitasking, no interruptions, no distractions during the session), do the self-reflection exercises in-between sessions and so on. More, thanks to being our client you gain access to the VORNICA COMMUNITY platform. There we invite you to access all available courses and meeting recordings, join calls with Cristina and be as involved as you can be with your colleagues and the community. 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.
Finding a suitable time for your 1-1 sessions is a top priority during your onboarding process. By the end of the onboarding you should know exactly when all your 1-1 executive mentoring / coaching session will take place.
You can cancel / reschedule maximum twice during a SOLUTION program (6 sessions) and maximum three times during a DEVELOPMENT program (12 sessions). Cancellation / rescheduling shouldn’t happen less than 24 hours before the session; if the session is cancelled less than 24 hours before its time, the session is considered delivered and it will be withdrawn from your paid package.
Absolutely, you will have access to all our mentoring print and downloadable materials for the rest of your life.
Yes, if you need one. A successful graduation certificate can be issued to you when you have attended all the executive mentoring / coaching sessions with Cristina.
No. The executive mentoring / coaching program is not refundable.
We do provide a 100% satisfaction guarantee. If, following an exit interview, we agree that the executive mentoring / coaching program was not the right option for you, we offer you access to other services in the remaining value of your unused mentoring / coaching sessions.
You can, but we recommend you do that only in case of an emergency. Finding a good spot for yourself where you have stable Internet connection and no disturbances is vital for your focus and growth. This is why we recommend connecting to Zoom from a laptop or desktop.
If this is the case we encourage you to access Zoom from a private device, such as a tablet or a laptop.