THE CAREER CORKSCREW MASTERMIND

Are you facing a bottleneck in your career? Do you feel like suffocating or like having been pushed into a corner because of internal politics, organizational transformation or challenging market circumstances? You know in your guts that, unless you do something about it right now, your health, your career and your life will suffer long term? If yes, welcome to the CAREER CORKSCREW MASTERMIND. Let’s put some joy, ease and flow back into your career.   

So many talented and ambitious women end up in bad places in their careers.

This can happen for many reasons.

First, many women accept what I call the Snow White’s poisoned apple - toxic jobs, roles and assignments.

This is also called “the Theresa May syndrome” – it’s basically accepting a job that was doomed to fail from the start. This happens mainly during crisis and organizational transformation.

Another reason is corporate politics.

Sometimes we simply end up with a boss who wants us where we are, drowning in detail, operations and project management, when we know that we are fit for greatness, growth and leadership.

Last but not least, our careers are often hijacked by life.

We compromise for the greater good of our family, spouse, children and relatives, and we stop doing what we love and what we were put on this Earth to accomplish.

If this is you, welcome to the club.

You are not alone.

The CAREER CORKSCREW MASTERMIND was created exactly for talented and ambitious women like you.

This nurturing program helps you to breathe again. It will take you from confusion, frustration and suffocation to clarity and hope, from a dark corner in your career out into the open waters of possibility, career growth and work-life integration.

You deserve to work and live with ease and joy. You deserve to move forward and to grow into your full human and leadership potential.

Welcome to your CAREER CORKSCREW MASTERMIND!

So many talented and ambitious women end up in bad places in their careers.

This can happen for many reasons.

First, many women accept what I call the Snow White’s poisoned apple - toxic jobs, roles and assignments.

This is also called “the Theresa May syndrome” – it’s basically accepting a job that was doomed to fail from the start. This happens mainly during crisis and organizational transformation.

Another reason is corporate politics.

Sometimes we simply end up with a boss who wants us where we are, drowning in detail, operations and project management, when we know that we are fit for greatness, growth and leadership.

Last but not least, our careers are often hijacked by life.

We compromise for the greater good of our family, spouse, children and relatives, and we stop doing what we love and what we were put on this Earth to accomplish.

If this is you, welcome to the club.

You are not alone.

The CAREER CORKSCREW MASTERMIND was created exactly for talented and ambitious women like you.

This nurturing program helps you to breathe again. It will take you from confusion, frustration and suffocation to clarity and hope, from a dark corner in your career out into the open waters of possibility, career growth and work-life integration.

You deserve to work and live with ease and joy. You deserve to move forward and to grow into your full human and leadership potential.

Welcome to your CAREER CORKSCREW MASTERMIND!

We are extremely aware that career bottlenecks are super sensitive matters.

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 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 (CESE). They are women who feel stuck in their career and who aim to grow into the C-Suite at their 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.

In April 2010 I was in a dark corner myself and I didn’t even know it.

I was the deputy editor in chief of Czech Business Weekly (CBW), the only English language economic magazine in the Czech Republic.

Originally from Romania, I had started to work for the CBW in Prague in 2005. In five years I grew from an external freelancer to reporter, specialized reporter in financial markets, chief reporter and, ultimately, deputy editor in chief.

What could go wrong, right?

Well, in April 2010 we were in the midst of a global economic crisis. A year before, our advertising revenues had decreased by 70%. We were on the brink of bankruptcy.

So our management decided to shut us down.

What’s “better,” they made the decision on Monday evening, told us about it on Tuesday morning and laid us off on Friday afternoon.

For our kindness of heart, we got one month severance pay.

With insufficient language skills to find a job in the Czech media and in the midst of a global economic crisis, we had to reinvent our careers overnight.

I decided to become an entrepreneur.

My first step was to go to my tae-bo trainer (I was in a much better shape back then), I asked him to lend me 10 000 EUR and I founded my own company in Prague.

Since then I have been helping good people to communicate and lead better.

My favorite type of work is when I can support amazing women from our region to communicate, lead and grow into their whole career and human potential.

Because of my personal experience I know exactly how it feels to be trapped in your career.

No one should experience that.

That’s exactly why I put everything that I have experienced, learnt and know into this mastermind, to make sure it becomes a solution that will unlock your career and unleash your joyful, visionary, creative and beautiful spirit again.

I am a complex people developer with 12 years of experience training, mentoring and coaching some of the best leaders and future leaders in TOP 100 companies in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe.

I work 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 I conducted more than 3 000 training and facilitation sessions for over 50 000 people.

I am a certified Senior Practitioner with the European Mentoring and Coaching Center (EMCC), member of 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.

I am also the Chief Mentor of Femme Palette, a global female empowerment organization, and the author of You, the Brand – Personal Branding for Career Growth, a book that I wrote in Czech, my fourth language, in 2018.

A relentless innovator, I organized the first ever fully digital conference in the Czech Republic – the Personal Branding Summit 2019 - with my team. This was five months before the Covid pandemic even started.

Since 2020 you can find most of my work in video and audio format in my video academy CRISTINAMUNTEAN.TV.

IF YOU CONSIDER ASKING YOUR COMPANY HR FOR SUPPORT TO COVER THIS PROGRAM, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I HAVE TAILOR-MADE DOCUMENTS PROVING THE ROI OF THIS PROGRAM FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION AND I AM SURE THAT THEY CAN HELP YOU TO BUILD YOUR CASE AND TO GET THE SUPPORT THAT YOU DESERVE TO MOVE FORWARD IN YOUR CAREER.