EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT FOR WOMEN CEOS

In our work with women CEOs we encounter five key situations when it is helpful for you to consider THE CEO ELEVATION SUITE:

1. YOUR FIRST SIX MONTHS. 
2. MASTER THE DYNAMICS IN YOUR EXECUTIVE TEAM.
3. DRIVE TRANSFORMATION. 
4. GET READY FOR A KEY PRESENTATION OR MEDIA INTERVIEW.
5. SECURE YOUR SUCCESSION – AND YOUR NEXT CAREER STEPS.

Let’s take a detailed look at each of them.

You only have one chance to make a powerful first impression. 

When a new CEO is announced, everyone is concerned about what changes she will bring. 

This is why your first months, from the moment you receive the news about your next promotion to CEO to the moment you fully settle in your new role, are crucial for your future success.  

YOUR FIRST SIX MONTHS provides you with all the support that you need in order to clarify your new CEO purpose and vision, to articulate them with power and impact, and to walk mindfully into your new career challenge. 

Our CEO executive mentoring with a coaching approach program helps you to: 

1. Think and act from the future – reflect on what you need to have, to do, and to be so your CEO appointment turns out a raging success. 
2. Expand your perspective on the purpose and impact of your new leadership role.
3. Clarify your personal and organizational vision that you intend to pursue.
4. Map your current and future key stakeholders. 
5. Understand the visible AND the hidden dynamics in your new executive team and company.  
6. Avoid embarrassing faux-pas in terms of company and / or national culture and communications. 
7. Make the right first impression during every single individual and group presentation… and so much more. 

Have you just gotten the news that you will be the next CEO? This is the ideal moment to get in touch.

They are a bit like a ghost. You feel their presence, but you can’t put your finger on what’s going on exactly. And yet you know that, unless you get a firm grasp on what’s going on in your executive team, everything you work for is at risk.   

The power dynamics is an executive team are often overwhelming. Individual personality traits and agendas mix with the systemic dynamics present in your team and organization, creating an explosive cocktail that can drive outstanding results or burry your career. 

The purpose of our services in this area is to help you, the CEO, to get a grasp on the visible AND invisible dynamics in your executive team. 

We can work on that together, individually, so you can develop a helicopter view, critical distance and strategic perspective, or we can work together with the entire executive team to master dynamics leading to your success. 

For our individual work in mastering the dynamics in your executive team here is what we can do together: 

1. Assess your executive team history, profile, and dynamics in the wider context of your organization and its challenges. 
2. Analyze your fit in your executive team from the perspective of the diversity you bring to the table.
3. Coach you personally on the visible and invisible dynamics present in your executive team. 
4. Develop wise ego management strategies and effective communications with each of your executive team member – even with those who challenge you the most. 
5. Help you develop your strategic perspective and effective, stress-free leadership through emotional intelligence and intentional, effective team communications. 

For working with your entire executive team, please check our team coaching, mentoring, and development services PACT: PRODUCTIVE, ALIGNED, CO-CREATIVE TEAMS. 

As this service is highly personalized, we can propose a service structure only after several in-depth conversations with you and your executive team. Book a call below to map the development options for you and your executive team. 

You are now comfortably installed in your CEO role. Day-to-day operations come crashing on your desk. Your critical time to think is shrinking and the clarity, vision, and meaningful strategy that you had identified when you started seems to be slipping through your fingers.  

What do YOU need to make sure that you focus on the right priorities and make the right decisions? 

What will help your people and your organization to achieve the desired results AND to transform your company in a direction that will make it fit for the future? 

Months into your mandate as the CEO is the exact time when leaders run a high risk: of allowing yourself to be so overwhelmed with daily operations that you forget to nurture yourself, your health, your relationships, and your bigger transformational vision. 

The pull of your organizational system is so strong that it risks sucking you in – unless you act otherwise.   

This is exactly why we created the service DRIVE TRANSFORMATION for women CEOs like you who need structured space and time to take stock, regain critical distance, and to think strategically. 

Our intention with this service is to support you in making regular time for yourself to go back to the bigger picture AND to grow personally and as a leader in the following areas:   

1. Drive transformation with a powerful story about the future. Strategic leadership storytelling for CEOs is the fastest way to convey your vision and to get everyone on board with your plans. 
2. Focus on the right areas in your internal and external communications. Make sure no one is left behind and everyone is informed and attuned to your vision, plans, and strategic actions.  
3. Nurture and protect your reputation, to make sure that when your mandate ends you are in pole position for your next outstanding career move. In this area we will work at building your own magnetic, resonant, and uplifting personal brand. 
4. Run positive, uplifting meetings and conversations even with your most challenging internal and external stakeholders (investors, union reps, public and political authorities etc.). 
5. Develop your empathy and emotional intelligence. Notice and understand the hidden dynamics in your executive team and in your organization that could hijack your growth if left unattended. 
6. Skyrocket diversity, inclusion, and belonging in your organization and contribute to the deeper transformation of your company culture. 
7. Communicate your purpose, vision, and values relentlessly, so you can leave behind a lasting legacy. 

Regardless of the type of transformation you aim to drive, we are here for you. Critical distance AND the right effective actions will be the ultimate key for your success when driving transformation. So, let’s talk.

Of all the services that we offer to our women CEOs, this is the service that I personally love the most. 

This service drinks deeply from the well of love that I experienced for my journalistic profession during my career as an economic and business reporter. 

Later, as a media trainer for top corporate leaders from Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe, I noticed the challenges that CEOs have when placed in the limelight and the subtle marriage between a CEO’s level of emotional intelligence and the quality of their powerful, impactful communications when at the top. 

The GET READY FOR A KEY PRESENTATION OR MEDIA INTERVIEW service leverages 12 years of media experience and 13 more years of top executive communications and leadership development. 

Our intention is to help you prepare for your next key speech, presentation, podcast, or traditional media interview, so you can feel ready to deliver and take any question, anytime and from anyone. 

For this we: 

1. Review your current context.
2. Identify the circumstances of your next VIP talk (speech / presentation / podcast interview / traditional media interview).
3. Help you to carve a powerful, meaningful message for your key stakeholders, including storytelling for leadership.  
4. Train your delivery. 
5. Review your personal and corporate Q&A.
6. Help you create great answers for even nightmare-like questions. 
7. Support you to reduce stress, alleviate anxiety and stay cool under fire regardless of the high stakes of your next VIP talk. 
8. Interpret your delivery and its impact on your long-term personal branding and reputation management strategy.

Your CEO mandate is getting closer to the end. Clarify your next career step and master a smooth transition within your organization that will secure continuity, prosperity, and your lasting legacy.  

We face numerous necessary endings in our careers and lives. The challenge is to turn every single one into a joyful, outstanding, strategic opportunity for your future becoming.  

Towards the end of a CEO journey it’s easy to overlook strategic areas that could make a great difference. With your mind on your next step, you might be tempted to “live from the future,” and to get so caught in planning your next trajectory that many issues remain unattended. 

Such as your legacy. 

What can you do now to make sure that whatever purpose you followed during your CEO mandate has a future? To whom can you “pass the crown” to secure a smooth transition and preserve your lasting leadership legacy? 

And how can you use that legacy to elevate the next career and life phase of your journey? 

These are the questions that we answer together in the SECURE YOUR SUCCESSION – AND YOUR NEXT CAREER STEPS program. 

Our service helps you to: 

1. Gain a strategic perspective on the future of your career AND of your organization following your departure. 
2. Identify your ideal successor. 
3. Secure a smooth transition that preserves your legacy. 
4. Say good bye consciously and with no regrets. 
5. Move towards the next phase in your career and life with your head up, with dignity, hope… and so much more.

EXAMPLE OF A POTENTIAL SERVICE PACKAGE: 

1. One 30-minute alignment call on your needs, challenges, and expectations from our program; 
2. A 360° assessment including questionnaires and / or interviews with your key present and future stakeholders; 
3. 12 60-minute sessions that you can withdraw at a time and pace of your convenience within the first six months in your new CEO role; 
4. One 30-minute round-up call mapping our program achievements and your next steps; 
5. 24/7 access to your executive mentor via WhatsApp;
6. Exclusive invitations to CEO and leadership events: executive round tables, VIP retreats, podcast and media interviews, book interviews etc. – see the section BONUSES for more details.

Cristina is a complex people developer with more than 13 years of experience training, mentoring, and coaching some of the most visible leaders and their teams in TOP 100 companies in Europe. She is also the founder of our company, VORNICA®, a fully remote organization, and the founder of THE CEO ELEVATION CIRCLE, a community of women leaders working in corporate organizations in Europe who aim to grow in their careers. 

Cristina is also certified and multiply accredited professional team coach. She studied general team coaching with David Clutterbuck and Peter Hawkins, and she graduated in systemic team coaching with Peter Hawkins from the Global Team Coaching Institute (GTCI) in December 2022. 

Cristina works regularly on an individual, team, or cross-organizational basis with leaders 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, HomeCredit International, HP Enterprise, HSBC, IBM, IKEA Retail, IKEA of Sweden, Komerční banka, Microsoft, Moneta Money Bank, Naspers, Nespresso, Novartis, O2, PPF Group, Raiffeisenbank Czech Republic, RWE/Innogy, Salesforce, UniCredit Bank, Unilever, Ursus Romania, Wrigley/Mars and many others. 

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.

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

• Drop us an email at cristina.muntean@vornica.com and let’s talk.  
• Check the service packages above and apply to see if you’re a great fit to work together.
• Book a call here, so we can talk more directly: https://calendly.com/cristinamuntean/30-minute-the-ceo-elevation-suite-exploration-call.