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My journey

Still Unfolding

Life moves in cycles, and every decade something shifts at the root. In 2006 it was a quiet dissatisfaction with my work — a loss of meaning that sent me toward something more essentially human. A few years later, divorce arrived and shook the entire architecture of what I believed my life was supposed to be. In the rubble of that, some real questions emerged: who am I really? and what do I actually want? The conventional map no longer pointed anywhere I recognized.


What followed was a long season of inner and outer exploration. Then, in 2016, another threshold: the realization that life has its own rhythm, independent of the one I had imagined. I grieved the family I wouldn't have, the life as I had scripted it — and slowly learned to inhabit the one that was actually unfolding. It held less of what I had planned, and more adventure, more depth, more learning than I could have anticipated.

Now I am in another phase, still finding its shape. What I have now, that I didn't always have, is a closer relationship with my body and with something I can only call my feminine nature. My contemplative practice is a big support.


Gail Sheehy called these moments passages — transitions that arise between decades and can last for years. I have lived several of them now, more are yet to come, hopefully. My learning is to stay willing to be surprised by the mystery of life.


I know what it is to stand at the edge of an identity that no longer holds, to grieve a version of life that won't arrive, and to slowly find ground in what is actually here. That is the territory I work from.
"Transformation is inevitable. The only question is whether we meet it with courage, compassion, and openness." — Maria-Magdalena
Education

Trainings & Expertise

Learning, for me, has never been a box to tick. Every training, certification, and methodology I've explored has been driven by genuine curiosity and by a commitment to first embody what I learn before bringing it into my work with people.

  • Metasysteme Coaching 2007 - 2015, with Alain Cardon, MCC
    • Systemic Coaching Fundamentals and Supervision
      • Metacoach Workshops - focused on acquiring skills in how to coach groups, teams, networks, families and organizations. Practical work in subgroups of five to ten, sometimes up to twenty participants, will add a complexity that goes far beyond the simpler two-way systemic experience proposed in the "Systemic Coaching Fundamentals" program.
    • Individual and Team Diagnosis
    • Delegated Processes
    • Risk Management
    • Breakthrough Process
    • Advanced Team Coaching Tools
  • Professional Certified Coach by International Coaching Federation - The global standard-bearer for coaching excellence, etsablished in 1995.
  • Certified Coach by CoachHub-Berlin CoachHub is a digital coaching platform built on the belief that growth shouldn't be a privilege — its mission is to make professional coaching accessible to people at every level of an organization, worldwide, because when people grow as individuals, they naturally inspire as leaders.
  • Leadership Versatility Index 360 by Kaiser Leadership Solutions A research-backed assessment that reveals how leaders may be undermining their own effectiveness — not through lack of skill, but through overuse of it. In other words, every strength overused becomes a weakness.
  • Hogan Assessment System Certification The Hogan Assessment measures personality through three lenses: who you are at your best (bright side), what derails you under pressure (dark side), and what quietly drives your decisions (your values) — making it one of the most honest mirrors a leader can look into.
  • RLT Level 1 by Relational Life Institute with Terry Real
    At the core of RLT Level 1 is a structured approach to help clients see themselves clearly in their relationship. Working through 8 diagnostic lenses, I learned how much clarity is possible even in the most entangled dynamics. Much of it felt like coming home, deepening what I'd already been practicing as a systemic coach, now with a finer relational vocabulary.
  • Unleash Your Strengths w/ Eddie Villa It gave me new lens to work with CliftonStrengths assessment — a powerful tool for helping people discover what they're naturally best at, and build from there rather than from what's missing.
  • Enneagram (Discover) After exploring many personality assessments — MBTI, DISC, CliftonStrengths, Hogan — the Enneagram remains my favorite. Not because it's the most precise, but because it carries something the others don't: a genuine developmental arc. It refuses to define us by our patterns, and for those willing to go deeper, it opens into a spiritual dimension that few frameworks dare to touch.
  • Diamond Approach A path that offers an immense and precise body of knowledge about the nature of reality and the process of spiritual realization. Rather than positing an end goal or condition, it points to an open-ended, continuous process of discovery.
    Student of Diamond Approach since 2020.
  • Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics 1997 - 2002, Bucharest
Work Experince

Highlights

Coaching is at the heart of what I do. But I've never been someone who does just one thing. Here's some of what else I've been up to.


Hosting
Since 2020, I've had the pleasure of managing three holiday apartments in the stunning mountain town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. I love welcoming guests from around the world, hearing their stories, and sometimes making new friends.
Meditation Center
Between 2017 and 2020, my friend Anda Hobai and I co-led a Meditation Center in Bucharest, a shared space for trainers, facilitators, therapists, and coaches to offer their work. Besides the opportunity to run my own workshops I also had the chance to immerse myself in the rich variety of practices happening in our place: yoga, psychodrama, breathwork, shamanic rituals, movement meditation, constellation work, Sundao, and many more.
Learning and Development
Since 2011, I've had the privilege of collaborating with LogosNet, Italy as a Trainer and Development Designer. Over the years, that partnership took me to Italy, England, Egypt, and Nigeria, where I delivered trainings in communication skills, leadership and team development, conflict resolution, intercultural team-building, and strategic management. It was the kind of work that taught me as much as it gave.
HR and Organizational Development
My transition from software to coaching didn't happen overnight, it moved through an intermediate chapter: HR and organizational development consulting. In that role, I designed and facilitated leadership and communication programs for managers across national and multinational companies, covering topics from stress management, defining vision and values to middle management skills, three-level leadership, and employer branding. It was the work that first showed me how much transformation is possible — and how much more was still needed.
Software Development
I discovered computers in the 90s, when I was around 14, and the enjoyment of programming has never really left me.
As a Technical Project Manager at TotalSoft S.A. I led cross-cultural software development teams across Romania, Germany, and India — an experience that helped me value and embrace our cultural differences more than before. For a time, I relocated to Frankfurt as an on-site manager for an outsourced project, juggling multiple projects, client relationships, and business development at once. But the work I'm most proud of is designing the web-based platform for human resource and payroll management, CharismaHR, that went on to be implemented in over 500 companies across Romania. Designing and developing it with my team was one of those rare experiences where craft, collaboration, and real-world impact converged.

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