What does your business card say?

It used to say „Management consultant, trainer, and coach “, but I do not have any business card anymore.

 

What training courses do you offer?

My offer consists of training and coaching programs especially for young managers or high potential employees to help them achieve their goals and mission in their leadership role, i.e.:

  • Management and Leadership Development Programs
  • Project Management Seminars
  • Communication in management workshops and presentations
  • Executive Coaching

 

Can you tell us more about your everyday life and tasks as a trainer?

There are two main streams of work: on the one hand, eliciting what the organizations want from their managers and thus developing the content and the format of the training programs accordingly and on the other hand facilitating (also adapting on the go) the seminars and the coaching sessions to respond best to the needs and personalities of the individual participants.

 

What do you enjoy so much about project management training? What is your motivation behind it?

First, I love working in projects myself, I only worked in projects my whole career. I like to work on new topics, meet new people, create something together, deliver and then close... and start anew. Thus, naturally, I like to share my love for working in projects with others.

Second, during the training seminars, I like to experience the participants’ “Aha”- moments, when each piece of project management know-how falls into the right place and eventually the puzzle becomes a meaningful picture.

It is my mission and it motivates me that each seminar participant’s work and career will be positively impacted by the interaction with me and within my seminars, even if only slightly.

 

What is the biggest challenge?

Nowadays my biggest challenge is using online as medium, losing face-to-face interaction in seminars, especially among the participants.

 

What is your personal work motto?

“If there is a will, there is a way.”

 

What are the advantages of a pma/IPMA® Trainer certification?

It is very straight-forward: I do not have to explain or prove my competence anymore.

 

Where do you find balance to your job?

Being a trainer is not merely a job for me, it is a vocation, it is something I like doing (like many other things) but luckily with training I can earn my living as well. Therefore, I do not need to balance it, it is an intrinsic and intertwined part of my life. It gives me lots of meaning and joy.

 

Personal Information

My education

  • MBA, INSEAD, France, 2000
  • Business Administration, Academy of Economic Studies, Romania 1991-96

 

PM certifications

  • pma/IPMA® Level B - Certified Senior Trainer in Project Management, 2024
  • Scrum.orgTM Professional Agile Leadership, 2019

 

Professional stations/job history

  • Management consultant, trainer and coach since 2008
  • Cooperation partner of Hernstein and Primas Consulting
  • Roland Berger Strategy Consultants Bucharest, Frankfurt, Vienna 1993-2003