Who am I?

I teach, coach, travel, write & wonder. As a person, I believe in people and my mission in life is to make people believe in themselves. As a professional, I am an international trainer and project manager and I do projects about education and education about projects.

Professional Experience

I have worked as a consultant for various governments and international organisations (among them, the German and Romanian Governments, The Regional Cooperation Council, The British Council, The Bucharest City Council, The National Institute of Administration). In 2007 I founded the Assistance Centre for the Sustainable Development of Human Resources, and built a strong and motivated team. To date we have managed to almost double our budget every year and expanded our activity on 2 continents.

All these experiences and travels encouraged me to lay the foundations of the EquiliTri Framework. For me, the Journey started in India and Cambodia, with piloting the EquiliTri tools and continued with establishing the European EquiliTri Programme and its 9-year strategy, the international team and the infrastructure for the EquiliTri Network. If you're wondering what the blip is EquiliTri, click here.

Studies

In the beginning I went from one university to another because I did not like working that much. That led to a long route across Europe and Asia, studying project management related areas in several universities and institutes, such as the University of Exeter, England, the University of the Philippines, the Manchester Institute for Development Policy & Management, The Central European University in Hungary and a few others. I believe we should never stop learning, therefore, aside from learning from experience, every now and then I delve deeper into either research, reading or courses.

Selected Projects

Some say I disliked working so much that I decided not to work a single day in my life. Instead, I started doing something I enjoyed: projects about training and training about projects.

These are just a few examples of the latest projects I was involved in:

o MotiVision, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2012 - The third EquiliTri Training in Europe, with participants from 5 countries, for 7 days, was a training course providing youth workers with the tools to better motivate and manage their volunteers.

o Step Forward, Turkey, 2012 - The second European EquiliTri Training, with participants from 5 countries as well, for 8 days, aimed to help young people find their direction in life and build a personal development plan.

o EquiliTri, Romania, 2012 - Marking the beginning of the EquiliTri Training Wave - a series of projects with practical applications of the EquiliTri Method. It gathered participants from 6 countries for 9 days.

o Life-Path Vietnam, 2011 – the first business training from the EquiliTri series, organized for Raffles International, the second largest university in the world by the number of branches.

o Volunteers across Frontiers, China – International project in Guangzhou, where I gathered 6 different organisations and 10 volunteers to find out whether we can work together without speaking the same language, with no translators or interpreters. We tested 60 activities for children and young people and adapted over 50 to a no-common-language environment.

o Le Refuge, Cambodia, 2010 – International project in the Village of Kol, Cambodia, for the organizational development of Le Refuge. It was the first executive coaching project within the EquiliTri Programme

o Life-Path, India, 2010 – Personal Development project to develop and deliver an integrated training programme in PDP and lay the foundation of the EquiliTri method. It involved training courses in 7 universities in North India.

o Stars Across the Urals, Siberia, 2010 – International Youth Exchange on social integration, participants from 5 countries, a project promoted by one of our best partners.

o PhotoVoice, Romania, 2010 – International Youth Exchange on PhotoVoice as a method of non-formal education, participants from Afghanistan, Iran, India, Lebanon, Norway, Latvia, Romania, 2 weeks, financed by the European Union.

o Incommunicado, Romania, 2009 - international training programme focusing on Intercultural Dialogue, 20,000 euros, 7 months, partners from 8 countries, European Commission YiA.

o EuroPartners, Romania, 2009– Partnership Building Activity focusing on Non-Formal Education, 19,000 euros, partners from 13 countries, EU Project.

o E.U. Comunic, Romania, 2008 - an Intercultural Dialogue project financed by the European Commission YiA, 15,000 euros, 7 months.

o D.I.A.L.O.G.U.E., Romania, 2008, an international training programme focusing on Intercultural Dialogue, 21,000 euros, 6 months, partners: Malta, Italy, Turkey, Hungary, Romania, financed by the European Commission YiA.