Strategic Career Management for Senior Women Leaders

STRATEGIC CAREER MANAGEMENT FOR SENIOR WOMEN LEADERS
Hi — I’m Cristina Muntean.

I believe the future of Europe depends on more women stepping boldly into their good power —  and into top leadership.

As the founder and CEO of VORNICA®, I partner with senior women leaders to help them communicate with impact, navigate their careers strategically, and thrive in the toughest leadership roles.

My mission is to triple the number of women CEOs in Europe.

This space is where I share my work, my story, and the stories of women who dared to rise.
I’m glad you’re here — let’s shape the next chapter of your career together.

Cristina Muntean

My Work in Numbers

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Why I Want to Work With You

My services

I work with senior women leaders — especially current and future CEOs — because I believe you are the key to the positive systemic transformation our world urgently needs.

Together, we’ll strengthen your ability to lead from good power: balancing the needs of diverse stakeholders, making wise decisions under pressure, and maintaining the critical distance needed for clarity.

You’ll learn to rise above immediate demands, access your inherent wisdom, and create lasting impact — while stepping fully into your human and leadership potential.

Cross-Pollination: Whom Else I Serve and Why

COMPLEMENTARY SERVICES 

Even though my primary focus remains on developing primarily present and future women CEOs, I recognize the tremendous value found in serving complementary clients with similar values and business intentions.

This is why I invite you to take a look at the services I offer to entrepreneurs founders & CEOs, to expat CEOs active in Europe – particularly in Czechia and in Romania, my two home markets – and to outstanding men CEOs who welcome partnering with a female power coach & mentor to develop their leadership repertoire, emotional intelligence, and strategic communications and stakeholder management skills. This is cross-pollination at its best.

It is my life’s privilege to be able to hold the space for the quality development of these diverse clients and to bring the breakthrough insights emerging from our rich conversations to women CEOs.

  • Never Walk Alone – Founder & CEO

    EXECUTIVE COACHING FOR ENTREPRENEURS

    Top executive coaching and mentoring for entrepreneurs who struggle to balance being the founder and the CEO of their growing business.

  • Never Walk Alone – Abroad

    EXECUTIVE COACHING FOR EXPATS

    Experience-driven executive coaching and mentoring for expat CEOs who struggle to figure out how to lead exceptionally well in Czechia, Romania, and abroad.

  • Never Walk Alone – Co-Creation

    EXECUTIVE COACHING FOR MEN CEOS

    Top executive coaching and mentoring for men CEOs who aim to transform their companies through their exceptional executive presence, role modeling, and inspired leadership.

Client Endorsements

Testimonials

Discover how I partner with top executives and companies to drive excellence, learning, and lasting transformation.

My mantra? Once a client, always a client.

Read what senior leaders and lifelong business partners across Europe say about working with me.

  • Cristina has been my executive coach during one of the most pivotal periods of my career, particularly while navigating the complex challenges of my role as Managing Director at Deutsche Leasing. Her skills and expertise are absolutely indisputable. During moments of uncertainty, Cristina provided me with the space to process my thoughts and feelings, while also challenging me through insightful and reflective questions. This helped me to break free from long-established patterns of thinking.

    I first connected with Cristina through her book, VY JAKO ZNACKA (You, the Brand) which explores personal branding in relation to career growth. Impressed by the insights in her book, I joined her Mentoring Services for Women Leaders: NEVER WALK ALONE program. Her coaching sessions within this program, combined with the knowledge from her book, have provided me with practical strategies and profound understanding to advance my professional journey.

    What sets Cristina apart is her remarkable insights and extensive experience in coaching and working with CEOs. Often referred to as a “CEO Whisperer”, her understanding of the unique pressures and responsibilities faced by top executives is unparalleled. I am also part of her THE CEO Elevation Circle initiative which is “on a mission to triple the number of women CEOs in Europe by 2030”. In this group, we exchange ideas, discuss problems, and collaborate with other CEOs and C-suite executives. This platform has been invaluable in broadening my perspective and enhancing my leadership skills. The level of trust Cristina fostered during our sessions was instrumental in enabling me to achieve significant progress. Her empathetic yet challenging approach has been transformative, not only for my professional journey but also for my personal growth. I truly appreciate having had the opportunity to work with her.

    For those seeking a seasoned, compassionate, empathetic, and highly skilled executive coach, Cristina is an outstanding choice. I fully endorse her as a transformative coach. Her proficiency has inspired me to become an agent of change in my own journey. And all this, with full enjoyment and loads of fun! 😊

    Lenka Glavinić Pivoňková

    Ex-CEO, Deutsche Leasing Czech Republic and Slovakia

  • Cristina has provided me with indispensable help and advice in preparing for high-profile public appearances, important stakeholder meetings, interviews, and panel sessions. Her training in storytelling has deeply impacted my style of delivery on the stage; she has helped me build rapport with various audiences. I have received practical insights on speech drafts, PowerPoint presentations, content and style, real-life dilemmas etc. When you work with Cristina you get full focus and utmost attention, impartial advice and objective feedback, inspiring stories and handy examples, all served with a very positive, energizing and charming vibe. All-in-all both a very invigorating and practically useful experience. Cristina is very emotionally intelligent and I try hard to keep up and to learn from her at the same time 🙂 If anything, I believe she could charge more, her services are totally worth it. Working with Cristina is a great experience, definitely time and money well spent.

    Kiril Bachvarov

    CEO, Home Credit Kazakhstan

  • Cristina has the talent to tune in to a specific group or individual and to design a program according to very specific needs. She creates relationships based on trust that are a good basis for the development of individuals or groups. Her language skills and multicultural experience are also an added value. Cooperation with Cristina is very rewarding and at the same time very pleasant. Cristina will not push anyone to achieve their goal; everyone must find the will to develop within themselves. Yet she will gently accompany and support you in this whole process.

    Ivana Martiňaková

    CEO, dm-drogerie markt Romania

  • During my time as CEO of Foxconn Global Services Division (FGSD) in the Czech Republic I became acquainted with Cristina when we both worked on a specific account development project. The cooperation worked so well that we asked Cristina to work more intensively for my organization in order to develop the Communications and Marketing strategy for FGSD. I must say that working with her changed not only my professional, but also my private life. It changed my view on things that one can observe daily in the media and it definitely added value to my business by leveraging the company resources in order to enable sustainability and growth. I am no longer working as CEO of Foxconn GSD, but I will certainly rely on Cristina again in the future to support me personally in all aspects of company communication, to train people in my organisation and to support with developing sales and HR team capabilities. As a modern CEO I recognize that communications and marketing require a professional approach. For that you must rely on real professionals. Professionals like Cristina. As a CEO I found it delightful to work with Cristina because you can rely on her with all aspects of your communications and marketing both for the company and for you as a leader.

    Jan van der Hoeven

    Ex-CEO, Foxconn Global Services Division Czech Republic / Europe

  • If you are looking for a mentor/coach to guide you through the journey of finding your true vision and navigate smartly in this complex world, Cristina is definitely the right choice. Cristina is a natural coach and facilitator. She is patient, intuitive, and wise beyond her years. And she has a masterful knack for knowing when to invoke these various skills to bring out a clarity of purpose and desire that is often hard to pinpoint on your own. She has a way of repackaging your own, sometimes confusing, thoughts in a way that adds meaningful direction. I’m very grateful to have worked with her during a challenging period professionally throughout 2019 and the result is remarkable. Thank you Cristina for joining me into my “big leap”!

    Ling Hong

    Executive Director, Goldman Sachs Asset and Wealth Management Netherlands

  • Cristina is the Swiss knife of personal and professional growth. I started a 1-1 coaching program with Cristina because I needed to take a step back and to understand how I can help my company grow without being systematically on the verge of a burnout. Previous years of introspection and previous coaches could not do what Cristina did in only a few sessions: she gave me X-ray vision for what’s really behind my successes and failures until now. I’ve gained an unprecedented understanding and awareness of my core beliefs, how they have shaped my actions throughout more than two decades of my life and why I keep pushing myself to exhaustion. This understanding is slowly and profoundly reshaping the way I work and the way I conceive my next decade in my life. If you’re considering Cristina for similar work, I can only recommend you do so.

    Dorian Lupu

    Founder & CEO, Botyglot France

  • It takes a rare gift, outstanding knowledge of the media world, and the skill of a coach to teach a person to craft a message both interesting to journalists and memorable to the reader. Cristina Muntean does an outstanding job of teaching you to be a media-savvy CEO while still being yourself.

    Ivana Goossen

    Ex-CEO, University of Pittsburgh - Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business Europe

  • Cristina is a professional business consultant who brings measurable results to our company growth. The relationship of our team with Cristina is more than just a supplier -> customer relationship, it’s about trust, support, empathy and more important, an incredible injection of a positive energy from Cristina to our leadership ambitions and at the same moment, it’s about very tough feedback to our macho ego. One can steal horses with Cristina!

    Libor Witassek

    Founder & CEO, DC Vision, Czech Republic

Case Studies

Learn how to navigate career and leadership challenges — and succeed as an outstanding senior leader and CEO — through the real-life stories of my clients.

Unless stated otherwise, names, organizations, and countries in the case studies below have been changed to protect client confidentiality and privacy.

Companies I Worked With

This is How I Serve

My Business Ecosystem

Being a CEO means serving a system greater than yourself.

That is challenging on its own — and even more so when you are also the founder of that system.

I created my own ecosystem to support senior women leaders like you — to help you lead from good power, elevate your executive teams and organizations, and, through them, contribute to transforming our world.

  • VORNICA®

    This is my company. We are on a mission to triple the number of women CEOs across Europe — empowering more women to lead from good power and achieve full gender parity in top leadership by 2050.

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  • THE VORNICA ACADEMY®

    Our e-learning portal for individual and corporate customers, featuring video courses, development programs, interviews, and event recordings on strategic communications, emotional intelligence, and leadership — all designed to help women leaders grow their good power. Learn more

Help Yourself to My Knowledge

Resources

Over the years, I’ve created a wide range of content inspired by my background in business journalism and my work with individual and corporate clients.

Feel free to explore it — and draw the insights and inspiration you need to step forward in your leadership and grow your good power.

E-books

Here, you’ll find all my e-books — organized by publication date — to support you on your journey toward greater good power.

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    Climbing Everest: Executive Team Coaching for CEOs

    Unleash Your Team’s Full Potential, Invest in Strategic Development and Build a High-Performing A-Team that Dominates Your Industry and Wows Stakeholders.

    Free
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    I, the Brand: Personal Branding for Thought Leadership, Career, and Business Growth

    Reclaim Your Reputation, Career, and Life by Building a Personal Brand that Lasts.

    Free
  • Free ebook Get it First, but First, Get it Right cover mockup

    Get It First, But First Get It Right: An Insider’s Guide to Strategic Media Relations

    Understand the Media, Gain Trust with Reporters, and Harness the Power of News for Leadership and Success.

    Free

My Blog

Explore my thought leadership — inspired by my education, daily experience, and work with clients — to help you lead with good power.

  • LEADERSHIP

    Between Many Scyllas and Charybdis – CEO Decision-Making in 2025

    Decision-making at the CEO and C-Suite level has never been easy. But rarely has it been as challenging as it is going to be this year.  If you’re familiar with… Read more

    06/01/2025
    Reading time: 8 minutes
  • LEADERSHIP

    Why Leaders Are in a World of Trouble if They Don’t Upskill Fast

    I should have been more specific when I titled this article. Initially I wanted to write Why Leaders in Central Eastern Southern Europe (CESE) Are in a World of Trouble… Read more

    04/04/2024
    Reading time: 7 minutes
  • EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, REPUTATION MANAGEMENT

    “I was the CEO. Now I am nobody.”

    During a recent talk we held in our community of practice in leadership development and career acceleration for exceptional women THE CEO ELEVATION CIRCLE a colleague shared that in 2023… Read more

    28/03/2024
    Reading time: 7 minutes

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Speaker Profile

I will energize your audience with my no-nonsense, real, raw, intense, and passionate approach to the topics I discuss on stage. Expect an abundance of enthusiasm, expressive gesticulation, and high audience engagement. Note: Your photographers will have a field day trying to catch me in a steady position 😊

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My Articles in the Czech and International Media

Thought Leadership

Once a journalist, always a journalist.

My love affair with the media lives on through expert articles, opinion pieces, and interviews featured across print, radio, TV, and digital platforms worldwide.

Let's Talk

If you’re an ambitious senior woman leader, an HR professional committed to supporting women and your organization, or an event organizer working with top leaders — I’d love to meet you.

Book a call with me, and let’s explore how we can work together.

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