Cristina’s Blog
Feel free to explore my thought leadership — shaped by lived experience and two decades of working with senior women leaders across the globe.
EXECUTIVE TEAM DEVELOPMENT, LEADERSHIP
How Do You Know You’re Leading a C-Suite with a Real First Team Mindset?
Last week, I was writing about the struggles many CEOs face in transforming the mindset of their C-Suite members regarding who their first team should be: their department and line… Read more
04/02/2026Reading time: 5 minutesEXECUTIVE TEAM DEVELOPMENT, LEADERSHIP
How to Shift Your C-Suite into a First Team Mentality
“I need them to understand that THIS is their team. Not their department team, nor any other team. THIS team.” I was listening to my client, the CEO of a… Read more
29/01/2026Reading time: 6 minutes
EXECUTIVE TRANSITIONS, LEADERSHIP, NEW CEOS
The New CEO Role: Trust Broker-in-Chief in a World Drowning in Insularity
Has anyone else waited for the 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer annual report like a child waiting for Santa Claus? That was me earlier this week, when the report was launched… Read more
21/01/2026Reading time: 7 minutes
NEW CEOS
How to Lead a Forming Executive Team to Quick Performance?
If you’re a CEO worth their salt, I am sure you are familiar by now with the five stages of existence of a team: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning.… Read more
12/01/2026Reading time: 6 minutes
NEW CEOS
How Do You Transplant a Mighty Tree Into a New Forrest – And Help It Thrive?
This winter, for the first time in six years, I took some prolonged time to rest. At home, no fuss – just the simple joy of quiet mornings, fresh coffee,… Read more
05/01/2026Reading time: 5 minutes
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
06/01/2025Reading 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
04/04/2024Reading time: 7 minutesEMOTIONAL 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
28/03/2024Reading time: 7 minutes
LEADERSHIP
How the Vanishing Social Fabric Impacts Your CEO Potential
In March 2023 I decided to embark on a crazy adventure. We launched THE CEO ELEVATION CIRCLE, a community of practice in leadership development and career acceleration for exceptional women… Read more
21/03/2024Reading time: 7 minutesLEADERSHIP
What I Wish Women CEOs In 2024
The new year is starting. Media is flooding with articles about how 2024 will impact business, whether we will manage to get the inflation genie back into the bottle, and… Read more
04/01/2024Reading time: 5 minutesEMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, FUTURE OF WORK
The key for your company to thrive in the post-Covid era is your people’s level of emotional intelligence
Recently I attended a virtual conference, HR Leaders, on the future of work. Listening to the distinguished panelists sharing their ideas, I couldn’t stop thinking that the success in our… Read more
09/05/2021Reading time: 5 minutes
PERSONAL BRANDING
Could our fear of missing out prevent the greatest revolution on the labor market since World War II?
When the Covid19 pandemic started in March 2020, only about 4% of people in the Czech Republic were working remotely on a regular basis. Once the crisis began, more than… Read more
18/04/2021Reading time: 6 minutes
FUTURE OF WORK
The Cloud Agora and A Leader’s Duty of Care for People Nowadays
Since the beginning of this year I ran numerous conversations with team and organization leaders, either as part of ongoing market research or as part of my group training and… Read more
08/02/2021Reading time: 9 minutesLEADERSHIP
My 10 Commandments for A Better 2021
Two weeks into the new year, I am sure that most of us had the chance to look back at 2020 and sum up its learnings. For many people 2020… Read more
18/01/2021Reading time: 13 minutesHYBRID AND REMOTE LEADERSHIP, LEADERSHIP
Hybrid Leadership. Welcome to the New Normal
Since the beginning of March and the Corona quarantine, our lives have been turned upside down. For some, their stream of income has completely dried up. For some others, fast… Read more
11/06/2020Reading time: 8 minutesEqual Pay: What We Can Do to Eliminate Unfairness and Restore Hope at Work
Isn’t it a paradox? The biggest gender pay gap in the Czech Republic is recorded in the financial sector – 41% in 2017 according to the Czech Statistical Office (ČSÚ),… Read more
05/03/2020Reading time: 7 minutesAre You Living in a Bubble? Perception Management for Expat Leaders in Central and Eastern Europe
When I am working on executive personal branding assignments with foreign leaders in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Romania, one of the greatest challenges we are often facing is… Read more
04/03/2020Reading time: 4 minutesHumanity 2.0: The Entrepreneurial Career and Our Journey Into the Future
The end of April this year marks a milestone in my life. This is the day when, ten years ago, Czech Business Weekly (CBW), the English language economic magazine were… Read more
21/02/2020Reading time: 7 minutes
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