Never Walk Alone – Co-Creation
EXECUTIVE COACHING FOR MALE ALLIES
Top executive coaching and mentoring for men CEOs who aim to transform their companies through their executive presence, role modeling, and inspiring leadership.
Why Should You Never Walk Alone as a Male CEO?
EXECUTIVE COACHING FOR EXCEPTIONAL MEN CEOS
As a woman leader, I rarely experience more purpose and meaning at work than when my experience can serve good men to lead better. We do have 93% of male CEOs in Fortune500 companies across Europe; the situation is not much different when we look at the overall business landscape. This means that the majority of business decisions that impact us all as consumers and communities are made by gentlemen at the top. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if these decisions were made together, with genuine wisdom, empathy, and deep emotional attunement to the needs of all company’s stakeholders? This is where I come into the picture 😊.
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.
This is how I serve:
Men CEOs
When you hire me to work with you on your strategic communications, emotional intelligence and leadership styles, expect to get uncomfortable. The greatest gift I carry for my clients who are men CEOs is to look them in the eyes and to tell them the things most people are afraid to articulate and share with them. I do this with mercy, compassion, and love. And yet at times this may feel like open heart surgery. This is because honesty and genuine partnership are the only ways I learnt that work when developing male CEOs in depth. This is why I need to take the scalpel and cut deep through the blindness created by gender privilege that can become fatal to your leadership and your success. This is how we get together to the heart of the matter: who you are as a leader and how you are called to serve our world here and now. If this feels like something you want to try, I am here for you.
How Does Never Walk Alone Work?
The Process
This versatile executive coaching and mentoring program, Never Walk Alone, has been designed to help you address the specific challenges you face today. I invite you to join me in a thorough process aimed to make sure you achieve maximum results, impact, and bang for your buck.
Step 0 – Let's talk
Let’s take 30 minutes to get to know each other. Free of charge, no strings attached. During this time we will talk, bond, and I will be happy to listen to the greatest professional and personal challenges you are facing right now. Based on this conversation we both can make a decision whether to continue in our conversation or not.Step 1 – Diagnosis and Goal Setting
When we decide to work together, we will dive into your program with a 30-minute diagnosis and goal setting. We will specify your objectives and the desired outcomes you want to achieve by the end of our program. Based on this diagnosis we identify the urgency of your topics and we select the topic for your first session.
Step 2 – Delivery
In this phase we deep dive into your challenge. To do this I will use my entire professional development toolbox: executive coaching and reflective inquiry to clarify your path, executive mentoring to leverage your real-life experience and know-how, training simulations to prepare you for what’s coming your way, and techniques such as visualization and somatic exercises. Our sessions can be recorded. Do expect self-reflective exercises and extensive asynchronous support via WhatsApp and email between our one-on-one sessions.
Step 3 – Feedback and Follow-Up
As we wrap up our development program, we’ll assess your current position, progress, and challenges still lurking on your path. I welcome your feedback and a rich discussion on our collaboration and ways to improve it going forward. As you grow, so too will your horizon expand – and your challenges. This is why most of my clients decide to continue our partnership through a different executive mentoring package designed to help them tackle new challenges arising from their success.
Should You Define Your Challenges Alone?
COMPLEX 360°ASSESSMENT
Sometimes it can be helpful to reflect and work on the challenges you know you have without further interventions. On the other hand, when you are about to enter a complex stakeholder environment with multiple perspectives and demands, it can be helpful to get them on board with your development. This is why I offer you two 360° assessment formulas aimed to help you make sure that you are focusing on the right challenges and you progress in a direction that is aligned with your stakeholders' expectations from you.
360° ASSESSMENT ONLINE SURVEY FORMULA
In this formula you identify up to 12 key stakeholders who should answer a compact set of questions related to your leadership profile, strengths, weaknesses, and development needs. Stakeholders receive a link to a survey form and they are invited to fill it in usually within 14 days. Afterwards we collect the data and we allow the results to inform our choices of challenges to tackle together during your development program.
Price: 1,000 EUR (VAT not included)
360° ASSESSMENT DIRECT INTERVIEW FORMULA
In this formula we identify up to 12 key stakeholders whom we will interview personally. All stakeholders will receive a scripted set of questions pertaining to your leadership profile, strengths, weaknesses, and development needs. Stakeholder live virtual interviews may take up to 20 minutes per individual. Afterwards we transcribe the interviews, collect the data, and we allow this thorough and robust information to fuel our choice of challenges to tackle together during your development program.
Price: 3,000 EUR (VAT not included)
The Success Formula
Why Three Options of Never Walk Alone?
I am here to serve you with the precise type of intensity and urgency you require. Based on my experience serving over 200 individual clients I can say with conviction that these three formulas usually meet clients’ needs best, which I why I recommend you explore them in depth.
Under Pressure
3SESSIONS
This flexible 4-hour formula is best for you when you're under tons of stress: preparing for a major presentation or keynote, bracing for a tough shareholder meeting, facing a job promotion, or a tough media interview; or simply wanting to simulate an upcoming communication scenario that makes you cringe. We can collaborate in a single 4-hour workshop with brief breaks, or divide the time into two 2-hour sessions, or three sessions of 90 and 60 minutes, respectively.
Price: 3,000 EUR (VAT not included)
Solution
6SESSIONS
This formula is ideal if your challenge is more robust and time-consuming than the Under Pressure scenario. For example, you may want to assess the dynamics in your executive team or skyrocket your storytelling / media interview skills. We can agree on six sessions of 7 hours (two 90-minute sessions and four 60-minute sessions), with enough time in between for self-reflection, practice, training, and action to achieve your desired results.
Price: 5,000 EUR (VAT not included)
Transformation
12SESSIONS
This option is life-changing — and that's not just a phrase. This session package is ideal for facing major career or life challenges: transitioning from the C-Suite into the CEO role, preparing for your next regional or global CEO role in a context with major complexity, challenges, and impact, preparing to exit the corporate sphere to launch your own business, or planning your succession / your departure from the CEO role while mapping how to maintain your influence and impact even after your retirement. The 12-session (13-hour) package is spread over six months to allow for a maximum of self-reflection and action room for your growth.
Price: 8,000 EUR (VAT not included)
Crisis Intervention: Short & Sharp
Picture it: your boss just told you that your department will be closed. You grasp for air. You don’t know how to respond. This is exactly when my SHORT & SHARP sessions come in handy. When life pulls to rug from under your feet and you need to avoid saying or doing something you may later regret, I am here for you.
Short & Sharp: Quick Compass
30Minutes
This pinch-like intervention can literally save your reputation. Our session is aimed to help you compose yourself, regain critical distance, and make a sound decision fast. For example: you need to bounce back quickly after an upsetting internal announcement and state your position; a journalist is waiting for your response; a co-worker did something unacceptable and you want to give them feedback without biting their head off etc. Quick Compass is ideal when you are in a rush AND you want to preserve your cool head and respond wisely in a way you won’t later regret.
Price: 400 EUR (VAT not included)
Book your Short & Sharp session hereShort & Sharp: Strategic Orientation
60Minutes
Imagine this intervention as taking a clarity pill. You need to cut through the fog, identify your next steps, and make sure you’re on the right path. This intervention is ideal for my former clients who want to discuss a certain topic without being enrolled in a fully-fledged coaching and mentoring program, or for future clients who want to sample the quality of my work before committing to a longer development program. Strategic Orientation helps you ground yourself, regain critical distance, and clarify your next steps in the direction of your desired objective.
Price: 700 EUR (VAT not included)
Book your Short & Sharp session here
With Whom Will You Work?
Your Mentor and Coach
I will work with you personally. Never Walk Alone is a work of love and a carrier of my own purpose and positive impact on the world. This is why I would be honored to get to know you and for us to address your challenges together.
If you want to learn more about me, my qualifications, and my story, please feel free to visit my My Story page.
Your Success is My Success
TESTIMONIALS
I feel incredibly privileged to be able to work with some of the smartest, most heartfelt and impactful leaders and CEOs on this planet. Feel free to check my clients’ reflections on our work together.
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.
Because she has been on ‘both sides of the microphone’, Cristina is a unique coach for executives needing to face the media with confidence, grace and authentic power. When we were approached by one of Central Europe’s fastest-growing banks to help their senior leaders be more confident and ‘real’ in front of the media and inventors, we contacted Cristina immediately to be on our consulting team. In her workshop using video/feedback, she taught the executives the best way to address potentially embarrassing issues, what to do if they were asked about something they knew nothing about, and how to take on ‘ambush questions’. We highly recommend her to you for your communication and leadership development needs.
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!
Cristina helped us navigate the complexity of an instant switch into fully remote work during the first wave of the covid-19 lockdown. Through a series of workshops for the above-market Asahi team, she managed to provide a set of crisp, practical and useful rules to help the leaders manage their teams in a remote environment, fully tailored to the specifics of our company culture. She also provided us with a set of trainings on how to run remote meetings, targeted to the wider team. Her energy, empathy and down-to-earth approach resulted in a very positive feedback overall, and contributed to the transition of the business to the new ways of working. It was a very pleasant cooperation overall!
I recommend Cristina’s training on Personal Branding – inspiring, but mainly practical. If you want to develop in the given area and you need direction, be shown how to work properly with your brand, or how to get yourself out of your comfort zone and know how to “sell”, contact Cristina. And for those of you who underestimate the importance of your personal brand, feel free to do the same;)”
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.
My Services Will Yield ROI for You for Years to Come
HOW CAN YOU CALCULATE THE ROI OF YOUR INVESTMENT IN MY INDIVIDUAL COACHING AND MENTORING SERVICES?
Here are a couple of ways you can use to measure the ROI of my individual coaching and mentoring services NEVER WALK ALONE:
The difference between your current salary and the salary you will receive in your new CEO / senior leadership role. Multiply that by 36 – 36 is the minimum length of a CEO mandate, or by 50, the average length of a regular CEO mandate. Anything on top of that is a bonus – my treat 😊
Imagine that you give an interview for Forbes. Your exposure will bring you a minimum of 6 pages for free. If you were to pay for advertising on 6 pages, you would pay a minimum of 10 000 EUR per page (it can be more function of the maturity of your market). By giving one good interview you save your company a minimum of 60 000 EUR. The instant ROI in my services: 7.5.
Calculate the value of your reputation and personal brand after your current CEO mandate. How will your market value increase and how will your compensation negotiation levers manifest when you apply for your next CEO role?
Calculate the value of your good name and access to premium / exclusive services that your visibility offers yourself, your children, family members, and other people you care about.
Calculate the positive impact of writing a book on your local, regional, and global reputation. How will your market value, negotiation power, and career and life management opportunities expand once you become a reputable published author?
And so on and so forth. If the ROI calculation is a topic of your interest, please book a call and let’s calculate it together.
Don't Walk Alone
Book a simple and quick 30-minute call with me personally to get to know each other and to assess the magnitude of your challenges as an expat CEO. I promise I will invite you in to work together only when I believe we could be a great fit; both our time is precious and I wish only the best for you, for myself, for your business and for my own business. The 30-minute call is a free, no-strings-attached virtual conversation. You literally have nothing to lose – and everything to win.
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are some of the questions I receive regularly from potential clients. Take a look, clarify your next steps, and let’s talk.
Is NEVER WALK ALONE for CEOs only?
No. NEVER WALK ALONE is an executive coaching and mentoring program for present, former, and future CEOs. It can also be used by women and men entrepreneurs – founders & CEOs, by expat CEOs or by men CEOs who strive to improve their emotional intelligence and leadership repertoire. The simplest way to check whether this program is for you is to book a direct call with me and we will take it from there.
Who pays for NEVER WALK ALONE?
It depends on the phase in your career and life. Clients who are about to be promoted CEOs or who are already CEOs usually get their bill settled by their company. On the other hand, clients who eye an exit from the corporate environment in order to launch their own businesses or who are not employed by a company anymore choose to settle their bills by themselves.
Is the price of NEVER WALK ALONE the same if paid from one’s own pocket or by a company?
Yes. The value provided to the end customer throughout this service is the same. The only difference is that function of your location in the world and the various VAT regimes applicable in our countries, we might be able to use a VAT exemption that will shave off 21% of VAT from your final bill in case you are a physical person covering your costs by yourself.
Is the price of NEVER WALK ALONE the same when applied to clients from Western Europe and North America, and to clients from Eastern Europe and other parts of the world?
Yes. The value provided to the end customer throughout this service is the same. The only difference – same as above – is that function of your location and the various VAT regimes applicable for our countries, we might be able to use a VAT exemption that will shave off 21% of VAT from your final bill.
How much time do I have to use my sessions?
It depends on the formula you purchased. In general I recommend using UNDER PRESSURE in less than a month, SOLUTION in less than three months, and TRANSFORMATION in less than 6 months.
Will our sessions be recorded?
Yes, should you choose so. One of the greatest advantages of working together online is that we can preserve everything through session recording. Thus, during the session we can focus on each other and on the challenge at hand, and less on note-taking.
How do you protect my data privacy?
Your psychological and data safety are my massive concern. Protecting your psychological safety is one of the reasons I chose not to become a digital nomad even though I work remotely – because I want to offer you my full attention from a private space with no interruptions, noise, and background distractions. In terms of data safety, all your data is stored in the cloud in a folder accessible only to you and I, and on my private server for back-up. Your data is deleted as soon as our program together has ended and I have your permission to clean up our servers.
Do you work only online or can we have our sessions in-person as well?
99.99% of my work is done online. This is how I get to serve clients from all over the world, and to protect my time and boundaries without burning out. However, if I happen to be in your home city and we both decide it would be nice to run a session in-person, I will be happy to oblige. Yet, expect this to be the rare exception rather than the usual way of working together.