Career Group Sessions

Start by getting your Free Guide on the 6 Principles of Career (Re)Design

The framework of this Guide is built on:

  • Thousands of hours of career development learning and practice in a multicultural, international environment

  • The success stories of our coaching & counselling clients

WHEN?

Follow us for the next group program dates!

We meet 7 weeks - one day/week

16:00-18:00 CET

For more details on the agenda, see below…

HOW?

We meet ONLINE, on Zoom

Every week for 2 hours

You will also have some self reflection exercises and self-assessment work to do between sessions, allocated time depending on your preferred style of learning and reflection.

The sessions are led by Andreea and Madalina, certified professional career coaches and facilitators.

*This is a programme aimed at anyone in this world interested in (re)designing their careers and who are fluent in English.

HOW MUCH?

Participation cost for the 7 weeks (Re)Design your Career group program - 14 hours online group sessions and individual work using the (Re)Design your Career Toolkit.


Price per person - 475 Eur

Early Booking Offer - For completed registration within the Early Booking dates, we offer 2 extra individual career coaching sessions with Madalina or Andreea (estimated value - 250 Eur)

Are you where you want to be?

Professionally? Personally? What is the right kind of work for you, right now?

If you are reading this, there might be no better moment than today to start to (Re)Design your Career. “Yes, but..”, “Maybe…sometimes”, “I need to have a clear idea, first' ', “I can’t really afford this', “I don’t have the time for this” might go through your mind - so for the moment we just invite you to take the time and read through. 

Too many times, crucial life decisions are based solely on gut feelings, on what other people say, on what is trendy rather than being well thought out. We propose to you a thoroughly well crafted Career (Re)Design Kit in which we condensed good science and thousands of hours of career development learning and practice. 

Use it and build the work and life that brings you joy.

So many options, so much pressure, so little time - only one life. 

As we might get to work for more than 90.000 hours, one thing is clear: no one wants to spend a lifetime doing a job they dislike. 

Change is happening so fast that when building a fulfilling and rewarding career, is almost certain that at some point you’ll need to reinvent yourself. And then, again. How are you adapting and approaching your next reinvention curve? How are you staying relevant and competitive? How are you staying true to yourself?

We look at careers, we look at our whole life. Love and work – the fundamentals of life. Add recreation, personal growth and health and this is it. How can we build the optimal balance between those most important areas? How do we design our careers to provide meaning, expression and money for ourselves? How can we bring joy in our work lives?

(Re)Designing and pursuing your best possible career requires effort, so being crystal clear on why you’re doing it will help you stay the course. If you simply view work as a source of income, it will feel like a chore. But if you view it also as a source of inspiration and motivation, it can enrich your life at large. 

And this is what we are here to support you with.

How do I know that this is for me?

This is a programme aimed at anyone in this world interested in (re)designing their careers and who are fluent in English.

Check  the questions below - if you respond YES for at least one of them, (Re)Design your Career might be exactly what you need right now:

☐ Do you want to rethink your work life and transform your career?

☐ Are you at a new phase in life and you want to be known for something different?

☐ Are you feeling less motivated and more disconnected in your current role?

☐ Are you just searching for more in your work: more fun, more energy, more meaning?

☐ Do you want to deep dive into what you can do in this world, clarify what is essential for you and design your best possible career?

☐ Have you been laid off recently and need to reshuffle your work and career? 

☐ Are you into that (turning) point in life where you think: is this all? … it better be more than this…

☐ Are you disappointed, tired or bored with your current work? You want to start anew, but you do not have any idea where to start, not to mention that you have all kinds of family or financial obligations?

☐ Do you want to redefine the story of your professional life and build confidence on how you share it to the world?

☐ Are you in doubt in terms of your journey in this world or life? Are you anxious about the future, constantly comparing with other people ``success” stories, fearing that you are missing out something important? To make matters worse, there are so many job opportunities out there that it seems impossible to make the “right” decision?

What you’ll get

By the end of this programme:

✓ You will gain clarity, confidence, direction and a plan over your career 

✓ You will grow your awareness in terms of your work preferences, what makes you feel good or energised, your skills and values, your drivers and motivators, your fears and how to overcome them

✓ You will be part of a community of professionals passionate about making work work for them

✓ You will already have a Personal Career Advisory Board to support you (we will use the power of community connections)

✓ You will have a crafted Career (Re)Design Map at hand - a visual & actionable representation for your redesigned work and career within your life. 

✓ You will be able to expand your career perspective and pick out the vital from the trivial. You will have an overview of yourself, life and career as they look right now, you will have discovered new insights and uncover relevant patterns

✓ you will know how to take time for yourself to reflect and slow down.

And most importantly, you will have unlimited access to the Career (Re)Design Kit which will help you to reinvent yourself and (re)design your career whenever you find it fit within this life.

EXPLORE

Give yourself the space just to think about your life and career and how they look like at this moment.

PreWork - Peaks and passions, lows and lessons

  • Understand how you got here. Define and start where you are, no more excuses. Before you can redesign your way to where you want to be, you need to know and accept where you are now. You might want “more” and “fast”, but for the moment, where you are is a good enough starting point. Plus, what do optimism, resilience and acceptance have to do with career redesign?

    Inter-sessions:

    Start your Ideas Bank.

    Start your Good Work Journal - What brinks you energy, joy, flow and engagement

  • Once completed, it will encompass the essence of you. This information will be used to inspire career choices later and also to provide a benchmark against which to judge any career choice.

    Inter-sessions:

    Continue your Ideas Bank.

    Continue your Good Work Journal - What brings you energy, joy, flow and engagement

    Various Assessments and inventors on your values, strengths and skills, interests, motivators and so on.

IMAGINE

Craft Your Work Canvas - What I want in my work and career

Start your vision board

  • Once completed, it will encompass the essence of what you want from your work. Aim for life - work coherency and integration. This information will also be used to inspire career choices later and also to provide a benchmark against which to judge any career choice.

    Inter-sessions:

    Start your vision board.

CRAFT

Getting Unstuck. Define Your Spectrum of Possibility. Build your Odyssey Plan

Know your Saboteurs & pay attention to your self talk.

Start working with your fears: Define. Prevent. Repair

  • Define Your Spectrum of Possibility. Build your Odyssey Plan - Choose your Top Possibilities - and rate them 4 very important scales. Think out of the box and toy around with crazy ideas.

    Inter-sessions:

    Sharing your identified possibilities to others & Refine

    Know your Saboteurs & pay attention to your self talk.

    Start working with your fears: Define. Prevent. Repair

  • Deal with your excuses and all the “Yes, but’s…” Set your fears and work with them. Categorise your failures in screw ups, weakness, growth opportunities and insights and work with them, instead of letting them define you.

  • Learn the test & learn approach. Good networking. Building Your Personal Advisory Board & your supporting community.

  • Build ways to implement it. Tell it to the world

    We also will invite you to play a little :)- unfortunately, we adults tend to make a sharp distinction between work and play, having decided that play is something that is trivial and unproductive. It is not.

What does the program offer ?

We bring to you a thoroughly well crafted Career (Re)Design Kit.

The reinvention process takes time, and sometimes it’s out of our control. Nevertheless, all the time there is so much that we CAN do. 

So, trust the process & enjoy the ride!

In this Personal Journey, alongside like minded fellows, you will:

  • Participate in 14 hours group work.

  • Have 2 individual career coaching & counselling sessions (*optional with an extra cost or as an Early Booking bonus offer)

  • The Career (Re)Design Kit, together with carefully curated career and self development resources will be available on a Milanote board.

  • Have a crafted Career (Re)Design Map at hand - a visual & actionable representation for your redesigned work and career within your life -  working tool MILANOTE

  • Get help in finding your career redesign mentors who can give you the needed support and advice.

Meet your coaches & Career (Re)Design Partners

We are Andreea & Madalina and we co-designed the Career (Re)Design Programme based on:

  • Thousands of hours of career development learning and practice in a multicultural, international environment

  • The success stories of our coaching & counselling clients

  • 20+ years working experience, being highly attuned to business, leadership consultancy and non-profit worlds

  • Our own struggles of balancing the need for meaning and work satisfaction with the family & financial realities of living in this world

  • And most important, on the joy we get when we manage to make work work for us and for those around us

Andreea

  • Having passed through 2 major career reinventions herself, Andreea’s mission is to help people who are experiencing purposeless work and want to make the most of their professional lives. She empowers her clients to shift their focus on what they can do best, to understand where they are and how they got here, to raise awareness of their contribution and speak up about it. She is assisting her clients to set clear intentions, build confidence and design a road map for their desired professional future.

  • During the last 5 years, Andreea has been focusing her work on supporting managers and key talents from global companies, both at an individual and team or group level, by facilitating leadership development training and coaching. What helped build this current role and, basically, what got her here were exactly the previous career transitions she made along the way, her previous business experience in various industries: manufacturing, trade, services and hospitality, and on top of that constantly being attracted like a magnet by both the stability and structure of the corporate world, and on the other hand, the entrepreneurial environment that nurtured her curiosity and drive to test new things in her work.

  • Licensed Firework Career Coach, 2022

    Solution Focus Certified Team Coach, Solutions Academy, 2021

    Certified Professional Transformational Coach, Coach Masters Academy, 2020

    Systemic Certified Team Coach, Academy of Executive Coaching, 2019

    ACSTH Coach Training, One 2 Coach, 2017

    Professional Certified Coach, 2021, with the first credential by ICF in 2018

    Certified Ken Blanchard SLII Leadership Solutions Trainer & Facilitator, 2019

    Master in Business & Marketing for the Tourism Industry ASE, 2007

Madalina

  • Is to help people, in and outside of organisations, reinvent their jobs, careers and lives, making them more fulfilling & rewarding.

    Different things work for different people, so her proposal to her clients is to build fruitful and thought-provoking partnerships in finding what’s best suited for them. Rather than focusing on “fixing” problems, she encourages them to explore new and creative perspectives to find more lasting solutions, to focus on the future and to adopt a strategic perspective on various challenges.

  • Madalina understands first hand what reinventing herself and career means. Her work took her from tourism management & hospitality industry to brand marketing and management; from brand marketing to career development and counselling; from working with adults to working with children and teenagers, and then again, with adults; from a state owned company to one of the biggest world corporations to NGO founder to freelancing; from career burnout to peace of mind. Thus, the challenges, the hustle and bustle, the fears and doubts, the societal pressure of “being successful” adherent to career redesigning are not new to her.

  • Career Counsellor & Coach, MA; Global Career Development Facilitator and Master Trainer, by NBCC; MA 2014

    Professional Certified Coach by ICF, since 2019

    International Team Coaching Accreditation Practitioner, by EMCC, 2021

    Certified Supervisor Professional, 2016, by NBCC Europe

    Certified Ken Blanchard SLII Leadership Solutions Trainer & Facilitator, 2017

    Mental Health Master Trainer, NBCC, 2016

    Certified 360 Strengthscope Assessments by Strengthscope LTD UK, 2011

    Certified Professional Trainer, Romanian Institute of Training, 2014

    Master in Career Development & Counselling, University of Psychology, 2014

    Master in Marketing & Business Communication, ASE, 2002

Join Our Manifesto

  1. We believe that a fulfilling and rewarding life requires a fulfilling and rewarding work.

  2. What would you choose? - a job, a career, a calling? - While calling might come as the most obvious answer, we challenge you to think beyond. We believe that following solely our “one and true calling” can be misleading and frustrating along the way: 

    • It comes with a lot of pressure - while some of us knew from early childhood what they wanted to do in their lives, most of us didn't know and still do not know. And that’s ok.

    • Is there, really, only one true calling? From all the myriads of opportunities, can it be only one calling who patiently waits to be discovered? We believe that at each stage of our life and career there is the best possible version that we can build for ourselves. We only need the right mindset, skills and tools to build it and rebuild, whenever we think necessary. Once we go through the process, we will know how to reapply it whenever the future asks this from us.

  3. We believe more in the art of crafting and designing the work and career that is sparking us at this moment, than discovering it. We use evidence-based frameworks and ideas that support us to build our careers and not just passively dream about an ideal work that might not even be right for us.

  4. We believe that sometimes struggle is unavoidable, thus we must find something worth struggling for. Working on something that makes us happy means we will not be discouraged by the constant effort or setbacks; we will grow to appreciate it.

  5. We believe that the career (re)designing process takes time, and sometimes it’s out of our control. Too many times, we become so used to the feeling of being overwhelmed that we approach our lives with passivity. Nevertheless, all the time there is so much that we CAN do. 

  6. We believe that we need to be ruthless and stop chasing the things in life that don’t bring us joy or meaning. We need to concentrate on the most impactful things and don't bother with everything else.

  7. We believe in posittive uncertainty - when the future is certain, all we can is prepare. When the future is uncertain, as it always is, we can be part of creating it.

  8. We believe in the power of relationships, of groups, of communities, where 1+1+1+1+1+1=100 :)

  9. We believe that joy (and realistic) optimism can be learned - they are essential tools in our career (re)designing bags.

  10. Career (Re)Design is a process - Trust it and Enjoy the ride!

FAQs

  • We offer the ReDesign your Career Group Sessions several times a year.

    We also offer individual career coaching & counselling sessions.

    Stay connected for more news.

  • On Zoom, online.

    After registering for the event, you will receive the access link to all the 7 virtual sessions.

  • On a weekly basis, at 14:00 CET, for a 2 hour working session.

  • We will guide through powerful in-between activities - it’s up to you how much time you want to invest. We encourage you, though, to offer you this time of reflection and actually write down any insight based on our framework - it will be a very well invested time!

  • We are supporting you wherever you are in the present moment, whether you want to shift completely to a new profession or maybe just want to be more creative about your work in the current context or maybe just want to explore future possibilities.

  • The International Coaching Federation defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximise their personal and professional potential. The process of coaching often unlocks previously untapped sources of imagination, productivity and leadership.

    We all have goals we want to reach, challenges we’re striving to overcome and times when we feel stuck. Partnering with a career coach can change your professional life, setting you on a path to greater personal and professional fulfilment.

  • Career Counseling is a process that will help you to know and understand yourself and the world of work in order to make career, educational, and life decisions. It sees you as a whole person, in all your and the world’s complexity. It recognizes the relationship between your career and all other life roles and helps you discover healthier ways of living.

    Career counselling looks at your career choices, the connection between career and personal problems, adaptations to changes in the workplace, multiple career dilemmas, or maintenance of a balanced lifestyle. It looks at your interests, abilities, values, personality, background, and circumstances.

    Throughout your life you will change, situations will change, and you will continually have to make career and life decisions. Thus, the goal of Career Counseling is to not only help you make the decisions you need to make now, but to give you the knowledge, skills and tools you need to make future career and life decisions.

Having other questions?

We are happy to book a free 30 minute discovery call with you to see if we can build a partnership for redesigning your career.

Career Group Sessions

7 weeks

16:00-18:00 CET

475€ / pers

ReDesign your Career group program - 14 hours online group sessions and Individual work

Early Booking

For completed registration within the Early Booking period, we offer 2 extra individual career coaching sessions with Madalina or Andreea (estimated value - 250 Eur)