Mihaela Diaconu

Mihaela is a business psychologist that focuses on leadership, career transitions, people and organisational development/ effectiveness coaching, facilitation and consulting and who supports and challenges her clients in a balanced and productive way. Mihaela's mission is to support humans flourish at work and build thriving workplaces and communities, using business psychology principles, one conversation, one experience, and one process at a time. As a trainer & facilitator, Mihaela is a very engaging, energetic trainer and facilitator, with an uplifting attitude. Her coaching skills are supporting her to ensure these sessions are focusing on the participant's needs, and the feedback received has been extremely positive. Her message is that training starts during the session, the value being in applying and working with the learning, and she helps participants create tailored and achievable action plans and commitments, so the value of the session had together continued over time in helping participants shape new behaviours towards leadership, team and organisational success.

Apart from the last 10 years as a people and organisational development practitioner, Mihaela's earlier professional experience was in the private sector, spanning over 17 years in roles across operations, product and project management and leadership.

Mihaela's work spans across various business stages and maturity levels and different industries (private and public sectors alike) as well as people at all levels in the organisation.

Mihaela is also a Fellow CMI (Chartered Management Institute), a certified Corporate and Executive Coach (Diploma equivalent to Level 7, endorsed by ILM), a Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centred Coach, a Certified Business Psychologist with The ABP (The Association of Business Psychology), MSc Organisational Psychology from Birkbeck- University of London, and a BPS (British Psychological Association) Psychometrics Test User. 

Because working together and finding solutions that are rooted in evidence, and because multiple sources of data are more likely to provide a well-rounded opportunity for more robust decision making, Mihaela will be starting a Professional Doctorate in Evidence-Based HRM (Human Resources Management) with Birkbeck, the University of London in January 2023, to be able to support her clients even better in these times filled with uncertainty and challenges

• Corporate and Executive Coaching specialising in Leadership, Teams and Career Development,

• Psychometrics assessment professional: Hogan, Personality & Ability (Clevry), Big 5/ OCEAN, Psychological Capabilities/ PeopleWise, BeTalent all-suite (Strengths, Blended 360, Resilience, Psychological Safety, Decision Making Style, Inspiring Leaders, Winning Attitude DISC, GPI, 360 GLF, 

• Developing and Delivering Leadership and Management Professional Qualifications and Programmes

• Studying, Researching and Consulting in the area of Organisational Psychology/ Behaviour

• Training and Facilitating Leadership and Management Development sessions:

• Emotional Intelligence,

• Communication: Assertiveness, Influencing, Giving Better Feedback, Conflict Management, Difficult Conversations, etc-,

• Presentation Skills,

• Coaching for Performance,

• Train the Trainer,

• Career Development,

• Developing and Managing High performing Teams,

• Self-Awareness and Personal Development for better Leadership,

• Change Leadership - Leading the People side of Change Management,

• Better Delegation,

• Better Time Management,

• What's your Leadership Style?,

• Any other Soft Skills (Core Skills) training & facilitation

• Facilitating Team away days, Creating Team Charters, Leadership Teams Decision Making, and any other initiatives where a facilitative approach would be suitable

Beyond the presented titles, we can work together to produce a bespoke session, tailored to the needs and wants of your team.