I am a psychologist by formation and a systems
thinker by instinct and
practice. One question I have been asking for twenty years, across very different rooms,
very different cultures, very different stages of growth, is always the same: what is
the
gap between what this person is capable of and what they are actually producing?
And...
when zooming out, why is it that ten smart
people in the same room can ruin an idea, while in the
next room, other equally talented people can leap ahead together? That gap is almost
never
just a skills problem, but rather a problem of operating with the wrong map and the
wrong
compass, for the terrain they are actually in.
"Great leaders are
not
defined by what they know, but by how deeply they make sense of what they
experience.”
What drives me
I have always been drawn to the edges (the moments where someone
is at the
limit of what their current way of thinking can hold). Where the strategy is
right, but
something in the person is not yet ready to carry it. Where a team has
everything it needs
on paper and is rather dysfunctional in practice. I find those moments genuinely
interesting, as they are clearly an invitation to grow further.
I had the best teachers to shape my thinking at the Babes-Bolyai
University
while studying Psychology. The best first leaders and mentors who have set high
standards in
value-driven environments. I grew a lot in multi-cultural environments, in some
of the
fastest-growing, ambitious IT companies (like Pentalog, UiPath and FlowX).
Without being
limited to that, I experimented with different roles and identities - from VP of
People to
angel investor, from entrepreneur to coach. Now I choose to share my learning
and
understanding of the world.
What I believe
Real development is not limited to accumulating more knowledge,
more
frameworks, more experience. It is more and more about expanding the capacity to
make sense
of complexity: to hold more ambiguity without collapsing, to see more of what is
actually
happening without flinching, to act from a more grounded place than before. That
is the work
I find worth doing. Everything else follows from it.
