I was delighted with Sanda's experience and insight as an executive coach. She gave me guidance on how to question where I was professionally (as well as personally) versus where I wanted to be. Her positive attitude and objective advice helped me own my career path as well as bring equilibrium to my work-life relationship.

Sanda Ionescu is an executive coach, trainer and facilitator, passionate about helping corporations and individuals adapt to new or rapidly changing environments, both national and corporate cultures. 

Having lived, studied and worked in nine countries, including US, Japan, Romania, Germany and France, and having completed pioneering postgraduate research in Social and Organisational Anthropology at the Universities of Cambridge and London, Sanda combines in-depth theoretical knowledge of cultural differences with personal experience of completely reinventing her career in a new country… several times over!  With twenty years of work experience in areas as diverse as education, research, publishing, management consultancy and local government, Sanda’s constant passion has been enabling people to move easily between different cultures and sometimes conflicting points of view.

When she isn’t working or studying, Sanda enjoys travelling, skiing and trail running, reading and writing crime fiction, and watching her two sons turn into global citizens.

Core Expertise

• Leadership development, team facilitation and coaching
• Facilitating large group interventions for organisational change
• Management development, including action learning and self-managed learning
• Public speaking
• Project management, research and writing

Professional Qualifications & Training

• B.A. (Hons) Japanese and English, University of Bucharest
• M.Phil.  Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
• Ph.D. Organisational Anthropology, King’s College London
• CIPD qualifications, specialising in Training & Development
• Diploma in Personal and Executive Coaching, Noble Manhattan (accredited with the European Coaching Institute)
• Competency and personality testing

Languages

English, Romanian, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Italian

Examples of Recent Projects

• Design and rollout of a unified competency framework for managers within a local authority
• Facilitating interdepartmental action learning sets and self-managed learning for managers to improve communication within local government
• Coached a senior executive during transition from a Swiss family-owned company to a multinational corporation headquartered in the UK
• Designed and facilitated large group interventions to establish organisational vision and values

For larger projects, Sanda partners with a group of highly experienced associates.