Adina Bratescu

When we first met, I immediately told Adina that I did not like fluffy pseudoscience listicles of self-help. Like many people on the verge of burnout, I had read many articles and books that did not help me meaningfully deal with the day-to-day issues I was facing. I wanted advice and quick-fix tactics that I could put into use without thinking too much. I was fighting to get “to the top” of my company and wanted to have a big impact. What happened instead was that Adina artfully and skilfully led me to define—using direct and proven strategies—my values, my needs, and gave me the skills to be a well-rounded leader and human. She has challenged me at the right moments for me to break a cycle or grasp a new concept. She has guided me through reflections where I understood how some of my deepest unmet needs were showing up in my job. In the end, I have realised that the quick-fix I had hoped for was really me. And while you are on a big journey like that you can only hope for a guide like Adina. If you have the opportunity to work with Adina you are very, very lucky.

Working with Adina, I understood the power of self-awareness and how our limiting beliefs prevent us from performing to our potential. It helped me to uncover that we all have blind spots and to constantly question myself about what I don't know that I don't know. By changing my perspective from which I look, it has helped me to improve my interactions with those around me, becoming clearer and more authentic and achieving better results. Adina challenged me to look within myself for the right reasons and align them with who I really am. She gave me space to get clear about what I wanted for myself and to realize that I have the necessary resources already within me. Adina taught me to ask better questions, pay attention to how I'm talking to myself and learn the power of having patience. And I realized that motivation gets you going, but discipline is the one that gets you growing.