Florina Cioagă
ICF Certified Coach | Senior Trainer | Business Mentor
Cioaga Florina PFA, Freelancer
Florina Cioaga is an ICF Certified Coach, specialized in Emotions Centered Coaching and NeuroMindfulness Coaching, with 17 years of professional experience, of which 13 years spent in corporations, that helped her understand the business challenges in various industries, the dynamics of teamwork, the rigidity of projects, and the urgency of deadlines.
Florina’s most relevant corporate professional experience was gained during the 8 years in M&A – Corporate Finance within KPMG Romania, and during the 4 years in Strategy & Business Planning within RBS Bank. Due to her robust finance background, she has expertise in corporate finance and business strategy, with particular hands-on experience in business planning and modeling, financial and commercial due diligence, projects and companies’ valuation, transaction structuring, and financing.
Florina is no stranger to changes of perspective in her career; thus, in addition to her project management work, she also focused on people management activities. Since 2014, Florina has had the opportunity to be there for others in their own professional journey through recruitment, training, coaching, and mentoring.
Starting 2019, Florina focused on creating meaningful and safe relationships through coaching and mentoring as a professional. To help her in this endeavor, Florina graduated from the Mind Learners coaching school and attended the courses of several coaching programs. Also, Florina graduated from the BWFR leadership program, which provided her with the proper training to guide and support people who are either thinking about starting a business or are in their start-up process.
Education and continuous development are a priority for Florina. Thus she considers herself a constant learner. She graduated from the Faculty of Finance at ASE Bucharest in 2008, the Faculty of Law, and the Master in Business Law from Dimitrie Cantemir University in Bucharest, in 2009 and 2010, respectively. And in the fall of 2020, Florina became a student at the Faculty of Psychology within Babeş Bolyai University Cluj Napoca to further evolve professionally.
As a mentor, Florina shares her expertise, knowledge, and experience, helping people achieve business success from a:
- Business perspective – by providing insights on the design and delivery of a business pitch and valuable guidelines to build solid financial projections
- Human perspective – by identifying beliefs that hold them back, giving them an opportunity to voice fears, and by overcoming a lack of self-confidence behaviors to help kick-start a new business or grow an established one.
As a coach, Florina has the mission to accompany people on a journey of learning, self-awareness, and change of perspective, in which to identify if their actions are aligned with their values, beliefs, and emotions.
As a trainer, Florina facilitated induction training for new employees and designed and delivered in-house activities based on business and employee needs, such as:
- Soft skills training on professional communication, conflict management, time and project management, delegation, feedback, and coaching benefits;
- Technical skills in accounting fundamentals, excel, financial modeling, and M&A fundamentals.
In 2019, Florina also became a Krav Maga instructor (self-defense martial arts), allowing her to guide people in regaining their self-confidence and further use her communication skills and neuroscience knowledge. Due to her deep interest in emotions, from a professional and personal perspective, Florina designs, delivers, and facilitates emotional intelligence training and workshops to help people increase their emotional literacy.
ICF Certified Coach | Senior Trainer | Business Mentor
I am a certified Trainer, a business consultant, and an ICF certified Coach, specialized in Emotions Centered Coaching and NeuroMindfulness.
As a coach, a mentor and a trainer, my mission is to accompany people on a journey of learning, self-awareness, and change of perspective, in which to identify if their actions are aligned with their values, beliefs, and emotions.
Currently, due to my deep interest in working with emotions, from a professional and personal perspective, I design, deliver and facilitate emotional intelligence training and workshops aiming to help people increase their emotional literacy.
Also, recently, I launched my podcast Emotions Talk, in which I share through 5minutes-long Emotions Pills how to reach a better understanding and management of emotions.
I have 17 years of professional experience, of which over 13 years were spent in corporations, during which I developed and improved my project management skills by understanding business challenges in various industries, the dynamics of teamwork, the rigidity of projects, and the urgency of deadlines.
My most relevant corporate experience is represented by the 8 years in M&A – Corporate Finance within KPMG Romania, and by the 4 years in Strategy & Business Planning within RBS Bank.
Due to my robust finance background, I have expertise in corporate finance and business strategy, with thorough hands-on business planning and financial modeling, financial and commercial due diligence, projects and companies’ valuation, transaction structuring, and financing.
I am no stranger to changes of perspective in my career; thus, I also focused on people management activities in addition to my project management work.
Since 2014, I have had the opportunity to be there for others in their professional journey through recruitment, training, coaching, and mentoring.
Starting with 2019, I focused on creating meaningful and safe relationships through coaching and mentoring as a professional.
To help me in this endeavor, I graduated from the Mind Learners coaching school and attended the courses of several coaching programs. In addition, I graduated from the BWFR leadership program, which provided me with the proper training to guide and support people who are either thinking about starting a business or are in their start-up process.
Education and continuous development are my priority; thus, I consider myself a constant learner. I graduated from the Faculty of Finance at ASE Bucharest in 2008, the Faculty of Law, and the Master in Business Law from Dimitrie Cantemir University in Bucharest, in 2009 and 2010. In addition, in the fall of 2020, I became a student at the Faculty of Psychology within Babeş Bolyai University Cluj Napoca to further evolve professionally.
I remember having the work-life balance conversation, especially when my work activities and work environment were not aligned with my values, emotions, and mission.
I understood that “work” is part of “life” and that, as long as my work activity does not fulfill my life mission, I’ll always struggle with anxiety, impostor syndrome, and burnout.
In the summer of 2021, I had a career shift from corporate to freelancing, providing training and coaching services.
I quit a 12h/day corporate job that ensured the security of receiving a monthly salary for a 24/7 freelancing job that guarantees the freedom of designing my schedule and my activities and that provides opportunities of working with shared-values people.
Shifting my career was not an overnight decision. I am a strategy and planning expert, so I used my skills in preparing for this transition, which involved making savings, learning and practicing new skills in training and coaching, and performing pro-bono activities during weekends and holidays, all in a consistent manner. And it was all worth it.
My mission is to accompany people on a journey of learning, self-awareness, and change of perspective; thus, as a mentor, I share my expertise, knowledge, and experience to help people achieve business success from a:
- Business perspective – by providing insights on the design and delivery of a business pitch and valuable guidelines to build solid financial projections
- Human perspective – by identifying beliefs that hold them back, allowing them to voice fears, and overcoming a lack of self-confidence, to help kick-start a new business or grow an established one.
“You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy.” - Nightbirde