Welcome to this accelerator of your skills! I’m Amalia Sterescu and I’m here to guide you on your journey to the next level!
Sometimes I smile thinking that I am the sum of my paradoxes.
As a child I thought I could acquire everything without effort, however life has proved to me that everything can be acquired but only through hard work and sustained effort. I was a shy child that life challenged but I managed to transform this shyness in a force of change as a leader and founder of a public speaking school
They told me: “At 40 you cannot start over” – and that’s when I really followed my own way successfully as an entrepreneur in education!
“Success consists in career, status and possessions” – I used to think. Today I strongly believe that success comes from the ability to remain a sovereign human being, true to her own principles, free from social conditioning.
Therefore, I can never tell you “I can’t!” or “There’s no way!” – for me life was full of paradoxes but because I made them myself. Dare, you can do more! I am here to guide you on this journey!
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I play several roles in my professional life: I am a Developer and Facilitator of Leadership Programs, I am a Public Speaking Coach and a Personal Branding Strategist with a focus on Career Transitions. At home I am told that I am a very good operational manager since I am a mother of three boys, and I assure you that I do not get bored.
Just like a lighthouse, my mission is to guide leaders in times of storms or change to make the transition to the next level of their career or of their business! By helping them I create my own cathedral across time! I invite you to discover my training or coaching programs in leadership and let’s build together!
I strongly believe that a leader has a vison in front of him/her and a team behind him/her, we cannot speak about leadership without one or the other. It is precisely action that makes a leader credible. Vision without action is just a delusion or wishful thinking! A genuine leader manages through his power of personal example, boldly tackles new ways, challenges the status quo, takes risks, and innovates where others have not even dared to dream.
What I have just mentioned are just a few of the leadership lessons that I acquired in the 25 years of experience as a senior leader in corporations with a global footprint or as an entrepreneur in education. I’ve trained as a leader at the school of first multinationals that were entering Eastern European market after 1990, year after year I added complexity to my management roles in areas such as customer service, sales support, tele sales, telemarketing. As an intrapreneur I participated in 11 internal start-ups, I developed from scratch support services centers in Romania, China or India and I ran a business of $2B USD as Vice President within Oracle EMEA Support.. On this journey I developed strategies for success, I grew up local and international teams of leaders and the transition to senior leadership evolved naturally.
Today, as the leader of my own business I am continuously learning that leadership in entrepreneurship is like an exam I take every day for the satisfaction of my customers! I create, customize, and facilitate unique development programs for international teams of leaders in various industries! Over the past years I developed unique programs like Charismatic Leadership, Digital Leadership, First time as manager, Strategic Networking, Mindful leadership – in this way I give back what I acquired in my experience to a wide range of over 100 strategic customers from various industries.
As Public Speaking Coach and Founder of Public Speaking School I have personally taught over 2500 professionals in public speaking (team training or 1:1 coaching). I have developed the Amalia Sterescu method of public speaking through programs like Mastering Public Speaking or Speak to Inspire. I extended the training programs to pupils/students, to prepare them to become better leaders and better communicators. Today Public Speaking School is a landmark in education when it comes to training in this field.
As Certified Personal Branding Strategist I personalized my own training program for top talents and I supported professionals from various industries in their process of accelerating their career or business start-up through personal branding.
As Author I have published over 700 articles, my first book ”Dancing Tango with Life” was published in 2015, I write also on my Career Transformers Newsletter on LinkedIN. As Volunteer in Education I am Board Member for Romanian Gifted School, founder of #GiveBackRomania where we offer career counselling for hgh school students, also I have trained over 100 teachers from public schools in public speaking.
