Cristina Opran is a Senior Consulting Associate at Human Invest. With over 6 years as a Services Business Manager in the corporate environment and more than 11 years of experience in training and organizational development, Cristina comes from the technology sector, where she designed and led programs for developing management and leadership skills for both experienced managers and high-potential employees preparing to take on people manager roles for the first time in their careers. Through her programs, Cristina facilitates accelerated learning by creating virtual learning communities, using virtual platforms, gamification, and customized case studies.
Since 2012, she has used the consultative approach model developed by Performance Consulting UK to analyze employee development needs, which she considers one of the most successful models for building partnerships with business leaders.
Since 2015, she has been an accredited trainer for the SLII Experience™ by Blanchard, delivering the program both virtually and face-to-face for managers in Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. She also facilitates other Blanchard programs such as Conversational Capacity, Building Trust, Giving Feedback, Self Leadership, Leading People through Change, and Team Leadership. Since 2016, she has been certified to use and interpret Hogan assessments, providing feedback to managers who use them for career and succession planning.
Cristina is an engineer by profession, holds a Master in Business Administration from Central European University, is an ICI (International Association of Coaching Institutes) accredited coach, and since 2019 has started her training as a transactional analysis specialist at Yorkshire Learning Centre