Hi, I am Raluca, a young professional with five years of experience in sustainable development and corporate culture change, focused on designing & implementing sustainable business practices that benefit both the company & its stakeholders.
I started my journey by wanting to understand how societies work; therefore, I studied Political Science & Public Administration and later specialized myself in sustainable development, gender & minorities policies and social entrepreneurship. My education helped me to form a broader vision to which I adhered at the very beginning of my career, namely that the responsibilities of private entities must shift towards tackling pressing societal problems through their products and services.
I acquired most of my expertise working in a multi-national power company on complex issues such as, but not limited to, tackling the shortage of well-prepared personnel, diversity & inclusion in the workplace, facilitating skills building on social entrepreneurship, internal process innovation related with access to energy and vulnerable groups, improving the client-company relationships.
I would choose thorough analysis of a problem any day in the pursuit of the best resolve instead of trendy solutions. I like to work in a collaborative manner, but I also do well on my own. I believe that my strongest skills are hand-on project management in sustainability & innovation fields, background diagnosis & feasibility analysis, facilitating problem solving, systems thinking, stakeholders engagement & managing cross-functional teams.
The mission that guides my change management journey & in fact every aspect of my professional life is the “Creating Shared Value” social and economic model. In a nutshell, every solution has to be human-centered and for the benefit of all the parties involved.
These are my objectives:
• To become a catalyst for change inside the organization I work for
• To solve problems in a creative and people-oriented way
• To be a bridge-builder between people working in different fields
• To build upon the idea that private entities can contribute to systemic change in society
• To become a better person everyday
Conducted sustainable transformation of business practices by having identified and acted upon shared value opportunities for the company and its stakeholders, in accordance with the local needs and the SDGs commitments of the company;
