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"I help leadership teams make complex businesses easier to understand, easier to run, and better able to grow."
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"She is super professional, laser-focused, and surprisingly tough. That's exactly what's needed to bring change to people's lives."
Valentina's career began inside a Big Four consulting firm, advising organizations at the pace business actually moves. What stayed with her wasn't the frameworks — it was how rarely they held up once the meeting ended. That question became the center of her PhD in organizational psychology, and it's the question she still brings to every leader she works with today.
She continues that research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and puts it into practice as founder and CEO of ILC International — helping leadership teams think clearer, communicate better, and grow without losing control of what they've built. She's a regular speaker at Forbes conferences and leadership forums across the region, and she lives in Sofia, Bulgaria.
"Choosing Valentina was a really good decision for me. She is super professional, laser-focused, and surprisingly tough. That's exactly what's needed to bring change to people's lives."
"After each session I had more clarity of where I was, what the next step was, and most importantly — what was truly important to me. She shed light on blind spots in a very subtle and professional manner and found outside-the-box ways to make the difficult easy and pleasant."
"Her coaching beautifully combines soft empathy with strong determination. She has absolutely mastered the art of active listening and makes you feel not only listened to, but understood and supported."
From a single keynote to a year of 1:1 coaching, every engagement runs on the same evidence-based framework — built to make complex businesses easier to run.
Short, occasional notes on leadership, decision-making, and what the research actually says — no noise, no funnel.