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“I sought Beáta’s assistance to elevate my leadership presence and enhance my impact with the ultimate aim of evolving into a CRAFTed leader who is more creative, strategic, and visionary in my role. The transformation I experienced under her guidance has been remarkable. From the outset, Beáta and I collaboratively established goals centered around the most critical and visible aspects of my current and future leadership responsibilities. Within a limited timeframe, her expertise and support proved invaluable in achieving these objectives.

However, it doesn’t end there. Beáta’s approach extends beyond short-term achievements. Since self-development is a continuous journey, I was also equipped with a repertoire of invaluable tools and techniques to navigate future challenges and sustain my growth trajectory as a leader.  

I wholeheartedly endorse Beáta to anyone in search of a highly effective leadership development process that yields tangible results. Her commitment to driving meaningful change and her ability to deliver transformative outcomes make her an exceptional choice for those aspiring to become influential, strategic, and visionary leaders.

Miklós Gyertyánfy

Chief Operating Officer - Gránit Pólus Management Zrt.

My journey with Beata started at a time when I was pivoting to a significantly bigger role in business. I needed to focus on unlearning and new learning that would help me make an immediate impact. It was also at a time when leaders were dealing with multiple challenges at once, a pandemic, the Ukraine crisis, global economic challenges and talent war.

I was seeking the support of a coach that would challenge me in the right way enabling me to increase my resilience, challenge my traditional thinking, and focus on my personal growth, all whilst remaining people-centric in my approach. Beata did just that!

I worked with Beata over a period; she created a safe space for effective questioning, allowing me to reflect and formulate my own thinking. I loved her questioning on “why”; it helped me do a proper evaluation. She was great at keeping me accountable to my plans and actions, ensuring I could achieve my full potential through a focussed approach.

I developed in my strategic thinking, grew my confidence and accelerated my personal development in my time with her. I learned practices that will remain with me for life that now are foundational for how I lead my teams.

I highly recommend Beata to anyone wanting to transform or enhance their leadership journey; you will learn and grow in abundance.

Vanessa Pillay

Director Customer Service – BT

Beáta helped me discover what kind of leader I am and what type I want to become. During our work together, with her systematic methods and supportive attitude, she showed me where I was and where I wanted to be. She directed my focus to the next stage of my development and challenged me while giving me the support I needed.

We focused on and dealt with my management areas during our joint work. Beata was perfectly attuned to my current situation and helped me identify my blind spots. She accompanied me through many life situations during our work and adapted to my current status. She opened doors on every topic and showed me a whole universe in its connections and depth.

Through new perspectives, she showed me how to handle some of my challenges and structure the realization of my goals. In addition, during more than a year of working together, I got to know a determined, supportive, professionally excellent, and inspiring executive coach.

I am incredibly grateful for the joint work and I strongly recommend her to all senior managers who want to improve.

Kadocsa Kubanek

Managing Director

 

“I met Beáta at the Stretch Leadership & Management Conference for the first time. Her speech was kind of eye-opening about blind spots and how it hinders one’s ability to move forward.

It was inspirational.

We had a 10-session series of coaching after that – it helped me a lot. You know the feeling when you already kind of know what and how to do but somehow it does not happen or does not happen in the way that you wish for.

Beáta could help me with that pretty much.

What I did really like is how she responded to my situations and her ability to adapt to my style of leadership and vision and helped me achieve my goals in a way that was compatible with me.”

András Szabó

CEO, iDATA Kft.

Pragmatic and result-oriented constant learning and transformation – this is how I would sum up our exciting one-and-a-half year co-working with Beáta that started in 2019.

One could think that with a couple of decades of experience gained at top companies behind, you have heard and done it all…except that by working with Beata you realize we are in a constantly changing environment that demands agility and flexibility to blend with experience.

Beata led me and the leadership team through a well-structured transformational leadership process starting with creating the leadership vision, identifying potential roadblocks, and driving the change by developing consensus internally.

As a result, the renewed leadership team on board applies a new leadership style that predominantly contributed to the successful organizational transformation and to topline and bottom line results at the end.

I am grateful for Beata’s support and I’m looking forward to our continued cooperation!” 

Péter Pesthy

Managing Director, Linde Magyarország Anyagmozgatási Kft.

“Beáta’s determination to deliver value-added executive coaching made our working together outstanding from the start. All our discussions were inspiring, motivating, and eye-opening.

She truly amazed me with her patience, attention, professional knowledge, and genuine and always crystal-clear feedback.

I highly recommend Beáta’s expert support to anyone who would like to fine-tune their leadership skills, especially in a transformational context.” 

A.V.

Global Director at an International Organization

“After working several years abroad, in 2017 I was given the opportunity to lead one of the biggest projects of MOL in Budapest.

This project is not only a technical investment but also a preparation to enter into a new market (business development). The task and the business area were new for me, as I have never led such complex projects. Second of all, I had to start working with new people and I had to build up all my relationships.

I faced these challenges and I was – I still am – really committed to doing it right, to complete this project with success, therefore I needed another point of view, a professional coach.

When I started working with Bea I wanted to talk through how different challenges I had to face as a Project Director. Our sessions were different from standard coaching, as Bea provided me with leadership development opportunities as well upon my request.

She was really open and I took 3 main important messages with me:

  • The project I lead changes dynamically, and in this always-changing atmosphere self-awareness and balance with yourself are extremely important.
  • If I am okay with myself I am able to inspire and influence others. I received useful tips on how to be an impactful and inspirational leader to fill the organization with positive energy.
  • Bea also helped a lot in stakeholder management, power leadership, and service leadership.

The past year was valuable and helpful and I experience significant changes. I truly recommend Bea for everyone, but especially for those who are facing similar challenges.

Thanks, Bea!”

György Szűcs

MOL Group DS Strategic Projects Director

“I had been in a difficult situation as a senior leader when I started to work with Beáta. We had a very friendly atmosphere which I had been enjoyed working in very much.

Her openness and honesty as also her focused professionalism helped me a lot during our journey. We used a couple of useful tools that contributed to my better understanding of my personality and realize the areas where I should improve my leadership skills.

Her questioning style and her challenges accurately addressed me and helped me to be able to see things and perspectives in a way that I didn’t recognize before.

By the end of my coaching exercise improved and developed myself a lot therefore, I am confident that this will help me in my future carrier too. It was my great pleasure she was my coach and I would strongly recommend Beáta.”

Strausz György (VISZ)

Experienced Senior IT Leader, Past President of Hungarian CIO Association (VISZ)

“It has been a challenge moving from an executive role to an advisory role as an entrepreneur, and there’s so much to learn, but I’m excited about this new direction my career is taking.

Beata helped me to clarify some of my personal and career objectives, and to make regular self-reflection and she has confronted me with some of my old patterns which negatively affected my development.

She gave me valuable time to concentrate on the bigger picture with the realization that small adjustments can have major effects.

I also learned that sometimes we are too hard on ourselves and we need to appreciate the work we do. Beata helped me build my confidence, realize my potential and work through my goals. Receiving support and encouragement from her has been invaluable through a significant career transition. 

I strongly recommend her to anyone who wants to disrupt his career and needs a sparring partner in career transition.”

Gyöngyvér Martin

HRLead, Austria

“After knowing Beáta for a year, I got to know a determined, self-aware executive coach who approaches her clients with empathy, thorough expertise, and professional coaching knowledge.

Cooperation with her was meaningful, full of ideas, and thought-provoking. Our joint work was justified by the fact that at that time I was in front of, and partly right in the middle of, significant changes in several areas. At work, I planned to move from the economic field to the business field. From the employee management side, I was preparing for the ownership role and the related responsibilities, which were supplemented by the tasks/responsibilities related to having children.

I knew that I did many things well and thought well, and I felt aware of my weaknesses and strengths. With all of this, I was like I might have tube vision. I was faced with big tasks, so I probably wouldn’t get world-changing ideas. However, those little things can also mean a lot, with which I get a different point of view. In addition, even slight advances in these areas can be counted as a big success.

Basically, this is what I got from Beata in the end, our views were essentially the same, but there were often 1-2 more minor things that she highlighted, which made me feel better.

Thank you for this past year, during which I have taken significant steps (we took them together) to achieve my goals, which I have not yet achieved, but I can see the path leading there.

István Hartmann

Chief Executive Officer, Delta Group

“If someone believes that coaching is rather a soft, qualitative, difficult-to-measure type of HR support „tool”, then he/ she should definitely get to know Beata. She will for sure reframe this belief with her professional approach and unique coaching methods.

Her programs are must-haves for all leaders who are facing the challenges of today’s ever-changing, complex, and ambiguous world, and who want to be more resilient, handle challenges better, and be more successful in leading, and inspiring their teams.

She is very focused and determined to give you real, tangible added value.  She helps you define your very specifically your objectives, to have a clear picture in your mind of what you want – and how you want to measure it.

You get started from this one-pager plan with clear milestones in your hand and she walks you through the sessions very rigorously and consciously to reach your goal. Her sessions – accompanied by a nice coffee and cake – are dynamic, and full of two-way conversations, every one of them combining her vast experience in coaching leaders and business executives.

She has a unique ability to reframe old/non-useful mental schemes as well as to (re)describe situations in a vivid, tangible way – that one can refer back to months and years later. She comes prepared to the sessions and expects you to come prepared too. She is extremely efficient and digs deep, her questions/ remarks are spot-on and highly inspiring.

I warmly recommend her for everyone who wants to become a better leader and have more performing, better teams and organization.”

Boglárka Dezse

Managing Director, Sodexo Benefits & Reward Services Hungary

“We have had a tight work with Beata in the last couple of years. We went through several stages in my personal improvement journey. We started the Transformational Leadership agenda and the way to implement it into a daily routine.

She helped me in the preparation during the top leader selection process and then also took an important role in my onboarding months as managing director. Different tasks but the same high-level support.

Working with her was so obvious from the very beginning. She created a friendly atmosphere with questions, examples, proper timing, etc. but in the meanwhile always challenged me and guided towards through very hard exercises and conversations. She has a refreshing mindset and style which helped me prioritize and forced me to keep focus. She has provided the right balance of having fun and giving feedback in a relentlessly straightforward way. So useful approach.

I have learned a lot during this period and also earned some tangible results in my work which could be easily linked to the effort we made.

Thanks for that great contribution, so professional!”

Zoltán Czibók

Managing Director, DXC Technology

“In the past 12 months, I have been working together with Beata on further developing my personal leadership brand.

Our sessions included creative discussions where we successfully mapped and analyzed the current level of my professional and personal maturity. Through the objective feedback, she provided on a continuous basis, and by raising the right questions at the right time she enabled me to better understand and plan the way forward. Her passion, thorough experience, resilience, in-depth knowledge, broad horizon, and positive mindset made her authentic for me and added real value whenever we arrived at tougher topics.

Our lively conversations helped me focus on the strategic side of business life and achieve greater effectiveness and efficiency. It was a real pleasure to work together with her.

I would certainly recommend her tailor-made services to all business leaders who have ambitious goals to accomplish, and wants to start a journey to realize those goals.” 

Andrea Dintsér

Regional Director, Marketing & Communication, and Collaboration & Knowledge Management, Multinational Professional Services Company

“With Beáta we had 9 months of cooperation where she acted as my Executive Leadership Coach. It was a quite long journey in terms of a job change process, transitioning after 12 years from a Big4 environment to the business world.

Beáta helped and led me through the mindset change of what other aspects can be offered by a non-Big4 company, how to lead a stable team, what are the advantages of my current experience – professional, soft skills, and leadership -, and what can support me to be successful in the new job.

Thank you for your contribution to my personal improvements. Hope to work with you if there will be an opportunity.”

Nóra Berezvai

Statutory Leader Central Europe, GE Global Operations Financent, Multinational Professional Services Company

“During our coaching process with Beáta, I have improved the business performance of Avers Fiber Ltd. I have worked on strategic thinking, leadership skills, specific goals, and the motivation of colleagues to have a smarter, more agile, and more responsive organization.

Beáta is a great coaching professional.

I highly recommend her to anyone who wants to improve business efficiency through their own self-development.”

Für-Kovács Adrienn

CEO, Avers Fiber Ltd.

“Beáta helped me as an Executive Coach to prepare for my Partner Admission Process. Her ability to connect real-life examples to leadership competencies was an enormous value added in the process. Her persistence and focus on questioning made me think deeper, in order to explore areas beyond the surface and helped me raise my awareness of various leadership competencies.

She was supportive, fun to work with, and challenging at the same time. Her understanding of systems, therefore, the organizational impact of a leader’s operation in both day-to-day business and assessment processes provided me a great opportunity to learn how to expand and flex my leadership styles.

I can highly recommend Beáta for those leaders who are ready to make a shift in business and in their career.” 

Antal Kerekes

Partner, PwC

“Due to our nearly one-year-long cooperation with Beata in my coaching, I can confidently say that it was her personality, her attention, and her patient but definitely determined supervision that helped me a lot in bringing the maximum out of me by always touching the spot in a difficult period in both professional and personal aspects.

I was looking for a coach whose unquestionable professional curriculum vitae and whose helpful, unselfish, and open personality gives credibility to the whole process. I have found all these qualities in Beata which helped me to place every confidence in her, moreover, the routine that she gained during her job with top managers came especially in handy to me in situations when I had to manage uncomfortable, tender but exciting issues. This skill is inevitable in our rapidly, sometimes even radically changing business environment.

I can recommend Beata to anyone who is seeking professional support with real experience with top managers, a coach who does her work without any arrogance and without encroaching on her client but supporting you by asking the appropriate questions at the appropriate time and, at the same time, consequently making you report on your results in order to make you advance.”

Ferenc Fernezelyi

Commercial Director, Veolia Energia Magyarország Zrt.

“I contacted Bea 8 months ago, I was looking for help to overcome the most disturbing issues that blocked me in my progress at my workplace. Some of those were actually already very serious.

At the end of our journey, I found myself a lot more confident about these issues and most of them were either gone or moved to a much friendlier state. Bea’s professional approach helped me to figure out the solutions easily, sometimes with the feeling that it was always in front of me. By asking the right questions at the right time, she was able to bring light to an endless-looking tunnel.

I am very glad and honored that I could work with her – many thanks, Bea!”

Antal Pichler

IT Manager, PwC CEE

“I have worked with Beata for a number of years, and recently, 2014 – 2015, very intensively on a number of key regional projects at PwC. Beata significantly contributed to the design, delivery, and follow-up coaching activities of our brand-new Director development centers. The feedback was amazing and as a result, many of our fresh directors chose Bea as their Executive Coach.

Cooperation with Bea was always pleasant mainly because of 3 aspects: firstly, she always managed to create a very open environment for collaboration; secondly, she was amazing when it comes to design and project execution, and lastly, her coaching competence let our people believe in the change and personal impact.

I am looking forward to every single opportunity of my future cooperation with Beata.” 

Michal Corba

Senior Manager - Leader of CEE Business Skills Center of Excellence, PwC

“I would like to express my special thanks to you for the hard work and support that you have given me and a number of key colleagues within TLS.

Your coaching support to myself and others contributed significantly to shaping our business. Your honest and tactful communication, your good understanding of business development, and your action-oriented approaches were important on this journey.”

Tamás Lőcsei

Partner - Service Line Leader, PwC

“I have been working with Beáta for more than a year to shape and refine my leadership style. Each coaching session is very well-structured and fun. Beáta applies different coaching tools and models designed to the given situation sophisticatedly and with ease. She has a unique sense to understand and identify the point of different situations; therefore, the discussions during the sessions are very focused.

What I particularly like is that she could be pretty tough in challenging me meanwhile she gives me enough time and space for reflection and having my own thoughts and ideas come to the surface.

I strongly recommend her if someone is ready to learn and further develop leadership styles and capabilities in a very constructive and open atmosphere.”

Anita Mekler

Partner, PwC

“I had the opportunity to attend an action learning facilitator training, where Beáta had two special roles: she showed us how action learning fits into an organization’s life, where and how it can be implemented as a new tool, and she also presented us some of the models and tools that can be used in action learning.

Beáta`s organizational experience as an internal coach, and action learning facilitator, her knowledge of organizational behavior, and her systematic approach were great assets during the course and helped us, the participants, a lot to have a good understanding of the areas where action learning can contribute to the success and efficiency of an organization.

She also delivered a workshop on a coaching club at Ericsson. This club provides space for our colleagues to discuss coaching-related topics, experiment with new coaching tools, and to further develop as a coach.

She runs a session on goal setting, a great mixture of theory and practice. In all these roles, she is easy to follow, with an interesting and efficient way of communicating, and a supportive and nice attitude to others. She can create a great environment for learning and development!”

Tamara Szabó

Innovation driver, Internal Communication, Ericsson Hungary, R&D

“To be honest, at the beginning of the coaching process I was a bit skeptical about how such conversations can help my development, but I gave it a chance.

And now looking back I feel it was a very smart action to take. Beata guided me through a journey where I could recognize and formalize what are my fears and doubts which hinder me from achieving my goals. During the last year, she helped me to realize how I can tackle all the obstacles one by one.

Her systematic approach to “eat the elephant in pieces” transformed my mindset as well.

Beata, thanks a lot!”

László Dobay

Senior Manager, PwC

“I have enjoyed working with Beata as she coached me with professionalism but friendliness created an open and honest atmosphere where I could develop.

I felt as if I was talking to a trusted friend who gave feedback, challenged me when necessary, and through effective questioning and recapping guided me with wisdom and experience to reach joint conclusions. Throughout the series of coaching sessions, I developed significantly, gained confidence in the coached areas, and reached my objectives.

I strongly recommend Beata, it has been a pleasure working with her.”

Szilvia Kocsy

Strategic Project Manager, PwC London

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