Portrait of Cosmina Bîndilă

About

I work with leaders, business professionals, and entrepreneurial minds as a catalyst and strategic partner in their transformation and growth.

My work sits at the intersection of leadership coaching and mentoring, and business consultancy in people, project, account, stakeholder, and team management, grounded in a full-time role as Account Delivery Manager in tech. This may sound fragmented, but it's only part of the picture. The rest reaches toward strategy, wellbeing, and mountaineering. And yes, I integrate all of it.

The people who reach out to me are evolving, in their leadership roles, and in their own lives. In corporate settings, I lead with value, facts, and ROI: fifteen years running delivery, budgets, and client portfolios worth £1–3M a year, plus close to 500 hours delivered and 100 clients coached. Outside corporate, entrepreneurs reach out because their lives are split between passion (wellbeing, spirituality, creative work) and business drive. I stir things toward integration there too.

This is me: a catalyst by nature, down-to-earth in approach, composed where it counts, tough enough to ask the questions that matter, but kind in how I partner toward the outcome. Don't mistake the composure for containment, though: I'm emancipated enough to burst into new ideas and directions constantly, the way any real catalyst does.

The world is transforming, and I see the forces of corporate and wellbeing colliding more each year, pulling all of us toward a more fragmented life path. Time will tell if I'm reading this right. In the meantime, I'll keep catalyzing transformation, growth, and the integration of multiple worlds.

Timeline

2025–presentEdAlt Institute, Leadership Coach & Mentor
2024–presentddroidd, Account Delivery Manager, alongside an independently launched coaching and advisory practice
2023Chief of Staff, a confidential crypto startup, built operational governance from scratch in under five months
2019–2023ddroidd, agile project management, scaling delivery teams for global clients across pet-nutrition, sports, and fintech sectors
2016–2019Vertiv, EMEA HRIS lead, one of four Europeans on a global Oracle HCM rollout across 20+ countries
2012–2016Emerson, HR program coordination across Europe, including MBA graduate recruitment and pan-European leadership events
2011–2012Genpact, order management, first exposure to a multinational, cross-language environment
2009First internship, recruitment and sourcing (Cluj)

Credentials & certifications

Coaching

ISERVE Leadership Coaching, post-graduate program, EdAlt Institute; Coaching Fundamentals, Valedictorian graduate, EdAlt Institute; Points of You / Punctum facilitation instrument; now Mentor and Coach within EdAlt's own Leadership Coaching Mastery Program.

Business & delivery

PMP and CAPM training; PM Elite Mentorship program; PMI-ACP, self-study only (read the core text three times and prepared through a study group at ddroidd).

AI

AI for Everyone and Generative AI for Everyone, Andrew Ng / DeepLearning.AI.

Education

MA, International Development; BA, Psychology; BA, Accounting & Information Systems, Babeș-Bolyai University; Erasmus term, Savoy, France.

Languages

Romanian (native), English (C1), French (B1/B2), German (A1/A2, ongoing).