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LEADERSHIP IN THE GLOBAL LOCAL
In its Global Human Capital Trends report Deloitte names "building global leadership" as "by far the most urgent". A true 21st Century leader has to be capable of communicating, interacting and relating across any unfamiliar culture,  whether it is organizational, national, ethnic or generational. Global Leaders may greatly benefit of the advice of a skilled Culture Influencer. 
COSMIN GHEORGHE IS a Certified Cultural Intelligence Facilitator and a Leadership Coach, with over a decade experience coaching and consulting. 
Throughout his professional career,  Cosmin has focused on human interactions: first, as medical doctor; then as an executive coach and psychotherapist; and now as an Multicultural Intelligence and Global Leadership Adviser. There is an obvious common thread here: Cosmin has been applying his skills and knowledge to help people and organizations to "become more and more themselves"*. 

The current stage of his professional path is an organic blend of knowledge, skills and expertise coming from several areas:

    Multicultural Environments

    Cosmin has lived, worked and traveled in over 25 cultures. It definitely helps that he speaks, reads and writes in four languages.  Being able to understand and engage with the values, symbols, social rituals and heroes of another culture is a gratifying and humbling experience. 

    Global Leadership

    Cosmin's Leadership Coaching is based on a comprehensive intelligence model. He has added Cultural Intelligence (CQ) to the previously known forms of intelligence (IQ, EQ, PQ).  Technology and Entrepreneurship have transformed leadership and globalization into a very complex process, which goes way beyond "conquering" new markets.
    "Do not let your ego write checks that your talent cannot cash" says Mike Myatt, Forbes Leadership Columnist.

    Multicultural networks (real and virtual) and multiple feedback social systems have changed the way leaders communicate and relate to power, risk, individuality, team work, negotiations. 

    Human Interaction


    As an expert in human interactions Cosmin observes how people think, feel, make decisions and relate to other people and their environment. Individuals, groups, organizations are seen as social and cultural systems. Their interaction is seen as a series of encounters and separations, with the ultimate purpose of delineating or reinforcing moral circles. 



    Aesthetic Distance

    Aesthetic Distance might sound very fancy, but in fact it is a simple concept, used by executives, public speakers, actors, mediators, negotiators. Cosmin uses it to assess and coach people to increase their Leadership skills and Cultural Intelligence Quotient. When acting in a multicultural setting, success is achieved when each participant is able to remain himself or herself, while at the same time has the ability to adapt and respond optimally to the others' cultural particularities. This is in fact the definition of what I call Intercultural Aesthetic Distance.  

    Cultural Intelligence 
    (CQ)

    As a Certified CQ Facilitator, Cosmin is able to assess and help optimize the CQ Drive, Knowledge, Strategy and Action.  That results in a variety of outcomes, which Cosmin organizes into a balanced whole. What is the difference between individuals and organizations that are effective in today's globalized, multicultural world and those that fail? asks David Livermore, President of the Cultural Intelligence Center

    Creative Solutions

    "Solutions do not have to be unique, never seen before. But rather general, existent solutions, reinterpreted and adjusted to the problem we are trying to solve" (Dan Clancy, Research Director, Google)
    Cosmin is able to offer complete solutions, which combine in balanced way IQ (cognitive intelligence), EQ (emotional intelligence), PQ (practical intelligence) and CQ (cultural intelligence). 
*Soren Kierkegaard