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Gabriela
Leadership is for me authenticity, care for the world and others, and a real deep commitment to making positive reality happen!”...
I have spent my childhood and early youth in my hometown – a town in southeast Romania with not more than 15,000 inhabitants. At the age of 14, I decided to start ‘seeing’ the world through experiencing its differences. This is something that stays with my way of exploring the world even today. As such I worked for about 6 years with ProVita Romania, an NGO that offers an alternative to abortion and works with physically impaired and mentally challenged youth. Here I was part of delivering various learning and integration programs for over 300 fantastic people. With them and from them I learned about how all of us can be part of a community that cares and embraces diversity. I will always hold dear the experience of setting up AIESEC in Moldova – a new AIESEC entity in a country, which has been for long marginalized from the global scene. Today AIESEC in Moldova stands for transparency, commitment, and participation of young people on topics that are important
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to the world and the country. By far, the strongest entrepreneurial leadership experience I ever had was being President of AIESEC globally in 2007-2008 – an opportunity that allowed me to understand the world and what is possible at an early age. In this role I was working with and for 35,000+ of the world’s smartest young people in 106 countries and territories. This was an experience where I learnt that internationalism, mobility and diversity are the core fundamentals upon which a better present and future can be built, as long as we can make everyone active participants to a goal that matters to all of us! I am now in London working as a business consultant with Future Considerations, a boutique management consultancy designing and delivering cutting edge leadership development programs in the UK and abroad. Leadership is for me authenticity, care for the world and others, and a real deep commitment to making positive reality happen!
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