Executive Coach
Mihai ZANT is an Executive Coach, Trainer and Managing Partner in HUMANISTIC (www.humanistic.ro). Having over 10 years of experience in leading teams and communities he concentrated his work in building Learning Organisations. Now, he is designing Learning Journeys for corporate clients with a focus on #Self Leadership and #Future Skills. he is also coaching and mentoring established entrepreneurs or in their transition or incubation phase.
He believes in creating sustainable value, long life learning, return on character, social impact entrepreneurship and in respecting all Stakeholders around a business.
“My mission is to assist professionals in creating Stakeholder Value at personal, team and organisational levels.”
By Added Stakeholder Value I understand a sustainable growth mindset in which one person or entity is adding value in a balanced manner for all its stakeholders ( clients, employees, management, suppliers, shareholders, public services, environment and society at large).
As there is a growing need for meaning amongst employees and a growing demand for responsible companies amongst clients, added stakeholder value is key . In addition to that, more and more powerful investors’ are addressing the same issues.Now, he is designing Learning Journeys for corporate clients using integrated practice systems with a focus on #Self Leadership and #Future Skills
How?
At a personal level:
If you are a professional searching for the next mission, trying to solve a complex challenge or just need to bring clarity and focus to yourself and your team, book an Impact Leverage Session.
As an employee, at the end of such a process you can land a more meaningful position which, oftentimes, means better pays, better professional interactions and aligned mission. As a Start-up founder you can have an Intellectual Partner to navigate the incertitude and challenges of your business. Together, we can take distance from the subject, gain new perspective and find innovative solutions.
At a team level:
Team Climate and Dynamics are crucial for productivity but also for personal achievement and health. I strongly believe in a strengths based approach and complementarity within team. My interventions are a lot about adult to adult facilitation, placing participants in a non-judgmental setting, where autonomy, trust and responsibility are the keys for success and innovation.
I use instruments such as EmergeneticsⓇ, Game Changer IndexⓇ and Learning Organisations’ Practice System to promote self-awareness and conscious transformation. Then, with designed out-of-the-box follow-up sessions, I can reach out to a large professional community to help the team stay engaged and achieve its objectives. Usually, we bring in coaches, business executives, entrepreneurs, sportspeople, actors, therapists using both online interventions as well as the most unusual and creative locations.
At a organisational level:
Working together with a curated professional network, I am committed to select the best resources in out-of-the-box settings to address your brief (Send Your brief here).
Given my focus on bringing value and connecting people, I have spent a large amount of time assessing what’s in the market as far a Organisational Behaviour is concerned. Therefore, I do my best to keep an authentic recommendation practice if a certain product or solution fits your problem better than we have at hand. Let’s talk freely about that.
Testimonials
Can you relate to any of the testimonials that my clients have written below?
“Inspiring , Down-to-Earth and Wildly Effective across various aspects of running a business, Mihai has been a transformative presence in the early and most vital steps of my Startup. Unwilling to accept outdated practices and dedicated to bring innovation in every aspect of our work, he has not only enabled my company to enter new markets and internationalize, but, within the same program, he mentored 35+ fellow entrepreneurs in various strategic fields within the various stages of their ventures, bringing to Romania investments of more than 1.5 million € cross-sectorial. His business intuition, humane approach and the depth of his strategic thinking, they all went straight to the heart of how I think, perceive, and plan both my business as well as myself.
“Having had the opportunity to consult Mihai in a transitional period of creating a meaningful career path, I can now fully appreciate his strategic vision and can-do attitude, as they represented a great support in my analysis of opportunities and decision-making processes. By making sure you always keep in sight different opportunities and remain open to change, growth and diverse ideas, Mihai’s coaching style enables continuous learning and risk-taking, while also keeping each client’s unique profile and capabilities at the heart of the process. When faced with professional turning points, Mihai is definitely a go-to person, his vision and input remaining valuable assets throughout different stages of one’s career and professional development.”
“Mihai has been for me like an oasis in the desert as he has helped me in a time of need. His values-centered guidance has helped me understand how to move towards finishing my PhD studies and and find clarity after feeling lost. He managed to nudge me in the right direction and lift the fog by guiding my focus on my aspiration and strong points. While I never made it easy for him, he never left my side during this hard process that defined a turning point in my life. I am still applying his teachings and I recommend him as a coach to anyone that wishes to find their potential when facing a crossroad.”
“Mihai is a great coach and leader. He helped me to figure out my relevant skills and aspects of my profile to build a strong and impact social selling on Linkedin.
He also coached me on my resume to give it more visibility and attractivity. I strongly recommend him for his easy-going behaviour, his availability and his strong support for coaching sessions - For sure, a true, deep and good experience"
“Having the opportunity to see Mihai’s great results with clients, a unique combination of elements always impressed me about his work, that make him so different and his coaching style so effective:
- genuine curiosity and passion about you and about your business
- fierce “power questions”
- deep understanding and extraordinary insights about your business context
I highly recommend Mihai - executives and organizations would be lucky to be working with him!”
"Mihai is an inspirational pragmatic. He can easily find the words to motivate and oftentimes steer people in the right direction as much as he can delve deep into problems always aiming for the solution. In our interaction, I’ve seen him be both. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, intrapreneur or civil society leader, Mihai can inspire you to chance course and help you in your problem solving quest.
“I have known Mihai for a long time and I remember him being always balanced and with a clear view of what he wants. After many years without seeing him, our paths met in Paris exactly when I was at a crossroad of my career, not knowing exactly what I want and not having the courage to pursuit my dreams. The talk we had gave me exactly the answers I needed. By the end of our encounter, I felt empowered and with a clear view of what I must do. What makes Mihai different? He knows how to ask the right questions! And we all know that we can’t have the right answers without the right questions. Later that year I was making money doing what I love most!
“I’ve met Mihai through a mentoring program. I just finished my CIPD training and was looking for the next step in my career. As part of the mentoring program I had to pick the person with whom I would like to work and Mihai was on my list both because of his experience and of his commitment to giving his time to support the development of others. Mihai helped me understand that I own my learning and growth, was a great sounding board and had some interesting insights about the issues we discussed.
“I had Coaching sessions with Mihai when in a time of an important career change. His techniques not only guided me to make a committed decision, they've made me feel more empowered, confident and open to the change. During the Coaching sessions Mihai showed very supportive, flexible and focused. He created a positive mindset and set me up in a position where I can really go forward in my career with a frame in my mind. Mihai helped me learn how to make decisions based on my own conscious articulated criteria and get clearer about my values and motivations. Thank you!”
“Mihai's coaching capabilities and his focus on guidance to impact have helped me tackle career growth challenges and enabled me to find new ways towards success.Through our interactions I discovered previously unseen strengths and how to best make use of them. I can but thank him and highly recommend his advice to any professional in need of fully living up to its potential.”
“Mihai Zant has been my mentor for my Startup. Mihai has been instrumental in the successful launch of our Neurofeedback Company, through his brilliance in business strategy. Mihai has great ability to get to the heart of the matter and offer creative business solutions. At the same time, he has the capacity to listen at a deeper level and empower the client. I highly recommend Mihai Zant for executive and business coaching.”
"Mihai helped up to improve our business model and sales strategy. He is a smart person with a pragmatic approach to problem solving, and this is especially useful in business, where you need to be adapt to unexpected situations. I am confident that his many connections in different industries will be a real help for us in the future."
“2 things set Mihai apart from several coaches & consultants that I've worked with: a head for strategy & numbers, and genuine social & emotional intelligence. Often, top managers ace the former while questioning the need for the latter, yet expect buy-in and long term commitment from the people under their lead. Mihai has the right acumen to gently but firmly point out issues and remedies in the ample field of leadership and people management.”
Why me?
I Coach.
“Coaching is the main instrument I am using because your responsibility is needed in the process. You must take your own decisions and create your own future because there is no such thing as a given recipe to success. Based on your level of seniority its overall weight in the process can be more than 50%”
I Metor.
“Mentoring can be a valuable resource and inspiration when stuck in the process. It can be made of stories from world class executives, EMBA established know-how, my own experience or even reverse mentoring ( young generation’s take on similar problems). You are still taking your own decisions but you get guidance in terms of executive stakeholders’ perception and HR or headhunters’ expectations. If you are an entrepreneur we will review your business model and find innovative ideas.”
I Facilitate Contacts.
“One of my biggest differentiators is that I know a lot of people or I can easily reach out to new ones. I deeply believe contact facilitation can bring huge value. During my coaching sessions, I am willing to put you in contact with relevant stakeholders and teach you how reach out by yourself. Having the right interlocutor can land you the desire job or promotion, get you the next important deal or wildly accelerate your business growth.”