Coaching for teams that need to think clearer, trust deeper, and ship better.

I partner with managers and teams at growing companies to turn knotted communication, blurry roles, and stalled trust into clear action.

Spaghetti Brain Untangler

15+ years

200+ organizations

Recognize any of this?

▸ Your best manager can't delegate, and is burning out.

▸ Meetings run long. Decisions don't stick.

▸ Feedback is either too soft or too sharp.

▸ The team is polite on Slack and tense in person.

▸ Strategy is crisp on the deck, chaotic in execution.

You don't have a talent problem. You have a thinking problem, and it can be untangled.

What I do: help teams think clearly, together.

Clarity before change

→ find where the thinking is actually knotted before pulling on anything.

Authenticity as a tool

→ leadership that isn't performed is leadership that scales.

A safe space with teeth

→ non-judgmental, but I will challenge you.

Services

Team Coaching

Untangle how your team thinks and decides together.

6–12 month partnerships.

Leadership Development

A thinking partner for the manager carrying a complex team.

3–6 month partnerships.

Workshops

Half-day and full-day sessions on communication, feedback, resilience, and safe-space building.

Hi! I am Nicoleta

the Spaghetti Brain Untangler

After 15+ years inside HR and leadership teams, I saw the same pattern in almost every stuck organization: talented people, tangled thinking. Not a lack of skill — a lack of clarity. I started coaching to help people cut through it. Today I partner with managers, teams, and the occasional working parent, mostly in tech and services, across Europe. Professional Certified Coach, two-times mother, and relentlessly curious about what people are actually capable of when the noise clears.

My mission is to help people dissolve their imaginary fences that keep them from being everything they can be.

We don’t see things as THEY are, we see things as WE are.

A_

My part is to help you see all of these and how they serve you or not.

No matter the roles you have: leader, parent, professional or any other role, we are all facing biases, we all have patterns, challenges and RESOURCES.

My vocation is to facilitate for you gaining new perspectives, increasing and training your awareness, manifesting your authenticity, and reaching out for excellence.

B_

My process focuses on:

Identifying where you are now, what are your challenges, needs, aspirations.

Building up awareness on biases, patterns, resources, your identity & manifesting authenticity. Your Why.

Filling the gap between where you are and where you want to be. Designing action plans for sustainable results.

01.

Partnering with managers to empower their TEAM

3-6 Months Partnerships

Clarity on your leader role (WHO are you as a leader)
Refining your leadership skills (HOW can you be the leader you want to be)
Increase awareness and manifest it through authentic leadership (WHAT can you do)
Safe space for experimenting
A thinking partner who is not afraid to challenge you

Balancing between strategy and operations
How to keep my team motivated
How do I build trust
How to enable my team to reach performance
Increasing assertiveness
Feedback conversations
Conflict management
Delegating down, across and up
My purpose as a leader
Self leadership

Assessing the current framework, the presenting issue, the matching.

Matching call with the manager / stakeholders
Leadership Assessment
90-minute debrief call

Designing & deploying the personalized leadership development

Defining the outcome of the program, best hopes, the steps, the tools, the time frame.

Increasing awareness, focus on what is already working, what are other resources, the beliefs, the barriers, new possibilities.

Two private 60-minute sessions via Zoom per month for at least 3 months
Email and text support in between
Resources and check-in provided as needed

Action Plan & Measurement

Building up an action plan and a measurement rhythm, reflecting on progress, celebrating the growth.

One 60-minute session on Zoom
Personal Growth Assessment
Next Steps planning

02.

Partnering with working parents to find out who they are besides their parent role

3-6 Months Partnerships

Clarity on who you are among all the roles in your life
Clarity on the impact that you want to have personally or professionally
Increased self trust
Safe space to practice self compassion
Define what is in your control

Balancing personal and professional
A more meaningful career
How do I grow in my career
Accepting the context limitations
Time for myself
Am I a good parent?
Am I a good professional?
Navigating uncertainty

Assessing the current framework, the presenting issue, the matching.

Matching call with the working parent
Current situation and needs assessment: career transition, balancing life & work, personal beliefs
90-minute debrief call

Designing & deploying the personalized process

Defining the outcome of the program, career processes may include role plays and interview simulations, best hopes, the steps, the tools, the time frame.

Increasing awareness, focus on what is already working, what are other resources, the beliefs, the barriers, new possibilities.

Two private 60-minute sessions via Zoom per month for at least 3 months
Email and text support in between
Resources and check-in provided as needed

Action Plan & Measurement

Building up an action plan and a measurement rhythm, reflecting on progress, celebrating the growth.

One 60-minute session on Zoom
Personal Growth Assessment
Next Steps planning

03.

Team Development

6-12 Months Partnerships

Clarity on the impact that your team has
Increased efficiency and better communication within the team
Increased awareness over the team dynamics and how they serve you or not
Safe space for modeling a trustful environment
Constructive communication tools

The lack of trust and safe space
Unexpressed expectations
Lack of motivation
What is the team purpose
Unproductive communication
Team conflicts
Lack of a decision process
Navigating uncertainty

Personalized team coaching program based on the team's specific needs, aligned with the stakeholders' objectives.

A minimum 6-month program
Assessment of the team's current status
Personalized programs which may include assisting team meetings
Specific workshops aligned with the team's objectives

On-demand workshops

Personalized workshops based on the team's specific needs.

One-time workshop, webinar or specific programs
Assessment of the team's current status and needs
Personalized programs using coaching methods:
- Communication skills
- Enabling empathy
- Resilience
- Building safe space
- Self leadership

Testimonials

- Really attentive, active listener. Don’t let go of any point that bothers/worries/surfaces me.
- Conducts sessions in a pleasant, easy way – even when asking the hard questions, provoking/making me confront myself.
- Searches and proposes – without imposing or forcing – tools, approaches, thoughts to consider, incentivizes experimenting
- Works on me being responsible, owning it, for working on improving between sessions – homework!
- Relentlessly nudges for me owning, really owning what I want to address, so we can cocreate, so I can sort it out by myself – sharing the process with me on driver’s seat, both pedalling
- Centered on personal development by my request, looking on how to address traits, characteristics to improve and adjust/address in order to become more effective at work and life
Rui Soares - Risk Management
Nicoleta is one of the most enthusiastic professionals I had the pleasure to work with. It is not just about doing the work, the way she supports the customer and looks after the goals achievement, simply make me think how grateful I am for the path we did. I hope to keep collaborating with Nicoleta and continue the rest of the way I already traced.
Thanks coach!
Miguel Fernanes - Head of SOC & Cybersecurity
When I contacted Nicoleta, it was 2 months after I started working in a manager role for a team of engineers. It was a period when I had received a negative feed from the company's founders: the results are missing, the team is not motivated enough. I only saw my colleagues in the office for a week before the Corona virus restrictions were put in place. And that was just one of the reasons I was not suitable for my role, this is what I was telling to myself.. The conversations I had with Nicoleta helped me find other solutions to my problems.
What was different is that I made a habit of looking more closely at the options I have in front of me. A habit of observing my emotional response to those choices. I have discovered that I am able to make decisions and act in the right direction for myself and those around me. Especially when my emotions told me not to do anything, not to open a difficult subject, to ignore the problems until they became so big that they demanded my full attention in the most "heroic" way possible.
The coaching program was about me, with all my weaknesses and all my strengths. I recommend a coaching program to anyone. Nicoleta is an effective and resourceful partner to keep you honest with yourself on the path you are on to a better life - in any way you define a better life for yourself.
Valentin Z. - Senior Manager
Before starting the collaboration with Nicoleta, I was at that critical point in my career where you feel the need for a change. The duration of the coaching program covered the entire decision process and its materialization. The discussions with Nicoleta helped me to discover and transform some habits and perspectives that were not exactly working in my favor.
I discovered with Nicoleta how important it is to listen and for me, her calm attitude helped to establish a relationship of trust. I recommend Nicoleta to any person who wants to discover himself and needs help to find answers about himself.
Alina M. - Software Developer
I've started the coaching process as a result of enrolling in a career development program. I had a list of things that were not going as well as I would like. Nicoleta is a very good listener and gets to the heart of the problem through the questions she asks. Diving more into depths, I realised that in many cases the problem was that I was not setting up limits.
Following some clear actions to take and some topics to think about, I have created some healthy habits. There are things I'm still working on and I know it's a long process but I can say that I see concrete improvements.
I recommend a coaching program for anyone who needs external help to get where they want to be and for those who want to reach their potential in their professional and personal life.
Ioana P. - Software Developer

Emotion is MY superpower!

I am curious about what drives people, what they excel at.

Finding that strength for yourself enables transformation!

Through coaching, I help clients see themselves in a new light, and identify how they think about themselves and the situations and challenges they face. From this new angle, obstacles don’t seem so big or impossible anymore, and together we can draw efficient action plans for the future.

My practice revolves around strong reflection of patterns and beliefs, patience, and the ability to help people feel empowered.

A space of authenticity and safety, always.