We care. Our business is personal. The effort we put into each company and individual we serve is also personal. Here is a snippet of what our clients say about ILC's specialists.
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Valentina brings a wealth of professionalism and expertise to her work. One of the standout qualities of her and her company, ILC, is its commitment to tailoring workshops, sessions, and overall services to meet specific objectives and challenges. The experience with Valentina and ILC in our work together has been nothing short of exceptional. The professionalism, expertise, tailored approach, interactive delivery of workshops, practical insights, and continuous support make ILC a valuable partner in the journey of growth and improvement for professionals in a dynamic environment. I highly recommend Valentina and ILC International to any organization seeking impactful and transformative workshop and coaching experiences.
People & Culture
Officer
Valentina's expertise and genuine passion for helping women succeed shine through in every session. If you're looking for a supportive and knowledgeable mentor to help you navigate your professional journey, look no further.
Senior Product Manager
I had the chance to work with Valentina and benefit from several coaching sessions with her – an experience which turned out to be not only fruitful, but enjoyable as well. From the beginning of our work together Valentina managed to make me feel at ease and relaxed about the upcoming coaching process and conversations – something I found quite valuable as it was the first time I was to have such experience. Through thoughtful guidance she helped me understand and address beliefs and limiting thoughts which were putting breaks on my growth and preventing me from fully working towards realizing my potential. Valentina’s competence and perspective allowed me to come to realizations that would help me advance, while the practical insights she shared with me significantly improved my wellbeing and daily performance in a number of work-related situations. I would strongly recommend working with Valentina to anyone looking for a positive change in their professional or personal lives.
Financial Analyst, CFA
Choosing Valentina was a really good decision for me. She is super professional, laser focused and surprisingly tough. That's exactly what needed to bring change to people's lives. Wish her all the best.
Managing Director
I completed the business Coach training with Yanko at the IHK Karlsruhe. There I had the opportunity to experience Yanko as an extremely inspiring and sensitive coach. He knows how to work out the important points in order to then initiate the necessary changes. I am happy to work with Yanko again and again, and can recommend him as a coach without hesitation.
Business Coach
I had the pleasure of being coached by Valentina for several years. Working with her has been pivotal to my career progression, as she supported me during a transition to a leadership role and throughout the creation and rapid growth of my team across various locations worldwide. Valentina has made significant contributions to empowering my team and the broader organisation in navigating the complexities of expanding business operations and the dynamics around it.Her approach to coaching is personalised and impactful. She goes beyond the conventional methods, investing the time and effort to understand the unique challenges and aspirations of each individual she works with. This tailored approach ensured that her guidance was not only relevant to my personal situation but also highly effective in addressing specific issues I had and helped me achieve my desired goals. Valentina's commitment to customising her approach demonstrates her dedication to the success and growth of those she mentors, setting her apart as a truly exceptional coach.Beyond her professional expertise, Valentina brings warmth, authenticity, and genuine care to every interaction, creating a safe and supportive space for growth and development. If you're looking to navigate organisational or personal change, enhance leadership effectiveness, or simply elevate team performance, Valentina is the coach you can trust to guide you toward success.
FS Change Management
Galia is an all-star. She is sharp and insightful in her interactions with business leaders and fearless in her determination to drive meaningful organizational changes enabling people to do their best. She asks the hard questions and provides in-depth HR expertise to address various business challenges. I’ve always been impressed with how she coaches leaders across the organization; her approach is client-centric, driving strategy improvement and business results. Galia is a thoughtful and inclusive leader well-suited to motivate and engage employees in the idea-economy. After every interaction with her, I leave feeling a bit smarter and more self-aware. Galia will always be my role model and go-to person whenever I need to solve complex business matters. Without any doubt I will jump at any opportunity to work with or for her.
Senior HR Businesss Partner
I had the privilege of working with Valentina as my career coach and I can confidently say that her guidance has been invaluable. She is not only knowledgeable but also very intuitive and passionate in her job. During our sessions Ina provided me guidance that were right on the spot, helping me clarify my goals and chart a clear path forward. She has a personalized approach that made me feel truly understood, tailoring advice and strategies to my unique needs. I wholeheartedly recommend Valentina to anyone looking to navigate their career journey with confidence and achieve their professional goals. She is a true mentor and advocate for your success. Thank you Ina, I'm sure we'll meet again soon!
Talent Partner
I had the pleasure of working with coach Valentina, and it was a truly enjoyable experience. She possesses a remarkable ability to bring clarity and focus to one's personal and professional life. Through insightful guidance and thought-provoking questions, Valentina helped me uncover untapped potential and identify limiting beliefs that were holding me back. The impact went beyond my personal life, as positive changes also translated into improvements in my work. Valentina seamlessly integrated personal and professional development, resulting in increased productivity and overall well-being.Valentina's expertise, insights, and dedication have had a profound impact on my life, and I am truly grateful for the transformative journey we embarked upon together.I wholeheartedly recommend working with her to any professional or team seeking alignment and growth.
Revenue Operations Manager
Was a great pleasure working with Valentina. She was great at guiding my thought process and getting me to a point of clarity. This clarity persisted over time and helped with ordering the importance of activities.
Senior Relationship Manager
Valentina is a highly experienced speaker who delivered a wonderful session for our EMEA community about work-life balance. She managed to turn the hybrid event into an interactive and engaging session. The feedback was very positive, and I look forward to working with Valentina again! Thank you, Val!
ESG Lead
Valentina is a top-notch professional with an amazing energy. I worked with her in a period when I was actively setting up my business and clarifying the concept. Her coaching beautifully combines soft empathy with strong determination. She has absolutely mastered the art of active listening and she makes you feel not only listened to, but understood and supported. Her calm and collected demeanour that radiates stable mature energy. Nevertheless, her enthusiasm lights up in the next second and she is able to give you the necessary feedback, to challenge you and motivate you using different techniques that unlock your abstract thinking thus reaching deeper levels of your consciousness. At the same time, she gave me tons of valuable practical advice. If you are looking for a career or life coach for your journey, Valentina is an excellent guide.
Brand Coach
It’s not so often that you meet someone that can make a change in your life for just a couple of hours. Well, Valentina is definitely a person that can do that. I have had only one initial session with her, but her approach is quite special – she is a very attentive listener, she gets under your skin quite easily and identifies your personal challenges right away. She was able to address all of my concerns and helped me understand how I can concentrate my energy to quickly tackle the issues I have. Valentina is also very thorough in her approach and is able to answer all questions with no hesitation. Her positivism, enthusiasm and zest are contagious! I can’t wait until my future sessions with Ina and I have no doubt that she will contribute all of her dedication, knowledge and experience to help me develop in my thinking and generally life!
Senior Product
Solutions Consultant
I had the pleasure to work with Elena as a partner at ILC. Her attitude and energy welcomed me and allowed me to feel accepted and heard. I was surprised and happy by her ability to hold me accountable and support me to persevere. Very oft her questions made me „stretch“ my thoughts in directions, I didn’t even think I could. She helped me gain clearness and focus. She helped me move to better state of mind. I will definitely work with her again.
Business Coach
I've been having coaching sessions with Galiya for more than 6 months and I'm impressed with her professionalism. During our sessions, she creates a heart-warming atmosphere so I can feel safe to share and explore. Our conversations boosted my day and helped me grow personally and professionally. I continue to have coaching sessions with her from time to time.
Software Engineer
I really enjoyed and benefited the journey of being coached by Valentina. She is very intuitive, compassionate and reflective. She finds the right approach to motivate, stretch and challenge you, while keeping the flow and pace natural. Our interactions with Valentina were always leading to improved clarity, vision and direction and I admire the way she manages to bring focus and structure by facilitating and guiding rather than influencing and directing.Apart from individual coaching, I have also worked with Valentina and her team in several team trainings on soft skills such as presentation, effective communication, ownership. She has always impressed with professional approach, ability to tailor the training depth and content to match the group needs and background. The impact their trainings bring was always recognized by everyone participating.
Renewables
Assesment Manager
I had the privilege of working with Ina as my professional coach for the past 4 months and I can confidently say this was an invaluable experience that significantly contributed to my growth, both as a person and as a team leader. Ina possesses a remarkable ability to understand people's needs and tailor coaching sessions to address them effectively. Through our sessions, she always guided me in a way that was both insightful and practical. Ina helped me develop a better understanding of my strengths & areas of improvement, in relation to different leadership models and cultural dynamics. She provided me with invaluable strategies for adapting better and easier in diverse environments, and advice me on healthier work habits that would enhance my effectiveness as a leader.I am grateful for Ina's expertise, professionalism and consistent support as she played an important role in helped me a lot navigate the challenges & the dynamics on my professional development.
Senior Quality Engineer
I have been working with Galia on and off in different companies in different roles. In my early HR career Galia was my mentor, from whom I learned what means being great HR professionals. I continued to learn from Galia also when she joined my team as HRBP for one of the largest pharma businesses in Bulgaria. Galia is all rounded HR professional able to strategize, design and deliver complex and large organization and people transformation projects. Her consultancy approach together with intellectual ability to build strong reasoning and business case makes her valuable partner to the business and to senior leaders. She easily establishes rapport with people from various backgrounds and on different hierarchical level, and is able to challenge any c-level executive, thus provoking personal and organizational change. Galia is a great coach and has amazing insights on people, their personalities and motivation.
Regional HR Lead
I worked with Elena in coaching for big goals, and I got tremendous results: goals were "magically" structured; the goals have become much more ambitious and vivid; a detailed understanding of the route to them has appeared.Elena is a very attentive listener, asks very good and accurate questions, returns to the query, does not let her thoughts get distracted. She is a wonderful partner who walks with you and at the same time looks from the side. Skillfully asks guiding questions, shows the way without pointing it out.During communication, it seems that you are being taken by the hand and guided by your thoughts to your own goals. To very big and bold goals.As a result of each session, I get a clear step-by-step action plan and motivation for its implementation.
Business Optimisation
I really enjoy being coached by Valentina. As a coach myself, I am particularly attentive and selective and I found with Valentina an excellent blend of empathy and confrontation.She has an amazing quality of listening, as well as the ability to master the coaching process while leaving me the real, ultimate owner of the content. My coaching sessions with Valentina, really enabled me to make a major shift in the way I live and work.I wish many other people to have the chance to get coaching from Valentina! Thank you, thank you. THANK YOU for your professionalism, creativity and precious listening!
Leadership Development
Galia is a wonderful breath of fresh air in the HR Biz. Apart from her obvious expertise and high standards in executive search, hiring and consulting, she is blazing a trail in casting wider and deeper nets. She's quick, responsive, enagaging, and is a perfect first impression on behalf of her organization. I can only hope that the future of executive search emulate Galia's lead.
Managing Partner
Valentina provided a life-coach session to our team of junior strategy consultants at PwC. She focussed on the difficult challenges sometimes when faced when transitioning to a working environment post university. I felt that she really listened to the group's needs and did a great job of facilitating a discussion tailored to our team. She is highly engaging and motivating as a speaker and I know that our group really enjoyed the session. Thanks Valentina!
Management Consultant
Valentina is a very perceptive business coach. She identifies challenges in both long-term professional development and day-to-day actions and mindset. Her insights and actionable advice have been incredibly helpful over the past six months.
Head of Marketing
Valentina is a highly valuable partner who contributed to developing both our Well-being and Coaching programs.She helped us advance our Well-being program by providing continuous series of workshops on Stress & Time management, which were highly regarded by our colleagues.She also contributed to kickstarting our Coaching program initiative with colleagues on leading positions across our offices.Valentina is a reliable professional with high standards that knows how to engage the diverse groups she works with. She invests the needed time to understand the specific business case, and with her highly agile approach, she successfully adapts to deliver what’s needed.It is a true pleasure working with Valentina! I would recommend her if you’re looking for a trusted and proven partner of your Learning & Development or Employee Experience team.
Talent Development Lead
Working with Valentina enabled me to make progress faster than I would have if I was on my own. This involved thinking "outside the box" which helped me come up with great ideas for my business. She is a good listener and worked with me in overcoming some fears I had from the past which will go a long way in helping me build a successful business.
Director
Valentina is such a charming and invigorating lady who can easily comfort you and calm your senses down in no time at all. The way she treats people is unbelievably simple but it certainly works very well. She is very observant and you can tell that she hasn’t just come to meet you to make her profit – she takes pride in her job and really enjoys helping people sort their life goals. If you expect her to tell you some hidden secrets of how to deal with your life that’s not going to happen – she will help you find the secret wonders only you are capable of. Valentina utterly believes that we all live in a world full of complications and will help you realise that what makes us go for the big change to live better is actually incredibly simple and doable. I managed to dramatically change the way I think and live in a very short period of time thanks to her. Highly recommend Valentina as a life coach!
Creative Director
Valentina is exceptional with her sharp mind and focus, depth and experience. She has been supporting me during a transition to a leadership role. After each session I had more clarity of where I was, what the next step was and what approach to undertake, but most importantly – what was truly important to me at that point of my personal and professional growth. She shed light on blind spots in a very subtle and professional manner and she found outside-the-box ways to make the difficult easy and pleasant. To me Valentina is a rare talent in what she does. Thanks a million, Ina! I am sure our paths will cross again.
Business Dev. Manager HR
Valentina’s sessions were extremely valuable! I have undertaken an individualised process with Valentina that has taken me through important stages to look ahead to the future. Her experience, input and a personable approach were essential to reviewing my current situation and evaluating future needs in an objective and realistic manner. Valentina has the skill and ability to enable/facilitate deeper questioning of both the personal and professional motives behind a desired direction before embarking on a particular course of action or strategy. I would certainly recommend Valentina if you need the time and space to think through your position/situation as well as your future aspirations. Valentina has provided me with the necessary environment and individualised tools in an meaningful, realistic and purposeful way to overcome perceived barriers to progression and future aspirations.
Industrial & Product
Design Consultant