The Team
Dragos Birlea, Founding Partner
Expertise
- Business transformation strategy, business transformation management, strategic management;
- Business and start-up architecture, business acquisition and valuation;
- Team forming, team coaching and managerial coaching.
Successful projects:
DragosBirlea has over 12 years of experience in the fields of management consulting and human resource development. As CEO, Dragos has transformed companies in several business sectors. He has managerial expertise in areas such as automotive, manufacturing, distribution and professional services. As a management consultant, he led restructuring processes that have added value to business enterprises, putting them on an upward trend. Most of the companies that he worked with until now have kept the entire system or parts of the management system that was built at the time of collaboration. As a coach, Dragos is working with leaders and top managers that want to discover their talents, nurture them and then put them in the service of others.
As an entrepreneur, Dragos founded several companies in the field of consulting services and IT. He is the founder and co-founder of such projects as trilulilu.ro and tetatet.ro. Currently, he is working on a new start-up in the domain of mobile apps. Meanwhile, he is developing a very dear project, by leading several coaching groups in which participants follow a journey of discovery and restoration of their identity and true self. Dragos was formed in military high school and the Military Academy; he graduated the Faculty of European Studies at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca and has a Masters in Human Resources from the same university.
Fun facts: he runs with his head, he travels a lot and in his opinion we always "we need a concept."
Ana Ivan, Business Transformation Consultant
Expertise
- Strategic management, transformation strategy, organizational management;
- Design and implementation of management systems in support departments;
- Construction and implementation of induction processes;
- Developing vision, mission and organizational strategies;
- Human resources strategies, project management training.
Successful Projects
Within the company, Ana manages the projects that involve the analysis and construction of organizational strategies. She is the owner of everything related to the vision, mission, values and the long-term orientation of the business. In recent years she has been responsible for building and supervising various transformation processes for our clients. On a managerial level she is responsible with introducing simple management systems in the organizations but also systems that are custom tailored to their internal needs. Ana offers advice for implementing these systems but also supports the development of management skills of employees on low or top management positions. She developed and oversaw the management training process with excellent results, and has managed to fully internalize the staff onboarding process in the cases where the goal of the company was to have a 100% in-house process.
She is also involved in Agora Consulting’s startup projects where she is focused on all strategic and conceptual aspects, but also in the Gimini project which we started in 2013. Ana has graduated from the Faculty of European Studies at the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj and has a MSc in International Managerial Economics from the University of Utrecht, Netherlands.
Fun facts: she makes good cocktails, she often writes “clinets” and you would be wrong to say that she gets upset when we play “The Settlers of Catan”
Mihai Babici, Business Transformation Coordinator
Expertise
- Implementation of transformation projects;
- Business Transformation Officers - recruitment, induction, team leadership and coordination;
- Project management, business and processes analysis;
- Financial reporting - operational and visual management;
- Uses SAP, WizCount and processes financial and accounting data, MS Excel trainer.
Successful Projects
Mihai excels at recruiting, training and supervising the Business Transformation Officers (BTO’s) in partner organizations. So far he has trained and supervised 20 entry-level positions that have come to transform our partners’ organizations at a national level. The largest team of Business Transformation Officers had eight active members in eight locations of the same organization. Mihai manages the construction and implementation of operational sales budgets. He also provides consultancy for the construction and supervision of business processes in order to achieve budget execution. In his projects he manages to increase the engagement level in sales teams, mainly by increasing the quality of the commercial team’s management.
During the diagnosys process, Mihai runs process analysis and employee productivity analysis that help us identify the sources for waste in organizations. As a result, the work processes within the company are being improved and waste is gradually eliminated. Mihai has graduated from the Faculty of Economical Sciences at the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca and has a Masters degree in Local Finance Management from the Faculty of Political and Administrative Sciences in Cluj and from the University of Michigan.
Fun Facts: he is the funny guy, he’s usually the handy man and he likes to reply “I’m glad you’re smart …”