Work can take many forms.

It’s time to rethink your relationship with work.

I work with professionals who want to rethink their career direction and with organisations that want to create better working environments for their people.

I draw on over 15 years of international HR experience, combining career counselling, facilitation and my own portfolio career journey to look at work beyond roles, titles and predefined career paths.

For both people and organisations, I start with the same question: how can we make work work better for people?

How we can work together

Ioana Maxim consilier de cariera acreditat

For Professionals

Do you feel like you need a change but aren’t sure which direction to take? I’ll help you clarify your options, better understand what you want from the next stage of your career, and build a plan that works for you.

Ioana Maxim – consilier de carieră din România, ofer consiliere profesională și coaching pentru români din țară și diaspora

For companies

From employee experience and team development to organisational change and the Future of Work, I design interventions tailored to your people, your context and your organisation’s goals.

I no longer believe there’s just one definition of professional success.

Ioana Maxim - trainer de actorie si public speaking si actrita cu experienta scenica in Romania si UK
Ioana Maxim – consilier de carieră din România, ofer consiliere profesională și coaching pentru români din țară și diaspora

I spent many years on a traditional career path.

Working in HR for international organisations, I ticked all the boxes: roles, responsibilities, goals, and all the things that, from the outside, looked like what a career was “supposed to” look like.

But at some point, I started asking myself different questions.

Today, my career brings together HR, career counselling, facilitation, acting and creative projects. Not because I couldn’t decide what I wanted to do, but because I chose to build a career that could hold more of who I am.

This experience shapes the way I work with both professionals and organisations: I don’t start from the assumption that there is one right path, but from the question “What makes sense here, for the person or organisation in front of me?”

My experience, in numbers

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  • Internationally Accredited Career Counsellor

    through IPHM (International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine), via Centrul de Carieră

  • Accredited Points of You Facilitator

    ICF (International Coaching Federation) recognized certification

Beyond HR and career, there is the stage.

Acting and artistic projects are just as much a part of my professional life as HR or career counselling.

I act, create and explore stories that take me out of the analytical space and reconnect me with another part of myself — one that needs expression, vulnerability and creativity.

For me, these worlds don’t exclude one another. They complement each other. And they are perhaps the best proof that a career doesn’t have to fit into a single box.

Ioana Maxim
Ioana Maxim - facilitator de workshops si ateliere de dezvoltare personala prin teatru, HR si public speaking

Resources for career

Ioana Maxim – consilier de carieră din România, oferind ghidare profesională și coaching pentru români din țară și diaspora

101 links for remote jobs

Over 100 websites, platforms and employers offering remote work opportunities, all gathered in one place.

Ioana Maxim consiliere de cariera

Pay Transparency for Employees

A guide to pay transparency, what’s changing for employees and candidates, and your rights under the new legislative framework.

Career self-help e-book

Career Sketch

A practical guide built around the Career Reframing methodology. Ideal if you feel you need a career change but want to start exploring your options on your own.

What people I’ve worked with say

Do you have a question, an idea, or think we could work together?

You don’t need to have everything figured out before you message me. Maybe you just have a question, an idea that hasn’t fully taken shape yet, or you feel you need an outside perspective before taking your next step.

Write to me. I’m just one message away if you need guidance on your career direction, creative workshops and events, or collaborations in HR or the arts.

We’ll figure out together how I can help you.