Customers of Kostadinova Consulting

“Thanks to her bicultural background and her first-hand experience with the peculiarities of the cultures in the English-speaking world, Swetlana helped us develop our understanding for other cultures. What was extremely useful to us as trainers and interpreters was to realize that being aware of intercultural differences can help you communicate successfully, act as a bridge not only between languages but also between cultures and get a better understanding of your own culture.”

“40 old and new employees, managing directors, department heads, team leaders, engineers, project managers, secretaries, controllers, fitters, clerks were formed into a highly motivated team by Ms. Kostadinowa, which, strengthened as a community, went out of the workshop to the new challenges.”

“With a lot of commitment, classic and unconventional training methods, she understood how to sensitize the view of the colleagues in our workshop “Team Building through Feedback”. For teachers, receiving personal feedback from a group of colleagues is an extraordinary situation. She mastered this with her professional moderation and a lot of sensitivity and led the workshop to a “tangible” result in the form of self-developed feedback rules. The result will support the colleagues in the department in their further work.”

“Thanks to her biographical and academic skills, Ms. Kostadinowa was particularly successful in the “Intercultural Competence” seminar. Her perfect multilingualism is an invaluable help. Added to this is her ability to motivate with a great deal of creativity and to bring group members with sometimes very different requirements together into a productive group of learners through her lively and powerful personality.”

“Thanks to her bicultural background and her first-hand experience with the peculiarities of the cultures in the English-speaking world, Swetlana helped us develop our understanding for other cultures. What was extremely useful to us as trainers and interpreters was to realize that being aware of intercultural differences can help you communicate successfully, act as a bridge not only between languages but also between cultures and get a better understanding of your own culture.”

“The reason for our mediation with Ms. Kostadinowa was a profound conflict. I went into mediation with little hope because I knew how deadlocked our situation was and I couldn’t imagine a way out of it. I found the warm and at the same time systemic approach to be very consistent, characterized by mindfulness, respect and genuine interest. Real encounters took place in the protected space, which helped to deal with each other more carefully in everyday life. Very sensitive coaching in a life crisis. Very helpful support and creative solutions. Thanks!”

“Ms. Kostadinowa helped our family reconnect after a long-standing intergenerational family conflict. Ms. Kostadinowa conducted the difficult and emotional discussions in a very clearly structured and benevolent manner. Her temperamental and at the same time attentive and prudent nature created an atmosphere in which every member of our family was given the necessary space to open up. Ms. Kostadinowa supported us in the mediation not only in understanding the other person better, but even in understanding herself. Thanks to Ms. Kostadinowa, my family has made a big step forward.”

“Since the participants, with one exception, were French native speakers and Africans from francophone countries, Ms. Kostadinowa-Rohde prepared and conducted the entire workshop in French. The editors were very grateful to her for this.

In addition to her very good knowledge of French, Ms. Kostadinowa-Rohde benefited from her extensive intercultural competence in this culturally very mixed editorial office. She responded individually to the concerns of participants and was able to draw on experiences in the African context. In this context, it was particularly noticeable how she won over participants through humor.

Her clear and structured manner helped to keep coming back to the actual goals of the workshop. Nevertheless, emerging problems or concerns were not neglected.”

“Working with Ms. Kostadinowa was an extremely positive experience. It leads to the recognition of strengths and weaknesses in a structured way and shows opportunities to work on them positively. She is also always open to spontaneous objections and incorporates these sensibly into the development of possible solutions. I have now successfully integrated many approaches into my everyday life and work.”

“Before I started my coaching sessions with Swetlana I was very dismissive of coaching as a soft tool used by management to place their staff by just going through the motions and not actually implementing development or change. But all of these preconceived beliefs have changed now. Svetlana has a wide range of experience and skills that allow her to move the person being coached through a process of finding a resolution to a problem without feeling it as though she is leading the process.”