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Welcome to Your Power Within, `the Female Leadership Program, Automotive and tech leaders trust for real behavioral change.`

A 6-Week Evidence-Based Leadership Program

You deliver more than anyone else.

It is time to take the space you deserve.

Next Cohort

July 2026

Format

Online – 14th July, 5pm CET

Spots Remaining

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Investment: €500 per participant · Corporate group rate: €3,000 for 6 participants

Language: English only — to connect women worldwide

Email-Contact: hi@lu.coach | founder_andybalbus@boost-your-growth.com

Lucica Ibanescu (ICF ACC) · Andy Balbus (ICF PCC) · BYG Consulting

Before You Read Another Line.

Check If Any of These Feel Uncomfortably Familiar.

Your projects are on track, your expertise is unassailable. And still — you feel unheard in the meetings that matter most.
Often, you say yes when you mean no. Consequently, you take on more work, over-explain yourself, and make yourself smaller — and nobody outside you even notices.
Maybe the inner critic is louder than your actual results. Indeed, imposter syndrome and perfectionism are consuming your mental bandwidth — and quietly blocking your next promotion.
Or you are one step from burnout. Or you are quietly wondering whether the price of ambition is simply too high.

Indeed, if two or more feel familiar: this program was built for you. Not for a fictional ideal participant — For the woman who is already excellent — and who is finally ready to stop fighting invisible barriers alone.

OUR COMMITMENT

We do not teach you how to fit in. We show you how to break through.

Your Power Within is not a motivational seminar. It is a structured, 6-week evidence-based intervention grounded in Positive Intelligence® and strict ICF coaching standards.

Specifically, we identify the invisible organizational roadblocks that are sabotaging your performance — and we eliminate them with the same precision you would apply to a critical constraint on the assembly line.

And we know this world. Not from textbooks. From decades inside the global automotive and tech matrix. Indeed, both of us have been the person in your position. And we built this program from that lived reality — not from a coaching manual.

Four Pillars. Six Weeks.

A Permanent Shift That Holds.

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Saboteurs Understood

Specifically, we identify the inner patterns — perfectionism, imposter syndrome, hyper-rationality — that run your decisions on autopilot. Then, we turn them from obstacles into allies.

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Decisions Made Consciously

Here, we move you from reactive stress responses to strategic clarity. Consequently, you stop the mental spiral and make decisions from your core — not from cortisol.

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Boundaries Without Guilt

You say “No” to what is not yours — professionally, clearly, without apology or over-explanation. Furthermore, you protect your energy without damaging a single relationship.

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Confidence Built In

Furthermore, you leverage your existing strengths and install new practices that build self-trust from the inside out — so your executive presence shows up consistently, even in the hardest rooms.

THE ROADMAP

Six weeks. Three modules. One permanent shift.

Indeed, no abstract consulting jargon. Every module translates directly into behavioral change by Monday morning of the following week.

WEEKS 1 & 2 · MODULE 1

Discover Your Core

Your Inner Compass — we uncover the values driving your decisions and move you from autopilot to intentional leadership without fear.
Turn Critics Into Allies — your self-sabotaging inner dialogue will no longer undermine your confidence or your next promotion.

By Monday: You instantly recognise stress reactions and stop the mental spiral before it takes hold.

WEEKS 3 & 4 · MODULE 2

Express Your Authentic Self

The Emotions Lab — we train you to leverage emotions, not suppress them. Act, don’t react. Your emotions become data, not liability.
Boundaries as Self-Care — you protect your energy without guilt, over-explaining, or the fear of being labelled ‘difficult.’

By Monday: You say “No” professionally — and you own it without a single apology.

WEEKS 5 & 6 · MODULE 3

Stay Grounded in Confidence

Confidence from Inside Out — you leverage your existing strengths and install practices that train your self-trust muscle.
Design Your Future — you craft a clear vision of your next chapter and steer your own ship with full intentionality.

By Monday: You position your ideas so they are heard in meetings — and attributed to you.

WHAT IS INCLUDED

6 Live Group Sessions

120 minutes each. Maximum 8 participants. Both coaches in every session. No substitutes.

2 Private 1:1 Sessions

Confidential space for internal politics, salary negotiations, specific conflicts — the conversations that cannot happen in a group.

Practical Assignments

Short, high-impact — designed to deepen practice between sessions, not add to your workload.

Private Community

A global group of ambitious women who support each other beyond the 6 weeks.

Cumulative Behavioral Evolution: Instead of static assessments, we use a progressive journaling framework. Participants document their journey across four dimensions—values, saboteurs, emotions, and boundaries—culminating in a personal “Constitution.” This provides tangible, documented evidence of behavioral maturity and measurable self-governance. Relevant for HR Directors who need to evidence ROI.

*The program is held in English only — to connect women across the DE–SK–IN matrix and beyond.

AFTER 6 WEEKS

This is not an endpoint. It is your launchpad.

Your Power Within

Our alumni take this into their work, their families, their negotiations — and report a measurable increase in quality of life and professional impact.

✓ Specifically, you will gain a permanent perspective shift where emotions and old habits no longer control your professional reactions.

✓ Furthermore, managing your energy strategically becomes your new standard, allowing you to say “No” assertively.

✓ Clear boundaries will protect your relationships without you having to shrink to fit others’ expectations.

✓ As a result, you gain absolute clarity on your next steps and priorities, both at home and in the matrix.

✓ Ultimately, this journey serves as your launchpad into a leadership style that is powerful, calm, and sustainable.

VERIFIED OUTCOMES

Our alumni speak for the program.

Each session was truly impactful. The insights and takeaways empowered me through introspection to lead with more clarity. It was the structured space I had been missing for years.

Priti Shahane
Manager Training Academy, Brose Group · Pune, India

Direct communication with my team improved immediately after the first two modules. I learned to set professional boundaries and present them clearly — without apology and without losing a single relationship.

Michaela
Project Manager, International Automotive OEM · Slovakia

If you want to deepen your self-awareness in a safe, supportive space surrounded by powerful women and a can-do mindset — this is it. You will find the clarity and the courage to take your next real step.

Ioana Diaconescu
Program Alumna

→ Reserve your spot for the next cohort: https://calendar.app.google/oHahvA3ouuLXG1Zz9

YOUR SPARRING PARTNERS

Two perspectives. One goal. Decades of industrial reality.

Neither of us knows the global matrix from textbooks. We know it from our own leadership practice. This program is our joint creation — and we always facilitate it together, exclusively.

ICF ACC · Executive Coach & Co-Creator
Lucica Ibanescu

Twenty years inside the global IT corporate world — as the person who was often the only woman in the room, who absorbed the invisible pressure without showing it, and who built a successful international career while fighting barriers that had no official name. Specifically, Lucica does not teach from theory. Instead, she teaches from the exact experience your participants are living right now.
And her mission is to dismantle the systemic barriers and toxic perfectionism that keep brilliant women small — and to show them how to exert influence even without formal authority. “Fit in and stand out, authentically. Time to stop shrinking to fit others’ expectations — and live up to your own.”
→ Lucica Ibanescu: http://www.lu.coach

ICF PCC · BYG Automotive Leadership
Andy Balbus

Specifically, 25+ years in the automotive industry. 20 in direct leadership. Former Director of Electronics at Brose — building R&D departments from scratch in Slovakia and India, managing cross-cultural teams across Germany, Slovakia, India, China, Mexico and beyond.
And Andy has watched talented women be overlooked in boardrooms — not for lack of substance, but for not claiming the space that was rightfully theirs. Furthermore, as a competitive dancer, he learned the precise mechanics of asserting presence against physical and hierarchical superiority. And he now translates the unwritten rules of the traditional automotive matrix into tools that give women the language, the authority, and the confidence to walk into the hardest room and be heard. “Leadership does not need titles. It starts within you — and it does not stop at your job title or your family.”
→ Andy Balbus: https://boost-your-growth.com/executive-coaching-automotive-leaders/

Strategic Solutions: The Female Leadership Program Automotive for your Organisation

The Business Case.
Three Roles. Three Returns.
One Program That Delivers All of Them.

YPW Business Case more than Coaching — Your Benefit of Your Power Within

For HR Directors & CHROs

788%

Average ROI of ICF-standard executive coaching

Source: ICF Global Coaching Client Study

40%

Faster decisions in teams with psychological safety and clear boundaries

Source: Harvard Business Review / Amy Edmondson

1.5–2×

Annual salary cost when a senior female engineer exits. Consequently, this program prevents the exit.

Conservative industry estimate

Documented retention benefits for HR reporting:

Reduced voluntary turnover among high-performing female engineers in the DE–SK–IN network.
Measurably faster onboarding of women into senior roles after the program.
Lower cost-per-hire caused by preventable attrition in technical departments.
Higher engagement scores in cross-functional and matrix project teams.
Reduced sick-leave frequency correlated with boundary erosion and pre-burnout symptoms.
Verifiable behavioral change tracked via pre/post impact measurement included in the program.
Alignment with ESG, DEI, and corporate sustainability reporting objectives.
Program investment is tax-deductible as professional development in most EU jurisdictions.

→ Book a confidential strategy session: https://calendar.app.google/oHahvA3ouuLXG1Zz9

For Female Leaders & High Potentials

Specifically, you end the imposter syndrome loop that keeps your best decisions stuck in self-doubt.
And you stop the perfectionism trap that costs you hours of invisible rework every week.
Consequently, you set boundaries that protect your energy without damaging any relationship.
You make decisions from strategic clarity instead of cortisol-driven reactivity.
As a result, your ideas are heard in meetings — and attributed to you, not someone else.
You develop a clear vision of your next career chapter and know exactly how to move toward it.
Furthermore, your communication becomes direct, confident, and free of over-explanation.
And your executive presence shows up consistently — not just on the days when everything goes right.
The change extends beyond work: better relationships, more energy, higher quality of life.

→ Reserve your spot: https://calendar.app.google/oHahvA3ouuLXG1Zz9

For Company Owners & CEOs

Specifically, when your female leaders in Pune, Bratislava, or Munich are operating below their strategic potential — because of invisible confidence constraints, boundary erosion, or imposter-driven over-delivery — the cost shows up as missed deadlines, duplicated work, and SOP handover failure. Specifically, these frictions represent a direct organisational risk.

The Business Case for Owners:

Full utilisation of strategic potential in your DE–SK–IN leadership network.
Reduced technical risk through diverse decision-making perspectives at senior level.
SOP quality assurance: female leaders with clear boundaries produce fewer misaligned handovers.
Lower dependency on individual contributors: boundaries and delegation skills reduce single-point-of-failure risk.
Faster cross-location alignment between DE HQ and SK/IN hubs when female project leads communicate with authority.
Higher retention rate for your top female talent — reducing the 1.5–2× salary replacement cost per exit.
Stronger succession planning: the program directly develops your next generation of senior female leaders.

→ Book a confidential strategy session: https://calendar.app.google/oHahvA3ouuLXG1Zz9

INVESTMENT & OUR SHARED MISSION

High-level transformation. Accessible on purpose.

Generally, executive leadership programmes of this depth and dual-coach intensity require a four-figure investment. Corporate providers in the automotive and tech sector typically charge €2,000 to €4,000 per participant for comparable formats. However, Lucica and I have made a conscious decision to follow a different path. Specifically, we want to ensure that high-level transformation reaches the women who need it most — regardless of whether their employer is covering the cost.

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THE STANDARD INVESTMENT · PRIVATE PARTICIPANTS
€500 fair-market value

Indeed, €500 is the standard fair-market investment for private participants. Furthermore, this amount reflects the 25+ years of industrial DNA, the ICF-certified psychological expertise, and the dual-coach format we bring to every single session. Consequently, by choosing this level, you not only invest in your own growth — you also support the sustainability of this global community of ambitious women.
WHAT IS INCLUDED
📌6 live group coaching sessions (120 min each, max. 8 participants)
📌2 private 1:1 executive coaching sessions
📌Practical between-session assignments
📌Access to the private online community group
📌Dual facilitation by Andy Balbus & Lucica Ibanescu — every session
📌Pre & post-impact measurement — documented, named evidence of your transformation
📌All sessions in English — the language of the global automotive and tech matrix

Next cohort: see Intro-Area of this Page · Online · New cohort every quarter Contact: hi@lu.coach · founder_andybalbus@boost-your-growth.com

Our Variable Pricing Principle

Nevertheless, we strongly believe that financial constraints should never be a barrier to leadership growth. Therefore, we offer a Sliding Scale model — based on personal integrity and honest self-assessment.

Specifically, if you are currently navigating a difficult financial situation, a career transition, or a period of personal uncertainty, you can adjust your investment down to a minimum of €100. Ultimately, only you know what this transformation is worth to you — and what your current circumstances genuinely allow. This is not a discount. It is a deliberate act of mission.

INVESTMENT INTO YOUR TEAM

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FOR ORGANISATIONS & HR DIRECTORS
€3,000 for 6 participants

In fact, for companies looking to secure their female talent pipeline, we offer a dedicated Corporate Group Rate. Specifically, a package for 6 participants is available at €3,000 — a fixed, predictable investment that equals just €500 per leader / talent.
As a result, you receive a highly efficient, evidence-based retention tool for your high-potentials at a fraction of the cost of a comparable corporate leadership programme. Furthermore, every inhouse cohort is individually adapted to your talent review cycles and operational challenges in the DE-SK-IN matrix.

📌Book a Confidential Strategy Session: founder_andybalbus@boost-your-growth.com

SELF-SELECTION TOOL

Your Power Within

Where are you losing the most energy right now?

4 questions. Honest answers. Your personal picture of what is really costing you in your leadership role — and what Your Power Within concretely changes.

Question 1 of 4

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Honest answers to real concerns.

These 10 questions are designed to give you complete clarity — about the program, furthermore, about your fit, and for sure, about whether now is the right time. Read them all. Specifically, by the end you will know whether to act or wait.

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We designed the program specifically for that resistance — and consequently it has become our single strongest differentiator. Every module is framed in language that technically rigorous professionals respect: behavioral diagnostics, measurable outcomes, structural frameworks. Specifically, this is a clinical intervention built to solve operational constraints, not a wellness retreat. The methodology draws from Positive Intelligence®, behavioural psychology, and two decades of lived industrial leadership experience. Moreover, the participants who are initially the most sceptical consistently become our strongest alumni advocates. In fact, their transformation is typically the deepest — because they arrive with the highest standards for proof.

02

If you are at 120%, you are exactly who this programme is built for. In fact, the goal is not to add more to your plate — it is to structurally reduce your cognitive load. Specifically, by week 3 you will apply the 80/20 boundary method that eliminates the non-essential tasks currently draining your capacity. As a result, participants consistently report that they reclaim significantly more time than they invest. The weekly commitment is approximately 2 hours: one 90-minute group session plus a short, focused assignment. Furthermore, the private 1:1 sessions are scheduled at times that fit your calendar. Therefore, this programme does not compete with your work — it makes your work sustainable.

03

Yes — and in fact, senior leaders consistently report the fastest and most measurable shifts. This is because the invisible constraints — toxic perfectionism, boundary erosion, the pressure to over-deliver and under-claim — tend to intensify under executive-level pressure, not diminish. Consequently, what worked to get you to your current position may be actively limiting your next step. Moreover, senior leaders already have the organisational standing to implement structural changes immediately upon learning them. As a result, the programme’s impact is amplified rather than diluted at this level. Specifically, participants in Director and VP roles report the most profound shifts in strategic decision-making and boardroom presence.

04

Positive Intelligence® (PQ) is a research-backed framework developed by Shirzad Chamine, based on neuroscience, positive psychology, and cognitive behavioural science. Specifically, it identifies the mental “Saboteurs” — internal thought patterns such as the Judge, the Perfectionist, the Pleaser, and the Hyper-Achiever — that undermine performance under pressure. Furthermore, it builds the “Sage” mental muscles: empathy, curiosity, creativity, and decisive action. Consequently, PQ is not a motivational concept but a measurable mental fitness practice. In fact, participants complete a validated PQ assessment at the start of the programme to identify their specific saboteur profile. As a result, every coaching conversation is personalised to the actual internal patterns that are costing them performance — not generic leadership theory.

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This is a deliberate and strategic decision — not a logistical convenience. Specifically, the corporate reality of global OEMs and tech organisations is English, particularly in the Germany–Slovakia–India triangle that defines the matrix environment of our participants. Therefore, if you want to steer strategic decisions from Munich to Bratislava to Pune, you must operate with confidence in the corporate language. Furthermore, this programme functions as a psychologically safe training ground for exactly that environment: you practice assertive communication, boundary-setting, and Executive Presence in English before you take them into the real boardroom. Consequently, participants from DACH organisations consistently report that the English environment was initially uncomfortable — and ultimately one of the most valuable aspects of the programme.

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Absolute confidentiality is the non-negotiable foundation of this programme. Specifically, what is shared within the group sessions stays within the group — all participants explicitly commit to this at the outset. Furthermore, the two private 1:1 Executive Coaching sessions are designed precisely for topics that cannot and should not be raised in a group setting: internal politics, salary negotiations, specific conflicts with named individuals, or sensitive organisational dynamics. Consequently, you always have a fully private channel for the most personal dimensions of your development. Moreover, neither coach will share participant identities, company affiliations, or session content with any third party under any circumstances — including your employer, even in the case of a corporate-sponsored cohort.

07

Indeed, we do not believe in rigid, standardized tests that often fail to capture the deep nuance of leadership evolution. Instead, we focus on a highly personalized and reflective transformation process that mirrors your actual daily reality.

Specifically, during our first session together, we ask you to clearly articulate your expectations and defining goals for the journey ahead. Furthermore, you will maintain a personal “Power Journal” that grows session by session as you apply new strategies. Consequently, this journal becomes your tangible evidence of behavioral change and shifts in mindset.

Finally, we invite you to a dedicated reflection and feedback session at the conclusion of the program. During this conversation, we ensure you identify and internalize your specific “Wins and Gains.” Moreover, we help you bridge the gap between your initial expectations and your final results. Ultimately, you leave the program with a clear, documented roadmap of your own evolution, ensuring that your transformation is not just a feeling, but a permanent upgrade to your leadership DNA.

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This concern is shared by a significant proportion of our participants — specifically those with the highest professional standards. And specifically, they are often the ones who gain the most. Here is why: the group size is capped at 8 participants, all of whom are peers in comparable career situations. Furthermore, you are never required to disclose more than you choose.

The group becomes a source of normalisation — realising that the patterns you considered private weaknesses are in fact shared, structural challenges faced by ambitious women across the global matrix. Consequently, many participants describe the group experience as the most unexpectedly powerful element of the programme. Moreover, the two private 1:1 sessions exist precisely for everything that requires a fully confidential space.

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An on-site-Inhouse cohort is individually designed — specifically adapted to your talent review cycles, your organisational language, and the matrix challenges your female leaders face in your specific DE-SK-IN configuration. Consequently, there is no standard on-site-inhouse price, because there is no standard inhouse programme.

Furthermore, every corporate engagement begins with a confidential Strategy Session in which we map your talent retention challenges, define the cohort composition, and agree on measurable success criteria together. As a result, you receive a programme that is directly tied to your operational reality — not a generic leadership course rebranded for your logo. Specifically, inhouse programmes can be run quarterly, integrated into your talent review cycle, or structured as a pipeline initiative for high-potential identification. Therefore, contact us to schedule a Strategy Session: founder_andybalbus@boost-your-growth.com

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The honest answer: if you have read this far, the timing is almost certainly right. Specifically, the women who benefit most are not in a comfortable phase of their career — they are in a friction phase. They are either overextended, frustrated by invisible barriers, sensing the approach of burnout, or standing at a career crossroads.

Furthermore, waiting for a “better” moment typically means waiting until the cost of not changing becomes undeniable. Consequently, the most common feedback we receive from alumni is: “I wish I had done this two years earlier.” That said, this programme requires genuine commitment. Therefore, if you are in acute crisis, if you are about to change jobs, or if you cannot dedicate 2 hours per week for 6 weeks, it is more respectful to join the next cohort. New cohorts start every quarter. Join the waiting list at hi@lu.coach and we will be in touch as soon as the next round opens.

You Already Have Everything You Need.
This Program Removes What Is in the Way.

New cohorts run every quarter. Register for the next one or join the waiting list and we will be in touch with everything you need.

And you have been delivering at this level for a while. Indeed, the excellence is not in question. What is in question is whether the invisible barriers — the perfectionism, the imposter spiral, the boundaries you do not hold — are going to keep costing you another year of promotion, recognition, and energy.

Six weeks, eight women, two coaches who have been exactly where you are. And a methodology that has been producing measurable change in the hardest organizational environments on the planet.

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