galina bunkova
Coach
Galina is a leadership development coach with prior experience as corporate lawyer.
She coaches busy professionals who want to grow in their careers and develop as inspiring leaders, while maintaining balanced lives. Galina incorporates in her coaching practice insights gained during her 15+ years experience as an M&A and commercial lawyer and 8+ years in senior management at PwC. There Galina managed complex international projects in constantly changing regulatory environment. This gave her valuable experience in working with companies from various industries and with professionals with different personalities and cultural backgrounds. Galina also has experienced first-hand the challenges that professionals at different career stages face in dynamic, competitive and demanding international firms and businesses.
Galina’s purpose as a coach is to help her clients build successful careers and joyful lives that are led by conscious choices rather than by circumstances. She specializes in strengthening clients’ emotional intelligence competencies. This helps them become more aware of themselves, understand and manage themselves and others better, build effective relationships and become more balanced, confident and resilient.
Galina’s approach to coaching is based on neuroscience research and combines concepts and tools from Co-Active® Coaching, Conscious Business Coaching, Positive Intelligence and Mental Fitness Coaching, the Intentional Change Theory, Emotional Intelligence studies, Narrative Coaching and Positive Psychology. Galina holds a Professional Certified Coach credential by the International Coaching Federation.
Her coaching style is described by clients as intuitive, empathetic, insightful and creative.
Galina is most grateful for her small (and a bit crazy) but very supportive family, where they mix and combine two cultures and speak three languages at the table. She can easily get lost in space and time when exploring – new places, cultures, tastes, flavours, nature and art.
Qualifications
2023 The Power of Embodied Transformation – Coaches Rising
2021 Professional Certified Coach (PCC) – International Coaching Federation
2021 Mental Fitness Advanced Training – Positive Intelligence
2021 Co-Active® Coach – Co-Active Training Institute
2020 Certified Conscious Business Coach – BetterUp
2019 Narrative Coach Enhanced Practitioner – WBECS
2019 Group Coaching Essentials – Potentials Realized
2018 Associate Certified Coach (ACC) – International Coaching Federation
2015 Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence – Case Western Reserve University
2015 Positive Psychology – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2015 Certified Professional Coach – World Coach Institute
2000-2001 Postgraduate diploma in International Intellectual Property Law - Queen Mary University of London
1993-1998 LL.M | Master’s degree in International Law and International Relations - Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
Testimonials
“Working with Galina continues to open my mind to new perspectives and a new world of opportunities. A world where I embrace myself for who I am along with my strengths and my areas for improvement; a zen world where I can live better in harmony with myself, while I continue developing a growth mindset. Galina’sguidance and gentle challenge are invaluable in helping me become more flexible, effective and resilient. This is translating extremely positively into how I manage my team and my personal life.”
“Galina helped me identify my mental blocks, acknowledge them and work on them. I felt I had a listening ear just for myself and she really made me feel at ease even when addressing tough matters. Galina has a lot of empathy. I would describe my experience with her as someone taking you by the hand, but you are the one taking the steps.”