"An engaging, motivational, passionate, self-confident and inspiring speaker fully in control of her audience."
Dirk Ostijn, Regional CEO Metlife Europe
Dirk Ostijn, Regional CEO Metlife Europe
"A few months after, I hear many of our leaders refer to Emilia’s session."
Pierre Bevierre, Group HR Director, Coface
Pierre Bevierre, Group HR Director, Coface
"Emilia's rare combination of C-suite experience and academic knowledge of the leadership field makes a visible difference from the start. For leadership development seen through an unexpected lens, Emilia is your go-to expert."
Leor Distenfeld, Executive Director, Meltwater
Is Emilia the speaker you are looking for?
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Strong leadership experience. Emilia Bunea is a former corporate CEO with 20 years in the C-suite with organizations such as ING and Metlife, now a leadership researcher at VU University, Amsterdam. She is one of the very few leadership researchers and speakers who actually have solid leadership experience.
Innovation. As the CEO of Ed.movie, Emilia is constantly working to innovate in the education field. In 2021 she produced "Crossroads Life", https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15548102/ the world's first "cinematic management case" film that received numerous film awards.
Do you have a hard-skills, “show-me-the-money” audience? Emilia has a strong finance background, including the CFA designation, so she can talk of emotion and identity to even |
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the most numbers-driven audiences: she is one of them. Similarly, her experience with multi-country change programmes and IPOs means she can talk about leadership and change from an insider's vantage point, but using academic research knowledge and tools.
Inspiration. Emilia is an engaging speaker: she cares about her audience and looks at any subject from their shoes. She has delivered talks on leadership, diversity, ethics in management and on her research subject, that she pursues with a passion: the power of personal passion as a leadership booster. As an undeterred marathon runner, she practices what she preaches.
Past speaking engagements
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03/2024 Humor for leaders. Best Traineeship Netherlands
10/2023 Developing your humor skills: What leaders need to know". Leadership Summit Portugal 04/2022 "Sustainable personal passion, a key to future leadership". Nordic Business Forum 12/2021. "Happiness and leadership". Global Happy Café. 05/2019 Why leaders should take their leisure seriously. TEDx London Business School 10/2019 "Play can Pay" leadership research roadshow, tour of CFA societies in CEE |
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Media kit
Official Bio:
Emilia Bunea is a leadership lecturer at VU University Amsterdam. She is the CEO of Ed.movie, a California-based edutainment company dedicated to making education irresistible.
Having spent nearly two decades in the C-suite, as CFO and later CEO in the financial services industry, Emilia is particularly interested in bridging academic and practitioner perspectives on leadership. She was CEO of Metlife Romania (an operation with 2 million customers) from 2014 to 2017, CFO of ING Insurance Europe (overseeing a $20bn balance sheet) from 2010 to 2014 and held other CEO and CFO positions prior to that. She received her PhD in management from VU University Amsterdam and she holds an executive MBA from the University of Washington, Seattle. She is also an alumna of the London Business School’s Senior Executive Program and a CFA charterholder. She currently serves on the supervisory boards of an asset management company.
Dr. Bunea has a PhD in management from VU University Amsterdam. Her research has been published in academic journals such as Human Resource Management Review and Frontiers in Psychology and nominated for an Academy of Management award. She blogs about leadership in Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/manage-is-human
Emilia is an inspiring speaker both for executive and for wider audiences. Her TEDx talk at London Business School, “Why leaders should take their leisure seriously”, has recently passed the 1 million views mark.
She is an enthusiastic marathon runner and has two daughters she’s extremely proud of. She is probably going to stay an eternal standup comedy debutante.
Emilia Bunea is a leadership lecturer at VU University Amsterdam. She is the CEO of Ed.movie, a California-based edutainment company dedicated to making education irresistible.
Having spent nearly two decades in the C-suite, as CFO and later CEO in the financial services industry, Emilia is particularly interested in bridging academic and practitioner perspectives on leadership. She was CEO of Metlife Romania (an operation with 2 million customers) from 2014 to 2017, CFO of ING Insurance Europe (overseeing a $20bn balance sheet) from 2010 to 2014 and held other CEO and CFO positions prior to that. She received her PhD in management from VU University Amsterdam and she holds an executive MBA from the University of Washington, Seattle. She is also an alumna of the London Business School’s Senior Executive Program and a CFA charterholder. She currently serves on the supervisory boards of an asset management company.
Dr. Bunea has a PhD in management from VU University Amsterdam. Her research has been published in academic journals such as Human Resource Management Review and Frontiers in Psychology and nominated for an Academy of Management award. She blogs about leadership in Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/manage-is-human
Emilia is an inspiring speaker both for executive and for wider audiences. Her TEDx talk at London Business School, “Why leaders should take their leisure seriously”, has recently passed the 1 million views mark.
She is an enthusiastic marathon runner and has two daughters she’s extremely proud of. She is probably going to stay an eternal standup comedy debutante.
Key topics
- Humor for leaders
- Sustainable passion and leadership
- Leadership for finance leaders
- Leadership for women leaders