"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
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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.
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 and teaching engagements
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04/2022 "Sustainable personal passion, a key to future leadership". Nordic Business Forum's semifinals.
12/2021. "Happiness and leadership". Global Happy Café.
11/2020. Panelist at the National Society of Leadership and Success Summit.
02/2020 "Her leadership". Women's leadership workshop. London Business School
05/2019 Why leaders should take their hobbies seriously. TEDx London Business School
02/2019 Lecturer, "Corporate governance and leadership", TBS Business School
01/2019 Leadership in Fintech. Guest lecturer, Toulouse School of Management
10/2019 "Play can Pay" leadership research roadshow, tour of CFA societies in CEE
09/2018 Keynote speaker, "Play can Pay": Warsaw Stock Exchange, Poland
05/2018 Lecturer, Masterclass in Leadership, Porto Business School, Portugal
05/2018 Lecturer, “Corporate governance and leadership”, University of Porto, Portugal
04/2018 Guest lecturer, “Business Ethics”, Menlo College, California, USA
11/2017 Guest lecturer, “Introduction to Fintech”, TBS Business School – London campus, UK
06/2017 Keynote speaker, COFACE Group International Management Conference
12/2021. "Happiness and leadership". Global Happy Café.
11/2020. Panelist at the National Society of Leadership and Success Summit.
02/2020 "Her leadership". Women's leadership workshop. London Business School
05/2019 Why leaders should take their hobbies seriously. TEDx London Business School
02/2019 Lecturer, "Corporate governance and leadership", TBS Business School
01/2019 Leadership in Fintech. Guest lecturer, Toulouse School of Management
10/2019 "Play can Pay" leadership research roadshow, tour of CFA societies in CEE
09/2018 Keynote speaker, "Play can Pay": Warsaw Stock Exchange, Poland
05/2018 Lecturer, Masterclass in Leadership, Porto Business School, Portugal
05/2018 Lecturer, “Corporate governance and leadership”, University of Porto, Portugal
04/2018 Guest lecturer, “Business Ethics”, Menlo College, California, USA
11/2017 Guest lecturer, “Introduction to Fintech”, TBS Business School – London campus, UK
06/2017 Keynote speaker, COFACE Group International Management Conference
Media kit
Official Bio:
Emilia Bunea is a leadership scholar and educator.
Having spent nearly two decades in the C-suite, as CFO and later CEO in the financial services industry, she is particularly interested in bridging academic and practitioner perspectives on leadership. Emilia 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 holds an executive MBA from the University of Washington, Seattle, she is an alumna of the London Business School’s Senior Executive Program and a CFA charterholder. She is currently on the supervisory boards of an asset management company and of a retail company.
For her PhD dissertation at VU University in Amsterdam she focuses on the subject of leaders’ passionate hobbies (formally known as “serious leisure”) and interviewed numerous CEOs of major corporations.
Emilia’s research has been featured on Harvard Business Review’s website and nominated for an Academy of Management award.
Emilia is an inspiring speaker both for executive and for wider audiences. Her recent TEDx talk at London Business School, “Why leaders should take their leisure seriously”, has received wide acclaim.
She is an enthusiastic marathon runner and has two daughters she’s extremely proud of.
Emilia Bunea is a leadership scholar and educator.
Having spent nearly two decades in the C-suite, as CFO and later CEO in the financial services industry, she is particularly interested in bridging academic and practitioner perspectives on leadership. Emilia 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 holds an executive MBA from the University of Washington, Seattle, she is an alumna of the London Business School’s Senior Executive Program and a CFA charterholder. She is currently on the supervisory boards of an asset management company and of a retail company.
For her PhD dissertation at VU University in Amsterdam she focuses on the subject of leaders’ passionate hobbies (formally known as “serious leisure”) and interviewed numerous CEOs of major corporations.
Emilia’s research has been featured on Harvard Business Review’s website and nominated for an Academy of Management award.
Emilia is an inspiring speaker both for executive and for wider audiences. Her recent TEDx talk at London Business School, “Why leaders should take their leisure seriously”, has received wide acclaim.
She is an enthusiastic marathon runner and has two daughters she’s extremely proud of.
Key topics
- Leadership development for senior leaders
- Leadership development for finance leaders
- "Leisureship": serious leisure and leadership
- Leadership development for women leaders
- Leadership and change
- Diversity
- Ethics in leadership