Speaker
Cristina Popa
Founder & CEO of controlSHIFT
Cristina Popa is defined by her entrepreneurial spirit and profound passion for business psychology. With a career spanning 17 years, she has driven substantial changes across diverse industries, from startups to top publicly traded corporations.
Cristina founded controlSHIFT in 2024, reflecting her drive for cultural, organizational, and technological shifts. As CEO of contractuo, she led the company from its beta phase to market success, crafting a go-to-market strategy that spurred growth. Since 2017, as a partner at the award-winning management consulting firm consistency, Cristina has been crucial in scaling the company, expanding the business model, and founding new ventures.
Specializing in leadership development and strategic consulting across Utilities, Manufacturing, and Technology, Cristina focuses on energy transitions, circular economy, organizational changes, and digital transformation.
With nearly two decades of industry experience, her keen sense of introducing contemporary way’s of leading and impactful new technologies into large corporations, understanding the opportunities and challenges, makes Cristina a dynamic force in driving organizational and industry-wide transformations. She is dedicated to training, coaching, and consulting industry leaders to foster organizational maturity and drive sustainable growth.
SessionS
Moderator Panel Discussion: The Lean Leader's Compass: Integrating Insights, Igniting Action
Lean Leader Summit 2025
This capstone panel will synthesize the powerful insights gained and chart your course for impactful leadership. Our distinguished panel of Lean frontrunners will share how they personally navigate the complexities of modern leadership – blending timeless Lean principles with new demands.
Discover how they:
- Cultivate psychological safety and empower teams
- Integrate digital tools and AI insights
- Drive results and successful transformations
- Sustain momentum and good architectures that thrives amidst change
This interactive session is offering practical wisdom and personal stories. Bring your questions and leave not just inspired, but equipped with a clearer ‚Lean Leader’s Compass‘ to guide your next steps and ignite action in your organization.
The role of leaders in the age of artificial intelligence
Lean Leader Summit 2024
It takes a village to succeed with transformation. Transformation is a collective effort requiring diverse perspectives and collaboration across functions and disciplines. Often though, we approach this monumental endeavor through the narrow scope of our individual roles or perspectives, inadvertently overlooking the holistic view essential for success.
Successful transformation demands that everyone has a unified understanding of where the organization is today, where it is going in the future, and how it will get there – and how their role uniquely contributes to the outcomes. Successful digital transformation requires interdisciplinary collaboration, which leads to insights and outcomes that are greater than the sum of the parts.
In this session, we will explore the value of a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to transformation, what it looks like, and how business architecture serves as a critical enabler. Finally, we will discuss practical steps that can be taken to move these insights into action.
Company
controlSHIFT
We are here to support corporate leaders as they navigate change, enabling your organization to regain control. We find with you the sweet spot between seizing the opportunity of cultural, organizational and technological shift while you will experience how to manage the risks and fears in a controlled manner. We act like the essential keys on your keyboard - inconspicuous in the background, yet crucial for performance. Much like the "control" + "shift" key combination, we unleash our energy in close collaboration with you, crafting sustainable solutions through training, coaching, and consulting.
Cristina Popa
, controlSHIFT || contractuo
Karsten and Nane thanks again for the invite and Tanja Konrad for our Key Note and everything around it!
It was great to listen and get inspired by personalities like Romina Pyplacz geb. Medici, Sylvia Scherer, Leslie Robinet, Michael Drobnik,Tamara McMillen and Dr. Rainer Lorenz 💡
