Own Your Path to CEO!
THE CEO ELEVATION CIRCLE
Welcome to The CEO Elevation Circle—Europe’s premier career accelerator for senior women leaders on a mission to become the next CEO and change our world for the better.
IS THIS FOR YOU? APPLY NOW TO FIND OUT
Today’s challenges are global. That’s why we must elevate our regional and global leadership mindset to create more career opportunities. In The CEO Elevation Circle, we develop cross-cultural acumen and prepare to lead across borders.
To become the best version of ourselves, we meet regularly, both online and in person. We study together, exchange knowledge and experiences, and learn from one another how to become better leaders while maintaining our health, families, and sanity.
Our patented asynchronous mentoring method allows members to receive ongoing feedback, ideas, and support from the entire community. This approach offers support while providing the time and location flexibility essential for female leadership growth.
You need to see it to be it. That's why we provide our members with regular interviews and talks featuring top European women leaders: CEOs, C-Suite executives, non-executive board members, founders and CEOs, and more.
The CEO Elevation Circle is the launchpad for future women corporate CEOs and new company founders and CEOs on a mission to transform the way we do business, lead, and live for the better.
The CEO Elevation Circle is the best thing I did for myself this year. It restored my self-confidence and showed me the path forward in my career.
Our Members Work for the Following Companies
Our Mission
We are on a mission to triple the number of women CEOs in Europe by 2030 and empower them to drive the positive transformation our world needs today.
The illusion of endless growth is over. We live in a world of finite resources that we must recognize and nurture if we are to secure a future on this planet.
In this new reality, women leaders are uniquely positioned to drive lasting change. With their empathy, inclusiveness, and long-term vision, women can and must lead more frequently from the top.
Our core community value is #lovinggrowth. At The CEO Elevation Circle, we unite wise women leaders, supporting them on their journey to unlock their fullest personal and professional potential.
We believe in the transformative power of wise women leaders. Together, as a community, we uplift one another to grow as individuals, leaders, businesses, and nations across Europe.
By joining The CEO Elevation Circle, you commit to discovering, empowering, and elevating the CEO within you—so we can all thrive and succeed together.
The CEO Elevation Circle is the community we’ve long needed. Together, we can grow faster and thrive more fully than we ever could on our own.
How Exactly Will The CEO Elevation Circle Help You Grow?
We bring you a genuine, vibrant, generous, and caring pan-European community of senior women leaders, all striving to become the best versions of themselves as they grow into top leadership roles. Our community elevates your leadership mindset from local to regional and global, offering co-created opportunities you won’t find anywhere else in the market.
Pan-European mindset
Peer support
Career guidance
Mind-blowing talks
1-1 power matching
Respected role models
Career Management
Our primary goal is to help you clarify your next career step. We support you in creating a sustainable, long-term vision for both your career and life, empowering you to walk confidently on your chosen path.
Power network
Visibility
Top education
Masterminds
Co-created workshops
A hands-on leader
Growth Opportunities
We support your growth, whether within your current company, in a different company, industry, or country, or by creating and leading your own business. We help identify resources and invite you to co-create exceptional growth opportunities for yourself.
Psychological safety
Belonging
Asynchronous mentoring
Skill & tool sharing
Expert insights
Care and loving support
Pan-European Mindset
Women grow when they feel safe. In smaller European markets, we often hesitate to speak our truth or seek support due to fear of repercussions. In our pan-European community, your psychological safety is our top priority, allowing you to be yourself every step of the way.
Don’t just take our word for it... … See What Our Members Have to Say
Join the Premier Community of European Women Leaders on Track to Become the Next CEO
Our community is made up of carefully selected senior women leaders aiming to become CEOs or transition from corporate to entrepreneurship. Smart, ambitious, and driven, our members are on a mission to transform how we do business, lead, and live. Apply now to see if you’re a great fit.
What Happens When You Decide to Join Us?
When you join our community, you instantly unlock a wealth of resources designed to ignite your career and life trajectory. Here's how we help you grow in leadership, career, and life.
Community Orientation
You’ll receive both individual and group support to help you navigate our community without feeling overwhelmed. We’ll guide you in unlocking the best resources to accelerate your growth, including our community archive, video courses, and upcoming live events.
011-1 Power Matching
As soon as you join our community, you’re paired for a 1-on-1 Buddy Talk. This personalized, hand-selected match ensures a deep level of connection, intimacy, and relevance for your one-on-one calls with fellow members.
02Career Management Sprints
You’re invited to share your career goals in our dedicated career management tracks. This allows us to provide you with tailored asynchronous mentoring, peer support, and the right resources and opportunities to accelerate your career growth.
03Career Compass and Masterminds
You’ll have the opportunity to join our regular community events, where you’ll receive valuable advice, live mentoring, and peer guidance from fellow members and our founder, Cristina Muntean.
04CEO, C-Suite and Board Talks
You can look forward to joining our inspiring talks and panel discussions with exceptional role models from across Europe—women CEOs, C-Suite leaders, non-executive board members, founders, executive search experts, and leadership specialists.
05Expertise and Visibility
If you have unique expertise to share with our community, we may arrange an expert talk with you that can be recorded for the community’s benefit. Additionally, we are committed to supporting your efforts to enhance your public visibility on LinkedIn and beyond.
06Prizes and Significant Member Discounts
Throughout your membership, you’ll enjoy significant member discounts on all services within the VORNICA® people and organization development ecosystem. You’ll also have the chance to join raffles and win exceptional prizes to boost your learning and career growth.
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See what our members have to say
This is the group of women I have been looking for! The CEO Elevation Circle is a community of highly engaged and inspiring women who drive change in their private and professional lives. Supportive and generous in sharing their opinions, expertise and passion to grow. I’m totally satisfied and amazed how Cristina and Magda manage all our diverse activities.
The community is a safe place to grow, learn and network. I received great advice from Cristina and a few other community members I interacted with. The community brings opportunities to collaborate and quality updates about workplace trends.
This community makes you feel like you belong, you have a place, you can get personal advice and learn a lot from each other. I know I could leave my job and still have those people there supporting me and I would never feel lost.
The CEO Elevation Circle is a place where you feel supported and truly listened to. What I value the most is the great information, the exchanges with wonderful women, the live calls and conferences, and our buddy talks. This is extremely valuable for most of us.
Cristina describes the community as a bitch-free zone, which I would totally use in the description here. I also appreciate a space with strong women and strong femininity, as opposed to copying masculinity to be strong or complaining. That’s what I value most, but it’s not the only thing. The content and professional development far superseded my expectations.
Being in the same room with powerful women makes things happen. It’s so good to be around women who take action and who are serious about their role at the top.
Connecting with and meeting new, interesting women, engaging in genuine communications with inspiring women from many countries, tapping into the potential for new job / career opportunities through networking – you can find all this and more in The CEO Elevation Circle. The community will offer you much care and attention to your needs and priorities, an abundance of resources, high quality mentoring support and genuine interactions.
The CEO Elevation Circle is a space where you can find support, information and learn useful skills on your journey towards leadership roles. I enjoy connecting with women who are on a mission and I also value having a place to go and ask a question when I get stuck.
There are two things I learnt in this community. First – I learned a lot from the video courses provided to us in the community. Second, as I got more active in the community after our buddy talks, I found it very helpful to see women in higher levels of seniority answering my questions and supporting me with my challenges. The CEO Elevation Circle is a great growth opportunity for every woman who wants to grow in her career; for everyone there is a path or a good match in the circle.
From Career-Confused to CEO
Stop lingering in your career. Break through the confusion, frustration, and powerlesness and take full control of your path, both in your career and in life.
Accelerate Your Career with Our Exclusive Programs
Are You Ready for a High-Impact, Affordable Investment in Your Career and Leadership?
My Career, My Way - Strategic Career Management for Women Leaders
Our end-of-year, month-long intensive career accelerator is designed to provide you with clarity on your next career step and a fast-track strategy to get there. This program empowers you to take control of your work, career, and life journey. Throughout the accelerator, you'll benefit from an 8-hour video course, a self-reflection workbook, 5 live strategy sessions with Q&As, 24/7 mentoring, community support and feedback, and countless opportunities to win prizes that propel your career to new heights.
Market value: €5,000.
Cost for our members: free.
Talking to Men – Strategic Stakeholder Management for Career Growth
Our early-year, month-long intensive career accelerator builds on the clarity you gain from our previous program, equipping you with the tools to develop a powerful strategic network. Learn how to forge alliances with male leaders and leverage the current landscape to drive your success. You’ll receive an 8-hour video course, a self-reflection workbook, 5 live strategy sessions with Q&As, 24/7 mentoring, community support and feedback, and the chance to win career-boosting prizes.
Market value: €5,000.
Cost for our members: free.
More Benefits of The CEO Elevation Circle
Here are a few additional benefits you’ll receive when you choose to join us.
1-on-1 Coaching & Mentoring
As part of your yearly Premium Membership, you’ll receive a 60-minute executive coaching or mentoring session with our founder, Cristina Muntean, valued at 700 EUR. We encourage you to make the most of this session as soon as you activate your membership.
24/7 Asynchronous Support
We take pride in being a genuine, vibrant, remote-first, asynchronous pan-European online community. This allows us to connect women from across the continent and provide support at a time that suits them best. We offer continuous text, audio, and video support to help answer your most pressing leadership, career, and business management questions.
Insider Jobs
When our members discover exciting job opportunities, they are encouraged to share them within the community. These positions may be public or not yet publicly available. This is how we help connect great women leaders with outstanding companies.
Video Courses
As a member, you’ll have immediate access to our full archive of pre-recorded video courses, created by our founder, Cristina Muntean, specifically for women leaders. These courses alone are valued at several thousand EUR. You’ll also be prioritized for access to new video courses as they are released.
Community Archive
Upon activating your membership, you’ll gain instant access to all past event recordings—CEO Talks, C-Suite and non-executive board member talks, panel discussions, expert talks, workshops, Career Compass sessions, masterminds, and more—since the inception of our community.
Personal Branding Support
We proudly showcase our members in public communication campaigns designed to boost their visibility and reputation. We share your achievements on our LinkedIn community page, endorse your work, and actively support your increased visibility.
Downloadable Assets
We create unique, valuable downloadable resources for our members, including self-coaching workbooks, job search and due diligence checklists, headhunter directories by country, and overviews of relevant conferences and public speaking opportunities.
Your Investment Into Getting on Track to Become the Next CEO
Our community, The CEO Elevation Circle, is priced to be accessible and affordable for women who fund their own career development as well as for the companies that support them.
Your Yearly Premium Community Membership Incudes:
Access to two month-long intense career accelerators
Value: 10,000 EUR / Year
Access to all our community resources and live events
Value: 5,000 EUR / Year
Access to 15+ video courses
Value: 3,000 EUR / Year
1-on-1 executive coaching or mentoring session
Value: 700 EUR / Year
24/7 asynchronous mentoring & peer support
Value: Priceless
TOTAL VALUE: 18,700 EUR / year
Premium Membership Subscription:
797 EUR / Year (+ VAT)
This membership will continue delivering returns on your investment for years to come.
About Our Community Founder, Cristina Muntean
Cristina Muntean is the founder and CEO of VORNICA®, a company on a mission to triple the number of women CEOs in Europe by 2030. The CEO Elevation Circle was born from this same mission, with the goal of uniting exceptional women leaders to support one another in addressing one of the greatest challenges of our time: gender inequality in top leadership.
In 2010, Cristina left the media industry to start her own business. Initially focused on media training and crisis communications, she soon noticed the scarcity of women in the C-Suite among her corporate clients and how little media visibility they received. This realization sparked her drive to find a solution for increasing the visibility of women leaders in the public sphere.
In 2018, Cristina published her first book, I, the Brand – Personal Branding for Career Growth, in Czech, her fourth language. In October 2019, five months before the pandemic, she organized the first fully digital conference in Czechia—The Personal Branding Summit.
In 2022, Cristina made the decision to transition her business to a remote-first model, repositioning it to serve women leaders and organizations across Europe. This led to the birth of VORNICA®. A year later, in March 2023, The CEO Elevation Circle came to life.
Now at the helm of a dynamic business ecosystem, Cristina is a relentless innovator committed to social justice and equality in top leadership. Her mission to triple the number of women CEOs in Europe is a legacy mission driven by the deep belief that when wise women lead, we all thrive and prosper for the long term.
Is The CEO Elevation Circle Right for Me?
If you’re a woman leader brimming with potential but feel like you’re stagnating, waiting for someone to recognize your hard work, pay you what you deserve, and offer real career growth, it’s time to take control of your own path.
Before you can become the CEO of a corporate organization or the founder and CEO of your own company, you must first become the CEO of your own life. No one can empower you—you must give yourself permission to step into your full power.
We’re here as a community to witness your journey and nurture your growth. We are thrilled to have you with us, and we believe that our collective wisdom, resources, and ambition will be the catalyst to help you break free and take bold steps toward your greatness.
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are some of the questions we receive from our potential members. Happy to answer them for you.
What types of memberships does your community offer?
The CEO Elevation Circle offers two types of memberships: individual and corporate. For individuals, we offer a yearly Premium Community Membership priced at 797 EUR + 21% VAT per year (see above). For companies, we provide corporate memberships for 10, 20, 30, or more members, with significant discounts. If you’re interested in a corporate membership, please check our B2B page in the menu above or email Cristina at cristina.muntean@vornica.com with your inquiry.
Can I pay for my membership in several installments?
We would hate to miss the chance to welcome you due to financial concerns. If that’s the case, please contact Cristina directly at cristina.muntean@vornica.com to discuss our installment payment options for your community premium membership.
What is your refund policy?
We don’t offer refunds. Our community is priced to be affordable for individuals investing in their own development. Once you join, you immediately gain access to video courses worth thousands of euros. Additionally, we carefully select members to ensure they are a great fit and that we can serve them well. For this reason, we don’t provide refunds.
Can I bring in a friend?
Absolutely! When you refer a friend who gets accepted and becomes a member, you’ll receive a 10% affiliate commission, paid in cash 30 days after their payment. Thank you for helping us grow our community!
How exactly does the community operate?
We are a pan-European, remote-first, asynchronous community. We operate on a platform called Circle, and when you join, you’ll be invited to create a profile. Most of our interactions take place asynchronously, with around 20% being live virtual events and about 5% being in-person events in select locations across Europe.
What does “asynchronous” mean?
Asynchronous communication means each member participates on their own time and from their own location. This provides tremendous freedom and flexibility, key components of female leadership growth. You can access the platform anytime, interact with members, and learn at your own pace. To help you master asynchronous communication, we offer a video course called Async Done Right, available upon membership activation.
What if I need help instantly?
Our community managers and administrators regularly monitor the platform for messages and posts. You can expect a response within 24 hours of posting your inquiry.
What if I can’t attend an in-person event?
That’s why we prioritize being a remote-first, asynchronous community. We ensure a wide range of virtual events that are accessible to all members across Europe. For in-person events, we are mindful of inclusivity and intentional about planning them to avoid excluding members who are located elsewhere.
What if I want more in-person events?
While we are a remote-first asynchronous community, we do organize in-person meet-ups a few times per year. If you’re looking for more in-person interactions, we encourage you to travel to member hubs and arrange individual or small group meet-ups.