Cosmin Alexandru

Cosmin co-founded in 1992 one of the first market research companies in Romania. He grew it till 1996, when all shareholders agree to sell it to the GfK Group, one of the top five market research organizations in the world that time. He continued to run GfK Romania and successfully managed the cultural transition form an entrepreneurial entity to a multinational branch, transforming it into the largest company in this field in Romania, since the year 2000.

As a result of his contribution to the success of the company in the region, in 2002 Cosmin was selected in a team of 15 managing directors from around the world appointed to redesign the Corporate Values of the GfK Group at the global level.

Cosmin left GfK Romania in 2005, handing over to the next management team 45 employees and 1,7 million Euro yearly turnover. He started his own consultancy in branding and strategy. Also in 2005, Cosmin co-founded the Erudio Association, an organization that runs the Erisma – Creative Leadership, a three months development program for top managers and leaders of organizations. In this program he taught Public Speaking for seven years.

For more than a decade, between 2010 and 2021, Cosmin joined efforts with Adrian Stanciu within Wanted Transformation, a consultancy aimed to assist leaders engaged in transformational processes of their organizations.

In 2016 Cosmin co-founded, together with some friends and organisations, the first entrepreneurship faculty in South-Eastern Europe – The Entrepreneurship Academy, where he acts as a dean and team coach.

Since 2018 Cosmin specialized in team transformation and high-performing teams. He runs development programs for leadership teams of organisations, using a team diagnostic tool created at Harvard University and various processes to speed up team effectiveness.

Cosmin graduated the faculty of General Economics within the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest in 1994 and the ASEBUSS Program for Executive MBA conducted by the University of Washington Business School in cooperation with the Romanian-American Postgraduate School of Business, in 1999.

He publishes occasionally in various business magazines like Revista Biz as well as on his blog: www.cosminalexandru.ro. He is a co-founder, with Raluca Răschip, of Teamology Institute. Together they publish the Podcast for Great Teams.