Built on one belief: teams do their best work when the room is well-led.
KA-BOM was born from a simple belief: when teams collaborate effectively, things move faster, energy grows, and real progress happens.
KA-BOM is a word from the Akan language meaning "together." It captures the energy, creativity, and magic that happen when people come together to solve problems and create something new.
Facilitation
Still unfamiliar to many organizations in Romania — but the need for better collaboration is not. We believe teams do their best work when conversations are clear, decisions are shared, and progress feels natural.
It's simple: help make this way of working the norm, so collaboration becomes easier and results follow.
Helping teams achieve results together through facilitation
What that looks like in practice:
Big decisions and shared strategies in days, not weeks.
Everyone who matters in the room, moving in the same direction.
Solutions built together—not pushed from the top down.
Teams leave energized, united, and ready to act.
Facilitation is a skill for the future
Not just for leaders. For anyone who works with others.
The future of work demands more than expertise. It requires the ability to listen, connect ideas, navigate different perspectives, and move people toward shared decisions.
Research on future skills—from organizations like the World Economic Forum—consistently points to capabilities such as:
These are exactly the muscles facilitation develops.
Because when people know how to work together, ideas don't stay stuck in conversations. They turn into progress.
MEET
The Founder
Alina Bălan
Your Guide to Better Collaboration
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After spending over 15 years in communications, PR, advertising, and branding—navigating diverse industries, management styles, and high-stakes challenges—Alina learned how to read people, understand team dynamics, and design strategies that truly work. Her EMBA from Maastricht School of Management added a strong business perspective, helping her bridge human-centered approaches with real-world organizational impact.
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Eight years ago, facilitation came naturally to her. It brought together everything she had learned and aligned perfectly with her personality—empathetic, curious, playful, energetic, and deeply results-oriented.
During 5 years, as a partner at Design Thinking Society, Alina has led co-creation projects and trainings for leading organizations including Antibiotice SA, BCR, Bearing Point, Carrefour, Deloitte, EY, Google, HP, ING, Leroy Merlin, Lidl, OTP, Pall-Ex, and Raiffeisen Bank.
What truly fuels Alina is seeing teams move from uncertainty to clarity, achieve alignment, and feel energized while doing it. Helping people "see the light" on their challenges and co-create solutions is what makes her work meaningful.
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Alina taught Design Thinking, Service Design, and Innovation at the Entrepreneurship Academy for six years. During this time, she also collaborated with FABIZ, actively contributing to the development of the next generation of entrepreneurs.
Today, she serves on the board of the International Association of Facilitators Romania (IAF) as VP of Partnerships, and as an Academic Board Expert at the European Institute for Sustainability, where she teaches "Designing for Sustainability." She also mentors founders at Founder Institute, the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator.
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"For me, facilitation is about more than processes or tools—it's about creating experiences where people feel seen, engaged, and empowered. When that happens, teams unlock collective intelligence, align quickly, and achieve meaningful results. And yes—they enjoy the journey along the way."
Ever since childhood, Alina has been a natural catalyst—someone who loves bringing people together, helping them shine, and celebrating what we can achieve as a team. She was always the cheerleader, the one who noticed strengths, encouraged participation, and made collaboration feel natural.
I work independently, but complex challenges sometimes call for specialist support. When that’s the case, I bring in trusted collaborators from my network: people I’ve worked with, vetted, and genuinely recommend. You always know who’s in the room and why.
The Ecosystem
Ioana Dodan and Vlad Dodan are the co-founders of The FAB Squad, a creative studio focused on personal branding and spatial identity. With backgrounds in architecture and strategy, they help entrepreneurs and businesses translate who they are into clear, compelling brands across digital and physical experiences. Their work blends emotional insight, structure, and sharp creative direction.
Diana Stafie is a Strategic Foresight consultant and founder of Future Station, a boutique consultancy helping organizations anticipate change and build resilient strategies. She works with executives and institutions across Europe, leading trend research, innovation workshops, and strategic planning. Trained at the University of Houston, Institute for the Future, Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, and the European Certified Future Strategist program, she previously worked in finance in Big4 and a Dutch corporation. She also teaches foresight at business schools and serves on boards focused on digital transformation and education.
26 years in sales, negotiation, and training across advertising, real estate, and life insurance. Field Expert in Sales, Public Speaking and Leadership at Entrepreneurship Academy — Romania's only internationally-licensed business academy. He's trained 4,000+ people and 300 teams.
He believes courage is the highest quality — the courage to speak your truth without wounding another's pride, leading to genuine resolution. Creativity, empathy, and humor round out his negotiator's toolkit.
Author of "Tot ce trebuie să știi despre CURAJ de la un fricos în recuperare" — more about the book — and host of YouTube podcast "Ce e Curajul?"
With over 15 years of experience in organizational transformation, she works at the intersection of technology, strategy, and education, helping leaders and companies stay competitive. With a background in cybersecurity, automation, and certifications from Harvard Business School, she brings clarity where businesses need it most. Featured in the Strong Women in IT 2025 report, she guides organizations in exploring the opportunities created by AI, with a balanced perspective between innovation and practical sense.
Works at the intersection of business, technology and organization, helping people and companies stay relevant for the next 10+ years. With 100+ strategic initiatives in 15+ years, he addresses critical challenges: anticipating disruptions, allocating resources for growth, evolving business and operating models, and leading complex transformations. Main focus for 2026 and beyond: helping people and companies responsibly use AI for business.
With over 20 years of experience across corporations, agencies, and strategic consulting, Luiza brings a cross-disciplinary perspective to brand building and marketing. She works across strategy, facilitation, and education, helping organizations move beyond short-term campaign thinking toward integrated, scalable marketing systems.
Luiza focuses on turning theory into practice — translating complex branding concepts into clear, actionable frameworks that teams can adopt and use consistently. Through facilitation and learning design, she enables better alignment, stronger decision-making, and more resilient brands.
Olimpia Meșă is a learning design expert and educational consultant with over 20 years of experience creating learning experiences for business organisations, experts who want to teach with clarity and impact, and international schools. Her work focuses on designing clear, meaningful, and practical learning journeys that help people not only understand new ideas, but apply them in real life. She combines educational practice, strategic thinking, and neuroscience-informed principles to build programmes, frameworks, and tools that support lasting growth and measurable transformation.
ICF ACC coach, facilitator, and organizational development consultant, with over 20 years of experience in business, HR, and transformation processes. She supports people and organizations in creating space for clarity and growth, aligning their inner resources with their goals, and developing routines that sustain authentic change. She works with a structured, future-oriented approach, grounded in continuous learning.
Alexandra Popescu-Zorica works with C-level executives and senior managers to build what most companies lack: real innovation infrastructure — strategy, governance, and functional teams.
With 10+ years leading innovation for major European companies, she served as Head of Innovation and Chief of Growth — where she learned innovation fails from lack of operating systems, not ideas.
Certified at MIT, CIM-Oxford, IDEO and the University of Toronto. She hosts House of Innovation, has worked with 100+ startups, and teaches at ASE Bucharest as a doctoral candidate in corporate innovation.
Solution-Oriented Digital Experience Design Facilitator specializing in large group facilitation. Tudor spent 19+ years inside the machine — launching Romania's first mobile apps at Orange, shaping home banking at ING, leading Digital Transformation at Vodafone, orchestrating Innovation at E.ON, and evolving digital banking at Reiffeisen. He co-founded Design Thinking Society in 2017 and has trained 200+ UX Designers across 40+ companies.
His product-building background shapes his facilitation: hands-on, solution-oriented, comfortable with complexity. Toolkit: UX research, experience audits, digital trends, collaborative Journey Mapping, and rapid AI prototyping.
Trained in Positive Intelligence (PQ) by Shirzad Chamine and certified MBSR teacher (Brown University), she supports professionals and organizations in developing clarity, resilience, and grounded decision-making in high-pressure environments. With a PhD in economics and experience in complex international contexts, she combines scientific rigor with lived experience. She has delivered programs in multinational companies across FMCG, banking, and industrial sectors, focusing on stress management, emotional regulation, mindful leadership, and impactful communication.
Ana M. Marin is a leadership and development expert with 15+ years in marketing, communication, and people development. A Professional Certified Coach (ICF PCC) and Senior Practitioner Mentor Coach (EMCC SP), she serves as Coaching Manager at PwC's Academy, designing coaching processes for managers and their teams.
Combining business acumen with deep expertise in emotional intelligence, group facilitation, and team dynamics, Ana creates a safe, challenging space that drives measurable shifts in mindset and performance. Certified in DISC D3, Coaching Supervision, and Journal Therapy, she brings evidence-based tools and a warm, pragmatic style.
Cu peste 18 ani de experiență la intersecția dintre strategie, tehnologie și business building, ajută companiile să construiască și să scaleze afaceri digitale și produse AI. Fost Co-Lead European al Leap by McKinsey în Industrials și Life Sciences și fost Lead EMEA al parteneriatului McKinsey–AWS pentru transformare AI & digitală, a coordonat lansarea a 10+ produse digitale și venture-uri care au generat valoare de miliarde de euro. Focus pentru 2026: transformarea digitală responsabilă și scalarea produselor AI cu impact real în industrie.
Renata and Paul, from Picturise, help teams understand, remember, and communicate better by turning concepts, ideas, and information into meaningful visual products. They create hand-drawn visuals in real time that summarize live conversations or presentations, keeping people engaged, sparking reflection and dialogue, improving understanding, and helping audiences remember the content afterward. By graphically mapping conversations, they give ideas a visual shape and convey stories that help people connect the dots.
Facilitator, Founder and Chair Lead of IAF Romania (local chapter of the International Association of Facilitators), known for his "playful" style blending group methodologies with applied improvisation in business. With 20+ years in L&D, he has worked with teams from global companies like Apple, Samsung and Coca-Cola, helping managers use facilitation for concrete results. Internationally certified in ToP, Emotional Culture, NLP, Card Facilitation and Human Synergistics.
Raluca Păduraru develops the organizational capacity to act through the AI transition, combining futures of work foresight with applied AI fluency training to build behavioral readiness at team level. With 17 years of corporate management experience and 800+ hours of AI-focused facilitation, she works with leaders and organizations through structured programs built around proprietary frameworks like F.O.R.C.E. and M.O.D.E.L. She authored the first strategic report on the futures of work in 2030 Romania and founded AIResponsabil.ro, a free platform for critical thinking with AI.
With over 15 years of expertise in public affairs and sustainability, Adelina uses a mix of practical knowledge and systemic tools to address challenges at the intersection of business and society, including in the area of circular transformation. With a systemic perspective, the eye of an anthropologist, and a politico-economic background, she provides insights into policy trends, facilitates processes and partnerships, and develops advocacy campaigns.
5 values
we stand for
Collaboration & Co-creation
The best ideas emerge when everyone contributes. We create environments where diverse perspectives come together to build something better than any individual could create alone.
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Clarity & Alignment
Everyone understands the goal and agrees on the path. We cut through ambiguity and create shared understanding that moves teams forward with confidence.
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Speed & Efficiency
Results delivered fast, without wasted time. We design experiences that accomplish in days what might otherwise take weeks or months.
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Empowerment
We don’t just facilitate the session — we leave your team more capable than we found them. Tools, confidence, and habits that outlast any single workshop.
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Energy & Engagement
Alignment shouldn’t feel like hard work. We design every session to be engaging, focused, and — yes — actually enjoyable. Because energized teams produce better outcomes.
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The Difference:
We don't believe facilitation should stay abstract or feel like corporate theater. It should be practical, energizing, and produce real results. That's why every session we design—whether it's a workshop, training program, or strategic conversation—focuses on creating tangible outcomes that teams can act on immediately.
We've seen what happens when teams are truly aligned and engaged. They move faster, make better decisions, and create solutions they're genuinely excited to implement. That's the KA-BOM effect—and it's available to every team willing to work together.
How We Help
Whether you're just discovering facilitation or need expert support for critical moments, we've got you covered.
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Turn meetings into momentum.
Learn essential facilitation techniques in one day to make every meeting count.
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Diagnose. Equip. Align. Act.
A targeted program to help teams collaborate better and achieve results together.
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Custom solutions, collective breakthroughs.
Tailored workshops designed for your team's specific challenges and goals.