Credibility is not given. It is rebuilt.

In this episode of What No One Tells You, Claudia Slujitoru is joined by Monica Ciobanu, Business Excellence Manager at Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie company, where her role now spans nine countries.

Monica has moved through three very different industries in the past fifteen years, from Deloitte to Schneider Electric to her current role in pharmaceuticals and aesthetics. In this conversation she talks openly about what it actually takes to start over each time, and about the hardest professional decision she has faced so far: becoming a manager for the first time and having to let go of the very first person she hired.

She shares what she leaned on to get through that decision, why she believes managers should never make hiring or firing choices alone, and how she has learned to read the cultural values of colleagues across nine different countries rather than assume her own approach translates everywhere. She also talks about her role within Women Leaders in Action, an internal community she has supported for the past two years, and why she chose to take that on despite an already demanding role.

This is a conversation about what leadership costs before it starts paying off, and about rebuilding credibility every time the ground shifts underneath you.

Now you know. Because we told you.

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AI does not make leaders. It makes pretending to lead a lot harder.

For decades, knowing more than anyone in the room was often enough to be in charge. In this episode, Pedro de Sousa Avelino, a technology and business transformation executive with a career spanning Brazil, Europe, Hong Kong, and Bangkok, explains why that advantage is disappearing, and what actually replaces it.

We talk about the shift from being a source of answers to becoming an architect of good judgement, the human qualities that only grow more valuable as AI advances, empathy, integrity, the courage to be vulnerable, and the one habit Pedro believes every new manager needs to build immediately around AI and critical thinking.

A conversation about leadership, judgement, and what it actually means to earn trust once the answer is no longer the hard part.

Now you know. Because we told you.

Different people, same goal, good luck!

Every manager eventually meets a team where the usual approach stops working for everyone at once. In this episode, Yamilet Nieto, manager at Air Liquide, shares what happened when the leadership style she trusted most, one built on closeness and relationships, stopped landing the same way across a genuinely diverse team.

Yamilet talks openly about what she tried first, why it did not work, and the moment she realised that searching for one motivational message that suited everyone was the wrong question altogether. She walks through how she learned to pay attention to what actually moved each person individually, how she handled the tension of treating people differently in the name of fairness, and what alignment looked like once she stopped forcing one approach onto a team that never needed one.

If you are leading a team that feels pulled in five directions and you are not sure where to start untangling it, this conversation offers a practical, honest way in.

Now you know. Because we told you.