I am Raluca Andreea Popa, PhD, a Performance Coach dedicated to supporting people in their evolution—so performance, growth, and success are built with clarity, meaning, and sustainability.
I work with leaders, entrepreneurs, and top athletes who operate in high-pressure environments and want to perform at their best without burnout, over-control, or constant internal strain. My work focuses on sustainable performance, decision-making under pressure, and long-term effectiveness.
I bring together two worlds that rarely meet with precision: rigorous education and high-performance coaching.
I hold a PhD in Economics and over 18 years of experience across education, research, consulting, and leadership development. This analytical foundation allows me to approach performance coaching with structure, depth, and clarity—while remaining deeply human and practical.
Hello, welcome to my website!
I have accumulated 700+ hours of one-to-one coaching, working directly with leaders, entrepreneurs, and top athletes in roles that require constant decision-making, focus, and emotional regulation. This extensive hands-on experience informs my work on performance under pressure, clarity in decision-making, and performance without burnout.
Coaching, for me, is not about motivation or pushing harder.
It is about understanding how people think, decide, and perform under pressure—and helping them evolve those patterns so performance becomes intentional, sustainable, and repeatable.
I am a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by International Coaching Federation (ICF), trained according to the highest international standards of the ICF, with over 500 hours of professional training completed through PwC Academy, Leadership Circle, Oxford leadership, Positive Intelligence, CRR. I am an ICF-credentialed coach and an active contributor to the development of the coaching profession in Romania being an active volunteer of ICF Romania.
Beyond my professional work, I am deeply inspired by education, music, and padel—spaces where discipline, rhythm, learning, and presence intersect. They reflect how I see performance: not as a single result, but as an ongoing practice of focus, awareness, and growth.
I believe growth is rarely linear. It requires commitment, recalibration, and the ability to stay clear when pressure is high. Having the right performance coach beside you can change not only the pace of the journey, but its quality.
If you are looking for clarity, focus, and sustainable high performance, I invite you to start with a conversation.
We can build performance that lasts.
My Approach in coaching
Build
You will have my support to discover, build and use your skills, strengths and work on your development so that you will have tools to reach your vision and goals.
My believe is that anyone can reach their true potential, their goals and build the life they would love and cherish with a big smile on their face at the thought of waking up in the morning.
Achieve
The space where you enjoy the feeling of achieving your goals, you are aware of your skill and tools to build your resilience, life your dream and love.
Goal
If you dream about something and you don’t create an action plan your dream it is just a dream. With my support you can start working on your goals in a way that they are achievable.
Action
To make your goals a reality you need to identify your strengths and skills that can help you create your action plan to achieve them in a healthy and realistic way.
My values
I support the idea that people are free to choose their actions while accepting to deal with all the aspects of their execution and consequences based on the fact that they know what is best for them and served their interests.
Responsability
I demonstrate genuine interest towards others, and it is my belief that we should treat one another with compassion, love, and trust - and these are offered to my clients during our sessions - in a safe space free of judgment.
Empathy
Being generous and considerate starts first with yourself and then you offer that to others. I feel that being kind need strength and awareness while giving the attention to someone else. It leads natural to equity and equality.
Kindness
Trust is a bridge that builds and strengthens relationships. This is build through constructive, candid communication in a way that serves my clients. Trust defines how we look at our relationships while offers us the power of a choice. I choose to offer my clients trust in their ability to build their life.
Trust
Act truthfully and be unafraid in being my true self. I am true to my own values and spirit - love and support growth first within myself and then within others. This offers my the freedom of being me whether I am at school, with a client in a coaching session or with my loved ones.
Authenticity
I am creative and imaginative offering a space of exploration to my clients accepting their variety, curiosity, disruption and changes. Seek to understand, look at things through different lens, accept differences and bring differences in the safe space we co-create.
