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Decision Making Under Pressure

A 4-hour immersive experience for CEOs and HR leaders to explore decision-making, team dynamics, and the unseen patterns that shape performance and drive results.

This experience is an invitation to pause… to observe… and to understand what truly drives your leadership and your team.

The Masterclass Journey

Destination 1: Leadership Under Pressure

Inspiring Keynote with Emil Dobrovolschi

What happens when the stakes are high and decisions cannot wait?

Drawing from more than 30 years of experience as an airline captain and instructor, Emil Dobrovolschi brings participants into one of the most demanding performance environments in the world—aviation.

Through real stories and high-pressure situations from the cockpit, participants will explore:

  • decision-making under uncertainty
  • communication in critical moments
  • leadership and responsibility under pressure
  • trust, professionalism, and accountability inside teams
  • risk management and situational awareness

More than inspiration, this session creates a powerful mirror for leaders:
revealing how people and teams truly respond when pressure rises.

Destination 2: Team Decision-Making in Action

Interactive Working Session with Emil & Polina

Leadership is not understood only through listening.
It is understood through experience.

Participants will work in teams on real-life inspired cases, making decisions together under time pressure and uncertainty.

During this interactive process, participants will:

  • observe how decisions emerge within teams
  • recognize communication and leadership patterns
  • experience different reactions to pressure and ambiguity
  • reflect on group dynamics, trust, influence, and responsibility

Together with Emil and Polina, participants will analyze:

  • what shaped the decisions made
  • which hidden dynamics influenced the process
  • how awareness impacts leadership effectiveness and team performance

This part of the experience creates space not only for insight—but for honest reflection.

 

Destination 3: From Awareness to Conscious Leadership

Embodiment & Integration Session with Polina

Awareness alone does not create transformation.

Leadership impact begins when awareness becomes embodied in everyday behavior, communication, and culture.

In this final part of the masterclass, participants will dive deeper into:

  • the impact their leadership has on teams and organizations
  • the patterns they reinforce consciously or unconsciously
  • how pressure shapes organizational culture and relationships
  • practical ways to lead with greater clarity, trust, and alignment

Through guided reflection and experiential coaching practices, participants will begin integrating the awareness created throughout the day into concrete leadership intentions and actions.

Because sustainable performance is not built only through strategy.

It is built through the quality of human interaction, awareness, and the environments leaders create around them.

Who This Space Is For

This executive masterclass is designed for:

  • CEOs and Managing Directors
  • Entrepreneurs and Business Owners
  • Founders and Scale-up Leaders
  • HR Directors and People Leaders
  • Senior leaders responsible for culture, performance, and organizational development

Including leaders and members of entrepreneurial and business communities seeking to strengthen leadership effectiveness, team alignment, communication, and decision-making under pressure.

For leaders who want to move beyond surface-level solutions and explore what truly shapes team effectiveness, organizational culture, and sustainable performance.

What You May Take With You

Participants will leave with:

  • deeper awareness of their leadership patterns under pressure
  • practical insights into team dynamics and decision-making
  • increased understanding of communication and trust in high-stakes situations
  • clarity on the impact leadership behavior has on organizational culture
  • practical steps for creating stronger alignment and performance within teams

Each participant will also receive a copy of Dark Cockpit by Emil Dobrovolschi.

🎁 Gift to Continue the Journey

The People Holding the Space

Emil Dobrovolschi
Emil Dobrovolschi Capitn with 15 000+ hours experience
Captain.
• Type Rating Instructor and certified Type Rating Examiner by EASA (European Union Aviation Safety Agency), Senior examiner with Romanian CAA
• Management experience
• Best selling author – Dark Cockpit
• Inspiring speaker
• Public figure

Captain with than 15 000 hours, total experience:
• Co-pilot on Antonov 24;
• Captain and pilot instructor on ATR 42/72;
• Captain, pilot instructor, and pilot examiner on Airbus A320 and A310;
• Test pilot
• Commander of the special flights for the Romanian President and government officials.

Over 6 000 full flight simulator training hours.
• Type Rating Instructor
• Certified Type Rating Examiner by EASA (European Union Aviation Safety Agency).
• Senior examiner A320 with Romanian CAA

Served in different operational and corporate leadership positions inside Tarom:
• ATR 42/72 fleet manager – 5 years
• Tarom Vice President and Director of Flight Operations – 3 years.

Romanian best selling co-author of Dark Cockpit, book sold in two editions • Amazon best seller in launch week, in more than 6 countries and 12 categories.

Invited frequently to address corporate events of different sizes, where he inspires people to higher levels of commitment and professionalism and teaches valuable communication, leadership, and risk management principles.

Frequently invited to Romanian and foreign podcasters (USA, UK, Israel, Singapore). Invited to numerous tv shows, to talk about aviation, Dark Cockpit and leadership.
Polina Yordanova
Polina Yordanova Over 20 Years of Experience in Leadership, Coaching & Human Development
For more than two decades, Polina Yordanova has been working with people and organizations — not just to build better businesses, but to develop the people behind them.

Her journey began at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, where her interest in human potential and inner dynamics first took shape. Later, in leadership roles within multinational IT companies, she experienced first-hand how much the success of a business depends on the inner state, reactions, and awareness of the people leading it.

This insight became the foundation of her work.

For the past 12 years, Polina has been leading her company, Universe Flow, with a clear purpose: to support leaders in reconnecting with their inner clarity, wisdom, and energy — so they can lead in a way that is authentic, grounded, and sustainable. In her approach, leadership does not start with tools and KPIs, but with inner balance, aligned thoughts and emotions, and the courage to show up as you are.

As a Master Certified Coach (ICF), intuitive coach, team development expert, and LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator, Polina combines scientific understanding with deep empathy and intuitive insight. She has a natural ability to sense what is happening beneath the surface and to guide people gently toward clarity, self-trust, and aligned action.

Participants describe her presence as calm, supportive, and deeply insightful. They value the safe and trusting space she creates, where they can explore themselves honestly, release inner pressure, and grow — personally and professionally. Her work is not about applying rigid methods, but about meeting people where they are and helping them reconnect with who they are becoming.

Polina’s mission is to inspire leaders to transform the energy within themselves so they can transform the world around them — to find fulfillment not only in what they achieve, but in how they achieve it. She supports leaders in bringing more trust, acceptance, joy, and awareness into their work, relationships, and leadership style.

Outside her professional work, Polina draws inspiration and balance from her family life, movement practices, travel, and nature — grounding her coaching in lived experience, presence, and humanity.

There is a different way to lead.
Not by doing more.
But by seeing more clearly.

Join us in

Sofia 16 June

At Kitchen 59, 09:00 - 13:00

Plovdiv 17 June

Information coming soon!

Your Investment

Early Bird

320 excluding VAT
  • first 8 seats until June 02

Standard

380 excluding VAT
  • from June 02

Corporate Bundle

330 excluding VAT
  • for 3+ attendees

Included in the price:
• Coffee
• Light catering
• Dark Cockpit book
• Premium venue feel

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