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Andreea Szilagyi
President of the Romanian Counseling Association
Associate Professor at Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, one of the first counselor educators in Romania. Expertise is strongly oriented towards the practice of career counseling, particularly with Eastern Europeans (in educational and business organizations). Also at the forefront of research investigating counselor education in Romania, the role of large-scale professional contracts on the development of the profession, and certification across borders.
Degree in Education at University of Bucharest (1995); Doctorate in Education at “Al.I.Cuza” University of Iasi (with the first counseling theme in Romania). Global Career Development Facilitator USA in 2003, National Certified Counselor USA in 2005, Mental Health Facilitator in 2007.
Courtland C. Lee
Vice-president IAC
Dr. Courtland Lee is a Professor and Director of the Counselor Education Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of five books on multicultural counseling and two books on counseling and social justice. He is also the author of three books on counseling African American males. In addition, he has published numerous book chapters and articles on counseling across cultures.
Dr. Lee is the President of the International Association for Counselling. He is also a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, the first and only American to receive this honor.
Dr. Lee is also a Fellow and Past President of the American Counseling Association. He is also a past President of the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development. In addition, Dr. Lee is a past President of Chi Sigma Iota, the international counseling honor society. He is a charter member of Chi Sigma Iota’s Academy of Leaders for Excellence.
Dr. Lee is the former editor of the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development and the Journal of African American Men. He currently serves on the editorial board of the International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling. He is also a Senior Associate Editor of the Journal of Counseling and Development.
Dr. Lee has held faculty positions as a counselor educator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Virginia. A former teacher and school counselor, Dr. Lee has served as an educational consultant both in the United States and abroad.
Dr. Charlie Fantechi
Chairman of FeICo (Italian Federation of Counseling)
Born as a citizen of the world from an antipodean-european heritage, Charlie Fantechi was trained in psychology at The University of La Sapienza (Rome) followed by specializations in psychotherapy and hypnotherapy at the Ericksonian Post Graduate School in Rome. He then continued by moving to California to study with Robert Dilts at the NLP University of Santa Cruz.
Member of the American Psychological Association, the Global NLP Training and Consulting Community, and the American Association of Counseling, Dr. Fantechi lectures at the Post Graduate School of Specialization in Education at the University of Florence and at the Post Graduate “Scuola di Psicoterapia Strategica Integrata” in Rome.
Chairman of FeICo (Italian Federation of Counseling) and of the Centre for Brief Psychotherapy in Prato, he directs the Centre for Brief Counseling in Milan.
Author of the controversial “Did Obama Actually Use Hypnosis?” and the closely analytic “Word of Leader”, his perceptions concerning the state of the art in counseling and communication, enhanced by the techniques of conversational hypnosis, are positioned at the cutting edge of 21st century thinking.
Cirecie A. West-Olatunji
Ph. D. Associate Professor,
Mental Health Track Coordinator
Cirecie A. West-Olatunji currently serves as Associate Professor of Counselor Education at the University of Florida, a Governing Council Representative of the American Counseling Association, and is a Past-President of the Association for Multicultural Counseling & Development (AMCD).
Nationally, Dr. West-Olatunji has initiated several clinical research projects that focus on culture-centered community collaborations designed to address issues rooted in systemic oppression, such as transgenerational trauma and traumatic stress. Cirecie West-Olatunji has conducted commissioned research under the auspices of the: National Science Foundation, American Counseling Association, Kellogg Foundation, federal Witness Assistance Program, Spencer Foundation, the American Educational Research Association, and the African-American Success Foundation.
Her publications include a co-authored book on culturally relevant anti-bias education, Future Vision, Present Work, a co-authored monograph entitled, Counseling African Americans (in press), several book chapters, and articles in peer-reviewed journals. In addition to national presentations, Dr. West-Olatunji has delivered research papers in Brazil, Botswana, Canada, China, Ghana, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, and South Africa. Additionally, she provided consultation in a PBS initiative to create a children's television show focusing on diversity through KCET-TV in Los Angeles, CA ("Puzzle Place").
Dr. West-Olatunji has provided consultation to the Center for American Education in Singapore and to the Buraku Liberation Organization in Japan to enhance their early childhood and counseling initiatives. More recently, coordinated disaster mental health outreach projects in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and in southern Africa to investigate illness as disaster to work with HIV-AIDS infected and affected individuals in South Africa and Botswana.
Ioana Panc
Assistant Professor,
Titu Maiorescu University
GCDF Romania Master Trainer
Ioana Panc is a career counselor practitioner. She coordinates the Psychological and Career Counseling Center at the Titu Maiorescu University. At the moment she is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Titu Maiorescu University, teaching Career Development. She is also a GCDF Romania Master Trainer. Licensed as a psychologist, she has graduate master studies in Counseling and Human Recourses, she is trained as a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist and she is a PhD candidate working on a research regarding the assessment center method. Her professional background includes over 5 years of working in the human resources field as a consultant, developing and implementing over 300 assessment centers both for selection and development purposes.
Iulia Sara
GCDF Romania Master Trainer
Iulia Sara is certified (GCDF – Global Career Development Facilitator) career counselling practitioner, certified GCDF Master Trainer, TOT (Train if Trainers, CNFPA) and MHF (Mental Health Facilitator) trainer with experience of over 8 year in human resources management and development, in private companies in Romania and The Netherlands. Iulia is coordinating OH-cards project in Romania, coordinates Active Labs - one of the first career counselling service provider in Romania. She’s a founding member of Association of Romanian Counselors and projects coordinator in “Careers Pass” Association, managing the first independent career center in Tg. Mures, Romania.
