Introverts Academy is a purpose-driven business that relies on over 40 years of cumulative multi-sector experience. Our multidisciplinary and hands-on approach facilitates positive change at the individual, interpersonal, organizational, and systemic levels.
We empower both introverts and organizations to thrive by harnessing the inherent complementary strengths of introversion and extroversion.
Our offering includes coaching (for individuals and relationship systems), consulting, training, MBTI assessments, team-building sessions, online courses, and books that align with our mission.
➤ Mission
➤ How Are We Different?
➤ We Specialize in Supporting …
➤ Our Values
➤ Who Can Benefit from Introverts Academy?
➤ Curriculum for Introverts
➤ For Companies & Introverted Entrepreneurs
➤ Introverts Academy’s Founder & CEO
➤ How Introverts Academy started
➤ FAQs
Mission
To raise awareness about the introvert strengths—and how to tap into their impressive inner power for personal, professional, organizational, and systemic development—to build a better world for all of us.
How Are We Different?
We use a multidisciplinary and wholistic approach to help clients get clarity, identify areas of improvement, and strategies specific to their needs and purpose.
Although teaching and coaching have their own benefits, our programs bring both styles together: provide information (usually associated with teaching) with an interdisciplinary focus, and facilitate learning through self-discovery experiential techniques (used in coaching).
We Specialize in Supporting …
➤ Introverted Professionals—Our programs help you navigate career development or transition, by understanding and leveraging your strengths to build a fulfilling career and thrive on your own terms.
➤ Companies (50-500 employees) and Introverted Entrepreneurs—Our consulting, coaching, hands-on training, and facilitation use a multidisciplinary and wholistic approach to help you unlock the full potential of your workforce, build sustainable and fulfilling businesses that align with your values. By tapping into the complementary strengths of introversion and extroversion, your team(s) will communicate effectively, embrace strategic thinking, creatively problem solve, and increase sales to gradually achieve your vision.
➤ Multi-Stakeholder Projects—Our strategies and techniques help you embrace a system-thinking approach to maximize your impact.
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Our Values
Authenticity
• Act with integrity. Be true to your own personality
• Align objectives with your values
Innovation
• Creativity encompasses more than just artistic expressions
• Challenge the status quo with innovative perspectives that lead to progress
Transformational Journey
• Transform challenges in opportunities
• Every experience has a learning potential
Collaboration
• If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
~ African Proverb
Who Can Benefit from Introverts Academy?
- Introverts:
Learn more about themselves, their strengths and how to leverage them more effectively to improve their lives and professional paths. - Extroverts:
Learn about the strengths that come with introversion and how to improve their communication with introverts—who are also talented, smart, and worth getting to know and appreciated. - Professionals from various fields (i.e. HR, Marketing, Project Management, Training & Facilitation):
Gain additional “tools” to understand the clients or team members’ behaviour, so they can adjust their strategies for better results. - Companies and Organizations:
Understand how to leverage better the introverts and extroverts’ strengths for organizational growth. Create an environment that allows both introverts and extroverts to communicate and collaborate effectively, and increase teams’ performance. Since they bring complementary traits and talents, both introverts and extroverts are valuable and can help organizations become more resilient and thrive in an ever-changing environment. - At the systemic level (i.e. society, communities, multi-stakeholder organizations):
Create an environment that shows appreciation and encourages both extroverted and introverted behaviour. Their innate complementary strengths won’t go away by appreciating one type more. Encouraging both to contribute—in their unique ways—will create the conditions for the society to flourish.
Curriculum for Introverts
Introverts Academy offers a wholistic approach to personal and professional growth, highlighting the importance of addressing various the areas of life, and recognizing their interdependance. As illustrated in the Wheel of Life, which inspired our curriculum for introverts:
For Companies & Introverted Entrepreneurs
For organizations facing talent acquisition challenges, productivity issues, and resource constraints, Introverts Academy helps maximize the potential of existing human resources by unlocking their untapped abilities. Our expertise in MBTI team assessments, organizational systems coaching, and facilitation empowers companies to strategize effectively and discover innovative solutions.
Introverts Academy’s Founder & CEO
Gabriela Casineanu is a certified professional coach, university instructor, trainer, consultant, MBTI® certified practitioner, and award-winning author of Introverts: Leverage Your Strengths for an Effective Job Search, Quiet Lessons for the Introvert’s Soul, and 14 more books.
An introvert with a broad background — engineering, IT, quality assurance, business, marketing, career coaching, teaching, consulting, and entrepreneurship — Gabriela helped thousands of introverted professionals to enhance their personal and professional lives.
Although her career started in engineering, adding an MBA in Small Business and a career shift to coaching (2006), her creative and curious soul found ways of artistic expression (writing, art photography, intuitive painting), workshop design and facilitation, and creative problem solving using various coaching techniques and her expertise.
A frequent guest speaker on topics related to introversion, career development, effective communication, successful mindset, business growth, leadership, and entrepreneurship, Gabriela is passionate about helping introverts become more resilient and build more meaningful lives… and the world, to leverage better the strengths of both introverts and extroverts for a better future.
For more than a decade, her daily meditation practice, a keen interest in human nature and wholistic health, made Gabriela discover and develop wellbeing techniques that integrate a mind-body-spirit approach to into her work.
When she’s not focused on advancing the Introverts Academy toward its mission, you’ll find her writing, or enjoying nature and outdoor activities.
More about Gabriela: https://GabrielaCasineanu.com and Amazon.com/author/gabrielacasineanu
How Introverts Academy started
With a decade of experience in applying a coaching approach to employment and career counseling, Gabriela Casineanu noticed a need for customizing job search and career development strategies based on personality type — since introversion and extroversion have complementary innate strengths, equally valuable.
Although the professional environment values the characteristics of extroverts more, she realized that the introvert strengths (i.e. strategic thinking, ability to manage complex situations, creative problem solving, cooperation…) could also help the public, private, and nonprofit sector organizations to navigate more skillfully the ever-changing economic environment, build better communities and economic development.
We often hear there’s a significant labour shortage, in Canada at least. However, there is a hidden talent pool that is often ignored or marginalized. As a report issued by Psychometrics Canada (based on 58.000 MBTI® tests) shows, 48% are introverts.
Encouraged by the positive feedback received for her award-winning books, training, coaching, and the sold-out presentations she gave on this topic—at Cannexus (Canada’s National Career Development Conference), Toronto West Local Immigration Partnerships (Professional Development Day), … — Gabriela started the Introverts Academy in 2022. Using a wholistic approach, combined with teaching and coaching techniques for long-lasting learning, the Introverts Academy continues to expand its offerings to make an impact at four levels mentioned in above (in the Who benefits from the Introverts Academy section).