Mira Brancu

Mira Brancu

MEd, PhD

NC, US

I help leaders strategically and intentionally build effective teams, resolve stressful conflicts, communicate for impact, develop a resilient leadership mindset, and manage at all levels.

Dr. Mira Brancu is the founder and CEO of Towerscope, an award-winning social impact consulting firm that helps executives and their teams to lead well today and better navigate tomorrow. To this work, she brings two decades of experience in academia and healthcare. Mira is also an Associate Professor at Duke University, a senior organization development psychologist for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and author of Millennials Guide to Workplace Politics. Sh


She has a special passion for helping emerging and under-represented women in leadership and writes about this topic in her Psychology Today blog series. She was the 2020 recipient of the Early Career Woman Psychologist in Management Award from the Society of Psychologists in Leadership and the 2022 recipient of the Top 50 Influential Women in the Triangle. Her company received the 2021 Corporate Philanthropy Award from the Triangle Business Journal. Dr. Brancu holds a PhD in clinical psychology, a Master's degree in counseling, and certificates in business essentials; diversity, equity and inclusion; Lean Six Sigma; and Transformational and Mentor Coaching.



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Note: I use a separate calendar available on my website at https://www.GoTowerscope.com/speaking to book events. 

Dr. Mira Brancu is the founder and CEO of Towerscope, an award-winning social impact consulting firm that helps executives and their teams to lead well today and better navigate tomorrow. To this work, she brings two decades of experience in academia and healthcare. Mira is also an Associate Professor at Duke University, a senior organization development psychologist for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and author of Millennials Guide to Workplace Politics. Sh


She has a special passion for helping emerging and under-represented women in leadership and writes about this topic in her Psychology Today blog series. She was the 2020 recipient of the Early Career Woman Psychologist in Management Award from the Society of Psychologists in Leadership and the 2022 recipient of the Top 50 Influential Women in the Triangle. Her company received the 2021 Corporate Philanthropy Award from the Triangle Business Journal. Dr. Brancu holds a PhD in clinical psychology, a Master's degree in counseling, and certificates in business essentials; diversity, equity and inclusion; Lean Six Sigma; and Transformational and Mentor Coaching.



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Note: I use a separate calendar available on my website at https://www.GoTowerscope.com/speaking to book events. 

Creating Strategic Career Opportunities

Format: 
60-minute breakout or virtual presentation
This program is perfect for: 

 

  • women early in their early career
  • women who are making career transitions
  • people wondering how to advance or make the next decision in their career

 

The audience will leave with:

  • 5 approaches to grow their career
  • examples and an interactive...
LeadershipWomen in LeadershipAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changingProfessionalismHuman Resources

Managing Stress, Worry, and Burnout

Format: 
45-minute keynote, breakout, webinar or lunch and learn
 

This program provides: 

 

  • An understanding of the critical differences between stress, depression, anxiety, and burnout
  • Signs of burnout and how you can address it at different levels of severity
  • Rseources and activities to start proactively manage or avoid burnout and practice better self-care


This...

Healthcare/MedicalColleges and UniversitiesAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changingHuman Resources

Team Development and Strategic Planning

Format: 
2-3 day in-person retreat or several months of virtual mini-retreats
This program is perfect for: The audience will leave with:

 

  • Teams who would like to engage in strrategic planning but know they first need to align as a team.
  • Teams interested in combining team development with srategic planning activities to best align HOW they work together with WHAT they work together on...
Audience ActivityEducational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

Developing Inclusive High-Performing Teams in the Age of Remote and Hybrid Work

Format: 
Can range from 1.5-5 hr training or workshop. 


This program provides: 

 

  • Leaders and managers at any level looking to learn best practices for team development
  • Tips for how to develop a healthy and successful team that can also help their organization reach its greatest potential.
  • Best practice and research-based models for creating engaged high-performing...
Teamwork / TeambuildingAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeProfessionalismHuman Resources

Changing the Workplace Politics Game

Format: ​15-30 minute keynote or virtual presentation or 60-90 minute workshop

 

This program is perfect for:
  • ​Teams and leaders looking to improve organizational culture and create a more inclusive, positive, supportive culture that still drives results.
  • Earky career professionals looking for beter ways to manage workplace...
Educational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing