Strategic Career Guidance from Someone Who Has Navigated What You Are Navigating
Career mentoring is for people who are capable enough to have multiple options and stuck enough to need a thinking partner to see them clearly. This is not career counseling and not recruiting. It is strategic guidance from someone who has navigated complex professional transitions across industries and cultures.
Cristiane combines professional strategy with behavioral self-knowledge through DISC and MBTI profiling, helping each client understand both their market position and their own patterns as a professional. The difference between mentoring and coaching is directional: Cristiane shares perspective, makes recommendations, and draws on her own experience.
Particularly relevant for Brazilian and Latin American professionals navigating the US professional environment, where cultural norms, communication styles, and advancement signals operate differently than in their home markets.
The Process
Career history
We begin with a structured audit of your career capital: experience, skills, behavioral profile, and the transferable strengths that may not be visible on your current resume or professional narrative.
Strength and gap assessment
We map your current competencies against the specific requirements of your next role or phase, identifying what you can lead with immediately and what needs to be developed or reframed.
Building plans and actions
We translate your positioning into a concrete 12-24 month strategic roadmap: milestones, priority actions, network moves, and the criteria you will use to evaluate each opportunity.
The Cristiane Barreto Difference
Has mentored professionals across three countries and two decades. Combines executive-level strategic thinking with behavioral science tools (DISC, MBTI) to help clients understand both themselves and their market. Particularly experienced with Brazilian and international professionals navigating the US career environment.
Her practice does not stay neutral. Cristiane shares what she has seen work, challenges assumptions she thinks are limiting, and offers strategic direction based on 20 years of working with professionals at inflection points across three countries. Mentoring sessions are available in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Cross-Cultural Career Navigation
Deep experience with professionals transitioning between Brazil, the US, and Latin America, including cultural norms, credential recognition, and professional visibility.
DISC + MBTI Certified
Mentoring sessions draw on behavioral profiling to help clients understand how their patterns shape their professional brand and career trajectory.
Trilingual (EN/PT/ES)
Sessions available in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. Clients may mix languages within a session as the topic or comfort level requires.
Corporate + Entrepreneurial Transitions
Specific expertise in helping senior professionals move from corporate roles into independent consulting or advisory practices.