Theodora Ivanova-Valeva

Executive Director/CEO

I truly believe that each of us can create change. It is enough to be free from all systemic barriers, prejudices and aggression so that each of us can find our calling, our place and power and prosper. I am here to make sure that everyone who sets out to change the world for the better will be able to do so successfully.

Once she has mastered her voice, any woman who has her economic independence, healthy personal balance and respect - can achieve anything.

Training and informal teaching methods, capacity building, organizational development, social entrepreneurship, project design and management, mentoring, equity, inclusion and belonging, women's empowerment, work-life balance for working mothers, grant program management, systems change and networking

Diverse experience related to project management and training in the public sphere, in management consulting and the last 12 years working with causes and in public benefit. In 2017, he was one of the founding members of Impact Drive Foundation and since 2021 he has been fully dedicated to the organization. Extensive and in-depth experience in authoring trainings on topics focused on the work of NGOs and social entrepreneurs. Certified trainer as 2022 successful graduate of the Erasmus+ Youth Programme train the trainer training. She has two master's degrees in management and business administration (UNWE and IFAG).

Co-founder of Impact Drive and first Chairman of the Board

Founder of DigiComs

Expert at the Open Society Institute (2011-2020),

Director of Partnerships at CSR Bulgaria (2016-2019),

Co-founder of Factory 360 and main trainer until July 2016.

Part of the founders, Chairman and Board Member of the Association "Present and Future Mothers" (2006-2010) - the organization that provided one-year high-paid maternity care in Bulgaria.