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Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva
Founder & Chief Reinvention Officer, Reinvention Academy
Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva
Founder & Chief Reinvention Officer, Reinvention Academy
Biography
InVentures magazine calls her “The Reinvention Guru.” TEDxNavesink calls her “The Queen of Reinvention.” Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva is a scientist, entrepreneur, and author specializing in resilience and reinvention.
As a consultant and an educator, Nadya helped such companies as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Coca Cola, IBM, Cisco, L’Oreal Group, Danone, Kohler, Erste Bank, Henkel, Knauf Insulation, and Vienna Insurance Group reinvent their products, leadership practices, and business models to meet new market demands and prepare for incoming disruptions. Until 2016, she served as the Coca-Cola Chaired Professor of Sustainable Development at IEDC-Bled School of Management, an executive education center based in Slovenia. She has taught courses in leadership, organizational behavior, strategy, change management, design thinking, and sustainability at IEDC, as well as Weatherhead School of Management (USA), IPADE (Mexico), and CEDEP (France) where she also served on the Advisory Board.
As a speaker, she delivered keynotes and workshops to more than 500,000 executives – including four TEDx talks in Slovenia, Austria, Romania, and the USA. Nadya is the author of several books, including Overfished Ocean Strategy: Powering Up Innovation for a Resource-Deprived World, which was named Best Book of 2014 by Soundview Executive Book Summaries, and Embedded Sustainability: The Next Big Competitive Advantage, which was selected as one of the Best Sustainability Books of All Times by BookAuthority.
Nadya’s latest book, The Chief Reinvention Officer Handbook: How to Thrive in Chaos is a finalist in the American Book Fest Awards, the winner of the 2021 Axiom Business Books Awards, and the winner of the Kirkus Star, "one of the most coveted designations in the book industry, which marks books of exceptional merit."
Nadya is a contributor to Forbes and Harvard Business Review, and her work has been featured in a variety of publications in the USA and internationally.Nadya earned her PhD in Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, USA, where she also served as an Associate Director at the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit, now Fowler Center for Sustainable Value, until 2008.way they live, work, and prosper. In this exciting yet pragmatic and interactive session, Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva will bring latest research insights, and business trends, and explore challenges and solutions for turning the new fast-moving, volatile, and uncertain business environment into a competitive advantage.
Speaker Videos
How to Kill Your Own Company | Nadya Zhexembayeva | TEDxBucharest
To Hold On, Let Go | Nadya Zhexembayeva | TEDxNavesink
Speech Topics
Becoming Undisruptable: 3 Keys to Thriving in Turbulence
Ask any manager on planet Earth, ‘What is your key challenge?’ and among many different responses one will strike you with remarkable consistency: Staying afloat. The fast-moving roller-coaster economy we live in today makes this task increasingly difficult. Change is happening more often and at a faster speed than ever before. Just as we handle one crisis, another appears around the corner. How can we survive - and even thrive?
The answer is the one you’ve heard before: We must consistently remake who we are, what we offer, and how we deliver our offerings to the world. Put it simply, we must reinvent.
What you may not have heard before is this: Today, the frequency with which our reinvention must take place is staggering. Essentially, we must become a new company every 3.5 years.
In fact, we must reinvent so frequently and so radically that the traditional roles and processes inside of an organization cannot keep up. It’s time to make reinvention into its own competence - whatever function or responsibility you are in.
“Built to last” is no longer acceptable: today, we must build to reinvent. It’s time to make reinvention your superpower!
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