Founder and Chief Reinvention Officer – Reinvention Academy.
Dubbed “The guru of reinvention” (Ventures Magazine) and “The Queen of Reinvention” (TEDx Navasink), Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva is a scientist, entrepreneur, educator, speaker and author specializing in reinvention and resilience.
As a consultant and educator, Nadya has helped organizations worldwide reinvent their products, leadership practices and business models to meet new market demands and prepare them for disruptive change.
Until 2016, she served as a Coca-Cola University Professor of Sustainable Development at the IEDC-Bled School of Management, an executive education center based in the Slovenian Alps, where she continues to teach courses in Leadership, Strategy, Change Management, Design Thinking and Sustainability.
As a speaker, Nadya has spoken to over 100,000 executives including four TEDx talks in Austria, Slovenia, Romania and the United States.
Nadya is the author of numerous books, including “Overfished Ocean Strategy: Powering up Innovation for a Resource-Deprived World” and “Embedded Sustainability: The next Big Competitive Advantage” which was selected as the best sustainability book of all time by Book Authority.
Nadya's latest book, "The Chief Reinvention Officer Handbook: How to Thrive in Chaos" is the finalist for the American Book Fest Award, the 2021 Axiom Business Books Award winner, and the Kirkus Star Award winner one of the most coveted designations in the book industry, which marks books of exceptional merit.
Nadya holds a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University (USA), where she also served as director of the Center for Business as an Agent World Benefit, now the Fowler Center for Sustainable Value, until 2008.
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