Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva

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.