Mychailo Wynnyckyj, teaches sales management and cross-cultural communications at Lviv Business School of Ukrainian Catholic University. He also holds a cross appointment to Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and serves as Advisor to Ukraine’s Minister of Education and Science. In his capacity as a business school professor and management consultant he has guided the international expansion strategies of numerous Ukrainian entrepreneurs – particularly in the IT sector.

Born in Canada, Mychailo has lived permanently in Ukraine since 2003 – moving to Kyiv immediately after completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge (U.K.). Prior to that he worked for 7 years (1992-1999) as Vice-President for Sales & Marketing at Lava Computer MFG Inc. in Toronto Canada, where he led the expansion of this PC peripheral manufacturer into new markets in Europe, South America and Asia.

Since moving to Ukraine, Mychailo has consulted multiple companies on sales management and international marketing issues, including helping executives to master intercultural differences. Mychailo’s combination of practical business experience in both North America and Ukraine, combined with his extensive academic credentials make him uniquely positioned as a “bridge” between companies trying to understand each others’ practices on different continents.

In 2008-2013 Mychailo served as Director of the Doctoral School at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy where he oversaw a project aimed at reforming the traditional Ukrainian “aspirantura” system into a European-styled Doctorate. These activities led to his becoming involved in educational reform, and to his recent appointment as Head of the Secretariate of Ukraine’s National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance.

Mychailo was born and educated in North America and England and has lived in Ukraine for 17 years. During the Revolution of Dignity he was a regular commentator for English-language media outlets, and provided analysis on current events in his “Thoughts from Kyiv” blog. His book Ukraine’s Maidan, Russia’s War. A Chronicle and Analysis of the Revolution of Dignity was published in 2019 by Ibidem Verlag and is distributed by Columbia University Press.

Professor in Leadership, HR&OD, CEO of UCU Center for Leadrship. Andriy Rozhdestvenskyy served as a profiler and analyst in Israel’s security service, where he specialized in counter-terrorism matters, including special communications and negotiations. Later he became HR Business Partner-Retail at Oschadbank with subsequent promotion to Head of Personnel and Training in the bank (35,000 employees). Rozhdestvenskyy adjusted classical sales techniques to the bank’s needs and then started tailoring training programs to suit the needs of other areas of business (telecommunications, IT industry, agriculture etc.). As a result, he started his own business – a consulting company with emphasis on developing and tailoring personnel training systems for specific businesses.

Andriy provides assistance to organizations specializing in childhood cancer and alcohol and drug rehabilitation. He is a member of the movement “Change Ukraine – Start with Yourself” and organizer of the Everest 2025 project. Mr. Rozhdestvenskyy received a higher education degree in Psychology from the National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, did his post graduate studies at the G.S. Kostiuk Institute of Psychology in Kyiv and successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. He also successfully completed Anna Vlasova’s HRM School.

Has over 10 years of administration experience, five of which were dedicated to organizational development. He is a project management consultant at the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine (Prozorro) and a series of other organizations.

The Projects management instructor at the Lviv Business School of the Ukrainian Catholic University, (projects management, changes management) of Kyiv School of Economics, projects and portfolio management at Edinburgh Business School.

The lecturer at the UCU Lviv Business School (LvBS), academic leader of the program «HRM in Business», HR Business Partner of the DataArt company.

Natalka delivers lectures within the managerial and master’s programs, mainly holds the following courses: «HRM: Corporate Context», «Corporate Culture and Leadership», and «Team-Work Experts». She is a certified coach and a Gestalt consultant. With more than 18 years of professional business experience, mainly in the sphere of HR, she worked as an HR director at Eleks software engineering company (established a full-fledged department of human resources management, the program of employee maintenance, development and assessment), managed educational and consulting projects, elaborated and held author’s training programs in the IT companies, namely SoftServe, Intellias, and the Prosteer Group. She also elaborated the program «The Basics of Team Management within ІТ» for Lviv Project Management School. Natalka is currently reading the course of socio-economic approach to management at the ISEOR Institute (France).

Marketing Director of Kormoteh. Lecturer of the Marketing course of MSc in Innovations and Entrepreneurship program. Graduate KEMBA LvBS. He has experience in marketing for over 12 years. Areas of Expertise: strategic marketing; brand portfolio management; developing and launching brands; promotion of brands. Kormoteh – the market leader in animal food in Ukraine (2015).

Bachelor in Accounting and auditing at Dnipropetrovsk National University of Railway Transport named after Academician V.  Lazaryan, Master in Enterprise economics at Lviv National Polytechnic University. Received Diploma in International Financial Reporting АССА DipIFR (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and CIMA Certificate in Performance Management (Global association of management accountants in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland).

Has experience as an active sales manager, chief accountant and more than 8 years as an operating director. Specializes in writing business plans, budgeting, launching new businesses and organizing business processes. Experience of social work throughout EURO 2012 as the manager of volunteers. Has been acting in the field of child development since 2013 to help children in public care.

Teacher of the LvBS, founder and head of Corporate EQ, a consulting company that specializes in implementing result-oriented solutions for corporate teams.

Expert pioneer in the sphere of practical use of EQ in teams and companies for business development. Valeria has a 20-year experience in researching the factors that accelerate business processes and lead to results, and more than 15 years of experience in copyright methods to work with teams and company founders to achieve specific results.

Author of the Lean-EQ method based on connecting emotional intelligence (EQ) as a thinking system. Author of the EQ-Boost Technology, which considers the EQ concept the fastest way to implement change and get rid of stoppers for owners, teams, and companies.

Over 8 years of teaching practice. Valeria is a guest expert with the Leadership Development Program at SoftServe. She is the mentor for owners of IT companies and startups, Ukrainian businessmen: CEOs and owners of national companies. For several years, she has acted as a mental coach for a member of the Rio 2016 Olympics team. Valeria Kozlova’s portfolio of results includes several dozen successful cases, including:
– a significant increase in the company’s market share,
– signing important contracts,
– reorganization and re-profiling of companies,
– strategic partnership,
– improving the level of soft skills for individuals and teams,
– career breakthroughs,
– conflict resolution.

Valeria has degrees in medicine, psychology, and psychotherapy. She mastered the Behavioral Approach and System Approach in two overseas projects in Sweden and Poland. Studied at St. Petersburg Gestalt Institute (2011) and Moscow Gestalt Institute (2005-2011).

Valeria is the author of the book «EQ-Boost Technology. How to Use Emotional Intelligence in Business and Life», and a publicist.

Founding Dean and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Lviv Business School at the UCU, Vice Rector Academic Affairs at the Ukrainian Catholic University.

Her areas of expertise are Organizational Behavior and Learning Organizations, Organization Development, Entrepreneurship.

Background:

Sophia Opatska received her education from Ivan Franko University in Lviv, a degree in International Economic Relations, and defended her thesis work in Management and Human Capital Development. She studied at Executive Education programs the University of Michigan Business School (USA), IEDC- Bled School of Management (Slovenia), China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and had on-the- job training at InnoSpace Company (Denmark) and at the Warsaw School of Economics (Poland). In 2017, she was on a semester fellowship at Nanovic Institute of European Studies, University of Notre Dame (USA). Sophia Opatska is a founder and supervisor of the Global Shapers project in Lviv and an Advisory Board member at the Emaus Center.

Work Experience:

From 2001 to 2004 she held the position of the MBA Program Director at the Lviv Institute of Management. From 2004 to 2007 Ms. Opatska worked as MBA Director at Kyiv Mohyla Business School (kmbs). In 2007 she worked on building the personnel development and training system for Concern Galnaftogaz OJSC. She is Founding Dean of Lviv Business School at the Ukrainian Catholic University, which she had been leading for 10 years. From 2016 Sophia is Vice Rector Academic Affairs at the Ukrainian Catholic University and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of LvBS.

Visiting Lecturer in Management. President of Euroindex. Ukrainian businessman, the president of “Euroindex”, which is the leading organizer of exhibitions “business to business” in Ukraine. Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the exhibition center “KyivExpoPlaza”. Member of the Board of Directors of the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry UFI, vice president of the Exhibition Federation of Ukraine. The author of a textbook for high school students “Fundamentals of Exhibitions.” He has experience in various fields of business and diverse experience working in public sector organizations.

Author of numerous articles and publications on organizational development. Valery has close contact with the markets because his company annually hosts more than 20 exhibitions, which involve almost 2,000 companies and visits about 100 000 specialists from all over Ukraine.

Managing partner of pro.mova Consulting Company. At LvBS delivers a course on Business Communications. A member of the Supervisory Board of the Gongadze Fund, a member of the Committee of Lviv Entrepreneurs, a member of UAPR Association of Public Relations. He has been employed by large Ukrainian media (1+1 TV Studio, 1st National TV Channel, Kiyevskiye Vedomosti). He started his journalistic career at Post-Postup newspaper and Promin Radio Station, worked with the leading mass media within the country and abroad (Dzerkalo Niadeli, Ekho Moskvy Radion, a local co-producer for CBS and PBS, BBC).
As a journalist, he has a firsthand experience while working in hotspots (Yugoslavia, 1999) and in other emergency conditions (Transcarpathian floods 1998-1999, events after the Terrorist Acts of September 11, 2001, the Near East, 2002, the Gongadze case and the political crisis 2001-2002).
In 2002-2003, in partnership with Roman Skrypin and Andriy Shevchenko he co-developed a concept of TV Channel 5. In 2002, he declined his work for news programs at 1+1 Channel because of the censor policy. He co-founded Kyiv Independent Media Trade Union, and later became its Chairman.
He graduated from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy with a degree in Political Studies, also studied at Bluffton University (Ohio, USA) and Lviv Ivan Franko National University.
He is the consultant on communications, a lecturer in Communications for the Media, Businesses and NGOs.

Leading partner of the company pro.mova. A participant of Nestor and Univska expert groups (they elaborate long-term visions of Lviv and Ukraine development).Oleksandra Baklanova was a part of the team which launched kmbs – she run one of three businesses of the school during the first five years of its existence. Before that she worked in European headquarters SONY in Germany. Earlier she had been working for five years in non-commercial sector: created a local office of the international youth organization AIESEC, later became a vice-president of this organization in Ukraine. She is involved in a row of public and cultural initiatives, advocacy and social projects. Also for some time she lectured for doctoral students of North-Western University and St. Tomas University (USA).

Oleksandra Baklanova is a member of the advisory board of The Institute of Leadership and Management, a member of the advisory board of Bohdan Hawrylyshyn Charitable Foundation and AIESEC in Ukraine.

Oleksandra received her higher education in international economics and MBA degree.

General Director of the group of companies Andanter Group. A representative of the international agency Luniter troubleshooting in Central and Eastern Europe, the head of the strategy center Public Operational Headquarters, a founder of the group of companies dealing with internet projects iVentures. Andriy Dlihach is a lecturer at the International Economics and Marketing department of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, an invited lecturer at Business School MIM-Kyiv (a leader of the courses “Strategic Governance” and “Strategic Management”); of the program NIMA (Belarus); at British Higher School of Design (Russia, Moscow; the course “Branding”). Besides Andriy is a cofounder of the community platform “New Country”, a cofounder of the movement “FreeGen”; a vice-president of the NGO “Healthy Nation – ZNAK”; a deputy head of the working group for setting professional standards, a member of the editorial board of the journal “Marketing Researches”.

The author of 7 books and over 120 publications in the sphere of marketing, strategic governance, business organization and international economics for such periodicals as “Forbes”, “Companion” and others. The best trainer and consultant on marketing in Ukraine according to the annual rating Ukrainian Marketing Awards; the best consultant on governance according to the rating TradeMaster. The group of companies Advanter Group headed by Andriy is recognized as the most competent consulting company of marketing sphere in Ukraine.

Lecturer of the courses on finance within Master’s programs and programs on management development of LvBS. Business Consultant on financial issues. For many years, he managed the school financial department, and before that – the Financial Department of the University. He took an internship at the Financial Department of Seton Hall University (USA). Also he has an experience of managerial work in public organizations. He consults the participants during making their business projects.

Partner of the Romexsoft Company. Senator of UCU. Member of the UCU Investment Council.

Iaroslav is the Dean of the Applied Sciences Faculty at the UCU and holds the office of the Professor in Quantitative Methods for Business Decision-Making and Economics. He did his internship at The George Washington University, USA. At the National Bank of Poland, Yaroslav acted as a scholarly supervisor on enhancing the macroeconomic modelling and forecasting the Eastern European economies. Besides, he is a Member of Global Policy Fellows Program of the Institute for Higher Education (Washington, USA). Yaroslav is actively involved in econometric modelling and forecasting, as well as research in the field of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics. He is the author of numerous publications on complex analysis, macroeconomics, and forecasting. Yaroslav has participated in a large number of international conferences, training, and research programs.

Attorney in law, Managing Partner with law firm Grynchuk and Partners (law practice 2004). Practice in supporting investment projects, corporate law, tax disputes, protection of business relations with regulatory authorities. Andriy combines legal practice with social work. He is a member of Lviv Entrepreneurs Committee, Ukraine Bar Association. Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Lviv.

His main line of works is connected with the implementation of flow control methods based on Theory of constrains (ТОС) and economical production. From 2008 to 2010 he was at the head of the Goldratt First European Regional School in Kyiv. Among his customers were the following companies: Nestle, Raiffeisenbank Aval, Luxoft, DТЕК (Donbas energy holding company), Zaporizhzhia transformer plant, IDS (one of the biggest producers of mineral water in Ukraine), Fast Food Systems (the biggest chain of restaurants in Ukraine), «Veresen +» (regional distributor of food products), Avito (regional distributor of Procter and Gamble in Ukraine), Mens (regional distributor of telecommunication equipment) etc. He completed training at the following international programs: Japan International Cooperation Agency (Japan), Goldratt Schools (Israel), IESE (University of Navarra in Barcelona), OWZ Consulting -Center (Munich) and Business School of Wayne University (Detroit, the USA). He gives classes at the leading business schools of Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Russia and the USA.