Professor in Leadership, HR&OD, CEO of UCU Center for Leadership.

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.

Researcher at the UCU Leadership Center.

Graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. She defended her dissertation in psychological sciences at the Institute of Psychology named after G. Kostiuk. She participated in international programs and trained in Western European universities: University of Naples Federico II (Italy), University of Bologna (Italy), Blaise Pascal University (France), Central European University (Hungary), Warsaw School of Social Psychology (Poland) , IFL at the Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden). Nataliya worked as the head of the staff of the “Television and Radio Company Lux” and the company “M-FON”. Experience of creation and organization of personnel management. Realization of corporate projects on diagnostics, development and implementation of programs of work with personnel. Member of the European Association of Organizational Psychology and Labor Psychology – EAWOP (European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology). Co-founder of the Association of Human Resources Management Specialists

Now a private investor and Lecturer at Columbia University, Gregory J. Muth is the immediate past Chief Executive Officer of WSL PURE, the philanthropic arm of the World Surf League, Santa Monica, CA. Following a successful financial career, other accomplishments include the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of StrategicMed, New York, NY, a national disease and population management practice aimed at the chronically afflicted; President and Chief Executive Officer of International Medical Care, Ltd., New York, NY, a staff model health maintenance organization (HMO) offering western-style primary care in emerging markets. He remains active in the medical assistance field as a founder and lead member of the Board of Directors of Assist America, Inc., a Princeton, NJ–based employee benefits company. Muth draws upon 12 years of public service with the U.S. Department of Justice – Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. Department of Defense. He began his financial career at Chemical Bank [today J.P. Morgan Chase], with stints at HSBC Bank Group, Banque Indosuez and First Boston Corporation.

Dr. Monzani is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Ivey Business School (Western University). Previously, he was a lecturer in Leadership at the Graduate School of Management of Plymouth University (United Kingdom). Also, he is an associate researcher at both the Institute for Organizational Development and Quality of Work Life of the University of Valencia (Spain) and the and Center for Leadership and Behavior in Organizations at Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany). Dr. Monzani completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership at the Ivey Business School of Western Ontario University (Canada). He holds a Ph.D. in Psychology of Human Resources by the University of Valencia and is an Erasmus Mundus Master in Work, Organizational, and Personnel Psychology.

His research interest lies within advanced concepts in organizational behavior, such as exemplary leadership, commitment to lead, and other topics bridging neuropsychology with Organizational behavior. Whenever possible, Lucas Monzani combines his research activities with his professional practice as an executive consultant. He has extensive experience in wide array of topics of corporate life, such as leadership potential assessment & development, executive coaching, advanced recruitment & selection techniques, virtual team-building. As a consultant, Dr. Monzani contributed to several leadership development projects within the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) of the United Nations.

Master in Management in Foreign Economic Activity of Companies at Lviv National Polytechnic University. Studied economics at the University of Coventry (UK). Experience in project management in ‘Nordpraktik’ program (Stockholm, Sweden). After that – initiated several successful projects in Ukraine, including franchising projects. 15 years of practical experience in business, including management and development of family business, launching and management of start-ups. Representation of foreign companies interests in Ukraine.

Olexandra is a lecturer of the UCU Center for Leadership. She has held key positions in HR and management for more than 15 years. Since 2012, joined Luxoft, building its career from a regional manager to a managing director in Ukraine with a team of 4,000 employees. She worked as an expert on the strategic development of the Investment Attraction Office under the Cabinet of Ministers. Olexandra is the academic leader of the program “Master of Human Resources Development and Organization” LvBS and mentor of social projects for the promotion of girls at STEM. In addition she is HR Certified, CIPD Assistant at the Royal Institute of Personnel Development in London, member of the Harvard Business School curriculum.

Mikhail (Mykhailo) Minakov is Kennan Institute’s Principal Investigator on Ukraine and editor-in-chief of Focus Ukraine, Kennan Institute’s Ukraine-focused blog. He is also editor-in-chief of the Ideology and Politics Journal, and Visiting Professor at Institute of European Studies, Europe University Viadrina (Germany). He earned his Master of Arts degree in Philosophy from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and defended his Doctoral Dissertation at the Kyiv Institute of Philosophy in 2007. For 18 years he taught at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine). Mikhail’s main interest is dedicated to political modernization in Eastern Europe, theories and practices of revolutions, political imagination and ideologies.

Ph.D. Theory and Policy Studies in Higher Education, University of Toronto. 2012-2015 – he was program Director, Masters of Education, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong. His areas of expertise: comparative and international higher education; policy analysis; academic leadership and organization; institutional research; globalization and internationalization. With the support of the Government of Hong Kong, he leads an intensive research project on comparative studies of the strategic development of research universities in China and Russia.

Georgian diplomat. Advisor to the Prime Minister and Defense Minister for Defense Reform of Ukraine. In 1992-1993, he commanded a platoon during the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict and participated in combat operations in Sukhumi. Colonel of the Georgian Army. From 1999 to 2005 – military attaché at the embassy of Georgia in Washington. He held the post of Charge d’Affaires of Georgia in Kyiv.

An entrepreneur-innovator in high technology in Ukraine, founder and president of high-tech investment company KM Core. Yevgen Utkin is a “bridge builder of knowledge sharing” between East and West, leader of the hi-tech industry in Eastern Europe. He founded one of the first IT companies in the post-Soviet space, which he conducted through all stages of development from diversification of business and the development of new markets to the creation of an international corporation and the holding of an IPO. During this time the company’s partners became such leading world leaders of the industry as Intel, Oracle, Cisco and Microsoft. The business philosophy of Eugene Utkin is based on the exchange of knowledge and the value of the company.

Zurab Alasania is Director General of the Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (UA:PBC). In 2000 he cofounded the Objective Media Group, where he served as director and, six years later, launched the Media Port agency alongside a weekly newspaper, the MediaPost. He was Director of the Kharkiv Regional State Television and Radio and cofounded the Ukrainian internet TV station Hromadske.tv. Alasania played a critical role in establishing NTU as a public service broadcaster. At the beginning of this year, UA:PC was established to bring together regional broadcasters, radio and culture into one single entity. The EBU will continue to support UA:PBC in its transformation.