20+ years of experience in the field of HR management, including in international companies – Metro Cash and Carry, Tyco Electronic, and Nestle (Svitoch) in the positions of head of the HR department, HR director.

10-month MBA study at Ivey Business School (Canada), MA in HR UCU Business school.

Member of the supervisory board of public organizations: Plast, Building Ukraine Together, Ukrainian Educational Platform.

HR director of the Ukrainian Catholic University.

• Professor of Organizational Behaviour, holds the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Chair in Leadership.
• Lecturer in several master leadership programs
• Teacher of EMBA, MBA, and undergraduate courses in leadership, leading change, organizational behavior, performance management, and staffing
• Recipient of awards for research, innovation in teaching, and outreach activities
• Author of books, cases, and articles

The Chief Operation Officer of LvBS.
Received a specialist diploma in Tourism Management. Graduated from postgraduate studies at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin majoring in Human Resources Management. Has worked in the Training and Development department in IT company for 5 years. She is a member of a non-government organization since 2014, and coordinating the all-Ukrainian charity action “St. Nicholas won’t forget about you”. Participated in the international youth educational projects and programs, such as EU program “Youth in Action” and ERASMUS + in Poland, Germany, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

kdolna@lvbs.com.ua

Founding Dean and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Lviv Business School at the UCU, Vice Rector for implementation of UCU strategy 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, a member of the Board of Directors of European Federation of Catholic Universities (FUCE). 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.

Career history:

Her areas of expertise are Organizational Behavior and Learning Organizations, Organization Development, Entrepreneurship. Sophia is a contributor to a number of cases on above topics in the context of Central and Eastern Europe and specifically Ukraine which is still overcomming its post communist past. Her focus at work is – creation of Entrepreneurial University and ecosystem around it.

sopatska@lvbs.com.ua

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

Andrew Rozhdestvensky 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). Rozhdestvensky 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.

Andrew 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. Rozhdestvensky 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.

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.

Master of History, graduate of the Historical Faculty of Ivan Franko Lviv National University and the National University “Lviv Polytechnic.” A researcher of U.S. foreign policy in the second half of the 20th – 21st centuries, a local historian, lecturer, and professional guide. Since 2013, engaged in implementing innovative approaches to studying the past, including in the extracurricular education system.

From 2016 to 2018, served as the head of the Information Department of the Educational, Psychological, and Integration Assistance Program for children affected by the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea, “Integration through Dialogue”. Editor and compiler of the first collection of adolescent stories about the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war, “(Un)Childish View of War.”

From 2017 to 2022, participated in international projects in historical and integration directions with VA “Nova Doba” (Lviv), Körber Stiftung (Hamburg), DVV International (Berlin/Kyiv), Cultural Vistas (Berlin), Civil Society Forum e.V. (Berlin), and Kolegium Europy Wschodniej (Wroclaw). Graduate of the EUSTORY History Campus Program (2018-2019).

Passionate about information technology, psychology, visual arts, and graphic design.

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

Andrew Rozhdestvensky 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). Rozhdestvensky 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.

Andrew 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. Rozhdestvensky 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.