Welcome and thank you for checking in at the Inner Game of Change Podcast where I focus on exploring the multi layers of managing organisational change.

My guests cover a diverse number of critical topics to enable effective and sustainable change in the workplace.

My guest today is Dr Nadya  Zhexembayeva, an International TEDx speaker, a scientist, an entrepreneur, and an author specializing in reinvention and resilience. 

“The queen of reinvention” as dubbed by TEDx, Nadya delivered keynote talks to over 100,000 executives – including four TEDx  talks in Slovenia, Austria, Romania, and the USA.

I am grateful to have Nadya sharing her thoughts on sustaining digital transformation.   

Topics Include:

1. The urgency for digital transformation
2. Building blocks for sustainable change maturity
3. Change resilience
4. Starter vs Completer
5. Change execution capability
6. Change as a process
7. It won't slow down; get used to change
8. The change manager seat at the C- Suite table

and much more...

About Nadya
In Ventures magazine calls her “The Reinvention Guru.” TEDx Navasink 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 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, where she teaches courses in leadership, organizational behavior, strategy, change management, design thinking, and sustainability.
 
As a speaker, she delivered keynotes to more than 100,000 executives – including four TEDx talks in Slovenia, Austria, Romania, and the USA.
 
Nadya is the author of a number of 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 the 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 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.

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