Kuba Karlinski
Managing Director, Strategyn Eastern and Central Europe
Locale: Warsaw, Poland
Biography: Kuba Karlinski is a valued consultant, business coach and expert in strategy, product and service innovation. He is the head of the Strategyn Central and Eastern Europe team and a partner at Innovatika – Thinkdom of Business Innovators. He is focused on growth and, in the past years, he ran projects for leading companies in telecommunications, finance and banking, industrial design and manufacturing, as well as pharmaceutical industries both in Europe and in the USA.
Kuba has a global perspective on business, having run numerous operational and innovation projects in Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, and South America. This global experience has also given him unique insights into the customer perspective.
Before taking his current role as an innovation strategy consultant, he gained experience in both the pharmaceutical and media industries. At the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, he led a number of internal projects related to strategy, marketing, communications, sales and knowledge management. Later, at Agora, one of the largest media companies in Poland, he managed a top strategic project related to recruitment advertising that resulted in the relaunch of job advertisements in the print media (newspaper) in 2005 and the launch of a new Internet job site.
Kuba earned a master’s degree with honors in management and marketing from the Warsaw School of Economics.
Personal: In my spare time, I’m a passionate globe-trotter, scuba diver and downhill skier.
Family: A girlfriend and a cat. No kids yet.
My Passion: I love to solve problems and provide value. Coming up with innovation that is meaningful and that answers unmet customer needs is like discovering a cure for a terminal disease. Seriously.
Last Book I Read: The OZ Principle, by Roger Connors, Tom Smith, and Craig Hickman.