Nadia Deshkovets is a TED-speaker, ex-VP and CMO at Carlsberg and now is a certified executive business coach. Nadia started her professional journey as a marketing manager in Belarus in early 90ths and grew her career all the way to Vice President of Marketing at Carlsberg in Vietnam, while remaining active, enthusiastic and empathetic leader. For the last 7 years Nadia also helps global business leaders as an executive coach and business trainer.

In this episode we talk about curiosity as one of the key ingredients for successful innovators, entrepreneurs and executive leaders. We discuss how to nurture growth mindset, overcome rigidity and find the keys to make innovation possible, long term and meaningful.

Since Nadia is a certified executive coach, we discussed, how her clients come to an idea that they need help, what makes a good coach, discuss ups and downs and how Nadia builds an AI Companion to scale her coaching services.

We also discuss specifics of doing business in Vietnam, compare with other geographies and – as both of us are expats – talk about benefits and challenges of living and working in another country.

Our conversation also covers topics of incremental vs disruptive innovation, we discuss practical case studies of product innovation in consumer goods segment and how to build a proper business portfolio toward high-momentum segments. Please, pay attention to the segment where Nadia highlights:

“Meaningful longterm innovation is always disruptive and is based on customer insights”.

“Failure is one of the most important things for innovators and entrepreneurs”.

“Smooth sea never trained a skilled sailor”.

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