Inna Chilik

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ABOUT INNA CHILIK

Inna is a systems innovator and cross-organizational collaboration facilitator with over 20 years of experience in strategic management consulting and a dual Masters’ degree in Finance and Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability. Born in Moldova with a strong connection to nature and a background in finance, business and sustainability, Inna has lived in Bulgaria, the UK, Mexico, Sweden and now Germany. These experiences have enabled her to develop a transcultural perspective that has guided her journey to building bridges where she finds walls. It has empowered her to continue walking unknown paths, blending polarities, and catalysing transformation on both individual and collective levels. Currently she is co-leading Collective Sensemaking activities within the NetZeroCities project, a European initiative focused on advancing cities\' efforts to achieve climate neutrality through implementing systemic and locally designed innovative actions. In practice, this work involves constantly experimenting with a range of participatory methods to design and facilitate learning experiences between the Pilot and Twin cities. These periodic Collective Sensemaking sessions, where cities can share their experiences, insights, and challenges; enable participants to learn from one another, grow leadership capacities, and overall activate ecosystem of collaboration to catalyse alternative futures. Prior to that, Inna led strategic consultancy projects in Finance, Pharma, Consumer Healthcare and FMCG, with strong focus on increasing profitability, from both reduction of costs (including organisational redesign and operational transformation) and growth of revenue streams sides (geographic expansion, M&A, commercial and market strategy, portfolio management, NPD, innovation).