Natalia Brzezinski

About Natalia Brzezinski

Natalia, is an experienced moderator, journalist, and communications strategist focused on building dynamic dialogue across numerous sectors and cultures. She has held cutting-edge roles in the U.S. Senate Press Office for Senator John Kerry, to The Huffington Post, to the U.S. Embassy in Sweden focusing on the intersect of digitalization and diplomacy, innovation and leadership. As the former CEO of Brilliant Minds Foundation, an initiative focused on bringing together traditional, long-term business families and the newest disruptors to debate the convergence of humanity and technology. The Brilliant Minds Foundation focuses on scaling Swedish values and shining a light on the innovation ecosystem. The founding board includes the Wallenberg, Stenbeck, Ax:son Johnson, Olsson (Stena) Andersson and Rapp families, as well as Spotify founder Daniel Ek, as well as key foundation partners Ericsson and Kinnevik. Natalia Brzezinski also served as CEO for Brilliant Minds annual two-day leadership summit in the creative setting of Stockholm. Because she believes that innovation is borderless and one of the few things everyone can unify around in the post-modern era. She works to connect and activate the new leaders of tomorrow will be creators, builders and artists, to challenge conventional thinking in business and society, as well as identify new drivers, incentives and components of innovation.Brilliant Minds is a movement and aim to help create a new geopolitical order steeped in creativity and activate a community by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs with shared values. Natalia is also the former host of the podcast series, The Brilliant Minds Podcast, which is a Spotify original in collaboration, in which she held open and honest conversations with leading U.S. and international entrepreneurs, politicians, artists and disruptors that share a passion for leveraging creativity for social impact.

Experience

1. Host of Stand out

   Acast

   Sep 2015 — Present · Stockholm, SE

   The \'Stand Out! podcast change the definition of what it means to be a superwoman. Not just highlighting rich, successful or famous “superwomen or power women”. A woman who bucks convention does the things you’re not supposed to do, or says the things you’re not supposed to say about children, marriage, life, even though they burn a hole in your mind. The podcast bridge questions of gender, generational change, the old and the new, the community and the individual, modern views of society and self-identity packaged in a fresh, multidimensional context.

Education

• University of Richmond

  International Relations, European Union, Journalism

  2002 — 2006