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Ina
Kukovič Borovnik
A description from a friend, quickly.
Artist Mojca Markizeti.
I am not interested in making organisaitons more efficient. There is plenty of help available for that. I am interested in whether people inside of them can still think - whether anything surprising is allowed to grow, whether anyone changes their mind out loud, wether the place is more alive when they leave it than when they arrived.
I work with people who recognise their formula is quietly expiring and would rather find out now than later. I don't promise to fix your problems. I promise creating conditions , honest company and better questions from the ones you came in with.
a more (f)ormal bio
Ina Kukovič Borovnik, MBA is a strategic host for reinvention, international speaker, facilitator and founder of BELAVODA, a practice dedicated to systemic change and building adaptive capacity in organisations, institutions and communities.
She works at the intersection of strategy, leadership, organisational development and living systems, helping leaders and organisations develop the capacity to reinvent themselves before change forces them to. Her work combines strategic thinking, facilitation of complex processes, experiential learning, Warm Data and insights from natural systems.
Ina is the first globally certified Reinvention Practitioner, trained through the Reinvention Academy, and an official partner and faculty member of Reinvention Academy Europe. She is also a certified Warm Data Lab Host, trained in the transcontextual approach developed by Nora Bateson.
Her professional path deliberately crosses disciplines and systems. A lawyer by education, she graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana and later completed an MBA at IEDC – Bled School of Management. She also studied strategic sustainability at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden.
Her career has taken her from law to sustainability and environmental entrepreneurship in China, to communications in the Office of the Prime Minister of Slovenia, and later into strategy, leadership, organisational transformation and systemic change.
Rather than approaching change as a one-off transformation project, her work focuses on developing reinvention as an organisational and human capability — the ability to sense change, make meaning together, let go of what no longer serves and continuously create new responses.
Nature is not a metaphor added to her work but one of its foundations. BELAVODA originates in Bele Vode, a small village beneath the extinct Smrekovec volcano in Slovenia, and Ina increasingly explores what forests, ecosystems and other living systems can teach us about adaptation, learning, relationships and organising.
Visual recording of a leadership retreat session by Mireille van Bremen
We are all a collection of teachings and thinking from many before us and among us. I am grateful to have been learning with...
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