BenchSci

Project Manager

-Independent Consultant-

- Work with individuals, particularly in high-stress industries like IT and tech, helping them to create strategies to maintain a balance between their personal and professional lives, boosting overall well-being
- I help IT leaders (team leaders and middle management) to enhance their emotional intelligence, decision-making and leadership development through personal coaching based on ICF principles.

Coach ICF ACC

As an experienced Agile coach, I guide organizations through the process of adopting and refining Agile delivery to foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. My work involves coaching teams, managers, and executives on how to apply Agile approaches such as Scrum framework and Kanban method to their specific contexts.

Agile Coach / Management Consultant

K&C (Krusche & Company)

While working in this position, I collaborated with numerous customers and assumed various roles. The clients included Nestle Switzerland, Informa Connect UK, Bosch Group, HSBC Germany. My responsibilities were diverse, as detailed below:

As a Portfolio Manager:
- Oversaw the company's entire project portfolio.
- Ensured the successful delivery of all portfolio components, involving 150+ people.
- Designed PMO processes and templates to support Delivery.
- Maintained the operational profit margin within the agreed target.
As a Program Manager:
- Managed two programs for the company’s key customers (team 50+ people).
- Implemented strategies that exceded to expected YoY accounts growth.
As a Project Manager:
- Managed predictive and adative projects with various types of customers, including startups, mid-size companies, global enterprises, and government organizations.
- Handled delivery with different contract types, including fixed-price, managed service, delivery team, and dedicated team arrangements.
As an Agile Coach:
- Guided teams in adopting the Agile culture and principles, while supporting several customers through their Agile transformations.
- Acted as Scrum Master for different customer and setups, including in SAFe.

Head of Delivery (customer-side roles: Project Manager / Program Manager)

I managed client-oriented software development projects, leading all stages of development process from pre-sale to completion. I ensured timely project delivery for customers such as Societe Generale, Informa, Burda, Puma, Avalgon, Solar-Log.

As the Head of the Business Unit, I was responsible for overseeing the project delivery excellence for the Business Unit Ukraine (BU UA). I served as the focal point for daily operational activities and organizational growth, maintained the agreed net profit for the BU.

Delivery Manager / Project Manager / Head of BU Ukraine

Bosch

As a Scrum Master I helped to establish a healthy Scrum cycle with predictable deliverables, reduced cycle time and lead time.

Scrum Master (via K&C)

SvitSoft

As a Project Manager, I managed client-oriented web development projects on schedule and achieved milestones for notable clients including Microsoft Ukraine, The American Chamber of Commerce, Ukrbud and Osvitoria.  Actively participated in planning, managing change requests, budgeting and stakeholder management.

As a Scrum Master, I oversaw the software development activities for the AdSaver product, a dynamic call-tracking software. Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, improving the team's productiviry to deliver reliable software with a 99.8% uptime.

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Indus Valley

Head E-commerce / Product Manager

JCDecaux

System Administrator

I’m a Project Manager and Agile Coach with over 10 years of experience helping distributed product teams deliver complex software development projects across a variety of environments - from startups and scaleups to Fortune 500 enterprises and government organizations.

What sets me apart is the ability to blend structured project delivery (PMP, PfMP) and Agile expertise (CSP, KMP, ICP-ACC) with coaching mastery (ICF ACC). This combination enables not just timely results, but sustainable team growth and human-centered leadership.

Currently, I’m working in the GenAI space, contributing to the development of frontier product. It’s a space full of ambiguity, experimentation, and rapid shifts - where my coaching mindset and delivery discipline help teams stay focused and resilient.

Dmytro Salo

I am a polymathic strategist and author working across education, work, technology, science and societal systems.

My work focuses on polymathy as a method: multi-specialization and multidimensional thinking applied to complex environments where single-discipline expertise is insufficient. I research, write about, and design practical frameworks that help institutions and professionals work across domains, time horizons, and knowledge systems.

Over the past two decades, I have worked with organizations, public institutions, and innovation ecosystems across Europe, the Middle East, and the USA — contributing to education design, talent development, foresight-informed strategy, and cross-sector advisory work.

I currently serve as Director of Foresight & Risk Intelligence at Polymathic Futures, where I collaborate with scientists and researchers on research-driven foresight and risk analysis, while my personal focus remains on polymathic thinking, education, and the future of work. https://polymathicfutures.com/

As the author of Why Polymaths? and Future of Work: From Industrial to Polymath Mindset, I am a frequent speaker on polymathy, future-ready education, techno-social change, and multidimensional human capability.

My background includes an MA in Linguistics and Pedagogy, with further training in psychology, futures studies, philosophy, world and art history, Asian studies, and anthropology. My fieldwork spans participatory democracy, alternative learning ecosystems, and heterodox economic experiments.
I am fluent in English, German, Russian, and Italian.

Open to collaboration with institutions and initiatives working on future-oriented education, work, and technology governance.

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www.aksinyastaar.info

Aksinya Staar

Your workforce is training for a world that just ended.
Polymathy, the capacity to operate fluently across multiple disciplines and paradigms, was once considered Renaissance luxury. Today it's survival operation system.

While education systems and organizations continue to refine specialists, reality itself has become fragmented. The United States has withdrawn from 66 international organizations.   Military interventions are reoccurring at a pace that many of us haven't experienced in our lifetimes. The notion of a stable, predictable world order grounded in rules and shared values has been eroded and is no longer a reliable guide for international relations. It's a shift that will have profound consequences for economies.

Supply chains, regulatory frameworks, information environments - all balkanizing simultaneously.

👉 Your supply chain expert who only understands optimization can't navigate Chinese mercantilism AND American transactionalism AND European coordination simultaneously. 

👉Your analyst trained on stable datasets drowns when contradictory information warfare operates across hostile spheres.

👉Your strategist thinking in quarterly cycles misses that planetary threats intensify regardless of geopolitical fragmentation.

Here's what matters now:

1) Polymathy as epistemological immunity system. Because when information environments fragment into competing realities, polymaths ask "what does each knowledge system reveal and conceal?" 

2) Polymathy as cognitive antifragility generator. Narrow specialists shatter when their domain's rules change. Polymaths strengthen. They've rebuilt conceptual frameworks repeatedly, failed at beginner level while expert elsewhere, thrived in permanent uncertainty. For a polymath as a multidimensional professional, every paradigm shift becomes opportunity rather than threat.

3) Polymathy as regenerative systems thinking. Whether we remember this or not, fragmented political systems still operate within unified planetary boundaries. Peope with polymathic approach draw on ecology, complexity science, indigenous wisdom, circular economy simultaneously. They recognize patterns across scales and build systems that strengthen rather than extract.

The World Economic Forum identified analytical thinking, creative thinking, systems thinking, resilience, and curiosity as critical. One can train them separately, perhaps. But today we need them as a pack. As a set, they function more like emergent properties of polymathic cognition: the practiced ability to hold contradictory frameworks without cognitive collapse, to synthesize across incommensurable worldviews, and to navigate paradigm plurality as a daily competence.

Organizations building "adaptive intelligence" and "cross-paradigm fluency" are responding to a present most leaders haven't recognized yet.


#FutureOfWork #Leadership #Geopolitics #StrategicThinking  #polymath

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