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. 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.