Mgr. Roman Žákovský
Business Mentor & Consultant & Trainer
My approach:
“I have attended enough workshops and pieces of training with external consultants to understand people’s aversion to good sounding rules repeated many times over. My way is to practice a “no bullshit” philosophy where everything I advise needs to be practical, immediately usable, precisely focused on achieving set goals and without any unnecessary clutter that would be just wasting the time of both sides.”
Business Mentor & Consultant
After my studies in the USA, Spain and finishing my master’s in law in the Czech Republic, I have spent more than 3 years as a lawyer in the international law firm Allen & Overy. I focused on the advisory in the international capital markets and derivative transactions.
I liked the business side much more than the law and decided to leave for the job in the UK in the London office of Czech company LASVIT. I have quickly moved up through the ranks to become the Managing Director for UK & West Africa. Apart from the UK I have grown the business in Nigeria and did secondments in LASVIT offices in Dubai and Singapore.
After almost 7 years in London, I came back to Prague to help companies with their international expansion, business development, and internal & external communication. I do group workshops (max. 10 participants) and individual executive coaching and my clients include top tier law firms such as A&O Shearman, Baker & McKenzie, Deloitte, PRK Partners, BBH and others.
In 2023 I was selected from more than 1000 applicants to be part of Forefront programme for Future Leaders in Coaching established by Marshall Goldsmith (No. 1 executive coach in the World) and powered by his prestigious 100 Coaches Agency.
I am very interested in new technologies and since 2017 I have invested in different software and hardware building companies.
Apart from VDS Training & Development, I am also a trainer and business mentor at ImpactHub, CzechCrunch Start Ups, and Femme Palette.