Iva Biondić

Iva Biondić is a Empathiser, Transformer, Shaper known for transforming how people communicate and lead — helping individuals and organizations unlock capabilities they didn’t know they had.

For more than two decades she has worked across industries and continents, delivering leadership, communication, and transformation programs for companies such as Toyota, BMW, TikTok, Medtronic, Ferrero, Mastercard, MSC, the UN, the European Central Bank, KJO, Erste Bank, Maistra, Valamar, and many others.

A Senior Consultant with Management Centre Europe, part of the American Management Association, a century-old global authority in leadership and management development, she has trained, educated, consulted, and coached thousands of professionals from more than 50 countries — from global corporations to fast-growth start-ups.

Her background spans executive leadership in media, strategic communication, and international consulting, and her work consistently integrates performance management with wellbeing and mindfulness.

Her upcoming book, “(Up)willing”, challenges the prevailing obsession with up-skilling in leadership development. Drawing on Emotional, Positive, Cultural, and Conversational Intelligence, along with mindfulness and embodied practice — and informed by decades of real-world experience — the book argues that genuine growth requires more than new tools: it requires understanding (that is the true Latin root of work “intelligence”).“(Up)willing” offers a concise, human-centered pathway for leaders to engage mind, emotion, and body to cultivate authentic, adaptable, meaningful leadership — and a more intentional form of personal willfulness.