Roman Stakhivskyi · Strategy & Transformation Leader

I reinvent business systems to create lasting value in an era of change.

I bring business strategy, technology and operations together to help organizations find a better way forward.

10+ years in strategy & transformation · Former GM & CEO · 5 ventures built · Author of two books

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Roman Stakhivskyi
About

Roman Stakhivskyi

Roman Stakhivskyi in a white shirt

I am a strategist, builder and author working at the intersection of enterprise reinvention, technology and entrepreneurship.

For more than a decade, I have advised senior leaders on strategy, value creation, operating models and technology-enabled transformation. My work has ranged from C-suite strategy and AI-enabled transformation at Fortune 500 companies to P&L leadership in General Manager and CEO roles.

Along the way, I have originated or helped close more than €50M in deals for my employers and contributed to client programs targeting more than €5B in EBITA impact.

What connects these roles is turning ambiguity into value: identifying what should change, building the strategy and narrative around it, establishing ownership, and staying close enough to execution to make it real. Today I focus on how Agentic AI is reshaping business and operating models. I am open to senior leadership and advisory roles in strategy and transformation, as well as new venture opportunities.

I also write, published as Roman Stahovskyi. My books Awakened by War and Morphine: The Phantom of Love explore transformation from a more personal side.

€5B+EBITA impact identified in client programs
€50M+deals originated and closed
30+strategy & transformation engagements delivered
10+years in strategy & transformation
5ventures built
€2M+annual revenue achieved from my ventures
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The common thread

Better futures need better systems.

Most organizations don't have a strategy problem. They have a system problem: value, decisions, technology and people pulling in different directions. I bring them into one winning system.

Across enterprise strategy, venture building and writing, I keep returning to one question: what could we become at our best — and how do we make it real?

What I do

One perspective. Three expressions.

Strategy for complex organizations, direct experience building ventures, and writing about reinvention.

01 / STRATEGIST

Making complex change actionable.

I work with leaders and teams to identify where value sits, make difficult choices and turn strategy into action — connecting technology, people and operating reality with clear ownership, accountability and a narrative that helps change move through the organization.

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02 / BUILDER

Turning ideas into things that exist.

I turn ambiguous ideas into products, ventures and business models by shaping the vision, testing value early, making pragmatic trade-offs and taking ownership from concept through execution, G2M and customer reality.

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03 / AUTHOR

Exploring transformation from the inside.

Writing lets me explore a different kind of transformation — identity, ambition, relationships, war, reinvention and what happens when the life you understood stops making sense.

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Selected work

From ambiguity to business value.

Six examples of shaping strategy, redesigning systems and building new solutions across industries.

PLATFORM STRATEGY

Exploring a collaboration platform for international governments and pharma.

Translating strategy into digital platform: assessing value, legislation, technology, governance, commercial model and to-be workflows design.

#public sector #government #pharma
ENTERPRISE REINVENTION

Redesigning how a global HR staffing business operates.

Elevating strategy and translating it into a new operating model — connecting processes, capabilities, governance, technology and execution across global organization.

#service company #HR services
AGENTIC SERVICES TRANSFORMATION

Identifying and unlocking value through Agentic AI in global beverage company.

Bringing business strategy, Data & AI and Third Party Services together to Agentify Application management services with potential for €1–2M annual cost savings.

#FMCG
TRANSFORMATION LEADERSHIP

Making complex transformation for a global confectionery company adoptable.

Leading cross-functional, multi-stakeholder business transformations by creating and deploying clear change narrative.

#FMCG
VENTURE BUILDING

From an idea to break-through retail innovation.

Identifying the problem and solution in physical retail. Co-founding a patented B2B technology venture, building the partners ecosystem, commercial and business model, while launching the product in Germany, the UK and Switzerland.

#retail technology #IoT #B2B
VALUE CREATION

From a problem to digital solution.

Identifying the problem and building digital personalized insights platform from scratch with AI Agents.

#real-estate #prop tech #B2C
Reinvention

Transformations are rarely linear.

My own career has moved between technology, consulting, entrepreneurship and writing; across countries, ventures, successes and false starts. That experience shapes how I approach transformation today: less as a presentation exercise, more as the difficult process of deciding what to preserve, what to abandon and what to build next.

A point of view

Consulting is about to become much more product-like.

AI is compressing the cost of analysis, synthesis and knowledge work — precisely the activities that historically supported much of the consulting business model.

That does not make strategy irrelevant. It changes where value comes from. Increasingly, advantage will sit in proprietary data, platforms, workflow integration, judgment and the ability to turn insight into sustained execution.

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What are you trying to transform?

A company. A product. A new venture. A leadership or advisory role.
I'm interested in ambitious problems, strong teams and conversations about what comes next.

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