Leadership Style with Dita Formankova and Milan Formanek

On Air: Podcast by Femme Palette

What makes a good leader? What are the most common leadership mistakes? What are some of the leadership specifics in the Czech environment? We discussed this and much more with Dita Formankova (Prikrylova) and Milan Formanek!

About the guests:

Dita is a co-founder and Non-executive Director of the Czech-based social business Czechitas that is inspiring and educating women and youth in IT and digital skills and today is operating in 8 locations, employing 50+ people, managing a community of 560+ active industrial experts and network of 100+ companies and organizing activities for 15.000 students yearly. Besides Czechitas, she initiated other educational projects: Academy of Programming, Powercoders, Datagirls and Czech GreenFox Academy. She is listed in Forbes 30 under 30, CESA Female Role Model, European Citizen Prize and SXSW Community Service Award. She is a member of advisory board Cesko.Digital and SocialImpact Award International and recently she has also joined Avast on a journey of building a global, diverse and inclusive culture. Her passion is education, innovations, technology, social entrepreneurship, kitesurfing, climbing, downhill biking, and many other adrenaline adventures.

Milan is a positive futurist and lifehacker. He worked in Red Bull for 14 years and was a CEO of a creative communication agency Zaraguza. Milan coordinated 20 countries, built a great team. Successfully tested and innovated complex marketing approaches on more than 300 projects and worked with over 100 world top athletes and artists. He teaches and consults modern marketing, already to 500+ organizations, NGOs, startups, universities and selected organizations like Czech chamber of commerce, Impact Hub, European Leadership & Academic Institute, Omnicom Media Group, T-Mobile, Czechitas, Siemens, Prague Institute of Planning and Development or Expres Menu. Milan has mixed this practice with theory from 400+ business audiobooks. He has visited 55+ countries and keeps exploring various life skills.

Tips:

• Translate vision into concrete steps - simplify, simplify, simplify
• Choose the right people aka 'coach the coachable'
• Work on your vision - where you want to be in 10, 15, 20 years
• Listen to others - that's the key, fu*k charisma
• Check out the concept of Servant Leadership - shared effort towards a bigger and meaningful goal
• Have personal approach to everyone in team - progress over promotion
• Get outside your bubble as often as possible