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Maryna Peikova

Maryna Peikova

Wartime CEO | President, Global Council for Business Resilience

Paris, France

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Maryna Peikova is a Wartime CEO who led one of Ukraine’s largest retail chains through the chaos of full-scale war, ensuring business survival and protecting thousands of employees and customers under fire. Today, she serves as President of the Global Council for Business Resilience (France), a global NGO that unites leaders, institutions, and communities to build organizational resilience in the face of crises. Drawing on real-time leadership in extreme conditions and over 20 years of international business experience, she provides practical frameworks for leading under pressure, building resilient organizations, and transforming crises into opportunities. Maryna is the author of book "Unbreakable", a playbook on crisis leadership that blends lived experience with global best practices from leading consultancies.

Speaking Topics:
Leading Through War: Lessons of a Wartime CEO
The Future Belongs to the Resilient: Building Crisis-Proof Organizations
Global Crisis Trends and Their Business Implications
Resilience Frameworks: From Preparedness to Recovery
Women in Crisis Leadership
Building Business Resilience in the time of Permacrisis
Use Crisis as opportunity
Building sustainability via building Resilient business&communities

Value for Audience
Maryna delivers not theory, but lived strategies tested in the harshest environments—war, pandemics, supply chain collapse, and economic disruption. She inspires leaders to act decisively, communicate with integrity, and embed resilience into strategy and culture. Her sessions combine compelling storytelling, data-driven insights, and actionable tools for executives, policymakers, and entrepreneurs.

Area of Expertise

  • Business & Management
  • Consumer Goods & Services
  • Environment & Cleantech
  • Humanities & Social Sciences

Topics

  • resilience
  • Adaptability and Resilience
  • Peak Performance Servant Leadership Communication Inclusive Leadership Leading with Empathy Personal Development Motivational Speaker Resilience Coach
  • Organizational Resilience
  • Strategies for Building Resilient Supply Chains
  • crisis management
  • Global Crises
  • Crisis Communications
  • Leadership
  • Women in Business
  • Women in Leadership
  • Women in Tech
  • Women
  • trauma and resilience
  • Resilient systems
  • Emotional Resilience
  • Resilient Teams
  • Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
  • Adaptive Resilience
  • Agility and Sustainability
  • Trends
  • retail
  • FMCG
  • Governance
  • Resiliency
  • Resilience & Motivation
  • Compassion Resilience

Maryna Peikova

Wartime CEO | President, Global Council for Business Resilience

Paris, France

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