Olga Lyaskina small presentation about activities which i enjoy to do.

1. I. Show us an
activity you enjoy
doing.
Tell us how you
think it contributes
to your personal
and professional
development.
Olga Lyaskina introduction
for IE MBA program

2. INTRODUCTION
My name is Olga Lyaskina. I’m from Moscow, Russia. Now I’m working for famous
FMCG company – UNILEVER as Senior IT business partners for different business
functions.
In my free time I like to do next things:
 Travelling
 Photography
 Study languages
 Oil painting
 Art, music
 Yoga
 Cycling, swimming
Let’s review some of them and how its help me
grow in my career .

3. TRAVELLING
For me travelling:
• Preparation – SWEET PART
New ideas about travels
Gathering information and
studying about places
Planning routes, logistics, visit,
exhibitions, etc.
• Realization – IN ROME DO LIKE
ROMANS DO
Open mind for meeting with
new people, emotions, places
New tastes of local food & vine
Accepting new life style.
Come back – AFTER PARTY
photo, stories, life comparison

4. PHOTOGRAPHY
• Photo helps to keep in memory
beautiful places, moments, events.
• Doing photo I use painting
principles: compositions, colors,
interesting objects and people .
• I’ve started to study photo on more
advanced level:
– “philosophy” of photography
– how to “read and understand
photo”
– technical aspects.

5. LANGUAGES and CULTURE
• To understand other culture, traditions, life
style I study and improve languages :
 English
 Spanish
 Italian
•
• Besides traditional methods of improving
languages I widely use social media, internet
and live communications with people.
• To perfect and polish it I read original
authors, listen music and watching films with
subtitles. I study articles about most popular
topics for discussion like football, politics, food
and culture difference.

6. PAINTING
I’m drawing for many years and hope made some progress.
The plot of my pictures - places which I visited during my vacation or business
trips.
Isola Bella, Sicilia,
Italy
Cascais, Portugal
London, UK
Painting is a good
psychology method
to relax from
routine life.

7. HOW I DO IT?
After trip I select the best photo for picture and then start drawing.
Portofino, Italy

8. MY PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
1. Travels help me to “go out of
the box”, open new horizons
and brings new ideas.
2. Trips change my mindset and
I look at my life and problems
from other point of view.
3. I use opportunity to test my
self in different conditions and
situations to understand my
strong and weaknesses of
character.

9. MY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
1. Different countries -
different life.. I try to take
best practices from all
what I’ve seen.
Understand level of
people professionalism.
2. Investigate how we do
business even in one
International company
but in different countries.
3. My curiosity helps to
investigate local life:
visit markets, stores,
beauty salons and test
food.

10. WHAT IS MY NEXT STEP?
1. New places for visit: Japan,
China, Argentina, Mexico
2. Other language: Portuguese,
Arabic or may be Chinese?
3. IE MBA program
4. Other area of industry for
professional grow - ?
5. May be own business?