ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL FORMATION
A formation built across three decades — from comparative literary analysis to executive strategy, from linguistic systems to institutional architecture.
Each stage was not a departure from the previous — it was a deepening of the same structural inquiry.
2025 · EXECUTIVE PROGRAMME
Strategic Business Leadership
University of Glasgow
Enterprise-level strategic leadership in complex and disruptive environments. Frameworks for digital transformation governance, innovation leadership and cross-functional strategy design.
Strategy as structural discipline — applied to organisations in transition.
2003–2005 · MASTER'S RESEARCH
MA in Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts · EQF Level 7
Advanced research in phonetics and applied linguistics, including early computational and digital analysis of language use. Collaboration with specialised linguistic laboratory in Zagreb integrating theoretical linguistics with computer-supported methodologies.
Language as system — how structure shapes meaning before meaning shapes structure.
2025 · EXECUTIVE PROGRAMME
Strategic Leadership: Impact, Change & Decision-Making
Dartmouth College
Leadership frameworks for high-stakes decision-making, organisational change and institutional impact in complex environments.
Decision architecture under conditions of disruption and uncertainty.
1997–2002 · UNDERGRADUATE · WITH DISTINCTION
BA in Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts · EQF Level 6
Enterprise-level strategic leadership in complex and disruptive environments. Frameworks for digital transformation governance, innovation leadership and cross-functional strategy design.
Strategy as structural discipline — applied to organisations in transition.
2010–2013 · DOCTORAL RESEARCH
PhD in Literary Sciences
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts · EQF Level 8
Research on finitude and infinity as comparative analytical frameworks in literature across Islamic, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and Taoist traditions. Development of structural models for understanding symbolic systems, cultural trauma and identity formation.
The discovery that meaning is structurally encoded — the foundation of everything that followed.
2008 · PROFESSIONAL DIPLOMA
Diploma in Public Relations
University of Glasgow
Formal professional training in institutional communication, strategic messaging and public-interest engagement — the first bridge between academic research and executive practice.
The transition from scholarly to institutional communication.