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Career strategist with a neuroscientist's brain. Neuroscientist with a founder's nerve.
My name is Natalia. I map the future of work — and prepare talent, companies, HR leaders, and startup founders for it. I do this from an unusual vantage point: a PhD in computational neuroscience, a decade of independent job-market research across 16 countries, and a daily seat in the middle of the Silicon Valley startup scene.
I started blogging as a sophomore at the University of Warsaw back in 2006 and never stopped. This blog is where the whole story lives — the research, the business, the travels, and all the ups and downs in between.
Go for what's yours in your own way.
Who I Am Today
I'm the Founder & CEO of Ontology of Value®, a career incubator and talent intelligence platform for the AI-first economy: independent job-market research, certification training for HR and career professionals, corporate workshops, keynotes, and psychometric tools, including the Ontology of Value® Test — a scientifically informed aptitude test that helps professionals discover their natural way of creating value and the environments where they will thrive.
I operate across multiple cultures in the job market. I'm embedded in three ecosystems: the academic world of STEM sciences, the cutting-edge AI startup ecosystem, and the world of AI.
I'm also an educator, a keynote speaker, and an author — all related to career development, self-navigation, and developing talent in times of AI and the emerging brain economy.
Before all this, I spent years studying causal systems in the brain at the Donders Institute (PhD, Computational Neuroscience, 2020). I never really left the brain behind — it's just that my laboratory is now the job market, and my subjects are the millions of professionals navigating it while AI rewrites the rules.
My personal mission: the job market is changing faster than our institutions can adapt, and I want to make sure people aren't left behind — to give professionals, teams, and the leaders who shape careers the tools to self-navigate, build real value, and stay forever young in their minds, whatever the economy does next.
What Drives Me
Despite my STEM education and analytic mind, I am primarily a student of life. I believe the most important knowledge isn't in papers — it's collected on the ground, from people of all professions and cultures.
That's why I travel to places where collective intelligence gathers: the Tibetan community in Dharamshala, India; the Daoist masters of the Wudang Mountains, China; the temporary city of Burning Man in the Nevada desert. Each of these places runs a different operating system for human potential — and each one has changed how I think about work, balance, and what a good career actually is.
Self-development isn't a hobby for me; it's a research method. Whether it's morning tai chi, Daoist philosophy, or the neuroscience of staying cognitively sharp in an AI-first world, I test everything on myself first — then bring what works to the people and companies I advise.
On Stage: The Future of Work
Back in San Francisco, I bring people together around the future of work: the Future of Work Pitch Nights and mixers I host across the city — from art bars downtown to the Tesla Showroom — gather founders, investors, HR leaders, and researchers building what comes next.
I Also Teach!
A big part of my week is spent teaching — online and on-site, from Warsaw to San Francisco. I train career advisors, HR professionals, recruiters, and executives in career development, self-navigation, and developing talent in times of AI and the emerging brain economy. The flagship format is the Ontology of Value® Strategic Career Advisory Certification — an intensive, practice-oriented program built on six years of job-market research across 16 countries. I also speak on these topics at conferences, from WORKTECH to the AGI Summit.
Books
I'm the author of three books on careers and self-navigation:
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I am happy about my life as it is, but nevertheless, if you happen to bump into a boy like this, please let me know!
