Are you a good boss (to your team and to yourself)?
The unconference session from Bansko Nomad Fest 2026: what a good boss actually does on a Tuesday, and why the second half of the question is the harder one.
Need a speaker?
Public speaking is part of everything I do.
Ever since high school I have enjoyed standing in front of people with something to say: talks, trainings and presentations to audiences of up to 350, in Czech and English. I keep learning, and I love sharing it. If your team or event needs a talk or a practical workshop, just ask.
What do I talk about?
Four topics
Pizza Fridays won’t save your culture
Happiness Management as strategy, not perks: what an ethnographic study inside IT companies found, and what managers who listen do differently.
Your team still runs on biological hardware
AI scales speed and processes overnight. Human cognitive capacity does not. Why wellbeing and AI strategy have to go hand in hand.
What a digital nomad actually is
Why it is never too late to start learning English, and what ten weeks in Japan taught a guy from Nová Paka about work, hospitality and time. First given at Nagasaki Canvas, 2025.
In what shape?
A talk, a workshop, or the whole evening
- A talk
- Twenty to forty-five minutes, with a story in it and a question to take home.
- A practical workshop
- Half a day with your team on one thing: an event, a meeting, a presentation, a new team.
- Hosting
- An evening programme, a panel, an unconference. At Bansko Nomad Fest I ran the evening programme in the festival park for a week, from the welcome to the last act of every night.
Talks and workshops are quoted per event · community events and nomad programmes on skill-share terms, ask
Where have I spoken?
A few I like to mention
- Are you a good boss (to your team and to yourself)? · Bansko Nomad Fest, 2026
- The travel adventures of a guy from Nová Paka who unexpectedly ended up travelling the world · the local cinema, rented out for the night, 2026
- For those who want to connect with the world and make a difference · Nagasaki GIM, Global Innovation Mindset cultivation academy, 2025
- Nagasaki Canvas · a monthly gathering of local business owners, parents and students, 2025
- Leadership and personal-growth sessions · Digital Nomad Nagasaki, 2025
- Digital Nomads Uncovered · several lectures, 2023
- 30 under 30, a satirical take on the famous list · FIM UHK 30th anniversary, 2023
- How to dominate the world with mobile apps · job fair, 2019
- Study experience in Hong Kong · introductory lecture, 2018
- How to say a lot, yet say nothing · FIM UHK 25th anniversary, 2018
- How not to drown yourself in clips from your travels · European Researchers’ Night, 2017. My personal record: 18 short talks in one auditorium across a single night, a new audience every time.
Need a bio?
Three lengths, take what fits
One line
Václav Kňourek is a Culture & Business Advisor based in Prague. He helps leaders build teams people don’t want to leave.
One paragraph
Václav Kňourek is a Culture & Business Advisor based in Prague. After five and a half years inside a software company, from marketing through HR to Happiness & Strategy Manager at the executive level, he wrote his Executive MBA thesis, the Happiness Management Guidebook, as an ethnographic study of IT companies. He works with founders, executives and team leads in Czech and English, has been to 30+ countries, and was one of 23 chosen from 632 applications for Digital Nomad Nagasaki 2025.
The long one
Václav Kňourek is a Culture & Business Advisor based in Prague. After five and a half years inside a software company, from marketing through HR to Happiness & Strategy Manager at the executive level, he wrote his Executive MBA thesis, the Happiness Management Guidebook, as an ethnographic study of IT companies. He works with founders, executives and team leads in Czech and English, has been to 30+ countries, and was one of 23 chosen from 632 applications for Digital Nomad Nagasaki 2025. Off the clock he is a house DJ of fifteen years, a runner, a squash player and an occasional hiker (Mt Fuji in a storm, loved it), and a fan of good ramen and better matcha. He has spoken to audiences of up to 350, once dressed as a pigeon, and hosted the evening programme of Bansko Nomad Fest 2026.
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