Birgit Linnamäe | Strategy Consulting

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. Fr Nietzsche

Extensive work experience with industrial companies has taught me that strategy and resilience are crucial for growth. Mindset influences how individuals and organizations perceive, process information, make decisions, and generate innovations. It's common for teams to get bogged down in details, while entrepreneurs lose sight of the bigger picture. While I don't claim that a healthy and growth mindset is everything, it certainly aids in developing a broader understanding of perspectives, leading to faster and more sustainable growth.

A strategy consultant with 25+ years of experience in managing industrial companies with a master's degree (cum laude) in economics and strategic management from Estonian and Italian universities and a PhD researcher at Estonian Business School with interest in international value chains, alliances and innovation. Speaks 11 different languages, has lived in Germany, Italy, England and worked globally, including the cultures and countries of the USA and Southeast Asia.

Birgit values human relationships, a strategic, big-picture view and resilience mindset, which together with her management experience provide execution-oriented content for leadership, consulting and trainings.

With extensive experience in international business development, scaling, building up and managing manufacturing companies - from different industries and countries (including wood, metal, textile, construction and food industries among others) on the one hand and on the other hand given her interest in psychology, the balance between mental and physical health and the ever-increasing complexity of people, Birgit has supported the growth of hundreds of companies internationally.

For example, she successfully established a timber industry company based on German Bavarian private capital in Estonia and introduced it to 14 foreign markets. Her very good linguistic and cultural sense and her competences of human cognition played an important role. Between 2018 and 2022, she built up and scaled a wooden modular construction company with an innovative and sustainable business model and presence in 15 countries, also made its trademark KODA by Kodasema world-famous.

Accuracy, efficiency, world class and believing in people are important to her and the areas of work are formed based on diverse knowledge: strategy, export, new markets, international relations, self-management, stressful situations, teamwork, cultural differences, negotiations, dealing with noise, anger management and coping with difficult and changing situations, building enterprise value, business model innovation, scaling.