Darja Gutnick: Empowering the Leaders of Tomorrow
In this series of Championship Leadership, we had the pleasure to sit down with Darja Gutnick, a Co-founder, and CEO of Bunch- a startup company based in Berlin & NYC that basically helps new managers and professionals to become a better leaders by making professional growth & leadership accessible to all.
Darja Gutnick is a psychologist by training but an entrepreneur at heart and always worked to learn and serve. Her life mission is to help anyone have easy access to knowledge, education, and experience to produce a new breed of leaders.
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In This Episode:
[3:33] What does Championship Leadership mean to Darja?
[7:17] Who is Darja Gutnick and what brought her to where she is today?
[13:11] Leaders that have influenced her.
[17:10] Her vision, future plans, and the impact he wants to make.
[23:35] A turning point inside of her life.
[22:27] Episode takeaways.
Important Quotes:
“Leadership has to do with stepping up, taking risks and taking responsibility, and going out of your comfort zone.”
“Championship Leadership is excelling at discomfort or the uncomfortableness of learning and challenging yourself and being there for others and serving and supporting.”
“When people grow outside of what they thought was possible in their own reality, that is always inspiring.”
“What we’re trying to achieve in the world, is to enable anyone to make a dent in the universe.”
“In order to learn, you really need to push yourself, and it has to be hard.”
About The Guest:
Darja Gutnick is a psychologist-gone-rogue, who quit her PhD journey and ended up founding Bunch, which helps people become better leaders in 2 minutes a day.
Bunch scours the internet for the greatest ideas on leadership and breaks them down for its users into bite-sized chunks and lessons. The app is used by leaders at companies such as Slack, PayPal, and TikTok. Numbers wise, they have has raised $4.4 million in funding,
Darja also runs a weekly leadership newsletter, The Weekly Briefing, that has over 5K leaders subscribed to it.
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