Nadya Zhexembayeva & Reinvention: Never settle

Nadya Zhexembayeva & Reinvention: Never settle

Nadya Zhexembayeva began discussing the need for Chief Reinvention Officers in 2015. A decade on, reinvention is more relevant than ever. Nadya Zhexembayeva was 14 when she took a job selling insurance in a country that had never had any. The Soviet Union was coming apart, Almaty was short of money, and most of her classmates were doing much the same. “Everyone I knew between the ages of 14 and 18 was working in very, very serious companies,” sh…