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About us

Training professions of the future, building future-proof organizations. In our corporate consulting programs and open trainings we provide both objective knowledge and an approach that helps maintaining the competitive advantage even in continuously changing markets and unexpected situations.

How we work with companies

 

Based on the business goals of our customers, we have been helping listed and private, large and medium-sized companies' top and middle managers and their teams with complex development programs for more than 10 years. According to our experience the most successful companies are able to take advantage of the opportunities arising from the three most significant and rapidly changing – technological, social and professional – megatrends, while also serving the basic business, customer, employee and owner needs that are essential for maintaining a "traditional" business.

At the KÜRT Academy, we look for answers to the challenges of the owner and the top and middle management teams from 4 aspects:

Layer 1

  1. How do market opportunities from changing customer needs and changes in business models affect the planning and implementation of the corporate STRATEGY?
  2. How are senior and middle management teams able to navigate uncertain situations, accept ambiguity and avoid quick but ill-founded solutions? With what kind of CULTURE are they able to create stability, resilience and commitment in this DISCOVERY mode by involving and empowering employees?
  3. Which MANAGEMENT methods prove effective for the development of BAU - Business as Usual - activities, and which are suitable for managing innovation, finding and developing the products and services of the near future?
  4. How will the organization be able to apply new, but already proven TECHNOLOGIES and DATA and, as a result of these, to regularly rethink the business model describing value creation?

We provide knowledge and community in our open courses

 

KÜRT Academy has become a key institution and trend-setter in the ever-changing education market. By combining traditions and innovations, we develop a training portfolio tailored to the latest expectations with a strong focus on real-life experience and practice in the following areas:

  1. Technology and data
    Being data-driven is not just a technology issue – it also affects strategy, operations and corporate culture, if a company takes advantage of the potential in data.
  2. Agile methods
    Students who participate in our agile trainings lasting a few days can master a specific role or methodology.
  3. Leadership and strategy
    Our courses, which cover several areas - including HR, marketing, e-commerce or family business - give experienced professionals and managers a comprehensive picture and approach.

Our experts and lecturers are not educators in the classical sense, but senior professionals, leaders, managers, decision-makers who have first-hand experience in the subject they deliver. We believe that there are many ways to learn, but it is best in a professional community where, in addition to an ongoing dialogue, there is an opportunity to put the content into practice immediately.

Our trainings are also available in private form, customized for company teams and specific corporate challenges, and in English. Please contact Kata Tóth, kata.toth@kurtakademia.hu for futher information.

 

IF YOU MISS A COMPETENCE OR LOOK FOR A PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY, WE RECOMMEND YOU OUR TRAININGS..

WHAT WE ARE PROUD OF BEYOND OUR WORK, OUR CLIENTS AND OUR COMMUNITY OF EXPERTS:

  • We are member of Family Business Network Hungary and IT Association of Hungary and we were awarded with the title "Conscious Business Player".
  • We won the Hungarian Brands and the Superbrands prize in 2019 and 2022.
  • In collaboration with the Ludwig Museum we organize value creating, knowledge sharing events inviting guests from science, art and business.
  • We regularly support highly disadvantaged children and foundations that help them with donations.
Tamás Kürti
Founder, Institution leader, Business Arhcitect, OD expert
https://hu.linkedin.com/in/tamaskurti

Second generation entrepreneur, head of the KÜRT Academy, owner. He works with first and top managers and owners of companies to significantly improve their strategic and management effectiveness, collaboration and value creation. His interests focus on the interplay between human nature and technological efficiency.

Previously, he led the research and development business at KÜRT Information Security and Data Recovery Ltd., and before that, he served as Chief Strategy Officer at USAnotebook.com. He holds a bachelor’s degree in technical management with a major in entrepreneurship and a master’s degree in organizational development and coaching with a major in innovative team development.

His social responsibility included renewing the leadership of the KÜRT Foundation High School and founding the Association of Responsible Family Business in Hungary in 2009, of which he has been a board member since then. In recognition of his achievements, he was elected to the board of the Family Business Network International Next Generation in 2010 and to the board of the European Family Businesses Association in 2011. He has since led owner-leader exchange programmes in all three organisations.

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Tamás Kürti

Founder, Institution leader, Business Arhcitect, OD expert

Péter Vityi
Partner, Senior strategy and digitalization expert, Vice-President, Hungarian IT Association
https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-vityi-25a5054/

Engineer, Senior Consulting Partner at KÜRT Academy, startup- entrepreneur, 33 years of experience in IT. He worked as a manager at Microsoft Corporation, managing the enterprise business for 7 years and then lead the local Microsoft subsidiary for 7 years as CEO. He then spent 3 years at Microsoft’s regional headquarters in Munich as COO for the enterprise business. He has worked as a startup entrepreneur and was Vice President of the IT Business Association for 7 years, leading the IT chapter. He participated as a technical lead in the development of the Export Strategy of the Digital Wellbeing Programme. In 2016 he joined the KÜRT Academy, which he led from 2018 to 2023. He is currently a Senior Partner of KÜRT Academy, an expert in leadership, strategy and digital transformation.

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Péter Vityi

Partner, Senior strategy and digitalization expert, Vice-President, Hungarian IT Association

Csaba Császár
Senior organizational development expert
https://www.linkedin.com/in/csaba-csaszar/

Csaba has over two decades of experience facilitating organizational transformations as well as global team and leadership development programs. Csaba graduated with a master’s degree in economics and he also holds a post-graduate diploma in organization development and supervision. To learn more about development in multicultural business settings, he completed extensive international professional development programs.

During his consulting career, Csaba’s clients have included Lego, ING Bank, Pepsi, Pfizer, Hungarian Telekom, Tesco, Teva, Vienna Insurance Group and others, including leading local, Hungarian companies. Many of his assignments have been related to leadership development, strategy deployment, organizational transformations and effectiveness increases for leadership teams. These projects often involved intercultural management teams.

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Csaba Császár

Senior organizational development expert

Tímea Schlégl
Head of Marketing, Maker's Red Box, Course Leader, KÜRT Academy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timea-schl%C3%A9gl-20539367/

Tímea’s decades of experience in marketing management comes largely from the IT industry, having worked at Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and the Association for the Digital Economy in Hungary (IVSZ). Starting in enterprise segment marketing, as a server business unit manager, then as a partner strategy and program director, marketing communications and operations manager, she has built well-functioning and successful marketing teams and business units. After professional, business and organizational development of the data-driven marketing agency Nitro, he now serves as the marketing lead for a national EdTech startup. His personal mission is to ensure that the role and added value of marketing is increasingly recognised and put in place in more and more companies, whatever their size, profile and maturity. He enjoys working to shape the mindset of business decision-makers, develop marketing professionals and ensure that marketing teams work together effectively.

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Tímea Schlégl

Head of Marketing, Maker's Red Box, Course Leader, KÜRT Academy

Gábor Jókay
Head of Corporate Consulting, Organizational Development expert
https://hu.linkedin.com/in/gaborjokay

Gábor Jókay is an economist, organizational developer, graduate coach, HR consultant. He worked as a large corporate HR expert (AT&T, Ericsson) and then as an HR director (Aventis Pharma) before turning to consulting and organizational development. For 8 years from 2005, he was the senior consultant of the Hungarian office of Aon Hewitt, as well as the professional leader of the management development and performance management areas, and the leader of comprehensive HR consulting and organizational development projects. Since 2015, he has been responsible for the organizational development projects of the KÜRT Academy, participating in their professional development and implementation. He mostly works with managers, as a coach, consultant, trainer. He helps them become more aware, more efficient, better leaders and build organizations where people want to belong.

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Gábor Jókay

Head of Corporate Consulting, Organizational Development expert

Zsolt Rasztovits
Senior Expert, Digital Transformations, IT
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zsolt-rasztovits-67195b66/

As a CIO of multinational large companies and Hungarian large companies in the financial institution sector, he has extensive experience in the transformation of IT organizations on different maturity levels. His most important goal is to challange the value-creating potential of IT and to create an IT strategy that supports business strategy. He managed the complete IT reorganization of MKB Bank and the development of electronic channels for eleven years. He has outstanding experience in implementing core banking systems as well as operating large enterprise IT systems.

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Zsolt Rasztovits

Senior Expert, Digital Transformations, IT

Béla Kelemen
Business Excellence VP, MOL Magyar Olaj- és Gázipari Nyrt.
https://hu.linkedin.com/in/b%C3%A9la-kelemen-a6ab4481

He started his career at Budapest University of Technology (BME), intending to become a researcher, until the regime change swept him away and forced him into a business career. Over almost 25 years, he has worked in almost every area of the oil industry, both at home and abroad, managing refineries and running commercial organisations, but always returning to the biggest challenge of the oil industry: the total optimisation of the value chain. Today, full-time, he wants to make the world a better place by spreading Lean methods in petroleum refining and in other areas of life.

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Béla Kelemen

Business Excellence VP, MOL Magyar Olaj- és Gázipari Nyrt.

Barbara Schmidt
Certified agile HR expert, organizational development consultant, coach, course leader at KÜRT Academy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/schmidtbarbara/

Grounded senior HR / people & culture leader with 15+ years of experience within large, global companies as well as entrepreneurial startups. Extensive international track record in IT, tech, e-mobility and retail industries on both the consulting and the corporate side. Skilled in strategic HR management, agility, organizational reengineering, talent acquisition, people & culture development. Born with an agile mindset, I will never stop challenging the status quo.
Currently she is the purpose-driven Head of People & Culture at SMATRICS, a fast-growing Austrian green tech scaleup, one of the leading international e-mobility service providers, based in Vienna.Furthermore instructor of the agile HR masterclass & executive consultant at KÜRT Akadémia.

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Barbara Schmidt

Certified agile HR expert, organizational development consultant, coach, course leader at KÜRT Academy

Tímea Menoni
Coach, Team Coach, Organizational developer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timea-menoni-a16b3725/

“She supports leaders to unlock their potential. Develops management teams to work together as a strengthened team to achieve their business goals.

She supports agile transformations from an organisational development perspective. Helps leaders to effectively commit themselves and their teams to the new direction and to effectively manage organisational resistance to change.

She is an economist with 15 years of experience in organisational development. She has worked as a consultant and as a manager in large corporations.

Initially as a consultant for IFUA, she led strategic, process improvement and controlling projects in diverse industry environments. Then led the team responsible for achieving long-term results and leadership development in the Lean transformation programme of the AXA Group. Tímea experienced the internal forces around transformation, supported leaders and their teams in change through executive coaching and team coaching.
At the end of the programme, she was responsible for leadership development, talent programme and performance management as Head of Training Development at AXA Insurance. She learned the standards of the organisation development profession from the client side, which she later put to good use as a freelancer. As a consultant for ASCON for 5 years, accompanied management teams in team coaching, taught leadership development programs and developed talent.”

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Tímea Menoni

Coach, Team Coach, Organizational developer

Bence Bogár
Designer, Founder, Holistic Design
https://hu.linkedin.com/in/bncbgr

As an experience designer, Bence helps curious teams solve great problems, create meaningful, usable and desirable digital products and material services. Meanwhile passionately observe how the power of design can motivate and manipulate the everyday life of mankind. Previously, as head of the startup program at Kitchen Budapest, co-organizer of Mobile and Social Picnic, and co-founder of Colabs, he was searching for the relationships between idea, team and implementation, which is a recipe for successful startups.

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Bence Bogár

Designer, Founder, Holistic Design

György Valentin Németh
Senior Expert, Lean-Agile & Digital Transformations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/valentin-nemeth-pmp-s4a/

Economist, IT leader, SAFe Agilist, with 5+ years strategic level Agile transformation experience, 15+ years reorganization and efficiency related project and program management background in BIG4 and international environments. He oversaw digital transformation efforts (BIGDATA, Customer Platform, CRM) driving the Agile transformation at E.ON. His main interest is defining and implementing value adding change, at organizational, process or cultural level.

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György Valentin Németh

Senior Expert, Lean-Agile & Digital Transformations

Szabolcs Mizsei
Managing Director, MEHI; Digital transformation expert and course leader, KÜRT Academy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/szabolcsmizsei/

Economist, expert in digital transformation and organizational agility. He is currently the executive director of the Hungarian Energy Efficiency Institute.

He has more than two decades of experience in the information technology industry in system integrator, digital product development and various management roles. He specializes in technology-based innovation and the practical application of lean/agile methodologies.

Instructor of the “digital economics” course at the Széchenyi István College.

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Szabolcs Mizsei

Managing Director, MEHI; Digital transformation expert and course leader, KÜRT Academy

Ágota Lénárt
Sports psychologist, Hungarian Olympic Team
https://hu.linkedin.com/in/%C3%A1gota-l%C3%A9n%C3%A1rt-3112b391

Ágota Lénárt is a psychologist, psychotherapist, teacher, sport shooting coach, associate professor at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Science of Semmelweis University. She has been working with the current Hungarian Olympic Team since 1987, dealing with the psychological preparation of athletes. She prepared more than thirty athletes, including Krisztián Berki, Dániel Gyurta, Éva Risztov, Tamás Kulifai, Hedvig Karakas, Zsófia Csonka and Richárd Bognár.

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Ágota Lénárt

Sports psychologist, Hungarian Olympic Team

István Nagy-Rácz
Founder and Senior Partner, Dmlab, Course leader, KÜRT Academy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/istvann/

Founder and senior partner of Dmlab, one of the leading data analytics companies in Hungary. He combines more than 10 years of experience as a data scientist with the technical and theoretical knowledge gained as a leader of several business projects and as a data mining researcher at the Technical University of Technology. In addition to leading the Dmlab team operationally and strategically, he has worked in several data-driven start-ups over the past years and transfers the knowledge and experience accumulated at Dmlab into technology solutions to help companies in different domains to become data-driven. He is a regular speaker at conferences and university and corporate trainings.

 

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István Nagy-Rácz

Founder and Senior Partner, Dmlab, Course leader, KÜRT Academy

Dr. Ádám Márky
Medical Director, Longevity Project
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adammarky/

Dr. Ádám Márky is the medical director of the Longevity Project, one of the pioneers of corporate mindfulness education in Hungary. His main area of interest is the role of developing psychological flexibility in sustainable leadership performance and well-being. He regularly teaches contextual behavioral sciences to doctors, medical students, and psychologists.

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Dr. Ádám Márky

Medical Director, Longevity Project

Nádja Szalay
Organization developer, employer brand expert
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadja-szalay-22a60913/

Nadja has been working as an organisational development and HR consultant for 16 years, her main goal is to make organisations a better place to work. Her specialties include mapping the employee experience, increasing motivation and loyalty of employees and managers, building a credible and engaging employer brand.

She believes there is an optimal balance in the relationship between workplaces and individuals, where both parties are winners. Whatever the volatile times we are living in, she wants to help organisations find that balance: supporting managers and employees to mutually understand each other’s expectations, respect each other’s needs and recognise each other’s efforts and achievements. 

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Nádja Szalay

Organization developer, employer brand expert

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