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Everything needed to list, announce and introduce Dorka Nagy-Józsa: the bio in three lengths, an introduction for the MC, the keynotes, selected stages, press coverage, photos, the showreel and a one-page PDF. Use any of it as it is.

Dorka Nagy-Józsa on stage at the IFPSM World Summit in Xiamen
Bio

Three lengths, ready to paste

Short · about 50 words

Dorka Nagy-Józsa is a keynote speaker on AI, neuroscience and leadership, and the author of Horizontal Thinking: Leadership after the end of the specialist era (2027). She is CEO of Y2Y Ltd., a Budapest leadership-development company, and an ICF PCC executive coach. She has spoken on 300+ stages on four continents.

Medium · about 100 words

Dorka Nagy-Józsa is a Budapest-based keynote speaker on AI, neuroscience and leadership. She is CEO of Y2Y Ltd., a leadership-development company behind more than 5,000 organizational-development days in 14 languages, and an ICF PCC executive coach. She has spoken on 300+ stages on four continents, including SHRM INCLUSION 2024 in Denver, where she was the only speaker from Europe on the programme, the IFPSM World Summit in Xiamen and AI Summit Europe in Riga. Her book Horizontal Thinking: Leadership after the end of the specialist era (2027) is endorsed by Marshall Goldsmith and Sangeet Paul Choudary.

Long · about 200 words

Dorka Nagy-Józsa rewires leaders for a living: neuroscience-backed, and increasingly with an orchestra of AI agents at her side. She is CEO of Y2Y Ltd., a Budapest leadership-development company behind more than 5,000 organizational-development days in 14 languages, and an ICF PCC executive coach.

Since 2016 she has spoken on 300+ stages on four continents: SHRM INCLUSION 2024 in Denver, where she was the only speaker from Europe on the programme; the IFPSM World Summit in Xiamen, to 1,500+ procurement and supply-chain leaders, and in Mombasa, Kenya; AI Summit Europe in Riga, where 98.8% of attendees rated her closing keynote excellent or very good; and the main HR, AI and business stages of Central Europe.

She has written weekly about leadership, organizations and the messy reality of work since 2016. More than 600 articles later, some of them grew up to become Horizontal Thinking: Leadership after the end of the specialist era (2027), which she wrote together with Cody, her favorite and most senior AI agent. Marshall Goldsmith calls horizontal thinking "the defining leadership discipline of our time".

She travels a hundred days a year, at least eighty of them with her kids and without her laptop.

For the MC

An introduction to read on stage

About 30 seconds

Our next speaker has spoken on more than 300 stages on four continents, from SHRM in Denver to the IFPSM World Summit in Xiamen. She runs Y2Y, a leadership-development company in Budapest, coaches executives, and works with a team of AI agents she manages like colleagues. Her new book, Horizontal Thinking, is about what leadership becomes when machines hold the expertise. Please welcome Dorka Nagy-Józsa.

Pronunciation: DOR-kah NODGE YO-zhah.

Keynotes

Three keynotes, each built for the event

The ideas of the book, Horizontal Thinking, run through all three.

Selected stages

Four continents, a few examples

North America
SHRM INCLUSION 2024, Denver · Spotlight Stage
Society for Human Resource Management. Selected through SHRM's call for proposals; the only speaker from Europe on the programme. SHRM speaker page
Asia
IFPSM World Summit 2025, Xiamen · Keynote
1,500+ procurement and supply-chain leaders; invited back as closing keynote for the 2026 World Summit. Also a university keynote in Jakarta.
Africa
IFPSM summit, Mombasa, Kenya
International Federation of Purchasing and Supply Management.
Europe
AI Summit Europe 2026, Riga · Day-2 closing keynote
Around 600 in the room at the National Library of Latvia, rated excellent or very good by 98.8% of attendees (organizer report). Also LOGY in Helsinki and Tallinn, plus around 300 stages across Europe.

The full list is on the Stages page; ratings and sources on Proof of Performance. Organizer reports are available on request.

In the media

Interviews, podcasts and quotes

Mostly Hungarian business press so far. Original titles are kept; the line underneath says what the piece is about in English.

Podcast guest · Nov 2026
Why graduates struggle to find work, why companies hire more cautiously, and how AI shifts the skills employers want.
Byline · Oct 2026
The EU Pay Transparency Directive reaches small companies too, and why they should sort out their pay structures now.
Debate · Sep 2026
Economist Pintér Róbert's essay on his AI Summit debate with Dorka, who argued against the motion that AI deepens social inequality.
Panel debate · Mar 2026
Portfolio AI in Business 2026: whether the generation growing up with AI will be better off.
Interview · Nov 2025
How AI reshapes roles and pay, and why continuous upskilling is no longer optional.
Interview · Apr 2025
Which kinds of work AI is already taking from small businesses, and why learning and unlearning are the key skills.
Podcast guest · Mar 2025
For L&D leaders: why AI can't be rolled out like an ERP system, and learning by doing as the new model for AI skills.
Panel · Nov 2024
HR (R)Evolution 2024: low engagement, boredom as its main driver, and rebuilding trust first.
Interview · Jun 2024
Balancing synchronous and asynchronous work: meeting-free days, optional cameras, shorter meetings.
Podcast guest · Apr 2024
Executive coaching practice, pace, and knowing when to slow down.
Interview · Mar 2020
Leading remote teams in the first weeks of the pandemic.
Company profile · Aug 2019
Y2Y and why rising staff turnover forces companies to rethink their culture.

For interview requests: dorka@y2y.hu. Also listed as an expert source on Qwoted.

The book

Horizontal Thinking (2027)

"Depth used to be the career strategy; now it's a subscription. Dorka Nagy-Józsa writes from inside this disruption with rare honesty and hard-won optimism, helping leaders learn horizontal thinking as the defining leadership discipline of our time."

Marshall Goldsmith · Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach, New York Times bestselling author

"Organizations were designed around the scarcity of expertise and the need to coordinate specialized work. AI is challenging both assumptions. Horizontal Thinking explores the implications for how we structure organizations and develop leaders - a valuable contribution to the conversation."

Sangeet Paul Choudary · author of Reshuffle, Thinkers50 Strategy Award 2025

Paperback ISBN 978-615-83294-0-8 · e-book ISBN 978-615-83294-1-5 · Y2Y Ltd., Budapest · Cover image

Photos

Press photos

Studio portrait of Dorka Nagy-Józsa
Studio portrait, 2400 × 3600 px
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Dorka Nagy-Józsa on stage at the IFPSM World Summit in Xiamen
IFPSM World Summit, Xiamen, 2025
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Dorka Nagy-Józsa speaking on stage in front of a slide about temporal discounting
Keynote on stage
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Free to use for announcing an event with Dorka. Credit: Dorka Nagy-Józsa / Y2Y.

Logistics

Practical details

Based in
Budapest, Hungary. Travels worldwide.
Languages
English and Hungarian.
Formats
Keynotes of 30-75 minutes, panel debates and moderated panels. Live, in the room.
Audiences
150 to 1,500 people: leadership offsites, HR and L&D conferences, AI summits, procurement and supply-chain congresses.
On stage
Screen for 16:9 slides, a wireless headset or lavalier microphone, and a confidence monitor where available.
Showreel
68 seconds, MP4
Contact
dorka@y2y.hu · answer within 48 hours