Mykhaylo Vidyakin
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Mykhaylo Vidyakin

Transformation & Strategy Advisor | Associate Professor, Kyiv School of Economics

Ops excellence, PMO & AI-enabled operating models for financial services and the public sector

Open to a focused conversation on transformation, governance, or an AI-in-operations pilot.

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About

Mykhaylo Vidyakin is a transformation and strategy advisor and Associate Professor at the Kyiv School of Economics. He helps banks, public institutions, and companies strengthen strategy delivery, project and change management, operational excellence, and practical AI adoption. Previously he led strategy and reforms work at the National Bank of Ukraine and built the PMO at the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority.

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Services

Transformation & strategy advisory
PMO design and strategy-execution systems
Operational excellence & process redesign
Change programs and OKRs / performance management
Operating-model redesign
Practical / Generative AI in projects and operations (with clear human accountability)
Executive education & applied courses (incl. GenAI for project managers)

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Portfolio

MIT capstone 2025–2026

OnboardKitty

Agentic AI prototype for banking-style client onboarding workflows — designed as a practical demonstration of AI-enabled operating processes. MIT Professional Education capstone for Applied Agentic AI for Organizational Transformation (2025–2026).

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NBU 2014–2021

Central-bank strategy, reforms & PMO

Led strategy and reforms work at the National Bank of Ukraine, helping build the strategy function and project-management capability and supporting large-scale institutional transformation and financial-sector reform initiatives.

USPA 2021–2022

PMO and change management for a major SOE

Established the PMO and change-management capability at Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority to accelerate corporate-strategy delivery; introduced PMI-oriented standards and monitoring/reporting to the Supervisory Board; initiated portfolio and automation work.

KSE 2023–present

Applied management & AI courses at KSE

Associate Professor and course developer at Kyiv School of Economics — Project Management, Strategic Management, Operations Management, Organizational Behavior, and GenAI for Project Managers.

KSE / exec education From 2024

GenAI for Project Managers

Applied course/materials on GenAI in project and operational work — practical workflows and human accountability.

Governance 2016–2025

Board and supervisory governance

Deposit Guarantee Fund Administrative Council (2016–2020) and Independent Director then Chairman of the Supervisory Board at RwS Bank (2024–2025).

Banking 2005–2014

OTP / UkrSibbank leadership

Leadership roles in capital markets and operational excellence — including work recognized by EBRD as “Most Active Issuing bank in Ukraine in 2010”, a Tier-1 cost program with ~EUR 3M annual savings cited, and capital-markets / funding work cited at ~USD 1B+.

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Who I help

  • Banks and financial institutions
  • Public institutions
  • SOEs
  • Municipalities
  • Corporates

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Career

Current

  1. 1.

    Independent advisor

    Since November 2022

  2. 2.

    Kyiv School of Economics

    Associate Professor / course developer, since September 2023

Past

  1. 1.

    National Bank of Ukraine

    Strategy, reforms, and strategic PMO, October 2014–May 2021

  2. 2.

    Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority

    Director of PMO & Change Management, May 2021–October 2022

  3. 3.

    OTP Bank Group

    Earlier

  4. 4.

    UkrSibbank (BNP Paribas Group)

    Earlier

  5. 5.

    Deposit Guarantee Fund

    Administrative Council, September 2016–September 2020

  6. 6.

    JSC RwS Bank

    Independent Director, then Chairman of the Supervisory Board, 2024–2025

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Selected results

Figures below are as cited. They are not restated as independent measurements.

National Bank of Ukraine

  • • Strategy function and PMO
  • • ~60% staff reduction cited
  • • 50+ strategic initiatives

Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority

  • • PMO stood up

OTP Bank Group

  • • EBRD “Most Active Issuing bank in Ukraine in 2010”
  • • ~EUR 3M annual savings

UkrSibbank (BNP Paribas Group)

  • • ~USD 1B+ funding work

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Credentials

  • Master’s, International Economics — Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
  • MIT Professional Education, Applied Agentic AI for Organizational Transformation (2025–2026)
  • Certified OKRs Professional (COKRP), 2023
  • PMI member since 2021
  • ACMP member since 2025

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Contact

Open to a focused conversation on transformation, governance, or an AI-in-operations pilot.

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