Silvia Kušnírová

Silvia has an extensive 20-year experience in the communication field. A former award-winning journalist, currently an entrepreneur, philanthropist and media performance couch, she organized the first international PR Summit in Slovakia at the time she presided over the Association of Public Relations (APR SR).

She also brought to Slovakia the historically first Global Sabre Award, an honor given to the best public relations projects around the world.

Before entering the world of public relations, Silvia worked for ten years as a journalist and an anchor at Radio Twist, TV TA3 (V politike) and TV JOJ (Politika.sk). She had won two journalistic awards: “Eurovision Award/TV’s Personality and was honored by Open Society Foundation. She studied communication in Slovakia as well as in the USA and UK and interned at BBC, CNN London and Voice of America.

Silvia is a sought-after communication and media trainings couch. Under the MEET THE PRESS brand she has been teaching top managers and entrepreneurs that communicating about their job is as important as doing the job.

She is a sponsor and Member of Board at Divé maky, NGO which supports talented Roma kids from underprivileged backgrounds and the NGO Raná starostlivosť, which operates a unique Early Intervention Center for Families of Visually Impaired Kids with Multiple Disabilities.

Silvia’s great passion is art and she runs an art philanthropy platform collective together with Peter Lukeš, supporting talented artists from Slovakia. Collective is also a co-organizer of the prestigious award for young visual artists in Slovakia – Oskar Cepan Award.

In 2018 she enrolled at the Stanford Graduate School of Business as a Stanford Executive Program fellow.