Shine Your Best Where You Are!
As a consultant, educator and coach, I motivate and inspire you to be a happy professional in the arts, culture and creative industries: in an international, strategic and entrepreneurial context!
My Uniqueness
Motivating
Intuitive and holistic professional coaching and intense masterclasses online that help you to undertake positive changes in your professional life
Interactivity
Engaging and inspiring audiences and participants in public speaking and teaching
Structural approach
Analytical and research skills in consulting on diverse businesses: strategic plans leading to elaboration of clear, logical and well-structured documents
Balanced approach
Well thought-out combination between theory, research and practice in consulting and teaching practice
International coverage
Extensive international experience and rich network of professionals in over 60 countries
Personalized
Sharing short examples from my international experiences and happy life in coaching, moderating and public presentations
Benefits from Our Meeting (Online or Offline):
Understand the basics of strategies, management and entrepreneurship in the arts
Get practical advice and tips
Get motivated and inspired
Think and act “outside of the box”
Find your “happy zone” in a strategic context

“Walk the talk”- start your creative enterprise
Manage your creative organisation in a sustainable mode
Raise funds and gain visibility
Expand internationally
Find partners, colleagues & friends in a targeted country
Services
I work with organisations and people who want to be strategic,
entrepreneurial and innovative
Speaker & Moderator
Let’s inspire your audiences, motivate your team or find the creative potential of your Board
Books
Learn and advance in the field of strategy, management and entrepreneurship in the arts, culture and creative industries
Interviews, Videos & Features
- Bridges of Public Activity Project Website, Ukraine, Interview with Lidia Varbanova: “Workshop on Cultural and Creative Industries: How, What and What are the Results: Tips from a Famous Business Coach” (March, 2017: In English)
- IGCAT Publications: “Regional Support System for Arts Entrepreneurship”, By Lidia Varbanova (March, 2017: In English)
- Culture Matters online journal, Ukraine: “Lidia Varbanova About Sustainable Development of Cultural Projects” (Dec, 2016: In Russian)
- Azerbaijan News: “How to Make a Cultural Organisation Financially Stable?”, Interview with Lidia Varbanova (Nov, 2016: In Russian)
- CIVILNET, Armenia : “Lidia Varbanova: The Essence of Going beyond Borders” (November 2016: In English)
- Diez, Moldova: “Young People do not Accept NO as an Answer When They Start Business” Interview with Lidia Varbanova (October, 2016: In Romanian)
- Open Society Institute, Tajikistan: “The Unique MA Program in Arts Management in Tajikistan: Trends and Challenges in Development of Arts Management Education and Practice in the Country”, by Lidia Varbanova (September, 2016: In English)
- EU Eastern Partnership Culture & Creativity Programme, Kyiv, Ukraine: “Why Entrepreneurship is Related to Innovation in the Cultural Field?” Short Interview with Lidia Varbanova (September, 2016, in Russian)
- Bulgarian National Television, Channel 2: Interview with Lidia Varbanova, Guest Professor at Plovdiv State University, MA Program in Cultural Management (June, 2016: In Bulgarian)
- Klaipeda University, Lithuania: Interview with Lidia Varbanova, Guest Professor (June, 2016: In English and Lithuanian)