WORLD SCHOOLS TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP 2025

Michal Kanarkiewicz

Poland

Author of the bestseller Chess in Business / TEDx Speaker / Creator of executive course “Strategic Thinking Through Chess” / Lecturer, SGH Warsaw School of Economics

Michal Kanarkiewicz – teaches the secrets of business and life strategy using chess as a metaphor. Entrepreneur, business consultant, TEDx speaker, chess player and author of seven books. He hosts the business podcast Strategiczny Ruch, where he explores strategy and decision-making with Polish CEOs and top-tier experts. He drew in simultaneous chess exhibitions in 2020, with the twelfth world chess champion Anatoly Karpov, and in 2023, with a team of super grandmasters led by Magnus Carlsen – the strongest chess player of all time. His clients include renowned brands such as: Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Dell Technologies, Volvo, EY, PwC, Siemens, Santander Bank, ING Bank, BNP Paribas, Orange, L’Oréal, Heineken and Lufthansa.