Nikolina Topić - COTRUGLI

“I improved my organizational skills, channelled my creativity towards my career and, through a large team project at the end of my MBA, realized the importance of contributing different profiles within the project.”

As an economist and a certified business designer with a wide range of managerial experience and diverse international education, I believe that lifelong education is the key in the modern turbulent market.

COTRUGLI lecturers from world-renowned colleges have provided me with a wider perspective on business and introduced me with market trends of different industries. I improved my organizational skills, channelled my creativity towards my career and, through a large team project at the end of my MBA, realized the importance of contributing different profiles within the project.

In addition to professional education, I’ve also met some amazing colleagues who are extremely successful in their careers and with whom I have continued contact.

Prior to my MBA I worked as the Head of marketing as well as the Assistant director for Finance and Sales. COTRUGLI MBA program enabled me to recognize the need for innovation consultancy on the Croatian market. The need for constant improvement of the clients’ business resulted with starting an innovation consulting company PROKOTIP – a company whose market has been progressed in the last year and we can see a positive competition contributing to the development of a new branch of the economy.

I thank COTRUGLI for the initiatives the School is launching and all our associates who have recognized innovation as a key market driver. I believe that creativity through the introduction of innovation in all parts of the business can improve the Croatian economy and retain human capital in Croatia.