Meet our team
Narrative Shifter and Impact Communication
Christina Forster, Austria
Christina believes that every business, brand or product has a story to tell. And a good one, too. Her own story started in the field of journalism but already in 2005 she moved from print to online. However, it was only during her 8 years in London when she discovered how Content Marketing, Storytelling and Responsible Communication can enable sustainable success for a business - something that became her biggest passion. Since then Christina is helping clients - ranging from big corporations to small social enterprises - to tell their impact by creating human-centred communication strategies for internal and external use. Throughout her career Christina has worked in the fashion, sports, music but also media and IT industry with companies such as Red Bull, Nivea, Labello, Boden or Cisco Austria. She acts as a cofounder to Heartbeats Innovation & Communication and is currently based in Vienna.
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Impact & Innovation
Bistra Kumbaroska, North Macedonia
A community innovator, entrepreneur and a poet, Bistra spends her time witnessing and supporting courageous steps made by humans, combining innovative tools for business and impact. In 2008, she became one of the core drivers of a movement in Macedonia that resulted with today's most popular youth portal in CEE Region, Mladi Info. Her passion for entrepreneurship took her on a journey through Europe, Sub-Sahara Africa, and South-East Asia, supporting the creation of meaningful jobs. At the moment she lives in Vienna, Austria. She has been involved in the creation and scaling of more than 5 networks and entities across different industries in CEE and has organized, facilitated and shared her experience at more than 117 international events and conferences so far. Currently, Bistra is based in Vienna.
Impact Measurement &
Digital Communication
Ivana Petrisková, Slovakia
Ivana is a strong believer in the power of civil society. With her background and education in European studies and international affairs, for the last 7+ years she has been working with organizations from different parts of the world (Central-Eastern Europe, Canada, South-East Africa and South-East Asia) mainly in volunteering management, youth activism, social entrepreneurship, and innovation. Ivana is an experienced project manager with a good knowledge of organizational innovation, strategy building and crisis management. Ivana's focus of work in Heartbeats InCo will be impact measurement and communication.
Change Management & Social Entrepreneurship
Peter Ptashko, UK
Peter is a social entrepreneur, funder and supporter of social entrepreneurs and currently an independent entrepreneurship change management consultant working with a range of clients across the Public and Private sectors. He has over 10 years of experience working in the field of Social Enterprise globally, having launched his first venture back in 2005. He is the former Director of the Global Social Entrepreneurship Network (GSEN), leading its 60 members in over 70 countries to better support social entrepreneurs around the world. He launched Cambio: House of Social Change in 2019 as a response to the growing need for mainstream and tailored support to social entrepreneurs in the UK, and beyond.
Business Modelling
Nicci Stewart, South Africa
Nicci started her career in the communications field. During this time, she gained experience in various sectors such as advertising, public relations, and stakeholder communications. In 2015, she shifted her focus to the entrepreneurial space. Her primary objective is to grow the entrepreneurial eco-system to support the development and growth of businesses - specially businesses that have a social and impact focus. Nicci is also a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10 000 Women programme for female entrepreneurs, a speaker at local and international events and founder of The Why Effect.
Facilitation & Business Development
Sartaj Anand, India
Sartaj is a proven entrepreneur and thought leader with a decade of experience spanning management consulting, social impact and media. He has an unreasonable dream to positively impact 1 Billion human lives within his lifetime and enables individuals and organizations to create exponential socio-economic impact globally. Some of the networks he belongs to include TED, World Economic Forum, United Nations, Ashoka, Sandbox and Social Good. Sartaj has travelled, worked and co-created in more than 70 countries so far. Sartaj is also co-founder of egomonk
Meet some of our clients & partners
We want to thank ...
Igor Delov
- for our logo design and the whole visual identity of Heartbeats Innovation & Communication. See more of Igor's great work on http://www.igordelov.co
Tanja Ribarska
- for the photo editing and photo shootings. For work pieces by Tanja check out Tanja's website on www.tanjafish.wix.com/flyingfish
Erste Bank
- especially to the team of "Mikrokredit" for believing in our mission and supporting us. Visit them on www.erstebank.at
Wirtschaftagentur Wien
.... especially to Dudu Gencel from Wirtschaftsagentur Wien for her support and ongoing advice.
Watch our videos
Here you find videos we did for our clients, but also samples in which we were featured in. Happy watching!
Back to the Future with Impact. Have a look BEHIND THE SCENCES
Back to the Future with Impact - WRAP-UP OF A PREMIERE
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