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TEDxViroviticaLibrary
Trg bana Jelačića 5.
Virovitica, Virovitičko-podravska županija, 33000
Croatia

Alis Marić

Businesswoman

Alis Marić was born on December 24, 1961, is married and the mother of three children, and is a lawyer by profession. For 22 years, she worked in the management of large Croatian and international companies, and was also the head of the Cabinet of the Minister of Economy. At the age of 50, she received her first dismissal in her life. Since then, nothing has been the same. Today, she runs the Internet platform Čitaj knjigu - a well-known regional brand that combines the features of a blog, Facebook, Instagram page and web sales of books in the entire region, the site also emphasizes the positive effects of reading and shows that new media are not a threat to reading books, but that through these media can successfully implement many activities to encourage reading and eventually achieve the purchase of books. To date, Čitaj knjigu is actively followed by 750 thousand book lovers on social networks.

Ljubica Uvodić Vranić

Specialist in Occupational Psychology

She has been working in occupational medicine for 26 years. Collaborated in the magazine: Zdrav život for 10 years. She wrote a column in Večernji list for 6 months every monday titled Psychological. She held several webinars for Profil-Klett, which were followed by about 3,000 teachers and professors. She participated in six occupational medicine congresses of the Republic of Croatia as an active participant. She paints amateurly on silk and has illustrated some of her books. In 2010, she received the award of the City of Zagreb - Champion of Health for volunteer work and mental health care through the programs of the Petkom u Pet Association. In 2012 she received the "Cvijet Marulića" award from the Croatian Psychological Society for Applied Psychology.

Nikola Borić

Personal Coach

He was born in Zagreb, where he graduated from the Faculty of Kinesiology. He was actively engaged in cycling and triathlon, in which he was junior and senior champion several times. After an active sports career, he became a globally successful coach; he was the coach of 4 sports clubs, trained more than a hundred individual athletes and won numerous medals at state and world competitions as a fitness coach. He was also a successful businessman. Eight years ago, he gave away his three companies worth millions of euros and went to live near the village of Kokočak near Orahovica, where he built his first house out of dirt, wood and straw and brought animals to his farm. With his girlfriend Zorana Vujatović, he founded Shumska Farma and a cluster called Made in Papuk. The couple grows food in an organic and ecological way for their own needs, but also for sale.

Paul Bradbury

Writer

Born in the rain in Manchester before moving to Croatia's sunniest island of Hvar via Somaliland, he is a global traveller (visited 96 countries, lived in 10), award-winning writer, storyteller, author, public speaker, consultant, networker, and long term resident (20 years) and passionate promoter of Croatia beyond the beach.

Željka Klemenčić

Writer

Željka studied comparative literature and Russian studies. As the editor of Playboy, she had a great desire to switch to the gastronomy genre. She was very dissatisfied with the large amount of theorizing about food and the fact that she spends her whole day in the newsroom. Because of her work, she often carried lunch bags and buckets and ate raw food, which prompted her to start educating herself about cooking and healthy eating. She started cooking as a hobby, and today gastronomy is her way of life. Cooking is not only a business part of her life, but also a private one, because she cooks for pleasure, for company and family, which she really enjoys. The most important thing for her is company while she eats, because feeding is happiness for her only when it is a social act.