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Maryna Starodubska

Author of books · Adjunct-Professor and Visiting Lecturer

The Trap, The Art and The Science of Small Talk

“The beauty of small talk is that it is small: a tiny gesture with outsized power to make us feel seen.”

Maryna Starodubska is an author of books “Understanding Ukrainians: Cross-Cultural Perspective” and “Ukraine Layer by Layer: Freedom & Friction In a Frontier Society”. She is an Adjunct-Professor at Kyiv-Mohyla Business School, Visiting Lecturer at University of Tartu, Tallinn University of Technology, and Institut Magellan (Paris).