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Michal Minich-Mlcousek

President of TIME FOR WORDS Inc.

The most valuable things in the world don't scale. Four generations of the Minich-Mlcousek family built the deepest foundation in that problem. We are building the solution.

In 2002 - 500,000 people. A field in Canada. Expert knowledge on screen, at scale, before the internet made that seem possible.

 

For more than twenty-five years this work pursued one question without compromise: what it actually takes to transfer not the version a person performs, but the version that took a lifetime to accumulate. That work went into diplomatic rooms where a single wrong word carries permanent consequences. Into living rooms that had never admitted a camera. Into 90 classrooms and to twenty-six recipients of Slovakia's highest civilian award - scientists, performing artists, physicians, CEOs of multinationals - not one of whom had to be there for students.

Policy architecture for 11 million members across 51 countries. The world's only 50-year children's animation biennial, inherited at point zero - no team, months from its edition - delivered as the record run in its history: 52,000 attendees across 13 cities.

The Minich-Mlcousek family: four generations, 1,000+ intellectual properties, 50+ international awards. The first to move into AI, carrying a century of accumulated expertise that no competitor entering now can manufacture.

What took more than twenty-five years to build by hand is what the technology now makes possible at scale.

 

Pearson College UWC, 200 students from 100 countries per year - the formation of people who end up running things. York University, Film and Television Production, Toronto. Dominican University College, Ottawa - two years of structured philosophical reasoning and the discipline of distinguishing what is actually true from what merely appears so. That training is the applied record of everything that followed.

English, Czech, Slovak native. French and Spanish working.

IN THE MEDIA

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King and Queen of Norway

The King and Queen of Norway and Michal MLCOUSEK

UK Prime Minister

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Photo: Pierre Wachholder

COLLABORATIONS​​

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His Imperial and Royal Highness Archduke Christian of Habsburg-Lorraine of Austria for Empress and Queen Zita of Bourbon-Parma life skills legacy

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Count Rodolphe de Looz-Corswarem

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Count Olivier d’Harcourt & Countess Catherine d’Harcourt

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Count Lancelot d’Ursel & Countess Nathalie d’Ursel

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Mary Lake Polan, Philanthropist, Yale and Stanford

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Claire L. Gaudiani, Philanthropist, Connecticut College

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Stephen J. McCarthy, Family Office Principal, KCG Capital Advisors

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For more than a decade Michal has created and led intergenerational audiovisual projects and workshops, including at the Friends of the Countryside General Assembly  - European Landowners Organization (with approximately 200 multigenerational owners of estates, forests and land from around the world and their 50 next-generation successors.

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Baron Thierry de l'Escaille, Executive President

European Landowners Organization

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Jurgen Tack, Secretary General

European Landowners Organization

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Baron Seger van Voorst tot Voorst, President

Friends of the Countryside

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Pierre-Olivier Drège, Fmr. President

European Landowners Organization

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Alvaro Fernández de Arévalo & Melanie Immink

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Count Konstantin Kinski

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Günther Graf von der Schulenburg

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Prince Stanislaus zu Sayn-Wittgenstein

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Prince Michael zu Salm-Salm

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​Led 73% attendees surge to 52,000 in 13 cities

  • Michal was called in to prevent cancellation of the world’s only 50-year animation biennial just months before its launch.

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  • Led a 73% audience surge to over 52,000 across 13 cities -transforming a “zero” starting point into the most successful edition in its history: www.bienaleanimaciebratislava.sk

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  • The winning film, a global discovery, went on to earn a top Hollywood nomination  (The Swineherd)

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50th anniversary of grandma's signature TV genre, daily on primetime and recognized by everyone in Slovakia and Czech Republic - Vecernicek (Anna Minichová). 

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Photos: Symfónia umenia, Tomáš Cicoň

MICHAL M. MLCOUSEK, President and Executive Producer, TIME FOR WORDS Inc.

Michal M. Mlcousek

Messages to My Future Generations 

MICHAL M. MLCOUSEK: A LIVING LEGACY FOR HIS FUTURE GENERATIONS AND BEYOND
2 - TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR AUTOPILOT: A MESSAGE FROM MICHAL M. MLCOUSEK TO HIS FUTURE GENERATIONS AND BEYOND

2 - TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR AUTOPILOT: A MESSAGE FROM MICHAL M. MLCOUSEK TO HIS FUTURE GENERATIONS AND BEYOND

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3 - WHY TO CHOOSE WITH INTENTION: A MESSAGE FROM MICHAL M. MLCOUSEK TO HIS FUTURE GENERATIONS AND BEYOND

3 - WHY TO CHOOSE WITH INTENTION: A MESSAGE FROM MICHAL M. MLCOUSEK TO HIS FUTURE GENERATIONS AND BEYOND

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4 - HOW TO ENJOY THE PROCESS: A MESSAGE FROM MICHAL M. MLCOUSEK TO HIS FUTURE GENERATIONS AND BEYOND

4 - HOW TO ENJOY THE PROCESS: A MESSAGE FROM MICHAL M. MLCOUSEK TO HIS FUTURE GENERATIONS AND BEYOND

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5 - LOOK AHEAD OF THE CURVE: A MESSAGE FROM MICHAL M. MLCOUSEK TO HIS FUTURE GENERATIONS AND BEYOND

5 - LOOK AHEAD OF THE CURVE: A MESSAGE FROM MICHAL M. MLCOUSEK TO HIS FUTURE GENERATIONS AND BEYOND

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6 - HOW TO WORK MIRACLES: A MESSAGE FROM MICHAL M. MLCOUSEK TO HIS FUTURE GENERATIONS AND BEYOND

6 - HOW TO WORK MIRACLES: A MESSAGE FROM MICHAL M. MLCOUSEK TO HIS FUTURE GENERATIONS AND BEYOND

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7 - WHY TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY: A MESSAGE FROM MICHAL M. MLCOUSEK TO HIS FUTURE GENERATIONS AND BEYOND

7 - WHY TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY: A MESSAGE FROM MICHAL M. MLCOUSEK TO HIS FUTURE GENERATIONS AND BEYOND

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8 - HOW TO LET GO AND TAKE CHARGE: A MESSAGE FROM MICHAL M. MLCOUSEK TO HIS FUTURE GENERATIONS AND BEYOND

8 - HOW TO LET GO AND TAKE CHARGE: A MESSAGE FROM MICHAL M. MLCOUSEK TO HIS FUTURE GENERATIONS AND BEYOND

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9 - PRACTICE EMOTIONS AS A HABIT: A MESSAGE FROM MICHAL M. MLCOUSEK TO HIS FUTURE GENERATIONS AND BEYOND

9 - PRACTICE EMOTIONS AS A HABIT: A MESSAGE FROM MICHAL M. MLCOUSEK TO HIS FUTURE GENERATIONS AND BEYOND

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10 - PUSH FEAR OUT THROUGH ACTION: A MESSAGE FROM MICHAL M. MLCOUSEK TO HIS FUTURE GENERATIONS AND BEYOND

10 - PUSH FEAR OUT THROUGH ACTION: A MESSAGE FROM MICHAL M. MLCOUSEK TO HIS FUTURE GENERATIONS AND BEYOND

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