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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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