Speaking & media
Media Kit
Everything organisers, editors and podcast hosts need to feature Olga Shpuntenko and Employee Rocks — an independent project on how AI changes the way work works.
Bio
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Olga Shpuntenko is a technology-industry executive with an engineering background, working across organisational design, digital products, and enterprise AI adoption. She is the founder of Employee Rocks.
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Olga Shpuntenko is a technology-industry executive with an engineering background and an unusual combination of expertise in organisational design, digital products, and enterprise AI adoption. As a CHRO, she has led an in-house technology platform serving 11,000 users, worked closely with engineering teams on automation and process redesign, and now leads company-wide AI adoption. Through Employee Rocks she brings these perspectives together: what technology makes possible, how organisations actually work, and what it takes to bridge the gap. She is based in Prague, Czech Republic, and works globally.
Topics
AI Culture Debt
What organisations accumulate when they introduce AI without adapting the way people work together — and how to notice it early.
The hidden costs of AI-assisted work
The economics of AI-assisted work beyond licence counts and time saved.
AI & organisational design
Using AI to understand structures, find bottlenecks and redesign business processes — rather than simply reduce headcount.
Engineering effectiveness & developer experience
Why engineering productivity is more complicated than any dashboard suggests: cognitive load, practices and measurement.
AI literacy & adoption
How professionals outside engineering build the practical skills and judgment to work with AI.
Formats
- Conference keynotes and talks
- Panels and moderated conversations
- Podcast interviews
- Expert comment and editorial contributions
Talks
- The Hidden Cost of AI: Human Verification as Compute — DevDays Europe, Riga, 2027
Selected writing
- Your Skill Is Too Big. Or Too Small.
How big should an AI Skill be? Not a question of line counts or workflow steps — one coherent job with a clear definition of success, composed with others when the task outgrows it.
- Not Every HR Team Needs AI — and Why “Automate the Busywork” Often Backfires
AI scales whatever process it touches, including the broken ones. Four checks to run before automating an HR process.
Brand assets
Contact
For speaking invitations, interviews and expert comment, email olga@employee.rocks.