How do breakthroughs happen? In her talk, Klaudia Gorczyca, an experienced leader, entrepreneur, and executive coach, explores the transformative power of cognitive diversity in creating innovation. Drawing from her career in financial services, disruptive tech, and leadership coaching, Klaudia highlights how diverse perspectives fuel creativity and solve complex challenges. As the founder of Dialogue Age and co-founder of Women in Leadership Global, she has helped leaders build high-performing, inclusive teams that drive measurable impact. With insights from her upcoming book The Alchemy of Teams, Klaudia shares how embracing different ways of thinking can shape a better, more innovative future. Klaudia Gorczyca is an experienced leader, entrepreneur, and an executive coach. She spent several years in financial services in London, moving from trading, to hedge funds, to disruptive tech, and involving management of global teams. She was named as one of ‘Women in FinTech Powerlist’ by the UK’s Innovate Finance.Her core passion is cognitive diversity and its role as a catalyst for innovation. As Founder of Dialogue Age, Klaudia is committed to driving measurable change by empowering leaders to build high performance, diverse teams and deliver an outstanding performance. She partners with those in high stakes environments, managing global teams and sitting on corporate boards, where the decisions made don’t just affect the organization—they ripple out, impacting employees, customers, and even entire industries.Being quadrilingual and having lived and worked in different countries, Klaudia understands firsthand the value of navigating multiple perspectives. Language isn’t just about words; it’s about seeing the world through different lenses. Her upcoming book, The Alchemy of Teams: Cognitive Diversity as a Catalyst for Innovation, dives into the ways neurodiversity contributes to idea generation, creativity, and innovation within organizations.Together with her business partner, Georgie Dickins, Klaudia co-founded Women in Leadership Global, an elite peer network uniting inspiring and accomplished female leaders across the finance industry. She is the blueprint and the fuel to people who are transitioning into positions of greater power and responsibility, to help them magnify their impact.Klaudia helps equip them with skills, behaviors and mindsets required to get to the next level, and has recently co-authored Leading With Impact: A Collection of Insights and Wisdom for Today’s Complex World. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx