Päivi Kuusela was born in Taiwan, where she spent a significant amount of her childhood and acquired a love for practicing characters! Due to having been born into the intersection of different language and cultural worlds, she, together with extensive company networks, is able to create stepping stones for others making the transition among them. Via recent R&D for culture trainings in a changing world, she has been specialising in contradiction and paradox management - a key interdisciplinary skill of the future, she believes, especially in consideration of the huge sustainability transformation ahead. 

Päivi likes to take her tea with stratagem. In this spirit, and as a hobby, she has been organising grassroots tea tasting sessions since 2013 for the purposes of supporting both herself and others in the art of personal strategy formation - building skills of resilience despite changing circumstances. As a founder, she enjoys connecting people, and sees herself as a cultural mediator above all, being passionate about creating meaningful encounter and connection despite differences. 

Having worked also as a translator, travel host and language and culture coaching professional since 2006 (training Finnish, English and Mandarin Chinese), her focus has been on practical interpersonal communication and management strategy. Clients have included executives at ABB, Tieto, Nokia, Rovio, Finnair, Stora Enso and US Embassy Helsinki.

She is a founding member of Slush China, where she worked with localization in the role of Head of Investor-Startup Relations (Beijing 2015). She holds a degree in International Relations from the University of Helsinki. Complementing a Diploma in Marketing & Management in China from the Helsinki Marketing Institute, in 2015 she acquired certification in Advanced Intercultural Management from the University of Notre Dame Mendoza School of Business. Most recently, company research and development has been conducted in the context of a MA degree in communication and world politics. The focus has been on elevating company operations to the international relations arena, especially as related to contradiction mediation of global political economy turbulence on behalf of sustainable partnerships.