About us
Baltazar marketing operates as a team of professionals in a highly flexible project management organization.
Meet the team.
Meet the team.
Founder, CEO
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Blaž Branc, entrepreneur, sociologist with specialization in human resources management, author, trainer and lecturer. He began his career in 2001 at a start-up web company Domenca, where he first worked as a salesman. Later he took over webdesign department and led a group of 12 programmers, designers and animators. In 2007 he established his company Baltazar marketing and ran marketing operations for Mimovrste, a company that became the biggest Slovenian online store in 2009.
He's worked with domestic and international organizations like Porsche, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, Toshiba, KD Funds, Si.mobil, Austrian airlines, etc. Blaz leads a double professional life: one of marketer, specializing in product communication and sales engineering, and one of educator of adults. |
His work as an educator of adults began in 2007. He focuses on start-up programs, innovative product development, product communication and soft-skills needed to assemble and run a great team.
In recent years, Blaz has been using gamification and game-design in his work as a practitioner and trainer. A few recent projects:
In recent years, Blaz has been using gamification and game-design in his work as a practitioner and trainer. A few recent projects:
- »From inspiration to innovation,« a fully gamified business conference on innovation (Ljubljana, Slovenia), recognized as innovation by the Slovenian forum of Innovation 2014 (world's first fully gamified educational business event);
- "Let's play Life,« a training course in designing LARP (live-action role-play) for educational purposes (Poznan, Poland);
- »Knudepunkt convention,« inspirational speaker (»Rejection: clash of personalities« (Copenhagen, Denmark);
- »Dust over Assling city,« a stakeholder management LARP, with Ziga Novak (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
- "Train2Game," a board games training course aimed at creating educational board games for NGOs (Patras, Greece);
- "7 samurai," a fully gamified assessment center, with Ziga Novak (in progress, launch late spring 2015)
- "Digital shift," a business learning boardgame on the topic of digital transformation, with Deloitte Slovenia (launched in 2017)
- "Imagine This - the transformative power of edu-larp in corporate training and assessment, " business book, published by Rollespilsakademiet from Copenhagen, Denmark at Knutpunkt 2018 in Sweden
- "Singularity 2047", an edu-larp scenario about the coming of AI Singularity (launched at Edutainment conference, 2018)
digital technology and
user experience consultant
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Peter Miklavc began his career as a designer and animator for webdesign projects. In 2006 he established a web company Mugo and has been its CEO ever since. Mugo has since specialized in cutting-edge mobile (iOS, Android, Bada) and web development. Peter understand how modern technology can enable businesses to achieve growth through development of their internal and market communication. Mugo's clients portfolio include companies like Akrapovič racing exhaust systems, Krka,...
Currently he works on Mugo's own social app called MugoSurf, a mobile community software for people sharing a passion - in this case, surfing. |
Manja Potočnik
Manja is a specialist for key human resource development in businesses. She spent 5 years developing strategy HR consulting skills at several international HR organizations and is now the owner of KIC. Since 2010, she has been helping various organizations in finding and developing key leaders, professionals, and managers.
She designs strategical HR projects of comprehensive key employee development, establishes systems of competencies, and consults her partners on key questions of strategic HR themes, Annual Performance Appraisal Interviews, outplacement programmes, and headhunting. She has collaborated with both Slovenian and foreign companies, such as B/S/H, Ecolab, Sava Tires/Goodyear, SC Johnson, Schindler, Sportina, Studio Moderna, Unicredit Bank, BKS bank, Kolektor Group, and more.
Manja earned her degree in Sociology and HR Management at the Faculty for Social Sciences in Ljubljana.
Manja is a specialist for key human resource development in businesses. She spent 5 years developing strategy HR consulting skills at several international HR organizations and is now the owner of KIC. Since 2010, she has been helping various organizations in finding and developing key leaders, professionals, and managers.
She designs strategical HR projects of comprehensive key employee development, establishes systems of competencies, and consults her partners on key questions of strategic HR themes, Annual Performance Appraisal Interviews, outplacement programmes, and headhunting. She has collaborated with both Slovenian and foreign companies, such as B/S/H, Ecolab, Sava Tires/Goodyear, SC Johnson, Schindler, Sportina, Studio Moderna, Unicredit Bank, BKS bank, Kolektor Group, and more.
Manja earned her degree in Sociology and HR Management at the Faculty for Social Sciences in Ljubljana.
Nejc Gornik
Nejc joined the team as a digital editor. He specializes in new technologies and digital content production. He calls himself a people, tech, and internet junkie.
During his time of study, he collaborated with Za in Proti – Pro et Contra, where he held a string of debate tournaments. Later, he started running projects at several organizations on the topics of sociology, education, critical thought, and the use of social media, while starting to amass experience as both an animator and a facilitator.
He has collaborated on project-based work with Danfoss, Roche, Deichmann, Atlantic Grupa, and the Slovene Advertising Festival – SOF. Nejc is finishing up his studies in media and communication studies at the Faculty for Social Sciences in Ljubljana and is specializing in the use of social media as a part of everyday communication habits.
Nejc joined the team as a digital editor. He specializes in new technologies and digital content production. He calls himself a people, tech, and internet junkie.
During his time of study, he collaborated with Za in Proti – Pro et Contra, where he held a string of debate tournaments. Later, he started running projects at several organizations on the topics of sociology, education, critical thought, and the use of social media, while starting to amass experience as both an animator and a facilitator.
He has collaborated on project-based work with Danfoss, Roche, Deichmann, Atlantic Grupa, and the Slovene Advertising Festival – SOF. Nejc is finishing up his studies in media and communication studies at the Faculty for Social Sciences in Ljubljana and is specializing in the use of social media as a part of everyday communication habits.
game-design consultant,
events organizer
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Žiga Novak is an expert in edutainment, event management and tourism. In his work with organizations he promotes the use of storytelling, humour and participatory techniques for more effective group cooperation. As a student of International relations in Ljubljana, he was invited to join a one year Leadership development program in Boston, USA, sponsored by the Open Society Institute. Žiga holds a MSc degree in Politics of the World Economy (London School of Economics). In recent years he has been facilitating HRM trainings, developing his own event&educational venue (The Walnut Grove in Ljubljana) and running the Team Building Lab - a team building agency running top-notch edutainment solutions for the global market.
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gamification and LARP consultant
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Krzysztof Chmielewski is a full-time LARP (live-action role-playing) master coach, teaching LARP design since 2006. Kris created and ran his first LARPs in 1999. A veteran in the scene. He specializes in LARP for team buildings and corporate soft-skills training as well as arthouse-style LARPing.
Kris graduated in Politics and History. He also has a degree in directing and screenwriting. He holds a MSc degree in Mediation, Negotiations and Psychology in Business. Currently he works as role-playing games design lecturer at Kazimierze Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He also gives lectures to high school teachers on how to use LARP and gamified drama. Specialist at GAMEDEC LARP Lab, Poland. Kris is probably the only economic mediator in Poland that gamifies facilitation and mediation. Member of Games Research Association of Poland. Juror in the "Złote Maski" (Golden masks) competition - biggest LARP contest in East-Central Europe (2010-2014). |
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An invitation
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Do you feel like our company could be an inspirational environment for your talent and skills?
If so, please write to Blaz (blaz@baltazar.si) and introduce yourself briefly to start the conversation. Thank you. |
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