OUR CO-FOUNDER & PRESIDENT

Kris Safarova is the co-founder and president of Malibu Capital Inc. She was a master classical concert pianist and official Russian music ambassador who performed in Russia, Germany, France, The Czech Republic, and Bulgaria, and wrote and recorded a pop single. Kris was a management consultant at Deloitte Strategy & Operations and PwC Consulting & Deals. Among notable roles, Kris led a team developing the financial model, business strategy, prospectus, and implementation plan for a >US$50M venture capital investment to launch a short-term direct insurer in Eastern Europe, culminating in a financial services road show to senior executives of major banks, insurance companies, and high-net-worth-individuals in Johannesburg and Moscow. As a Corporate Finance Director at the Bank of Montreal in Toronto, Kris managed a portfolio of 37 corporate clients, across 34 industries, with total authorization of over US$1B. Among notable roles, Kris led the Initial due diligence to acquire a leading film/television media lending and advisory company, to expand market share in the media lending segment.

Based in Los Angeles, Kris founded and built StrategyTraining.com into the largest business strategy and problem-solving OTT streaming executive education service in the world, available on Android, iOS, ROKU, and Apple TV, with subscribers in over 150 countries. The company merges the best practices of private equity and elite management consulting to develop the tools, techniques, frameworks, methodologies, and analytics that corporate clients around the world use to unlock value in their businesses. Her podcast, Strategy Skills, is often ranked in the top 5, in most countries, in its category.

Kris is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author and founded a publishing imprint on business strategy and investing. Kris has authored over twenty books on business strategy, leadership, critical thinking, and problem-solving, in addition to writing a cover article for the Ivey Business Journal. Notable books include The Strategy Journal, which walks the reader through the analytic process we use to identify and solve the primary problem of why a business is not creating greater value, and The Investment Journal, which walks the reader through the analytic process we use to determine how to make investment decisions within businesses, The Digital & IT Strategy Journal, which walks the reader through the analytic process we use to develop a digital strategy for a business, which is often the largest and fastest lever to increase the value of a business, Strategy. Book One and Strategy. Book Two, which walks the reader through the analytic process we use to restructure and turn around financial businesses, The Operations Management Journal, which walks the reader through the analytic process we use to improve productivity at industrial sites, The Pandemic & Disaster Strategy Journal, which walks the reader through the analytic process we use to restructure medical systems, The Turnaround & Transformation Strategy Journal, which walks the reader through the analytic process we use to increase value in divisions of state-owned-enterprises and Succeeding as a Management Consultant, which walks the reader through the analytic process we use to increase value at resources and extraction businesses. The Private Equity Strategy Quick Guide, explains one of Malibu Capital’s primary investment strategies. Four of Kris’s books (The Strategy Journal, The Investment Journal, Succeeding as a Management Consultant, and Strategy. Book One and Strategy. Book Two) are prescribed university course books. Both Mavis & The Productivity Paradox, a dystopian sci-fi thriller about a Soviet-era chemical plant, and Turquoise Eyes, a business crime thriller about a whistleblower at a large Mexican state-owned bank, teach problem-solving and critical thinking in the format of a novel.

Based on her life experiences, Kris developed and runs The Masterplan Program, which is a highly structured facilitated approach designed specifically for executives and entrepreneurs at critical transition points in their careers, who believe they are capable of more than what society had intended for them. The program follows a proven step-by-step approach to help clients become the people who can create and fund the life they want; skills building, wealth building, wealth management, and retirement planning.

Kris holds a Diploma in Music from DG Shatalov Music College, which she attended at the recommendation of Russian composer Mark Levyant, a B.Comm in Economics from UNISA cum laude, with distinctions in every subject, and an MBA from Ivey Business School, Canada, with distinction on the dean’s list, where she was editor of The Public Sector Review.