How can a large international organization truly live innovation and collaboration across countries, departments, and hierarchies? The UNIQA Insurance Group has created a unique model to make this possible: commUNIties.
In the brutkasten studio, Cristina Anculescu, Head of Group Talent Acquisition & Development Experience, and Simon Prior, Head of Transformation & Communities, talk about how this concept embeds culture change, innovation, and learning into everyday work.
What started in 2021 has evolved into a network of 13 communities across 14 countries – powered by voluntary participation, passion, and expertise. Employees work together on real business challenges, co-create solutions, and accelerate both transformation and learning across the entire organization. With its model, UNIQA shows how collaboration, innovation, and knowledge sharing go hand in hand in a modern organization.
Key topics of the studio talk:
- Collaboration & Culture Change: How commUNIties break down hierarchies and foster a trust-based learning culture.
- Innovation in Action: How bottom-up use cases emerge from real business needs and deliver tangible impact for customers.
- Talent & Learning: How UNIQA uses its internal platform to map skills, foster development, and make learning measurable.
- Leadership & Empowerment: Why commUNIties provide psychological safety – and how leadership is being redefined as enabling rather than directing.
- “Living better together” in practice: How UNIQA’s brand promise becomes tangible through shared learning, collaboration, and growth.
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