Karina Luchinkina LW TT Best Bits
Live Well in Turbulent Times: We delve into the ‘’best bits’‘ which our subscribers personally selected. This week we are talking to Karina Luchinkina.
Chapters
01:07 Karina’s life and career and current pursuits
03:14 Karina’s 10x Speed Mode!
04:08 Finding your pace and living at that pace
06:27 Survival includes our biomechanics, hormones, preparation and noticing the warning signs
08:18 Evacuating her family during the first invasion of Ukraine, relying on strangers
10:16 A mindset for genuine preparation for a polycrisis
12:30 Critical infrastructure and governing the gas pipeline through the Ukraine
13:40 What Living Well means to Karina
15:19 Cold Water swimming, in winter, during the COVID pandemic
17:00 Finding your support crew, nurturing strong bonds (with people and pets)
21:43 Paying it forward, creating positivity with no expectation of getting anything back
22:53 What makes complexity and pressure so appealing to Karina
24:18 Providing constructive feedback (on Martin’s early book drafts!) and high performing teams
26:30 Explosive, intensive sports vs being an endurance athlete (quick wins at work vs steering long-term business outcomes)
29:50 Karina’s closing questions for you dear listener (tell us in the comments)
More about Karina. She is a global governance specialist, board member and board advisor. In the last 25 years she has worked with organisations across more than 30 countries, advising on highly complex / high-pressured environments.Her roles operate at the heart of business: finance, technical governance, ethics, strategy, and performance improvement, particularly within the utilities and investment sectors.
Her ability to navigate turbulent times is deeply personal. Karina had to rapidly evacuate her family from the front line during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This experience completely redefined her perspective on crisis management, resilience, and what it truly means to maintain clarity under extreme pressure. Karina balances her professional advisory work with endurance sports. She aligns thriving (not just surviving) with leadership in the toughest scenarios, with deep internal alignment, and preparedness. She has the support of her “crew” to keep her steady through it all.
Within 18+ years in senior roles at PwC UK, her projects included IPO readiness, Mergers and Acquisitions, Remuneration and Nomination Committees and active membership of Audit and Ethics Committees. Today she leads in Sustainable AI finance technology and ESG data; scaling up businesses, driving strategic partnerships and sustainable investing.
This Live Well in Turbulent Times series accompanies the best seller and idiosyncratic novel business book ‘Good Leaders in Turbulent Times: How to Navigate Wild Waters at Work which is packed full of practical advice - see what shines bright for you - for leaders going through crises and emerging stronger. A story of nine characters over seven years, with 41 drawings by Steven Appleby and 138 nuggets of advice (definitely some for you in there)
