Transformative Learning & Development
Konstantina Koutsioumpa
Executive Product & Operations Officer
L&D Designer - L&D Instructor
AELIA Partner
Konstantina is the Executive Product & Operations Officer at AELIA, leading the coordination of the product design and product implementation teams and monitoring operational plans. She has been operating AELIA’s learning & development projects and offering L&D instruction and guidance services, initially in parallel to her former career as a linguist and project manager for international translation projects and more intensively since 2022.
About Konstantina
Konstantina Koutsioumpa is a dynamic professional with a deep-rooted passion for cross-cultural communication and people development, while at the same time an avid learner of technology and an innovation geek.
Konstantina has been a hands-on project manager in people development projects within AELIA, managing relationships across teams and networks of diverse people, while she has also served as an L&D Instructor, guiding and inspiring her beneficiaries and striving to make the best out of people.
Moreover, she is the Co-Founder and Head of Learning & Development of Science-2-Business, an organisation which supports and empowers sciencepreneurs in their commercialisation efforts and fosters capacity building for researchers and R&D corporate officers embarking on the science-to-business journey. In 2023, Konstantina joined forces with Faye and other “aelian” L&D Instructors to found Science 2 Business, whereby she has contributed in multiple capacity building projects for aspiring entrepreneurs, as well as researchers at leading research centres in Greece.
Konstantina is a linguist by education, with executive studies in Learning & Development and Innovation Management. Her relationship with learning & development began as soon as she joined and benefited from a capacity building programme of AELIA when the organisation was still operating as a social venture, thus experiencing first-hand the immense impact capacity building can make on someone’s life. She gradually developed a passion for learning & development, which later resulted in her becoming a learning & development project manager and instructor at AELIA.
Her initial career was in translation and localisation services. She is a linguistics graduate of the Ionian University (translation studies), with graduate studies at the Faculty of Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies of Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz as well.
Soon after her studies, she embarked on a freelance career as a medical translator and later joined a boutique translation agency as an in-house translator and reviewer, where she mostly translated technical and marketing materials for multinational corporations in the automotive and IT industries. After 3+ years, her eagerness to constantly learn and grow led her to one of the most well-established translation agencies in Greece and north-eastern Europe, where she served as a translation project manager for major accounts.
She is a quick and constant learner, always on the lookout for her next challenge. She is an avid traveller, she loves to read about technology and innovation (mostly engineering and IT), and she is a huge fan of astrophysics.