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Manuela Šola was born in 1978 in Bjelovar. After finishing the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb, she finished the School for Personal and Organizational Development, the London School of Public Relations (LSPR) and the COTRUGLI Business School. In 2004 she founded one of today's leading communication agencies in the region, Komunikacijski laboratorij. She is an active member of a relevant professional and business associations, such as the Croatian Association of Employers, where she is the president of the Supervisory Board, member of the Croatian Association of Market Communication Societies (HURA!) and a member of the Croatian Association for Public Relations. She is part of the Croatian Association of Managers and Entrepreneurs CROMA, and a member of the international association IPRA. Komunikacijski laboratorij under the leadership of Manuela Šola is one of the co-founders of the SEEnthesis regional network of agencies and actively participates in the world's leading network of independent agencies Thenetworkone. Šola was chosen as an ambassador of female entrepreneurship within the Female Entrepreneurship Ambassadors project. The Croatian Association of Managers CROMA recognized her work and awarded her the Anton Nino Cerin award for the best young manager in 2009. Thanks to many years of experience in the communication industry, as part of the jury, she contributes to the quality of numerous domestic and international competitions such as Effie Awards, Young Lions Croatia, Conventa, Indie awards and HUOJ Grand PRix. Komunikacijski laboratorij offers an integrated service of public relations, organization of events, digital communication and a specialized simulation on crisis communication. The agency is organizer of the internationally awarded author's project Future Tense, a conference that brings together global futurologists for shaping the future of business, and the GIG conference, the first Croatian conference on gig economy and platform work. The agency employs 25 experts, and the respectable list of clients includes world-leading companies such as Nestlé Adriatics, Zalando, PlayStation, Visa, Glovo, Infinum, McDonald's, Rasco, Knauf Insulation and numerous others.