19. #LinkedInLocal Domžale Kamnik ~ NO ONE WINS ALONE.
The final event of the year for #LinkedInLocal Domžale–Kamnik. This time the event will be held in English. You're still very welcome to join us - even if you don't speak the language (yet).
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19. #LinkedInLocal Domžale Kamnik ~ NO ONE WINS ALONE: What athletes can teach us about trust, pressure, and leaning on others when it really matters
With:
Jernej Damjan: former pro ski jumper, 4× World Championship medalist, 4× Olympian
Raul Stiens: journalist, runner & sports masseur
We love the story of the lone hero.
The entrepreneur who builds it all.
The manager who can do everything.
The athlete who wins it all.
It’s makes a nice story. It’s also so very wrong.
Behind every great performance is a team most people never see. Coaches. Physios. Partners. Mentors. Family. People who carry you when your legs or your head give up.
On December 16th in Kamnik, we’ll sit down with two people who’ve lived this from the inside. Elite sport, pressure, failure, recovery, and the long grind of trusting others with your success.
Through their stories, we’ll talk about:
Who is really behind their performance
How they choose the people around them
When trusting the wrong people nearly cost them everything
And what we can steal from sport when building their own teams
No stage show. No ego parade.
Just honest stories about people, pressure, and what it really takes to win over time.
About the guests
Jernej Damjan is a former Slovenian ski jumper who competed at the very top of the sport for nearly two decades. He represented Slovenia at four Winter Olympic Games and won multiple World Championship medals. After a long and successful career at elite level, Jernej also experienced the full reality of professional sport. The highs, the injuries, the pressure, and the constant work behind the scenes. Since retiring from competition, he has remained closely connected to sport and performance.
Raul Stiens was born in Belgium and later found both home and heart in Slovenia. As a young runner, he trained alongside some of the world’s elite athletes around the world, until a serious car accident brought his competitive career to an early end. His love for the sport never faded, and instead took new shape through work as a journalist and sports masseur. This keeps him deeply connected to elite athletics, traveling to training camps and professional races around the world.
Join us at Kavarna Veronika, where we’ll open the floor to inspiring stories, real questions, and authentic connections.
Why join?
✨ Gain insights you won’t find in textbooks.
✨ Meet people who understand your challenges.
✨ Find potential partners for your next project.
✨ And best of all—step out of the virtual world into the real one.
Event Program
5:30 – 6:00 PM
Informal gathering and networking
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Fireside conversation with our guests
8:00 – 9:00 PM
Open discussion, exchange of experiences, and further networking
Attendance is free.
🪑 Because seats are limited, please confirm your spot in advance.
⏱️ You can also join the event later – it is not necessary to be present already at 17:30.
Sometimes we learn the most from those who look at things from a completely different perspective.
The event is not sponsored, endorsed, or organized by LinkedIn.
Why #LinkedInLocal Domžale Kamnik?
Check out the locals in the old LinkedIn event here and the LinkedIn group here.
The purpose of #LinkedInLocal events is to create diverse connections between local LinkedIn members who would not meet otherwise. We would especially like to meet those who live in this area and are not fluent in Slovenian. That is why we host half of the events in English. Feel free to reach out to us if you'd like to be a guest or if you'd like to nominate an exciting guest. We’re always looking for venues, food, and drink sponsors.
Read more about how it started in The Serendipity Drive of #LinkedInLocal - Your Neighbor in the Suburbs is Working on Something You Need.
#LinkedInLocal movement is a meetup concept created by Anna McAffee, Erik Eklund, Alexandra Galviz, and Manu Goswami, and started with 4 people in 4 cities in 2017.
O gostiteljih/About the hosts
Our LinkedIn profiles are in English, so here are the Slovenian bios!
Jasna Klemenc je trenutno edina Slovenka s prestižnim nazivom LinkedIn Top Voice. Kot globalna svetovalka podpira podjetja in strokovnjake pri razvoju LinkedIn strategij ter gradnji močnih profesionalnih osebnih znamk. Več kot 200 strokovnjakom je omogočila izboljšanje njihovega LinkedIn profila, ki izstopa v digitalnem in AI svetu. Razvila je operacijski sistem za poslovno mreženje, ki podjetjem omogoča rast prodaje, prihod na tuje trge, uspešne sejemske nastope, organizacijo dogodkov in grajenje partnerske mreže.
V Domžale se je preselila pred 13 leti, a po intenzivnem delu v startupih ugotovila, da lokalno ni spoznala veliko novih ljudi – razen staršev na dogodkih v vrtcu in šoli. Tako je začela zgodbo #LinkedInLocal Domžale Kamnik, ki povezuje lokalne strokovnjake, kreativce in podjetnike.
Jon Butterfield je v zadnjih 15 letih soustanovil in prodal več podjetij, med drugim tudi GetSocial, Nizozemsko tehnološko podjetje, ki razvija orodja za rast za mobilne igre. Oblačni Den Haag je 2015 zamenjal za Kamnik, kjer živi z družino. Jon je v osnovi inženir in dizajner, vendar osredotočen na rast, produkt in marketing. Jon rad svetuje zagonskim podjetjem in je angelski investitor. Več kot tri leta je delal na Speedinvestu iz Dunaja, največjemu Evropskemu investitorju zagonskih podjetij.
Trenutno dela na novem projektu za ustvarjanje zdravega podjetniškega ritma s poudarkom na petih ključnih stebrih zdravja in sodeluje z vodilnimi strokovnjaki, ustanovitelji, terapevti in psihologi po vsem svetu. Je navdušen igralec hokeja, motorist in ljubitelj hribov.
Elina Komlanc je strastna podjetnica, marketinška strateginja in poslovna povezovalka z več kot desetletnimi izkušnjami pri rasti B2B tehnoloških podjetij. Iz Ukrajine se je v Slovenijo preselila pred 15 leti, z željo po odkrivanju novih kultur in povezovanju podjetij preko meja.
S strokovnim znanjem organizacije mednarodnih sejmov po Evropi, Aziji in ZDA je razvila sistem za digitalno negovanje prodajnih priložnosti, ki maksimizira donosnost sejmov. Poleg marketinga jo navdušujejo mreženje, nove kulture in ustvarjanje globalnih poslovnih priložnosti. Elino navdušujejo plesi, najraje se zavrti v latino ritmih. Uživa v smučanju, potovanjih in raziskovanju novih krajev, pa se vedno z veseljem vrača v Dragomelj, kjer stanuje z možem, hčerko in kužkom.