Konstantinos Lafkas

Konstantinos Lafkas

Konstantinos Lafkas is the only certified Scaling Up Coach and ExO Ambassador & Coach in Greece. He has served for more than 25 years in high and C level managerial positions in Selonda (CCO), Sunlight (CEO), Alfa Laval Greece (CEO), Maillis (Development Director), Epa Attikis (Retail Sales and Customer Service Manager), Bitros SA (Sales Manager), Shell (Sales Engineer). He led the aggressive expansion of Greek multinationals all over the globe through organic growth and acquisition projects. In addition, he has been heavily involved, with his teams, in transforming the business models, redesigning products/services and introducing new growth frameworks.

In recent years he has been focusing on the development of entrepreneurship in Greece, in particular scaling up businesses through the application of the Scaling Up methodology, the key manual of which he has translated into Greek. He is also expanding the community of Exponential Organizations (ExO) in collaboration with the core team in the US, analyzing best practices of unicorn companies.

He has been trained in specific managerial areas in high ranked Universities like Stanford (Entrepreneurship and Innovation), Babson (Entrepreneurship in Corporate Environments), IMD (PED), INSEAD (YMP) and Ashridge (Entrepreneurship Strategies).

He holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering focusing on major production economics from the National Technical University of Athens, an MBA from IMD Lausanne and an MSc in Decision Sciences from the Athens University of Economics. Member of TEE, the Greek Association of Engineers, and various other alumni clubs.