Miro Kazakoff

Miro Kazakoff is an author, entrepreneur, and Senior Lecturer in Managerial Communication at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he focuses on how individuals use data to persuade others. At MIT Sloan, Miro developed all of the school’s Communicating and Persuading With Data courses which help individuals improve their ability to persuade by speaking, writing, and visualizing data more effectively. Before joining the faculty at MIT, Miro co-founded Testive, an education technology company that combined an adaptive online learning platform with live human coaching to help students meet their educational goals. Prior to that, he worked in a variety of sales and client service roles at Hubspot, Compete.com (sold to media conglomerate WPP), and Bain & Co. Miro holds a BA from Georgetown University where he studied English and Computer Science and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.