Lucian Tarnowski created the ground-breaking social media driven enterprise BraveNewTalent.com, which connects people to employers via a social network. Lucian is passionate and knowledgeable about all things regarding social media.

Lucian is the energetic face behind BraveNewTalent.com, the social recruiting platform that builds Talent Communities for employers.

He has been honoured as Europe’s youngest Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum.  He is also winner of the Global Enterprising Young Brit of 2009.  He was named as one of Britain’s rising business stars by The Spectator Business and is on the UKTI (UK Trade and Investment’s) Global Entrepreneur Program with BraveNewTalent being described by the UK Government as a “Technology Company of Exceptional Potential”.

Lucian used the BraveNewTalent platform to head up the global social media outreach for One Young World - An initiative to give young people a place to engage and have their voices heard about their future. BraveNewTalent successfully engaged over 100,000 young people from more than 140 countries without any advertising budget.  This demonstrated the global power of social recruiting.

Aside from BraveNewTalent, Lucian is passionate about social media, youth leadership and entrepreneurship.  He has a long association to India and is a youth advisor for Next Generation India on the Board of the UK India Business Council.  In his spare time he runs Take Heart India, a no overheads charity that provides blind students in rural India with the IT skills that guarantee them a job for life.   Lucian speaks to audiences around the world about the phenomenal change that young people are having on the way we work, live and communicate.