Cloudy Zakrocki is a so-called Tausendsassa aka multi-hyphen woman: entrepreneur, digital media expert, creative & strategic consultant, business woman, interior designer, writer, life coach, podcaster, TV presenter, event host, conference speaker, mentor … and so much more.

In Germany, she is known as an expert for all things digital, media and young generation related and has made herself a name not only in the digital and media industry but also in the lifestyle and fashion sphere. 

Since 2021, Zakrocki is the co-founder of MIKADO Culture (a full service agency for talent products & brands) and ONLY GOOD PEOPLE (a creative-collective offering custom solutions for brands).

For twelve years now, she has also been working as a freelance consultant for creative strategy & brand building as well as a lifestyle writer.

Up until January 2021, Zakrocki was the Vice President for International Content & Brand Strategy at Refinery29, the world’s leading media company for women, and has built the business from scratch in Germany in 2016, was co-responsible for the launch of the French site in spring 2019 and worked on the merger with VICE Media Group in 2019. In her role, she was working across lines of business and cross-country on an international level, marrying business and creative as well as strategic and innovative thinking. She is known to perfectly combine her decade long experience and knowledge of the métier with her innate sense for what makes younger generations tick.

Zakrocki has been working in the digital landscape for more than ten years now and was part of the relaunch and rebuilding of several well-known online platforms – for example as the Executive Editor Online at the German edition of Interview Magazine, as a contributor for LesMads, as a consultant for two of the biggest German publishing houses and for a key German e‑commerce platform.

Nowadays Zakrocki is also welcomed regularly to speak at panels or conferences, either as a keynote speaker or as a host and moderator or as part of a jury for awards. In the media landscape she is a well-known advocate for female empowerment, equality, diversity and inclusion as well as personal branding. In the business and lifestyle sphere, she is often interviewed for print and online publications, for podcasts as well as in front of TV cameras.

Cloudy Zakrocki is based in London and Berlin.