PapaHR

Meet Mike — the HR Architect Behind a Preply Unicorn and 200+ Amazon Books

Udemy features me as a Popular Instructor in Human Resources — a status assigned based on ratings, course quality, and category impact.

Before Preply became a $1.2B unicorn, I built the HR operating system that let it scale fast without breaking culture, engagement, or performance. I don't just teach HR. I build HR systems that work under hyper-growth, investor pressure, global teams, and messy processes — then I turn them into courses you can use on Monday morning.

Companies where I built HR systems

Wargaming · Preply · iDeals · PeopleForce · Alfa-Bank · StarLightMedia · and other international tech and gaming companies.

The Preply case (before the headlines)

- Headcount: ~50 110+

- eNPS: 30 70 in 6 months

- International workforce: 12% 25%

- OKRs, performance management, and 1:1 leadership routines implemented

- Onboarding system + Employee Handbook

- HR tech stack (15Five, ATS, People Analytics)

- Berlin office launch, relocation & visa operations

That is not HR theory. That is operational HR at scale, under unicorn pressure.

My reach on Udemy

- Popular Instructor in the Human Resources category on Udemy

- 4.4 Instructor Rating

- 1.8M+ course enrollments

- 165,000+ students

- 370+ courses published

- Courses available in 30 languages

- Students in 215+ countries

- 200,000+ members across HR communities I built

- 5M+ views of my articles and conference talks

- 2*YouTube Silver Button for educational HR content

Why learn from me — I combine three worlds

Corporate HR at scale. Unicorns, gaming, SaaS, fintech, cross-border teams.

AI and automation in HR. Chatbots, People Analytics, HRIS, process automation, AI agents for recruiting, L&D, and employee experience.

Industrial-grade learning design. I founded one of the world's largest AI HR online academies — a full learning ecosystem with a content factory, expert network, learning analytics, and certification paths used by professionals and companies worldwide.

Certifications and credibility

PHRi · SHRM-CP · HCI sHRBP. I brought HRCI and SHRM certification programs to 10+ countries across the CIS and Eastern Europe.

Global consulting partners I've worked with

Radford · Deloitte · EY · HAY Group · Korn Ferry · and other top-tier HR advisory firms.

Books on Amazon

- "Resume for a Million"

- "AI in HR"

- "The HR Audit Playbook"

- "The HR Strategy Playbook"

- and more HR titles available on Amazon Kindle and paperback

- New titles added regularly — targeting a 200+ book library on Amazon

Recognition

- Top-10 AI HR Leaders

- HR Person of the Year — Ukraine (2018)

- HR Person of the Year — Belarus (2017)

What you get from my courses

- Systems, not slides

- Templates you can copy into your company today

- Frameworks tested in real high-growth companies

- Step-by-step implementation guides

- AI tools and prompts you can apply immediately

- HR connected to the metrics executives actually care about: performance, retention, productivity, and cost

Final word

I don't prepare people to pass exams. I prepare HR professionals to build companies.

If your goal is to become an HR leader instead of an administrator, to use AI instead of being replaced by it, and to build systems that scale instead of paperwork — you're in the right place.

Welcome to the operating system behind modern HR.