Valentina Ivanovna Golubeva is a public figure. She gained fame by becoming one of the experts, and then the captain of the only female team of the television club “What? Where? When? . A unique player by the profession of a mathematician. She teaches at the university.
Valentina Golubeva was born in an ordinary Minsk family in 1954, on November 14. The girl studied well at school, showing leadership inclinations from an early age.
Intellectual club
With humor, she later said in an interview that she had to play in the sandbox with those who were sent by circumstances. But she tried to surround herself at a conscious age only by those who share her views, realizing the full responsibility of the leader for his subordinates.
After school, the graduate entered the Belarusian State University at the Department of Applied Mathematics. Valentina Ivanovna successfully completed her education, wrote and defended her Ph. D. thesis. She worked as an assistant professor at the Belarusian State Polytechnic Academy for several years.
Already a fully formed person, Golubeva got into “What? Where? When? . The new player had his own views on life and a very extensive store of knowledge. According to one of the most popular versions in the club, Valentina Ivanovna turned out to be thanks to romantic feelings for one of the players.
After a tough selection in 1982, Golubeva made her game debut. Three years later, she was already a captain. The game fully revealed the leadership potential inherent in nature. Unlike “sandbox partners”, Valentina Ivanovna chose herself for the team of players.
She firmly believes that each captain of intellectuals acts according to his own method, creating optimal interaction within the team. The captain also has his own secrets. In an interview, she shared one of them with reporters. True, it is difficult to say whether Golubeva was joking when she said that she puts weak players on her right so as not to see them.
Success and new records
But it is clear: her team has a very high win rate. Valentina Ivanovna herself became the record holder. Throughout the history of the club, her personal achievement, about three dozen victories, is the second indicator.
She bypassed such luminaries as Maxim Potashov and Alexander Druz. Golubeva became the record holder in the game. The women's team she created three decades ago remains the only one in the elite club of intellectuals.
Elizaveta Ovdeenko managed to become the owner of a pair of "Crystal Owls". The player herself and the unique captain of her "owls" won in one 2003, in summer and autumn. The ex-connoisseur is no less proud of his contribution to the introduction of fashion for the appearance in evening low-cut dresses.
Before the innovation, Valentina Ivanovna spoke with humor about the ban on appearing on the air, even with short sleeves. The TV operators believed that it was better not to demonstrate the plump, in their opinion, hands of all, without exception, intellectuals.
Once, against all the rules, Golubeva came to the game in such an open outfit that she heard the remarks of shocked employees about the impossibility of such a flagrant violation. All this was said, it is true, in an admiring whisper.
Since that time, beautiful ladies have received the right to demonstrate not only erudition. In 2005, Golubeva played in the final game of the club. As a spectator, Valentina Ivanovna sometimes attends games in an intellectual casino.
But in 2013, the famous intellectual took part in two television projects at once. She dared to go to Fort Boyard and the Tower. Golubev's HSE reached the fourth stage. Her main desire in her work was the desire to inspire beautiful ladies to courageous and difficult actions.
On the project, the participant received a shoulder injury. But several months passed, and Valentina Ivanovna had already gone to conquer Boyard. On the show, popular all over the world, the leadership qualities of the ex-player again appeared.
Community activities and teaching
Golubeva got one of the keys, standing on a box with gunpowder in the "Barrel of Death" test. According to its conditions, during the execution of the task, both the boxes and the wick alternately explode. As a result, with the expiration of time, the support shattered at the participant's feet.
Having fallen unsuccessfully, the captain was injured again, but continued to perform. The result was a team victory in the project and winning three games in a row.
Since 1995, for ten years, Valentina Ivanovna is the head of the projects "An Affiliate of Edelman", "Imageland PR" and "Niccolo M." She participated in election campaigns at all levels of government.
Golubeva ran in the Republic of Belarus for the House of the National Assembly in 2004. Valentina Ivanovna headed the consagling company Buro Akzent. Since 2004, the work of a talented mathematician has been teaching at MGIMO a special course "Culture of Leadership and Team Building".
From 2010 to 2012 she was engaged in conducting master classes and seminars for MBA, masters of business administration. Currently, Golubeva is working as Director for Development and Strategy at the Center for the Development of Management Technologies.
Even the most meticulous journalists know nothing about his personal life, husband, children of a successful player and a charming woman. She is closed enough to admit strangers to her own secrets. The only thing that Valentina Ivanovna shared with the interviewers is that she adores Sharpeis.
Golubeva is passionate about sailing, she loves windsurfing. A considerable part of the time of a successful figure is devoted to travel. Golubeva loves and appreciates the abundance of delicious food in the house.
