The Only Dancing Economist In The World
Economist. Dancer. Methodology creator. The woman who stopped choosing.
"I am not a coach. I am a methodology creator.
Simply said: your Accountability Partner
who gives you back the control over your progress.
There is a difference."
THE ORIGIN
I spent thirty years
living split.
I was born in Hungary. I started dancing at age six. By the time I was a teenager, I was competing seriously in Ballroom and Latin - the discipline, the technique, the hours. Dance was not a hobby. It was a whole language.
Then I became an economist. Diploma in Foreign Trade, Bank Management, and Stock Exchange. The professional world had its own language too - measured, structured, analytical. I learned to speak it fluently.
For thirty years, I kept those two worlds completely separate. The economist in the meeting room. The dancer in the studio. Never together. Never whole.
"9,000 kilometres from home, building a business in Southeast Asia -hiding the part of me that knew how to read a room with my body, not my CV."
I arrived in Kuala Lumpur in 2016. Built the Global Empowerment Summit from nothing — 600+ speakers across five years, events in Singapore, Malaysia, and beyond. Spanish Trade Commission contracts. Female Founders Southeast Asia. International schools. All while the dancer stayed hidden.
The day I stopped choosing was not dramatic. It was quiet. It was the realisation that the split was costing me more than the integration ever could.
That became the methodology. That became The Dancing Economist. That became the book.
THE JOURNEY
Age 6
First dance lesson
Ballroom and Latin. Hungary. The beginning of 35+ years of my competitive dance journey. Later I specialized in Argentine Tango , Social Dancing and Cultural Dances.
Early 2000s
Diploma as Economist
Foreign Trade, Bank Management, Stock Exchange. My professional identity takes shape.
10 years
The split life
Economist by day. Dancer in private. My Two identities that I kept completely separate., and the cost compounded quietly.
2016
Kuala Lumpur
Arrival in Malaysia. I started building snd Empowering what becomes the Global Empowerment Summit and the brand The Dancing Economist.
2016–22
600+ speakers produced Live - Hybrid - Online
600+ live event hours. My event business grows. The methodology begins to take shape behind the scenes.
2022
Singapore, FFC, Event Planning with Soul
Co-founded the Female Founders Southeast Asia Startup Competitions, Run Trade Commission Event contracts for 3 years, Organized networking Events in Singapore under my new Company Innovent Co & PR.
2025
Returning to KL
Back in Kuala Lumpur. Entrepreneurship education & Community Building The book campaign begins. Plans to open an Agency.
2025
Forbes Hungary Creator
Named Forbes Hungary LinkedIn Creator of 2025. The Dancing Economist brand reaches global audience.
Aug 29, 2026
Dare to Dance Your Way
The book will be launched on my birthday. The methodology is published.
Part 2 coming soon
THE ORIGIN
Two worlds, I kept completely separate
The economist in the meeting rooms. The dancer in the studio. Never together.
For 25 years, that was the norm.
From
Economist ↔ Dancer
Analysis and intuition. Data and embodiment. The two things that normally the professional world keeps apart. I live it as one. This is the origin of my method the Movement Based Intelligence.
From
European ↔ Asian
Hungarian directness. Southeast Asian harmony. 10 years building across KL, Singapore, South East Asia, Seoul, Budapest. Cultural fluency is my lived competitive advantage.
From
Performance ↔ Presence
Competitive dance taught me performance and how to behave like an extrovert. Integration taught me presence and grounded confidence. The difference between leading from force and leading from wholeness. This is also what MBI delivers.
From
Profession ↔ Passion
The split that costs the most. The one most people accept as permanent. I reinvented the word Propassion when I realised the answer didn't have to be either or.
From
Individual ↔ Community
Personal integration is the foundation. But the GEH, the DTDYW community, and 365 Stories exist because integration multiplies when it's shared. This is the compassion chapter.
From
Individual ↔ Community
Personal integration is the foundation. But the GEH Community, the DTDYW blueprint, and the 365 Stories Project exist because integration accelerates impact when what you create is shared. You can read more about this in the compassion chapter of my upcoming book.
From
Theory ↔ Embodiment
Most methodologies live in the mind. MBI lives in the body. Movement-Based Intelligence is the framework I've built over a decade, the tool behind every service, every event, every chapter of the book. You can't think your way to integration. You have to move your way there. This is what makes my method irreplaceable and the baseline for the Economics of Movement called Kinenomics.
FULL CREDENTIALS
Everything Andrea
brings to the room.
EC
Diploma Economist
Foreign Trade, Bank Management, Stock Exchange
SC
Supply Chain Management
Trained by APICS - the global standard for supply chain management
PM
ISO · Project Management · Lean Management / LeanCore
Operational credentials across global standards.
FFC
Co-Founded Female Founders Competition in Southeast Asia
Co-built one of Southeast Asia's leading female founder networks.
EP
Event Planning & PR
Consultant in Malaysia and Singapore.
FH
Forbes Hungary LinkedIn Creator 2025
Recognised by Forbes Hungary as a top LinkedIn creator.
GEH
Global Empowerment Hub
My Compassion Project: Hybrid , Live and Online Events with record length and Global participation
DN
Certified Dance & Sport Coach Professional Ballroom/Latin Argentine Tango Dancer
Competitive dancer since age 6. 35+ years of serious training and competition.
THE METHODOLOGY
Movement
Based
Intelligence
MBI is the framework Andrea has been building for a decade. It is the primary tool used in every service, event, project, every community session, and every chapter of the book.
The premise is simple : Every decision you avoid, every identity you suppress, every split you maintain - the mind & the body carries the cost. MBI makes that cost visible. And it makes integration possible. So that you get the silence to make a better choice.
This is the Base of The Economics of Movement, aka Kinenomics
1. The body as scanner
Movement reveals what conversation conceals. In a corporate setting, how a team moves together tells you more about their culture than any survey.
2. Embodied learning
You cannot think your way to integration. Transformation requires felt experience, not just conceptual understanding. The body changes first.
3. Presence over performance
The goal of MBI is not better performance. It is genuine presence. A leader who is whole is more effective than a leader who is polished.
4. The irreplaceable intelligence
In an age of AI and automation, embodied human Movement Based Intelligence is the last moat. MBI develops the one thing machines cannot replicate yet: The Forward and Up Growth Cycle.
COMING AUGUST 29, 2026
The methodology
is now a book.
Ten years of building. Thirty years of living split. Eight chapters. One framework. One fundamental permission: you are allowed to integrate.
Dare to Dance Your Way in Life and Business. The Book will be launched on my birthday. Join the De Journal now to be part of the launch from the inside.
LIFE - BUSINESS MEMOIR
Dare to
Dance
Your Way
in Life and Business
ANDREA ZSAPKA
August 29 2026
Andrea`s Birthday
Out
Aug 29
