🛣️ The Mythic Loop: A 7-Day Road Trip from Jefferson City, MO
🌀 Day 1: The Departure — Jefferson City → Eureka Springs, AR
Theme: Crossing the ThresholdSymbol: The Spiral Staircase (Thorncrown Chapel)
Narrative: Leave the bureaucratic fortress behind. Enter the Ozarks, where Victorian ghosts whisper in alleyways and every porch is a portal.
Budget Tip: Camp at Lake Leatherwood or find a quirky hostel.🔥 Day 2: The Trial of Waters — Eureka Springs → Hot Springs National Park
Theme: Purification and RebirthSymbol: The Sacred Spring
Narrative: Bathe in ancient thermal waters. Let the steam carry away the residue of unjust systems.
Budget Tip: Free access to outdoor springs and trails. Pack a picnic.🎸 Day 3: The Siren’s Song — Hot Springs → Memphis, TN
Theme: Temptation and RhythmSymbol: The Beale Street Blues
Narrative: Hear the echoes of resistance in every riff. Visit the Lorraine Motel for a solemn pause.
Budget Tip: Free Peabody Duck March, street music, and murals.🌲 Day 4: The Forest of Memory — Memphis → Natchez Trace Parkway
Theme: Ancestral EchoesSymbol: The Trace
Narrative: Drive the ancient path of migration and mourning. Stop at Emerald Mound or the Sunken Trace.
Budget Tip: Entire parkway is free. Sleep under stars at a primitive campsite.⚔️ Day 5: The Battlefield of Truth — Natchez → Vicksburg
Theme: Confronting the PastSymbol: The Cannon
Narrative: Walk the ridges where history bled. Reflect on your own battles—legal, personal, systemic.
Budget Tip: National Park entry is low-cost or free with a pass.🦅 Day 6: The Return Flight — Vicksburg → Ozark National Forest
Theme: Ascent and PerspectiveSymbol: The Hawk
Narrative: Hike to Whitaker Point. From the cliff’s edge, see your arc. You are no longer the same.
Budget Tip: Free hiking, budget cabins, or dispersed camping.🏛️ Day 7: The Return with Elixir — Ozarks → Jefferson City
Theme: IntegrationSymbol: The Scroll
Narrative: Return not as the exiled advocate, but as the mythic systems architect. Your story is now a map for others.
Budget Tip: Stop at roadside diners or flea markets for symbolic souvenirs.
🧙♂️ VLADIMIR KULJAK CV (comic version) 🧙♂️ VLADIMIR KULJAKMythic Systems Strategist Organizational Lorekeeper Digital Trickster
📍 Jefferson City, MO (always in motion)
📧 [email protected] 🔗 LinkedIn 🌀 Available for quests, audits, and cosmic realignments🧩 OBJECTIVETo infiltrate your organization with modular wisdom, reframe your workflows into comic panels, and leave behind a trail of qualitative breadcrumbs that even your interns will mythologize.🧠 CORE COMPETENCIESNarrative Engineering: Converts feedback into folklore faster than a committee can say “action item.”
Qualitative Coding Wizardry: APA 7 compliant, but with flair.
Digital Rituals: Designs logos, email signatures, and LinkedIn posts that summon engagement spirits.
Comic-Style Illustration: Alan Ford meets Agile.
Systems Thinking: Sees the matrix. Annotates it. Then builds a dashboard.
Technical Fluency: WordPress, CSS, LinkedIn tracking, and the occasional divination via Google Tag Manager.🏛️ EXPERIENCEATLAS, University of Kansas
Technical Systems Leader & Mythic Strategist
📅 2022–20XXLed modular research initiatives that transformed qualitative data into community-driven insights.
Created digital storytelling workshops that made even the most skeptical stakeholders say, “Wait, this is actually useful.”
Reframed organizational challenges into symbolic artifacts, including comic panels, logos, and mythic meeting briefs.🎓 EDUCATIONWiiliam Woods University
EdD - Graduate Student, Organizational Learning & Systems and Educational Technology and LEadershipDissertation in progress: “From Feedback to Folklore: A Mythic Reframing of Institutional Learning.”
Favorite citation style: APA 7, but with dramatic tension.🧙♀️ CERTIFICATIONS & RITUALSCertified in Empathetic Reframing (self-issued, universally recognized)
LinkedIn Insight Tag whisperer
Fluent in the sacred language of stakeholder engagement🎨 CREATIVE PROJECTSComic Illustrations: Alan Ford-style renderings of organizational archetypes (e.g., “The Passive-Aggressive Policy Golem”)
Logo Design: Mythic symbols for personal branding and digital folklore
LinkedIn Campaigns: Posts that blend career transition with cosmic alignment🧭 SHORT-TERM QUESTSRefine qualitative coding matrices until they sparkle
Translate stakeholder feedback into actionable enchantments
Secure a role in EdTech, IT, or organizational learning that respects both the data and the drama🧃 REFERENCESAvailable upon request or summoned via ritual circle.