Jiri Baca

Founder & CEO @LutherOne | Helping companies run on clarity | Get continuous data for every people decision | Success Oriented Optimist

Prague, Czechia

About

I was tired of leading in the dark. So I built the system I always wished had existed. Before LutherOne, I spent 15 years running businesses in banking, telecom, and fintech. Same story everywhere: leaders flying blind between annual surveys, performance reviews, and group visits — making critical and expensive people decisions based on gut feeling. The data always came too late. By the time we saw the problem, our top performers were already gone. In 2018, I decided to do something about it. I founded LutherOne to give leaders what I never had: continuous workforce clarity that predicts problems before they become crises. Our platform combines people and data science with AI to detect resignation risks, disengagement patterns, and cultural shifts up to 14 months in advance — with actionable recommendations you can use right away. Today, we work with companies in 50+ countries — from fast-growing scaleups to global enterprises. My beliefs: ⛹️+💪 Leadership is a contact sport. Show up and play. 👥+👑 People come first. Everything else follows. 🧠+📊 Data and intuition work better together, not against each other. What energizes me: honest conversations with leaders who’ve stopped pretending. Watching teams grow faster than they expected. People tackling the “impossible” — those who not only dream big but actually deliver. Whether it’s over coffee at a conference, during a hike, or debating Gen Z retention patterns — if you’re building something real, I’m interested. 📧 DM me.

Experience

  • Founder, CEO at LutherOne
    May 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 3 mos

  • Vodafone (4 yrs 11 mos)
    • CEO, Vodafone Czech Republic
      Feb 2017 - Jan 2018 · 1 yr

    • COO, Vice President
      Mar 2013 - Feb 2017 · 4 yrs

  • Chief Commercial Banking Officer & Member of the Board at GE Money Bank
    Sep 2009 - Feb 2013 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • CEO, mBank Czech Republic at mBank, commerzbank group
    Dec 2007 - Jul 2009 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • MD, Home Credit Bank Ukraine at PPF
    Jun 2007 - Dec 2007 · 7 mos