Leading with a Global Mindset

Business Advisor and Mentor, former Regional CEO PwC CEE

Having spent 30+ years in consulting and senior international leadership roles at PwC, I love helping my individual and business clients to grow and transform their businesses, manage stakeholders and become more resourceful leaders. 

Throughout my career, whether in the UK, Poland, CEE or as part of the global leadership team, I could see how important it was for people at the top of organisations to bond and mobilise people around them. Without this ability to connect, even the smartest strategy or the most needed business change could not be implemented. 

Co-Founder at Mindplay and Adjunct faculty at Hult International Business School.

My passion is to help people discover new possibilities and bring about meaningful change by (re)kindling their imaginations and combining that with robust thinking to generate workable solutions.  My work in coaching and leadership development over many years helped me see that our life experiences can severely restrict our ability to see and explore new ideas.  By working with people from creative backgrounds and combining that with my business experience as a team member, leader and external consultant I have developed a number of tools and approaches that open new insights into, often long-standing, business problems.  This also builds skill and confidence to allow people to apply the learning on an on-going basis … and to have fun in the process.

While teaching a class on Leadership at the ALK ExeMBA for about 15 years and working individually with a large number of leaders, I learned a few things. One of them is that each leader is unique. You will never be able to duplicate any leader you may be admiring, and you will never learn how to lead by reading leadership manuals. Your leadership development will always stem from your personality, personal resourcefulness, unique experiences, dreams, and aspirations. Any leadership style you will develop will need to be refined over time. You will definitely need to modify how you think about leadership and how to upgrade your skill set. That’s a given in the practice of exercising leadership.

Our Program serves that purpose - it helps you elevate your leadership to another level by offering space, know-how and tools. Ultimately, it provides you with what’s most important - trainers and coaches whose passion is to work with leaders to lead them to success, help them sustain themselves over time, and most of all to make the world a better place.

Co-founder of Villa Poranek, Strategy Consultant, Facilitator and Mentor.

My professional purpose is to help ambitious leaders to transform their organisations and unlock the potential of their people.  After 20 years as a business leader in telecommunications and IT, I started my second career after moving to Poland from the UK. 

I love to help leaders to step back from the chaos of daily operations and lead their organisations with clarity of purpose, a compelling vision and adaptive strategies to be successful.  Most of my work involves building ‘human centric' leadership to influence key stakeholders and mobilise people to make an impact.   Today, I feel proud of the achievements of our global alumni of leaders who continue to thrive with confidence, courage and resilience.

My core values are growth and empathy. I work at my best when designing, coaching and facilitating high-impact learning experiences for leaders and their teams, which support them in achieving ambitions and becoming more fulfilled and empowered. I have over 20 years of experience in leading projects focused on leading change, people engagement, leadership development, coaching and action learning.

My work is inspired by a full range of professional experiences I have gathered: being a manager and OD consultant at PwC CEE, a partner in a consulting firm Fluent, a Gestalt psychotherapist, a meditation guide and a DJ. . They help me see more possibilities and think out of the box. I bring joy, optimism and authenticity to my work.

Researcher, Facilitator and Executive Coach.

I truly believe that leadership is about making the world a better place in systemic ways which requires a seamless blend of inspiring direction, contagious integrity and insightful professionalism. I built and managed teams of a few to hundreds - successfully developing strategies and implementing transformational projects on six different continents. Over the years, I have experienced a fascinating journey of co-creating strategies, developing and managing people, successes, failures, inspirations, ups and downs - thanks to which I have learned a lot.

Any development process typically begins with formulating an aspiring vision and clear goals - and this is just the beginning of the adventure!

HR expert, executive coach, facilitator.

I’m career counseling and organization psychologist , certified life and business coach as well as human skills trainer. I have more than 16 years of experience in international companies, having performed various HR roles. I was a management teammember for B2C& B2B in the EMEA region; the HR Director for Poland and HR Business Partner for the CEE region.

My passion is to support leaders in authentic leadership, to achieve their business goals in a sustainable manner and create the culture where people thrive and. I’m devoted to empowering women to take up challenges and make this world a better place foreveryone. I completed postgraduate studies in Psychosomatics and Playing Big Tara Mohr certification to work with clients on their journey to become better versions of themselves. 

I advise and mentor in various organizations such as Sukces Pisany Szminką, Her Impact Femme Palette and I’m invited to speak in the media.

International Strategy Executive Consultant & Academic Lecturer.

My purpose is to build open, engaging and healthy, human centric organisations effectively leveraging new technologies and business models.  My driving force is curiosity (e.g. attending Singularity University programs, running my own start-up) and adventure (e.g. taking part in polar expeditions, training triathlon). They make me take up new challenges, testing the limits of my own endurance and striving to increase my personal effectiveness and awareness.
I translate the acquired knowledge and experience into business, to solve strategic problems with my corporate clients and develop their leaders and executive teams, working closely with the ecosystem of passionate professionals who share the same purpose and aspirations. My work is focused mainly on top executive teams of traditional and start-up organisations to increase their strategic alignment and engagement through a set of strategic interactive workshops as well as being an independent member of supervisory boards. 

CEO & Founder of Okaeri Consulting, Consultant   

I have over 17 years of professional experience working in the communications and business consulting industries.  As a specialist in investment, crisis management and corporate communications, I have led projects in numerous sectors including energy, manufacturing, telecommunications, finance, sport, NGO and start-ups.

I conduct workshops on communication, difficult communication, crisis management and working with values in the company. Together with my team, we were the authors of one of the first studies in Poland on the topic of values in achieving success in professional life. I fulfil myself by giving 10% of my time and income to good causes including running „world-changing” classes with the wards of the Fundacja Szczęśliwej Droga.

Mentor and Performance Coach

 My purpose is to shorten the time needed to become a top performer for people I work with, either in sport or in their business or simply focused on professional career.

6 World Champion’s titles and over 20 years of professional athlete career have given me experience and know-how what qualities, skills and approach to sport and life in general are necessary to be successful. Today, as a mentor, I pass this knowledge to other athletes and entrepreneurs. I share my experience and strategies also via Akademia Mistrzów Świata, which I co-founded this year.

This educational platform aimed at athletes participating in any level of competition. Akademia is the place where you can find ready-made technics and solutions to sports problems successfully tested by top athletes, World Champions, Olympic medallists. As part of Akademia, subscribers also receive access to knowledge and advice of experts in the field of psychology, physiotherapy, nutrition, technology, media and sponsorship.

Executive Coach.
My experience from work in the humanitarian sector showed me that making our world a better place requires much more than just a beautiful heart, passion, or even technical expertise. Above all, it requires leadership that is authentic, empathetic and responsible for every action. I truly believe that responsible leadership and openness to diversity are essential to create a healthy environment for life.
I have 13 years of experience working in the non-governmental sector. I have been a leader of teams that have delivered humanitarian aid in the most remote areas around the globe. 

Currently, as a certified coach, I work mainly with humanitarian aid workers worldwide. My greatest passion is to support leaders from impact organisations and businesses to help them grow and discover the essence of humanity as they develop their leadership.