Dr Maciej Madziński
Practitioner with over a decade of experience in strategic management and digital transformation of organizations working with both business and academic communities. Trainer, academic lecturer, mentor of future leaders.
Conducts lectures and workshops at MBA programs, open trainings, classes at graduate and postgraduate programs, including strategic consulting projects at MBA programs. He specializes in the areas of management and informatization. He also supports companies in strategy creation and execution, using project management tools.
Since 2023, he has been Vice President of Escola S.A. - a technology company that develops mobile and web applications, provides digital transformation and AI consulting services, and develops its own venture-building products. He is responsible for operational excellence, strategy execution and building international partnerships at the company. Previously, he was Managing Director of Digital Transformation and Support Functions at KROSS S.A. He was responsible for digital transformation and related functions, administration and the legal department. In his career, he also served as Chief Operating Officer and IT Director of Kozminski University. He has been with Kozminski University since 2007.
He has also served on two supervisory boards, including the supervisory board of Kozminski Business Hub. He is also a partner of Kirov Strategic Negotiators Sp. z o.o. and a lecturer at Kozminski Executive Business School of Kozminski University.
He is passionate about strategic management (in particular strategy building and execution) and “agile” project management, organizational change implementation. For years, he has been implementing large, complex digital transformations of companies from building digital transformation strategies through effective implementation of systems to managing the change in the organization resulting from such transformation. He has carried out projects both as a hiring manager in an organization and as a strategic consultant - he has supported higher education, ed-tech companies, but also manufacturing and retail companies in their digital transformation.
As part of his duties as KROSS Managing Director, he coordinated major implementations in the areas of organizational operational management, data analytics, customer relationship building (CRM) and B2B e-commerce sales, using SAP and Salesforce technologies. He was also responsible for coordinating the process of developing the strategy of the entire KROSS S.A. company until 2026. The projects implemented at KROSS in both SAP and Salesforce technologies have become reference projects presented as so-called “good practices” both at conferences in Poland and abroad (Salesforce Live, SAP NOW, etc.).
As part of his duties as Chief Operating Officer of ALK, he specialized in implementing strategic programs in the area of broader administration, particularly in the area of infrastructure development and information technology. He also managed the Project Office at ALK and was responsible for the university's project portfolio. The team under him managed project portfolios and coordinated key strategic initiatives of Kozminski University.
He received his PhD in 2020, defending with distinction his dissertation in the discipline of management and quality sciences entitled. “Project Management in Turquoise Organizations.” The dissertation is devoted to the operation of self-organizing enterprises, including in particular how projects are managed. Currently, he is also shifting his research interests related to self-organizing companies towards the so-called “Positive Leadership” embedded firmly in the concept of the so-called “Positive Psychology”.