John Held
Head of Strategy
Business expert in:
- Managerial Consulting and Trainings
- Building and Delivering Tailored Solutions
- Leader Talk
- Communicating through Change
- Development through Delegation
- Communicating Across Cultures
Background in:
- Managerial Consulting and Trainings
- Building and Delivering Tailored Solutions
- Leader Talk
- Communicating through Change
- Development through Delegation
- Communicating Across Cultures
Background in:
Management and Leadership Development
About me:
Even though I have an MBA, I excel at being second fiddle – I like making others successful.
I’ve always helped people learn, grow, and develop. My move to Poland in 1988, gave me many opportunities to learn—especially such things as patience and the ability to adapt to a constantly changing environment. The experience of leading or being part of 10 start-up teams in Central and Eastern Europe has taught me about working with people, setting and achieving goals, and leading teams. Sitting on the Board of Directors of 5 organizations has taught me how to find ways to measure the “unmeasurable” (soft skills) and to help people see how that is possible.
Monika Madoń
Chief Operating Officer
Business expert in:
- Managerial Consulting and Trainings
- Tailored Solutions
- Chairing Business Meetings
- Powerful Business Presentations
- Building Resilience
- Energy & Time Management
Background in:
English Philology, Management, and Cognitive-Behavioral Psychology
About me:
I focus on helping people to change their habits, starting from myself.
I am an organizer, a pusher, and an adventure lover. Being curious about communication and human relations, I constantly look for links between these two in life and business. In my work as a trainer, I am a big fan of clear messages and making one’s life easier. My insights help participants find out how to become a more successful and happier human being. For me, every day, situation, experience is a lesson learned. My cycling passion taught me how to be persistent and keep the goal in mind, and some life situations taught me how to find good things in every aspect of life, regardless of whether positive or negative.
Nick Hawcroft
Senior Trainer
Business expert in:
Background in:
Newspaper journalism
About me:
I am a writer, a thinker, and a learner.
I was a reporter for a string of British newspapers and an agency back in the day when the philosophy was to cover all sides of a story. My career took me through three local/city papers; one regional Sunday tabloid; and an international news agency, supplying the national press from The Sun to The Daily Telegraph, as well as publications around the world, with UK news and features. My journalism adventure let me explore my passion for the English language. It also taught me the importance of accuracy, tenacity and, above all, integrity. As an uncle to 17 nieces, nephews, great-nieces, and great-nephews, I realise how important it is to connect with your inner child. There’s always something new to learn; there’s always an opportunity to grow and have fun while doing so. My ongoing challenge is to master Polish – and it isn’t going well….
Caroline Pocięgiel
Trainer
Business expert in:
- Modern Business eCorrespondence
- Powerful Business Presentations
- Tailored Solutions
Background in:
Languages & Linguistics, Pedagogy / Educating
About me:
Learner, teacher, optimist. That’s me. I’m passionate about good communication, and I don’t just mean linguistic accuracy. I’m the one shouting at the TV when two sitcom characters are having a relational crisis simply because they can’t, or won’t, express themselves properly, with empathy for the other person. I believe that striving to convey what we think/need/feel, whilst putting ourselves in the other person’s shoes, is the best way to solve a large percentage of life’s problems, whether those problems are business-related or otherwise. The other aspect of being a learner and a teacher is that you can be sure that “if Caroline teaches a principle, she also applies it” – I need to test how effective something is before I recommend it to someone else.
I have lots of public speaking experience, with audiences of hundreds of people and I’m a firm believer in being prepared, whilst leaving room for spontaneity. This experience enables me to help participants find ways to overcome their own nerves on stage – some of it comes from the time I spent being a Gospel choir director in Krakow, leading concerts and engaging with the audience. I’m British, but most often I was doing that in Polish, so I know some of the challenges faced by non-native speakers of English face when facing a crowd. My main role in the choir was learning how to sing various songs and teaching them to others. Hmm… learning and teaching… can’t seem to get away from it!
Robin Baker
Senior Trainer
Business expert in:
- Managerial Consulting and Trainings
- Leadership Development
- Tailored Solutions
- Negotiations
- Building Business Relationships
- Executive Presentations
- Idea and Innovation Pitching
Background in:
Communications Engineering, Project Management, Systems Development, Tertiary Education.
About me:
I bring over 40 years of business experience into my training and I love helping people to see what they can achieve when they communicate with each other.
I like to challenge my participants to pish their boundaries and get brave. When they realise that you can negotiate upwards, that you can set boundaries, that you can ask for change in business relationships, it is a great thing to see. I love to work with startups and innovators and anyone who has an idea they’d like to pitch. Showing people what they can say in just 3 minutes is so much fun. I’m resourceful, the McGuyver version of a trainer, always willing to adapt the program when a group of participants wants to go off script or raises related real-world issues that connect to the training we’re doing. In short, I love my job.
Iryna Oleksiuk
Trainer
Business expert in:
- Presenting Analytical Information
- Storytelling with Data
- Public Speaking for Executives
- Preparing talks for conferences and events
Background in:
- 7+ years of corporate experience managing global supply chains for luxury cosmetics brands and FMCG products
- 6 years as an organizer of TEDx Warsaw, leading the Event Experience team and volunteering as a team leader, content curator, and event host for TEDx Warsaw 2021.
- Design thinking facilitator and an experience designer with a focus on inventing, building, and delivering educational experiences.
About me:
I believe everybody loves public speaking—they just don’t know it yet.
YouTube channel about Training Design
I am a polymath, public speaking trainer, workshop facilitator, and educational experience designer. I left corporate in 2019 to become an entrepreneur. Part of the year, I spend exploring a nomadic lifestyle in a camper van and working towards an informal degree in camper van conversions. I am currently doing a post-graduate degree in voice projection to help my clients in a more comprehensive way. I am fluent in 4 languages and in a continuous process of improving in 2 more. Book worm. I am the type of person you would enjoy sitting next to on a long-haul flight. Ukrainian and Polish.
Ewelina Bakalarz
Trainer
Business expert in:
- Tailored Solutions
- Development Through Delegation
- Communicating Through Change
Background in:
10 years of corporate experience in multinational companies Strong Customer Service background, delivering top quality customer service and eventually coaching others to do it
About me:
Proud “Generation X” representative with over 20 years of professional experience, I love being part of a team, but also find “one-to-one” sessions very rewarding and efficient. I strongly rely on my own experience, both professional and personal, and the older I get, the more I trust my own intuition. I value and appreciate the power of relationships in doing business. In my work I help people working on their soft skills, to deliver hard results.
I graduated from School of singing and acting and I use this experience working both as a business trainer and translator and entertainer during multinational wedding ceremonies and parties 😉.
Joanna Nowak
Client Advisory/ Course Coordinator
Education:
- MA in International Economic Relations, Katowice 2004
Joanna Hajdas
Trainer/Finance Manager
Business expert in
Background in:
Customer service and building relations in multinational and multicultural environment, negotiations, implementation of innovative products.
About me:
I love finding ways to do things differently, challenging old habits and prejudices, identifying areas for improvement… and empowering other people to do the same. As a Business Trainer, I act as a guide. Over twenty years of working with and for people from all over the world has shown me something fascinating – regardless of culture, country, or language, the desire to care for another person, as well as for own your well-being, is what builds relationships and improves interaction. As IT Projects & Finance Coordinator I implement automation and apply innovative solutions.
I love travelling- broadening my horizons and gaining a new point of view on many aspects of life. I enjoy DIY and I’m crazy about good design!