Executive coaching
My qualifications
I support leaders, entrepreneurs and their organizations in development and change. I focus on the human and relational side of change and business development.
I have over 20 years of business experience in various leadership roles (including 8 years at IBM and 3 years as a board advisor and strategic project leader at mBank S.A.).
In my work with organizations, I’m also supported by people-focused business theories and models that I learned during my MBA studies at Warwick University and courses at London Business School in the UK.
I am an executive coach accredited by EMCC at Senior Practitioner level, a certified coach of International Coaching Community and Transformational Presence, a facilitator and a certified Gestalt psychotherapist. My work is under constant supervision. More about me here
Coaching support
As an executive coach, I support C-Level and C-1 leaders in consciously, effectively and healthily responding to various leadership, organizational and personal challenges related to their skills, attitudes and behaviors needed to achieve their goals.
I support my coaching clients in exploring different dimensions of relationality and being human in a business environment. I focus on topics such as:
- Developing attitudes, behaviors and skills of authentic relational leadership,
- Developing leadership that inspires, develops and empowers teams,
- Building partnership relationships with teams, peers, bosses, partners, investors,
- Methods for guiding people through emotionally difficult organizational changes,
- Developing self-awareness and humanity in leaders – as a counterbalance to widespread dehumanization in business.
How I work
During our collaboration, I encourage my clients to look from different perspectives at their goals, important topics, challenges, situations and relationships, and to be curious about their thoughts, emotions, attitudes, roles and behaviors.
At the same time, I share my business experience with clients and relate their situations and challenges to practical methodologies and processes describing best practices in relationships, leadership, change management and organizational development.
Based on my clients’ expanded awareness, I support them in consciously choosing their attitudes, developing individual solutions and translating them into concrete, effective actions.
As part of coaching processes, I conduct 60 and 90-minute sessions every 2-3 weeks, in Polish or English.
I invite clients to sessions at my office in Lower Mokotów, online or for walking sessions in Warsaw’s Royal Łazienki Park.
Results
Thanks to working with me, leaders:
Manage closer to people, understand, inspire and motivate them better
Develop and empower their teams, freeing up time for strategic tasks
Can not only support people but also make demands of them
Develop unconventional solutions to complex leadership challenges
Guide their teams through difficult changes without losing their best people
Develop as human beings and build better relationships - at work and beyond
Most common topics of my clients
RELATIONSHIP WITH SELF AND PERSONAL TOPICS
- I want to quickly reduce my stress level at work
- I’m overworked, I can’t cope anymore
- How to avoid burnout? I feel like I’m on the edge
- I can’t stop and rest, I don’t know how to relax
- How to stop being nice and helpful to everyone?
- How to continue developing in the company and beyond? How to advance further?
- How to take up more space in meetings as a leader?
- I’m overly empathetic toward others.
- I get feedback that I lack empathy. What’s that about?
- I want to develop a vision of changes and target state for my division.
- How to develop identity beyond my professional role and not be a CEO at home?
- How to develop other areas of life beyond work and improve work-life balance?
- How to make an important decision with long-term effects?
- How to deal with a difficult, complex situation? What to consider?
- I don’t feel the meaning in what I do
- I’ve already achieved everything I wanted but don’t feel fulfillment and satisfaction
- I can’t ask about emotions and talk about them, but the team needs this
- I keep putting things off
- I’m going through a serious crisis, I need to get out of it step by step
- I’m having increasingly frequent panic attacks
- I’m afraid of public speaking, I’m paralyzed during them
- I suffer from insomnia
- I explode more and more often, I have a lot of anger inside me
RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER PEOPLE
- I have difficulty working with person X and want to examine this
- I’m in conflict with person Y and want to understand what causes it
- I want to understand how I can get out of conflict with person Z
- When X gets into conflict with Y, I withdraw. How to change this?
- I want to work out a difficult collaboration with a parallel director and see what’s possible here and what’s not
- Parallel director X is undermining me. How to protect myself?
- How to make my boss start understanding and listening to me?
- How to better deal with my boss’s difficult behaviors?
- How to deal with a boss with narcissistic/psychopathic traits?
- How to gently tell the board that they have no idea what they’re doing?
- The director I report to avoids meetings with me, what to do?
- How to get along with the director of another department?
- In confrontational situations I stay silent, avoid and give in. I want to change this.
- I want to start setting boundaries with other people, but I’m afraid of rejection
- I want to negotiate more assertively with my bosses
RELATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND TEAM RELATIONSHIPS
- I want to be a better, more inspiring leader. What skills should I develop?
- What do I need to change to be a good boss?
- I want to learn to communicate clearly with the team
- I want to take a closer look at how I manage the team
- I want to take a closer look at how to talk with the team
- I keep giving my people great solutions, but they don’t use them
- I still have to fix things after my employees
- What to do when people promise but then don’t deliver?
- I don’t understand what matters to my employees
- I don’t understand young employees (Millennials, Generation Z and young people)
- How to motivate the team to action?
- I want to increase team engagement and embolden new managers
- I became a manager of a team that holds completely different values than my own. How to approach this?
- How to ensure that managers reporting to me work with people?
- How to deal with a complaining employee who’s never satisfied?
- How to constructively end a conflict in the team?
- How to make people more loyal to the company?
- How to make people not work for us just for money?
- How to make people more willing to work?
- How to inspire my team?
- How to increase my team’s creativity?
- A manager reporting to me is going through a crisis, how to support them?
- How to give difficult feedback to someone who can’t stand criticism?
- People react to my feedback defensively or with aggression, how to change this
- People don’t listen to my feedback
- My team is experiencing difficult emotions. How to talk with them so as not to make the situation worse, but to support? I don’t want to be a therapist for the team
- My team doesn’t engage in meetings, what to do about this?
- How to manage employee expectations?
- My team has too many tasks to complete, how to effectively negotiate their quantity and set priorities?
- How to increase sense of responsibility in the company?
- How to increase my team’s proactivity?
- How to stimulate my team to think and act unconventionally?
- How to effectively delegate, not just assign tasks?
- My employee wants to take my place, how to behave in this situation?
- I got promoted in the company and instantly stopped being a colleague
- How to strengthen/loosen control without increasing risk of errors?
- How to fire people humanely and fairly?
- How to recruit people with the right attitude and values?
LEADERSHIP IN CHANGE
- I need support in preparing me to manage a difficult situation in two teams that we’re now merging
- I want to discuss a planned organizational change with you and get feedback – what to remember, what to watch out for, what could go wrong
- How to guide my company through a crisis?
- How to effectively lead a project between company silos?
- I want to check what I haven’t thought of when planning organizational change
- I want to understand why people treat changes as threats
- I want to plan implementing change so that people support it
- How to effectively and properly communicate changes to people?
- My regional bosses require a change that will be bad for people
- How to implement changes while keeping the best people?
- How to implement changes without harming/being fair to people?
- I’m afraid of upcoming changes
- I want to understand why people are passive toward proposed changes
- How to find my place in a change that no one consulted with me?
- I want to understand why we have such resistance to change in the company
- How to deal with resistance to change among experts and managers?
- My current leadership style doesn’t work in change, what to do about it?
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS AND PHENOMENA
- How to make the company board stop being a loose group and become a team?
- How to make the IT department start speaking understandably for business?
- I want to change my role and area of activity within the company, how to do this?
- How to make people stop competing and start collaborating with us
- I want to develop and consult a plan for gradually shifting our organizational culture to different tracks
- Our best people are leaving
- We practically don’t talk to each other in the company, we don’t know each other
- We shout at each other during meetings
- There’s a very tense atmosphere here, everyone lives in stress
- We can’t talk about failures, there’s a propaganda of success
- People don’t ask questions here, even when they don’t know, fearing embarrassment
- How to reduce growing, unwanted turnover in the company?
- I’m tired of receiving feedback from third parties
- We’re constantly putting out new fires
- We’re in constant time pressure
- I’m tired of regularly working until midnight and on weekends
- We don’t say anything directly to each other here
RELATIONSHIPS WITH COMPANY STAKEHOLDERS
- How to arrange relationships with investors?
- How to build partnership relationships with foreign company bosses?
- How to be more assertive toward regional company directors?
- How to consider cultural differences in management?
- I want to examine selected misunderstandings in the company from the perspective of value differences and cultural differences. What to do about this?
- How to make our advisors/salespeople build partnership relationships with company clients?
- What to do when clients or partners shout at us during meetings?
- How to “educate” our partners toward more partnership relationships?
- I regularly feel discriminated against by a client as a woman
- How to make my company not position itself as a waiter to clients?
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My clients' opinions
Stopping isn't easy. Looking at yourself isn't either. Sometimes you need
to find someone who can give you a different perspective. Inspire you to look at current
actions from another side. A side that gives better understanding of what you do, what you can do and
what you can change. That's exactly what sessions with Maciek gave me. Despite having
extensive business experience, we usually don't have experience in looking at ourselves
and Maciek taught me this. Today I'm 100% better prepared to
deal with stress, difficult emotions causing insomnia or insomnia itself.
Working with Maciek - however banal this may sound - helped me better understand myself and
separate what I want and need from what others expect of me. It also helped me
realize that I'm quite burned out professionally and that it's high
time to abandon perfectionism and "I can do everything" at work in favor of harmony between
different spheres of life. At the same time - apart from "philosophical" threads - I can always count
and good dynamics in relationships.
LARGE FUEL COMPANY
Maciej worked with our CEO and five key business directors in
coaching processes involving 6 to 24 sessions per person. During this
work, Maciej helped our leaders: 1) Solve complex business and
interpersonal challenges - both with company clients and within the organization, 2) Make
conscious decisions about leadership styles, roles and approaches, 3) Increase
self-awareness regarding their skills, resources, competencies and possible
career paths, 4) Effectively reduce stress and cope with difficult emotions and 5)
Improve work-life balance.
BUSINESS PARTNER, NTT DATA BS
Stopping isn't easy. Looking at yourself isn't either. Sometimes you need
to find someone who can give you a different perspective. Inspire you to look at current
actions from another side. A side that gives better understanding of what you do, what you can do and
what you can change. That's exactly what sessions with Maciek gave me. Despite having
extensive business experience, we usually don't have experience in looking at ourselves
and Maciek taught me this. Today I'm 100% better prepared to
deal with stress, difficult emotions causing insomnia or insomnia itself.
Working with Maciek - however banal this may sound - helped me better understand myself and
separate what I want and need from what others expect of me. It also helped me
realize that I'm quite burned out professionally and that it's high
time to abandon perfectionism and "I can do everything" at work in favor of harmony between
different spheres of life. At the same time - apart from "philosophical" threads - I can always count
on concrete, practical advice on management, negotiation or decision-making
issues. What's important to me is that Maciek is a warm, positive person - this builds trust
and good dynamics in relationships.
LARGE FUEL COMPANY
Maciej worked with our CEO and five key business directors in
coaching processes ranging from 6 to 24 sessions per person. During this
work, Maciej helped our leaders: 1) Solve complex business and
interpersonal challenges — both with company clients and within the organization, 2) Make
conscious decisions about leadership styles, roles, and approaches, 3) Increase
self-awareness regarding their skills, resources, competencies, and possible
career paths, 4) Effectively reduce stress and handle difficult emotions, and 5)
Improve work-life balance.
BUSINESS PARTNER, NTT DATA BS