About
I build experiences where leadership teams break through.
For more than a decade my job has been the same in different clothes: get the right people into a room, make it safe enough to say the true thing, and make sure something changes on Monday.
I am a facilitator based in Kraków. Most of my working weeks are spent with leadership teams of European tech companies: growth-stage firms under scaling pressure, service businesses, and the VC and PE firms that back them. I usually arrive at the moment when there are too many priorities and the strategy has stopped showing up in decisions.
I work from one assumption. Strategy rarely fails for analytical reasons. What blocks it is usually below the surface of the conversation: the loyalties, fears and unspoken agreements that decide what a team will actually do.
I came to that slowly. I studied computer science, then spent more than a decade as COO of Innovation Nest, a venture fund, building its operating systems, running dealflow and working alongside portfolio companies. Later, as Platform Lead at Everfield, a software acquirer, I ran strategic alignment workshops and put OKRs in place across companies that had just been bought and had to find their footing. Somewhere along the way I started hosting events, then could not stop. The gatherings in the table taught me most of what I know about groups.
I do not write strategy for anyone. I hold the room while a team writes its own, and I stay long enough for the new rhythm to run without me.
I am now studying for a Master's in Consulting and Leading in Organisations at Tavistock Education & Training in London, the home of the systems psychodynamic tradition, alongside adaptive leadership and group dynamics. That is where the Below the Waterline series comes from: the attempt to translate seventy-five years of research on group life into language people who run companies can use on a Monday.
My purpose is to build magical experiences that help people to excel.
That sentence sounds grand written down. In practice it means small things done with care: how people arrive, who welcomes them, whether the first ten minutes are about purpose or about where the toilets are, and whether anyone asks what really happened once the room is empty.
Away from the room I throw ceramics on the pottery wheel, practice and teach yoga, and ski in mountains across Europe.