Izabela Stachurska

International leadership consultant and trainer, coach, manager with 27 years of experience, university lecturer, publicist. She is passionate about supporting leaders to overcome self-limiting barriers and unleash their authenticity, potential and courage to realize their vision. She believes that a leader's strength is his or her unique style, infectious inspiration, ownership of influence, ability to build trust, contribution to others and stimulation to action. She runs her own training company under the personal brand Izabela Stachurska, Leadership Consulting, Coaching, Training.

ICAN Institute trainer and expert, also conducts coaching and corporate projects for executives. Ambassador of The Leadership Circle in Poland, co-leads The Leadership Circle certification dla of leaders and coaches from different countries and cultures (Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, Japan, Italy, UK, France, Ireland, Czech Republic, Turkey, Denmark, Netherlands, Japan, Norway, Brazil, USA, Canada, Ukraine, Croatia, Mexico). He conducts leadership effectiveness research on leaders, managers and organizations around the world.

Experienced manager in the areas of strategy development, institution development, establishment of institution management systems and processes, marketing, communications, project management, knowledge management. For many years associated with The British Council, she also gained experience working at the Consulate General of Great Britain/UK Trade and Investment in New York. From 2011 to 2017, she was Head of the Knowledge Management Department at the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. As an expert, trainer and coach, she has successfully supported clients such as Veolia, Roche, EY, ALSTOM, Astra Zeneca, Polpharma Biologics, DOZ, BASF, UNIQA, Santander, Suez, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, National Cultural Center, Warner Music International, Hestia's Artistic Journey, Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, among others.

Paula Wąsowska, DBA

She is an experienced lecturer, trainer, public speaker, moderator and participant in panel discussions, consultant and expert on innovation and competitive strategy, as well as a presenter of conferences, congresses and workshops, both in Poland and abroad. She has gained professional experience in Poland, Central Europe, emerging markets and Silicon Valley in California.

Since the beginning of her career, which she began in the first half of the 1990s, she has been involved in the Internet technology industry. At Cisco Systems, with which she was associated for more than 13 years until 2014, she served as director of market development for Central and Eastern Europe within the Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) consulting group. Prior to that, she was, among other things, co-founder of Internet Technologies Poland. She designed and implemented the e-business model and planned the marketing and sales strategy for Dell Computer Poland, and co-created the marketing and communications strategy at Nokia. She holds a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree from the Institute of Economic Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is a graduate of the University of Montreal's Canadian Executive MBA, the University of Warsaw's Faculty of Applied Linguistics, the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the Protocol School of Washington and the ICAN Institute's Academy of Strategic Leadership. Member of supervisory boards of companies and non-governmental institutions, vice president of the Association of Professional Speakers in Poland.

Magdalena Kieferling

A respected trainer of management, business communication and customer relations. Expert and lecturer at the prestigious managerial training institute ICAN Institute and one of Europe's top business schools WSB Academy. Author of the bestseller on managerial communication "The Sandbox Effect - how to boss so the robots don't take your job" (published by Onepress), which already became an Empik bestseller in the management category after its release. TED motivational speaker.

For more than 15 years in senior managerial positions (Communications Director, HR Director, Corporate Account Director). She combines the interests of management and employees so that each party feels supported. Her talent is finding the core of problems and implementing tailor-made solutions in the areas of communication management, human resources and organizational culture change. She has repeatedly carried out organizational change and rebranding processes.

She has advised and supported senior and middle management of more than 40 Polish and foreign corporations, non-profit organizations, and start-ups. She has coordinated strategies in more than 100 campaigns and projects at the European level. She has authored more than 400 radio, online and press publications.

Aleksandra Slifirska

She specializes in the areas of leadership, communication of changes in organizations (business model change in digital transformations, succession in family businesses, mergers, restructurings, communication of business strategies), and personal branding of business leaders.

She gained experience by, among other things, managing the liquidation communications of the largest loan network in Poland. She is the author of two books ("Media lions for business sharks", "Business sharks in the media") awarded by the Polish Association of Business Trainers and the monthly magazine My Company. She has worked for such brands as the Confederation of Leviathan, the Gemini chain of European clinics, LOTTE Wedel, IKEA, the Association of Polish Factors, the General Directorate of National Roads and Motorways, WATT, the Foundation of Business Leaders Portal Praca.pl, the Silesian Museum, Servier Polska, POLDENT, PKO BP, the Warsaw School of Economics, BZ WBK, VOLVO, MAN Bus.

In 2020, she was included in the list of the 100 most influential women of Silesia, selected by Polska Press.

Dr. Maria Mycielska

Sociologist, PhD in economics, graduate of universities in Poland and the UK. Since has specialized in the area of organizational culture and leadership for almost 20 years. She draws on her own managerial experience in multinational corporations Xerox and Coca-Cola in Poland and the UK. She is the author of the latest book " A Practical Handbook of Company Culture Management.

Experience of companies in Poland", which combines theory and practice in the Polish context. She holds many international certificates and accreditations (including International Coaching Community, London).

Dominika Pikul

Consultant in the application of neuronaka in business, trainer of training and development programs specializing in optimization of intellectual skills and cognitive functions (including concentration, motivation, innovation). Expert in the field of neurodiversity - building a workplace where every brain has the opportunity to thrive and reach its potential.

More than 15 years of experience working for corporations in Poland and the UK gives her a unique insight into organizational culture and the needs of her clients. She holds a degree in Neuroscience and Mental Health Psychology (King's College London). Academically, she studies the neurobiological basis of creativity and flow state.

Lan Bui-Wrzosinska

He is scientifically concerned with the dynamics of escalation in conflicts between people and the ways out of these conflicts. He explores cultural differences, as well as the range of personal competencies that enable constructive dispute management. He is involved in simulations and designing tools that support organizations and individuals in effective conflict planning, including in areas of armed conflict. More recently, he has been researching climate security, with a particular focus on simulations of social processes and conflicts in this area.

She is a doctoral student at SWPS University, and has received fellowships from Columbia University and the Open Society Foundations. She has also received a Start FNP grant and a scholarship from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for outstanding young scientists. She has published in American Psychologist, Journal of Organizational Behaviour, Harvard Negotiation Journal, among others.

Ewa Szejner

Certified Business Negotiator (Certification ID: CIPN2150846742), Mediator included in the list of permanent court mediators, Practitioner with several years of experience in Purchasing, Contract Management Expert. Author of the book "Negotiate, Woman!" published in 2016 by Burda Publishers and www.poradniknegocjatora.pl. She has more than 20 years of professional experience in industries such as pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, FMCG (cosmetics, cleaning products, alcohol, cigarettes), publishing market. He combines experience gained in retail, wholesale and distribution areas. He conducts group training sessions on negotiation, as well as one-on-one sessions, for audiences at different levels.

Jagna Ambroziak

She graduated in psychology and psychotherapy.

She has completed internships at the University Hospital in Lausanne, the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, the Center for Therapy and Personality Development, and the Psychosomatic Department of the Wolski Hospital in Warsaw. Previously affiliated with the Promenada Biomedical Center and the Institute of Psychoimmunology, she founded the Warsaw Center for Psychotherapy and Psychiatry in 2011.

She helps people develop broadly and achieve lasting change in both their personal and professional lives. She was the first person in Poland to be certified as a coach by Integral Coaching Canada, an institution at the core of the Coaching Department at the Integral Institute in Boulder, and JFK University in San Francisco.

On her blog she weaves reflections that have no place elsewhere. In 2021, her first novel, "Garderobe," was published by the Agora publishing house.

At ICAN Institute, he teaches classes on managing the challenges of professional and personal life.

Joanna Koprowska

Journalist, editor, copywriter, business storytelling and communications consultant. For more than five years she has been associated with ICAN Institute, creator of the Polish edition of Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review and ICAN Management Review. She advocates writing in an accessible, pictorial way even about difficult and complicated things. She specializes in business and lifestyle content creation, copywriting and communications consulting.

Aleksandra Kreczmanska

For more than 10 years, she has been supporting women in personal development by conducting development workshops in the areas of emotional intelligence, recognizing one's potential and mission, and building inner strength and mental resilience. In business, she considers human skills, for which the foundation is self-awareness and the ability to choose one's response (responsive leadership), to be the basis of effective action.

Bart Jurkowski

Founder of I'MPRO IMPRO an organization that develops business soft skills and emotional intelligence through applied improvisation techniques. Ex-UX Senior Consultant at Deloitte Digital. Since 2016 he has been developing the practical application of improvisation techniques in business, which he learned in Warsaw, Los Angeles and Chicago. He has implemented impro workshops for Google, Alior Bank and mBank, among others. He teaches the first course in Poland on applied improvisation for MBA majors. After hours, he teaches at the Warsaw School of Economics and performs in the Improvised Musical on the stage of the Warsaw Comedy Club.