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| Who we are |
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We are a highly experienced team of people from a variety of backgrounds. Our experience is both local and
international from various professions, sales and service to psychology, finance and accounting to engineering.
Sharing common values, we work with our clients through key personal relationships, seeking to align their success
with our own. Our practical experience within organisations allows us to understand client issues from their
perspective, whilst also allowing us focus on the issues from an external and often-holistic perspective.
We have the capability to provide solutions that turn theory into practice, complexity into simplicity and knowledge
into workable solutions.
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| Our people |
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Our numbers continue to expand and therefore add to our collective capability. The individuals and business alliances that comprise People Partnering, allow us to draw on both local and international know how and experience. Below, as a flavour are a few brief outlines. Some of our business alliances are illustrated in the section on links.
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| Bohdan Garstecki |
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Bohdan has more than ten years of professional experience. He worked in British computer vendor ICL where he was responsible for sales in Poland and Byelorussia. In 1994 he moved to Xerox to become general manager for Poland. In 1998/99 Xerox in Poland was one of Top 30 IT companies in Poland. In 1999 he took a one-year assignment in UK where he was marketing director in Xerox
Europe. He was responsible for development and implementation of Xerox marketing strategy in financial services sector. In 1994-1999 he was vice-chairman of British-Polish Chamber of Commerce in Poland and a consultant to the Board of Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum. When he returned to Poland he worked in Softbank S.A. as chief operating officer. On the top of numerous management training in ICL and XEROX, he accomplished marketing and management training in The European Institute of Business Administration INSEAD in France and Cranfield School of Management in UK. In 2001 he started as a private entrepreneur and consultant to top management in medium to large companies.
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| Agnieszka Łakińska |
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Agnieszka has 11 years of professional experience. Initially she worked as a psychologist helping cardiac patients. When the economic reforms were launched in Poland she joined a non-governmental organisation which facilitated and monitored the development of the management training infrastructure in Poland. Next Agnieszka worked as a HR Manager for a multinational fast moving consumer goods organisation. Later she joined Coopers & Lybrand, an international consulting organisation, where she set up and developed the HR function. As head of the HR department she was involved in a series of interventions which included reward, recruitment, communications and transformation of the HR function into a strategic resource for line managers.
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| Ian Peatey |
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Ian has 15 years professional experience principally in Great Britain and Poland, but has worked
on projects throughout Europe. His work experience represents a mixture of training and
management development work, as an audit manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers and setting up
and running his own business. In Poland he has worked on a wide variety of management
development programmes, systems and consultancy, working with Polish nationals as well as multicultural
groups. Ian's responsibility within People Partnering is mainly learning and development
and psychometric measurement.
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| Paweł Sopkowski |
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Paweł has 9 years professional business experience in IT, insurance and learning consultancy sectors. During the first 5 years Paweł was responsible for business development, marketing and general management. For the last 4 years he was a Partner of TMI Polska (a Polish branch of TMI International) helping different Polish and international organisations to manage change and grow. His area of expertise are: change management, management and leadership development, team development. He was involved in various projects in telecommunication, pharmaceutical, FMCG and production industry.
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| Stephen Swinney |
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Stephen has 25 years of professional experience mainly abroad in Africa and Central Europe. During this time he has operated as a Partner in professional service firms. His work included advising organisations about how to structure themselves to enhance business effectiveness in diverse cultural environments, people development and strategy.
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| Dorota Szeląg |
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Dorota has been with People Partnering for the last 3 years. She has experience in designing and delivering assessment and development centres and has also has been involved in recruitment projects and motivational surveys. In addition she has responsibility for development of tools and methodologies. Dorota graduated from Faculty of Psychology at Warsaw University and is currently doing PhD focusing on influence in groups.
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| Roman Tętnik |
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Roman Tętnik started career with Civil Aviation Ministry, Warsaw responsible for negotiating and the presentation of government aviation agreements with ICAO members; President, Alliance Film and Advertising Agency Warsaw, MSc in Economy, bachelor of Law.Next Roman joined Amrop International - one of the leading world-wide Executive Search Consultancies. During his work for Amrop, Roman was specialising in top management positions in General Management (CEO,COO), Sales and Marketing, Finances and Production fields. He was conducting both Polish and international searches (with partners from Amrop) and supervising work of younger consultants in Warsaw office.
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| Tomasz Wański |
In the recent 12 years Tomasz was an active business manager in private sector, most of this time he worked in Xerox. He built from scratch the technical support and post-sales Xerox business in Poland.
He was personally responsible for companies merge, service and logistics outsourcing projects, development and sales process of the service offerings, development of the service as a business at Xerox partner companies. He was also responsible for the logistics operations and customer satisfaction. Tomasz took active part in recruitment processes, staff assessment programmes, prepared and delivered training to Xerox and partner's staff on service business and customer satisfaction.
Earlier Tomasz took part in the international cooperation in Central Europe on control equipment
as well as in cooperation with ASEA in industrial robotics.
Tomasz specializes in supporting organizations to develop stable and profitable customer service business through loyal customers. This is combined with building company culture focused on customer, development of the company-strategic processes and procedures, development customer-related skills and management skills of line management.
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| Agata Wąsowska |
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Seven years at Avon Cosmetics, Agata was responsible for planning, implementing and controlling all human resources activities including recruitment and selection, coaching and feedback, leadership development, training and career development, health and safety, compensation and benefits. Since 1999 Agata was appointed to regional Training and Development role. She was responsible for identifying suitable training and development solutions within the region and co-operate in the design of training and development for the Management Group. Before coming to Avon Agata managed HR Department ORFE - European Pharmaceutical Distributor.
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| Piotr Olaf Żylicz |
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Olaf is a psychologist, a senior lecturer at the Warsaw School of Advanced Social Psychology and a fellow researcher at the Polish Academy of Science. Development and refinement of wide range of measures (questionnaires, surveys, and the like) used for diagnostic purposes in business keeps on being his basic interest. Dr Żylicz has provided corporations with psychological trainings on stress coping, time management, team work and others. In the course of the last years he collaborated, as a consultant, with various HR consultancies on the projects as diverse as communication audit, job satisfaction and managerial assessment centre.
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