Agata is a Doctor of Business Psychology (George Washington University, D.C. Campus,) and Master Certified Coach, ICF. She enables high performance via NLP and neuroscience. She has clients in 40 countries in Tech, FMCG, Chemicals, Banking, Pharma, and Manufacturing with aggregate client satisfaction of 4.96/5p scale. In addition to her Ph.D, Agata has a Masters degree in Psychology and an MBA (both from Central Connecticut State University). She holds the Certificate of Specialization in Leadership and Management from Harvard.
She has lived and worked globally for the past 30 years. She spent 20 years in the US, completing her studies and climbing the corporate career ladder up to a VP level for some of the Fortune 50 global MNCs. She worked and delivered projects in the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Kuwait), across continental Europe, in the United Kingdom (London), but also in Singapore, China, and Brazil.
Agata has a strong corporate consulting and strategy background. While working for EY and Accenture, Agata led the EMEA Talent and Organization function and delivered projects to Vodafone, BP, Etisalat, Mondelez, KPC, Microsoft, Marriott International, Siemens, and many others.
Her entire career has been dedicated to supporting growth of global leaders. Initially coming from Human Resources function, she has focused on talent and leadership development domain expertise. Individual and team coaching are her favorite tools. Currently, Agata’s private clients include Microsoft, Dell, Cisco, Intel, Brown-Forman, Phillip Morris, Vontier, Allianz, BNP Paribas, Santander, Striker, and GSK.
As a coach, Agata blends gentle confrontational style with loads of support and empathy. She approaches her clients holistically, ensuring that all aspects of their work and life are addressed and align to create a strong foundation for client’s growth and transformation. Her clients often tell her they experience her as caring, perceptive, and very straight-forward and direct.
Her sweet spot is the work around performance excellence based on self-awareness and self-leadership. In her view, internal transformation is the fastest and most effective way to create lasting change. She often asks her clients ‘how can we hope to manage anything at all if we do not manage the Self?’. In her view, self-awareness work leads to better communication and interpersonal relation, organization savvy, resilience, responsiveness, team trust, improved multi-cultural sensitivity, leadership self-confidence, and many other organizationally positive outcomes.
In order to stay apprised of thought leadership Agata stays connected to academia. She’s lectured at MBA programs at University of Connecticut (UCONN), Barney School of Business University of Hartford, and Warsaw University.
On personal front she loves Ayurveda and TCM, Tai-Chi , nature, and long walks in the woods accompanied by her large – breed dogs.
Since 2018 Agata has been writing articles and providing thought leadership on coaching and employee engagement for Forbes.
