• Marta is a consultant, trainer and certified business coach focusing on leadership development and team effectiveness. She is passionate about the human potential and works with senior managers on rediscovering their natural talents and sources of power. She supports them in building a deep self-awareness, personal integrity and a value based leadership. She is committed to helping them recognize and live their personal mission.
• Regarding work as the place for unleashing the human potential and being a licensed facilitator of international coaching programs Marta helps organizations implement coaching organizational culture. She supports teams in reaching high performance built on effective communication and common vision. She is also a trainer, mentor and supervisor for young coaches.
• Marta began her career with Ernst & Young, where she gained HR experience in managing training and career development projects. In 2007 she left corporate life to integrate her experience in personal and career development within her own practice and by now she has worked with leaders from a wide range of industries: banking, insurance, pharmaceuticals, retail, FMCG from companies such as: Agora, Astra Zeneca, AXA, Bristol Meyers Squibb, Bank Pocztowy, Exatel, Generali, GlaxoSmithKline, Interpartner Assistance, PKP, Real, Sage, Skoda, Tetra Pak and others.
• Marta is a graduate of Warsaw School of Economics (MA in Marketing and Management) and Warsaw University (MA in Psychology) and the international programs of Lund University (Sweden) and Copenhagen Business School (Denmark). Working with her clients Marta uses an integrative approach drawing models from schools such as Corporate Coach U (USA), Ericsson College (Canada), Noble Manhattan Coaching (UK), Organisation & Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC), NLP, cognitive-behavioral psychology (UK), schema therapy, mindfulness and leadership development. She is a graduate of John Scherer’s Leadership Development Intensive Program and the Arbinger Leadership and Self-deception training. She is also an authorized facilitator of TalentQ and Insights Discovery methodologies.
• Marta speaks Polish, English, Russian and Bulgarian.

Your World <->THE World <->My World

John’s Diane story is a graphic ilustration of the power of Three Worlds.

Last week, at the opening of the leadership programme, Brian Marsden, my co-facilitator, shared his version of the Three Worlds which I found equally useful:

E+R = O

Event + My Reaction = Outcome

What happens in THE world is just stuff that happens- he did this, she did that, this happened, that happened etc…but we lay on the event, our assumptions, reactions, judgements, interpretations and inferences which give us an ‘outcome’ or our ‘take’ on the event. It is often very hard for us to catch ourselves in the moment but when we do, we have a choice as to what we do with our reaction. To share a personal example, I was talking to John on the phone yesterday—we were having a heated and very dynamic ‘conversation’ about a large project and all it’s interdependent dates, decisions, people etc. The ‘discussion’ became louder, more heated, more frustrating…I was working off my assumption that John was working in an unstructured/ haphazard way and lacked the discipline and prioritising I felt we needed to get through all the tasks before the weekend….Instead of sharing this with him, I was expressing my frustration at his ‘randomness’- I also used the content of what we were saying as a way of proving to me and him, that he was random—I was asking him a lot of ‘why’ questions….when SUDDENDLY- I realised what I was doing! In that moment, I decided to do something different- I decided to share my assumptions with him. This was what happened:

A: Ok…there is an assumption I have about you- (pause, heart pounding…)-

A: My assumption is—-that you wake up in the morning andjustdowhateveryoufeellikedoing (I blurted)–

A: ——-rather than what needs to be done—you pick and choose what you want to do—

Then it dawned on me that there was something I needed from him…

A:  actually, with so much going on, I really want us to make a list and to work off that list until everything is done…this way-

J:  Well actually- the truth is- I have just finished breakfast and I am not yet in the office….so I am sort of—well, I am not in work-mode..you are right..and actually, I would LOVE to have a list–

J:  In fact, it would be helpful in the future, given all these projects- if we could make a point of starting the day by looking at what needs to be done and make a list for the day—

J:  In fact, it would have been helpful if you started the conversation by asking me if I had a list and go on to suggest that we made one!

Fair point.

This morning, as I reflected on the whole incident, I was really pleased that I was able to make a breakthrough in my own patterns yesterday. We certainly a different Outcome because I changed my Reaction. I began to wonder how many people also ‘suffer’ from a similar thing- that what we share is not the assumptions we hold about the ‘other’…instead, what we do is to act based on our assumptions- in my case yesterday, asking John questions to confirm my assumptions about him.

• Nikki is an experienced and commercially oriented HR Director with a proven track record within the Telecoms, IT and Biotech industries. She has worked with some of the biggest and most dynamic players within those industries.
• She has excellent communication and professional interpersonal skills and thrives in innovative and fast paced environments. A natural relationship builder, Nikki is an exceptional leader and influencer who is very effective at bringing people and teams together to deliver results. For example, in her last role, she successfully managed European and Global teams to develop and deliver the HR strategy and attain commercial advantage within tight budgets and aggressive timescales. She is intuitive, business-savvy, dynamic and entrepreneurial in her approach to work.

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• Jean holds an M.A. in Communications from McGill University in Montreal, and has completed doctoral courses in Adult Development at the University of Toronto. She has taught courses on organizational dynamics in the Conflict Studies Program at St. Paul University in Ottawa, at the Université de Québec in Gatineau, for the University of Ottawa and in the Education Faculty at McGill University. She lives in the forest near Ottawa, Canada.

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