Meet Katarzyna
Katarzyna is a passionate lecturer, intercultural management trainer, coach, and project manager.
She began her career as a business consultant, then as a project manager. She led various IT and BPR projects, which demonstrated her analytical and organizational abilities.
“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone” (J.M. Bobak), and managing uncertainty in intercultural interactions became her life motto when she moved to Switzerland and embarked on an entrepreneurial journey.
She combines well-established concepts from the field of intercultural management with an experiential learning approach to address management challenges and foster the development of multicultural teams.
What makes her stand out? Her core values of curiosity, an “and/both” mindset, and strive for excellence allow her to foster an inclusive environment that respects diverse perspectives.
What defines Katarzyna’s approach?
• Structured and a goal-oriented approach
• Genuine curiosity, growth mindset and both/and-thinking
• Eclectic use of knowledge
• From application to theory orientation
Areas of Expertise
• Intercultural leadership and expatriate coaching and training (MSE: Poland, Germany and Switzerland)
• Personal development of intercultural competence
• Team development and communication in a multicultural context
• Expatriation: settling down and career transformation
• Development of university-level curricula for online and on-site courses
• Unconscious bias and microaggressions (ref. to gender and skin color)
• Working proficiency in German, English, Polish and French
Certifications & Background
• Certified Trainer in Experience-Oriented Learning (EOL by METALOG®)
• Certificate in Diversity Management in an International Context (FUB-ContinuEd)
• Certificate in Virtual Learning Design and Facilitation (Global Case Study Challenge)
• Adjunct lecturer at business schools AUS, HBS, and SUMAS (Switzerland).
• Founder of K. Grzesik-Harz, Intercultural Training and Consulting
• IT and BPR project manager and senior business consultant in the multi-utility sector
• Master’s degree in Intercultural Communication from USI (Lugano, Switzerland)
• Master’s degree in European Studies from AMU (Poznań, Poland)
