Team

Katarzyna Gierczak Grupińska – sociologist, MBA, certified social change leader and facilitator of the international New Leader Circle of FBN International. Founder and president of the Family Businesses Foundation ffr.pl from 2011. Under the Foundation, she opened the FBN International branch in Poland. Founding member of IFR. Co-owner of the family business GELG gelg.pl, which operates in the field of high volume metal processing. She persistently continues to develop space for family businesses since 2006, taking advantage of common experiences and practical knowledge to prevent repeated stumbling over the same obstacles and making the same mistakes over and over again, losing the most valuable asset of all in the process: time. She promotes the Family Business Tree Umbrella Brand, which symbolises the pride of family entrepreneurs based on the following values: tradition, honesty, and responsibility handed down from generation. Mother of two teenagers, her passions include natural environment and globetrotting.

Małgorzata Animucka – a graduate of the Faculty of Philology – Polish Philology at the A. Mickiewicz University. She has 11.years of experience as a teacher in high school and elementary schools. 5 years she ran her own business in the field of marketing services. She worked 3 years as an editor in the marketing department of a manufacturing company. She devoted most of her professional activity to NGOs. For several years she was head of the regional structure of the Lewiatan Confederation in Greater Poland. Coordinating the work of the employers’ union, she initiated and participated in processes, related, among other things, to the representation of the interests of employers before trade unions and public administration bodies, to activities for the development of the labor market and counteracting unemployment, as well as to influence the formation of legislation, in accordance with the interests of employers, the formation of social and economic policies of public authorities concerning the interests of employers. In recent years, she has worked with NGOs and companies in supporting their development, standardization of processes and internal and external communication of the organization.

Małgorzata Stromczyńska She has graduated from Journalism and Communication at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. During the studies she had an internship in the University radio station, it became her hobby rather that an idea for life. Today she uses her reporter’s skills writing and editing the Foundations newsletter and social media contents. In her daily job she enjoys meeting interesting people and difference of opinions. She prefers to spend her free time actively as she gave into the running fad, although, she has best time when discovering Poznań through walking tours.

Eleni Tzoka Stecka  She is a medical doctor, experienced manager in a multinational company (Servier Polska), certified Business Trainer (TROP), Business Practices Coach and Team Coach (Norman Benett Academy). Since 2008 she owns a consultancy and training business Epsylon Eleni Tzoka Stecka. She is a founding member of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council EMCC Polska. After graduating form the Wellcoaches School of Coaching USA she became a Health Coach. As a trainer and consultant she helps to create job standards for managers and sales representatives. Regularly, she organises Manager Academies which aim to develop managing and coaching skills of Polish sales managers both in Poland and abroad (Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Kazachstan). She lead projects such as: Train the trainers and designed sales departmental structure changes as well as skills systems. As a vice-president of Stowarzyszenia Łejery (Łejery Association, 2010 – 2014), she was participating in founding the first children theatre in Poland adjacent to the Łejery School in Poznań. Currently, she is involved in healthy lifestyle promotion and creation of pro-health workplace. She is a happily married with three children, literature, travel and yoga lover.