Barbara Derkowska-Podhajska is a Co Organizer at Growth Meetup. She is proficient in French and English. Colleagues describe her as "I had a chance to attend multiple mentoring sessions with Barbara when I was on the beginning of my road to becoming a Product Marketing Manager. Thanks to her help I was able to understand this role better, sort out my cooperation with product & marketing team and found out what should I focus on in my everyday work. I highly recommend cooperation with Barbara as a never ending source of inspiration and tons of tips and insights related to product marketing!", "I bet you’ve seen a phrase ‘an inspirational and supportive leader’ a lot here. To catch your attention, I could use a more unexpected characteristic, but it wouldn’t be honest. Because the phrase ‘an inspirational and supportive leader’ describes Barbara the best. I worked in Barbara’s team as a Senior Product Marketing Manager. On my first day in the company, she met me, made an intro, and opened a page in Notion titled ‘Evgenia’s role’. “There’s only a part of your responsibilities,” she said. “Another part you can fill in yourself.” That meant to me: I invite you to the city and give you a pair of roller skates, but it’s you who choose where and how fast to roll. The skate in Barbara’s team brought me a lot of discoveries and no one, even tiny, scratch. Because when you’re skating with Barbara, it’s impossible to fall. When I faced a problem, I could openly discuss it with her. She always showed me possible solutions and found the right words that encouraged me to move forward. Our meetings ended with laughter and smiles and filled me with energy for the days ahead. I loved working with Barbara. And if you will be lucky enough to work with her either, you would love it too.", and "Always striving to show the vision and bigger picture and at the same time eager to support even with small problems. As my supervisor and AIESEC Branch Manager in Wrocław, Basia was able to successfuly manage and keep strong relationship with 8 Executive Board members and lead indirectly a structure of over 60 AIESEC volunteers. Coordinating the work of people that have no financial gratification requires management skills to be even on the higher level which should be a proof of Basia's solid skillset. Due to high level of empathy and active listening abilities Basia was able to make each member of her team feel confident that his needs are respected and he is not alone with occurring problems. However she was assertive enough not to take on someone else's problem and aware of the differences between pure friendly relationship and team member - supervisor relationship. Basia had no noticeable problems with plan realization, was always prepared for daily activities and definitely treated such responsibility as one of the most important priorities at that time. When needed she was also able to make tough managerial decissions. Basia's faith in my skills and potential undoubtedly had significant impact on my career path for which I am extremely grateful!"