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Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Responsible for the internal and external communication of the firm. This includes key marketing work (media and social media), a focus on business development, client acquisition, improving performance as well as Learning and Development.

Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland

[The re-branded Warsaw office of Magnusson]My role included training, coaching, facilitating, recruiting (DISC, MBTI, Belbin), and providing L&D expertise to key stakeholders, lawyers, and marketeers. The role required a high level of adaptability, collaboration, creativity, communication, emotional intelligence, problem-solving and team work.

Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Work with post-grad students on improving their general business acumen, soft skills, professional presentation skills and legal language know-how.

Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland

We encourage lifelong learning and recognise that success is all about people. My role is to facilitate the team in this continuous development by helping everyone find appropriate and motivating learning solutions, improving communication, identifying new learning opportunities, and encouraging a training culture whilst supporting the whole team. My roles range from being a trainer and educator to being a coach (using DISC, MBTI, Belbin), facilitator, mediator, and L&D expert.The team has won the following awards:- International Innovation at the Legal Innovation Awards organized by Legal Week;- Best managed international firm at The Managing Partners’ Forum Awards for Management Excellence in association with Harvard Business Review, and the Financial Times;- European Law Firm of the Year at the British Legal Awards - three times in a row.

Warsaw Area, Poland

My work included the successful development and preparation of training for all legal, administrative, IT and marketing staff. This resulted in a company-wide raising of language and communication skills. My work also included liaising with the marketing department on a variety of cross-company projects. My role involved successful training, education, facilitation, and time management skills.

Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland

I have always focused on honesty, passion and energy. Training becomes easy when these three come together. To empower, motivate and awaken creativity, trainers need to believe not only in what they are doing but believe their protégés can go forward and attain as much if not more than their mentor. My lecturing (which included translator training, social media, communication for personal development and blogging) was rewarded with a number of awards and prizes (including Chancellor’s Award for Best Lecturer and Departmental Award for Best Lecturer). My role included being an educator, trainer, facilitator, mentor and successful coach.The University of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS) was the first private higher education institution in Poland (and Eastern Europe) to achieve true university status. Year on year, it comes in the top three of higher education league tables in Poland.

Berlin Area, Germany

During my eight years working for the European Film Academy I was able to bring to the EFA team my skills as a language coach and advisor, translator and voice-over professional. Later, I brought my energy, motivation and creativity to the post-production team in our work on the European Film Awards ceremonies. The role demanded a high level of time management skills, collaboration and problem-solving.

Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland

My innovative and creative work for Polskie Radio as an active commentator was soon recognised by management and I was offered the chance to have my own weekend show. An abundance of energy, hard work and sheer bloody-mindedness saw Polish Radio Four's listening figures rise significantly thanks to my show "Bed and Breakfast". Guests included international best-sellers Nicholas Sparks, Lucinda Riley, Ben Collins (The Stig from Top Gear), as well as a host of Polish stars including Edyta Herbuś, Gaba Kulka, Natalia Kukulska, Maciej Stuhr and Justyna Steczkowska. I always saw my role as being a journalist, researcher, mediator and facilitator.

Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland

I successfully lectured in translation and interpreting at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw. I ran sessions as part of the renowned post-graduate interdisciplinary programme for translators. My role included being a trainer and educator, and motivator.

Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland

Primarily, I was responsible for the editing of Let's Newsweek, an innovative online English learning website. I was also a language consultant and translator for Newsweek Polska.

Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland

I had the honour of running a series of workshops for IIR on Human Resources for some of the highest-profile managers in Poland. My role included being a trainer, educator and motivator.

Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland

I managed and led the weekly publication (editing and translation) of a journal which presents the newest legal news (Law Supplement) from Poland.

Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland

I was head of secondary education learning, responsible for preparing, setting up a team of authors to write English books for this series. For some years later I was affiliated to the company occassionally undertaking consulting and editing work.

Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland

"Hi! Magazine" (a bilingual Polish-English educational magazine for young people). Responsible for the editing of all English texts and head of the translation team.

(In Cooperation With Lancaster University)

Developed & taught on the 'COBAL' distance-learning MA programme. (Computer-Based Englsh Language Research)University of Lodz - Department of English Language

Lodz, Lodz District, Poland

Department of English LanguageTeaching listening, reading, translation studies, interpreting, conversation, practical English grammar and computational linguistics.University of Lodz - Department of English Language

Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland

Taught a variety of courses here including advanced translation and culture.TWP Higher College of Pedagogy

Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland

Worked on the production (part of the translation staff) of the largest lexicographic project in Poland in modern times.

宮崎県

Worked as a teacher in Kobayashi Technical High School and Takaharu High School in Miyazaki prefecture.

Ba Honours, Linguistics & English

Activities and Societies: Vice-President, Bowland College; Editor, Linguistics Magazine; Member of University Senate. Highly involved.

Ma, Linguistics, Tefl, Translation

Activities and Societies: Member of PELCRA (corpus) team, Member of University TEFL Unit. Help set up the PELCRA (advanced corpus.

Mini Mba [Polish-American Management School (University Of Maryland, Uniwersytet Łódzki)], Management, Marketing

IT, Labour Code, Accounting, Management, Marketing, Human Resources, Financial Markets and Strategic Management

Official Court Mediation Training, Mediation

Official Court Mediator training

Level 5 Diploma In Learning And Development, Learning And Development L&D, Associate Member Cipd

Activities and Societies: Associate member CIPD The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) is a professional association.

Associate Member, Associate Member Cim

Founded in 1911, The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) is a professional marketing body. It has over 30,000 members, including more.