Joanna Kalkstein Email & Phone Number

Joanna is a training professional driven by a passion for developing human potential. Joanna learned plenty about resilience and developing her own potential when she escaped Communism and, at the age of 18, travelled across the world as a political refugee to Australia. Upon completion of her degree in Industrial Relations, Joanna joined the corporate training industry and worked for a global training provider - TACK International. In 1992 she established in Poland and managed for 20 years a highly successful division of TACK International. Working in this fast-changing business environment of the 1990s ECE region, Joanna gained broad experience in designing and delivering projects for culturally diverse organisations. In 2004, after Poland entered European Union, Joanna Kalkstein was elected the Vice-President of the National Board for Training Industry in Poland (PIFS). In 2014 she qualified as an accredited facilitator with the Lead Without a Title project with Robin Sharma (2014, Toronto). In 2017 she launched “Agility by Design – Business Educators for Educating Children in Africa” – an international project designed to assist the education of children in Nigeria. She is an accredited Practitioner with Insights Discovery (2012, Warsaw), an accredited Practitioner with Lumina Spark (2016, Melbourne), and Lumina Leader (2020, London). She is holds a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment from TAFE (2014, Sydney).