Episode #9

Career transformation

Interview with: Anna Barbara Wróbel
Advisory Board Member at Civitta & Non-Executive Board Member at morele.net

Anna’s professional history is not a linear career, it is a career full of interesting twists. After years of working at McKinsey and running the Change Leaders Forum practice, focused on transformation programs for companies and their leaders, Anna moved to HR and building strategy and organizational culture in companies such as KGHM, Booksy, PZU, or Allego.

Anna Barbara Wróbel
When we are not talking about such a broad corporate community, but about a team, it often turns out that the divisions that we see - gender, age, they are not at all what really differentiates us. We are much more distinguished by lifestyles, work styles, sense of humor, openness, or some longer establishing relationships and building trust. I see a big difference in the self-awareness of young people. These are people, I think statistically - I have no research to confirm it, but with greater openness and experience, for example when it comes to psychotherapy. Where there was such professional, good psychotherapy, it allowed young people to learn the language of naming their states, needs, emotions. It seems to me that, as usual, youth is characterized by fantasy and faith. And this is also great, because we do not know that certain things are impossible.
Anna Barbara Wróbel, Advisory Board Member at Civitta & Non-Executive Board Member at morele.net says
Our conversation begins with a discussion of Anna's career transformation, but that's just a taste of what's included. We also discuss:
  • the role of a female board member and the role of a female supervisory board member,
  • the characteristics and transformation of leaders,
  • the value of programs aimed at equalizing opportunities,
  • time and priority management (we abandon moralizing, we tell it like it is),
  • task overload, procrastination and the crazy pace of change,
  • the role of women in business and proactively implementing market change.