My Story

At the beginning of my career, someone told me: „Natalia, you would make a good HR Business Partner.” The first thing I did was check what an HR Business Partner actually is, with no idea how important those words would turn out to be.

Since then, I have walked the entire path: from HR Business Partner, through HR Manager, to the role of HR Director, managing teams and responsible for the people area of the organization. So I know from my own experience what it takes to build HR that genuinely supports the business.

Today, as CEO, I lead the Association of HR Practitioners (Stowarzyszenie Praktyków HR), a community of over 250 organizations and several thousand HR practitioners from all over Poland. I am responsible for the Association’s strategy and growth, including the development programs and thematic tracks of the HR Academy, the working groups that create standards and tools for the entire market (from developing the HR BP role, through the quality of remuneration systems, to a culture based on respect), and the research and reports used by companies across Poland. It is a place where knowledge flows from practitioners to practitioners and I make sure it genuinely changes HR in Poland. Earlier, I led the work of the working group for the development of HR Business Partnering in Poland, where together with practitioners we created the standards for this role; today I run implementation and improvement sessions in HR Business Partnering.

I hold a PhD in management and quality sciences from the Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, specializing in HR Business Partnering. As part of my doctoral dissertation, I conducted research on the role and competencies of the HR Business Partner, and both professionally and academically I focus on HR Business Partnering in the context of managing teams. I am the author of publications on HR.

Day to day, I run transformation and development projects for HR teams and managers: from designing structures and implementing the HR BP role, to academies, workshops, and strategic training. I help develop the competencies of HR Business Partners and their cooperation with managers, because I deeply believe that HR Business Partnering can be learned.

And that strong HR means a strong organization.