Marta Borkowska

Founder

Lisbon, Portugal11 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in navigating founder dynamics and governance risk.
  • Successfully scaled organizations through strategic leadership.
  • Proven track record in crisis navigation and team alignment.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Leadership and Organizational Development Consultant with expertise in startup and governance dynamics.

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Skills

Core Skills

Leadership DevelopmentHuman Capital ManagementOperational StrategySales ManagementOrganizational DesignAgile MethodologiesAgile TransformationTeam LeadershipProject ManagementStartup CoachingConsultingBusiness Consulting

Other Skills

Due DiligenceBoard GovernanceSuccession PlanningCrisis navigationCustomer serviceHR operationsKPI deliveryOKR managementRecruitmentCoachingOnboardingSoft skills developmentCustomer careB2B cooperationResearch translation

About

I work with founders, investors, and boards navigating power, governance, and growth under pressure. For Founders: Leadership transitions and team recalibration Board dynamics and stakeholder alignment Scaling psychology: what got you here won't get you there Book a call here: https://calendly.com/marta-borkowska-1/60min For VCs, PEs & Boards: Founder assessment and team diligence pre-deal Governance design and incentive structures Crisis navigation and leadership transitions Book a call here: https://calendar.app.google/q3LBGupeZ5ZBuHXr8 The common thread: understanding where human systems break before they do.

Experience

11 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

The village network

Interim COO

Feb 2022May 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • I take care for setting up and implementing operational strategy, maintaing day to day sales, customer service, legal, administrative, HR and finance operations. My main responsibilities are delivering KPIs and OKRs through teams.
  • I work closely with other Mangrove experts such as legal advisor and interim CFO. Together we form a team of senior managers helping young organization scale.
Operational strategySales managementCustomer serviceHR operationsKPI deliveryOKR management

Mangrove

CEO & Founder

Jan 2021Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · Remote

  • Mangrove is a mentoring company for founders who want clarity without bullshit.
  • We work on high-stakes decisions:
  • Strategy and product direction
  • Leadership conflict and founder dynamics
  • Hiring and organizational design
  • Growth and scaling challenges
  • Our mentors include former C-level operators, successful founders, and board members. We provide structure, direct feedback, and accountability.
  • No workshops. No discovery phases. Just actionable guidance from people who've done it.
Leadership DevelopmentHuman Capital ManagementDue DiligenceBoard GovernanceSuccession PlanningCrisis navigation+1

Tylko

People Manager

May 2019Oct 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Warszawa, woj. mazowieckie, Polska

  • Main achievement: I've scaled the organization to double its size (from 50 to 110 people) within 6 months, performing organizational transformation from silos to cross functional teams at the same time.
  • Main responsibilities:
  • organizational design: building organizational structure as well as designing roles and responsibilities,
  • introducing agile into newly formed teams e.g. production system team,
  • onboarding: process design as well as hands on onboarding, followed by a feedback loop,
  • coaching and "soft skills" training for managers and teams,
  • extensive recruitment: coordination as well as hands on recruitment,
  • resource planning,
  • hiring - legal requirements, agreement templates etc,
  • payroll management and people cost analysis (and reporting where needed),
  • dealing with all kind of "difficult situations".
Organizational designAgile methodologiesRecruitmentCoachingOnboarding

Fru.pl

Agile Coach/People Manager

Nov 2016Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Main achievement: agile transformation (from startup chaos to 5 agile development teams and a product team).
  • Main responsibilities (after the transformation):
  • working with Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Developments Teams, ensuring smart usage of practices as well as adjusting attitudes to this new approach,
  • leading team of scrum masters,
  • working closely with top managers and team leaders to assure that they have support and source of leadership skills whenever they need it,
  • developing people's soft skills, their effectiveness, attitude and their job satisfaction,
  • working with customer care on client-related difficult situations,
  • maintaing HR issues: recruitment, budgets, documents etc.
Agile transformationTeam leadershipSoft skills developmentCustomer care

Neuropsychologia.org

Management Team Member

Jun 2016Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • We believe that fast development of neuroscience can increase wellbeing of patients who suffer from many diseases affecting their brains. We help specialists, patients and their families stay up to date with the newest research, translating them into the language understandable to majority.
  • My role is to manage various projects and contribute to our B2B cooperation.
Project managementB2B cooperationResearch translation

Pomorski park naukowo-technologiczny gdynia / pomeranian science and technology park gdynia

Expert/Performance Coach

Jan 2016Jun 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gdynia, woj. pomorskie, Polska

  • I am an expert in startups incubator program. I serve as a trainer and a coach for those who start their journey with enterpreneurship. My role is to teach them how to sell their product to different types of customers.
Startup coachingSales training

Grupa oditk

Associate Consultant

Nov 2009Nov 2016 · 7 yrs

  • I started working in this company as a junior consultant, having a privilege to co-create a consulting department. It was a new business so I was selling, coordinating projects, taking care for budgets and developing my consulting skills.
  • After a few years I was a professional B2B salesperson as well as an experienced consultant in the area of strategic management, performance management and organizational design.
ConsultingProject coordinationSales

Aon hewitt

Junior Consultant

Jul 2008Jul 2009 · 1 yr · Warszawa, woj. mazowieckie, Polska

  • I got that position by winning "Grasz o staż" competition. It was a year of fast development in various areas: business consulting in general, strategic management, performance management, employees’ engagement, organizational design.
  • After a year I was chosen one of the top performers of the team.
Business consultingStrategic management

Education

University of Warsaw

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD — Psychologia

Jan 2010Jan 2016

Szkoła Trenerów ODiTK

Master Business Trainer — Zaawansowane umiejętności trenerskie

Jan 2013Jan 2013

University of Warsaw

Zarządzanie

Jan 2005Jan 2010

University of Warsaw

Psychologia

Jan 2004Jan 2009

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