Ashoka w Polsce

I’m a well-trained Office Manager who has a track record of making any office I manage an exciting and dynamic place to work. My philosophy is to make sure that the work flow is efficient. I always give adequate consideration to other people’s priorities, opinions, and concerns. My strong suit is getting to grips with new situations quickly and always looking to achieve the best possible outcome in anything that I do. My positive attitude and smile are always appreciated by coworkers and clients. I’m eager and ready to bring my knowledge, expertise, and passion to Ashoka.

Partnership Manager for Ashoka Poland

In Ashoka since December 2018, responsible for various partnerships of Ashoka Poland. She manages Program WzmocniONE, that aims to support initiatives that aim at building the world of equal dignity of gender. She has managed partnerships with Schneider Electric and Veolia Foundation on different topics.

Martyna is a trainer, project coordinator and community organiser. For the last 12 years she has worked with various organisations, institutions, groups (activism coordinator for Amnesty International Poland, coordinator of the Paca Community Centre) and also co-founded two non governmental organisations. She is also a certified drama trainer, actress and joker of Theatre of the Oppressed., working with various groups, mostly around the issue of gender oppression. Martyna has the experience of working with the business sector, mostly in HR. In her free time she trains MMA and makes jams.

Entrepreneur and advisor with 17 years of experience. In the last 5 years, he managed to build and then sell a company which, with an average annual revenue increase of over 800%, was ranked 18th in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Central Europe 2019 ranking. He is also a co-founder of the Everest foundation who organize charity runs for companies www.biegfirmowy.pl. Privately, for 2 years he has been discovering the world of music playing the Handpan. Wojciech is also Alumni of Leadership Academy for Poland.

Martyna support’s people and processes. Co-founder and former leader of social start-up Baśnie Właśnie. From last 5 years she co-creates with Ashoka, where Martyna searches for and elects outstanding social innovators to the Ashoka Network, and holistically supports Ashoka Fellows in Poland and CEE. While doing it Martyna hunt for new connections between people, organizations, sectors, cultures. Martyna graduated Social Policy at University of Economics in Poznan, she also studied psychology for 5 years at Adam Mickiewicz University.

Before working for Ashoka she has worked for PwC, co-leading the Sustainable Business Solutions Advisory Team. She has created the stakeholder dialogue line of service, running stakeholder dialogue sessions for Orange, Cemex, Grupa Żywiec, as well as a business-NGO dialogue on controversial shale gas extraction - rewarded as a best practice by the European Commisson. Before that she was a manager for Corporate Social Responsibility at Danone Group in Poland. She was part of the Child Malnutrition Working Group at Minister Michał Boni's team of advisors to the Polish government. She co-founded The Foundation for Social Communication in Poland and SMartKolektiv in Serbia – organizations helping NGOs to use the tools of marketing in order to support their social mission. She has co-created several public service campaigns including a very effective HIV/AIDS campaigns for cross-border truck drivers, several GOTV campaigns in Serbia (i.e. Prati Prst). She is an Ashoka Fellow since 2001.

Jestem absolwentką studiów na kierunku Finanse, posiadam doświadczeniem w zakresie analizy finansowej dla biznesu oraz zarządzania finansami grantów i projektów w różnych polskich organizacjach pozarządowych. Pracowałem również jako Project Managerka w organizacjach pozarządowych. Pasjonuje mnie ochrona środowiska, prawa kobiet i reformowanie edukacji. Lubię książki (głównie fantasy), seriale z zagadkami kryminalnymi i inteligentnym humorem, spacery na łonie natury, podróże na inne kontynenty i zgłębianie nowych tematów.

Jestem mamą, partnerką i opiekunką psów (między innymi) :-)