Barbara works at Advance HE as a Senior Consultant for Women’s Leadership, Programme Director, and Executive Coach.
She heads up national and international leadership programmes, including: Aurora, Senior Women’s Leadership Development in the UK and Ireland, She Leads - International Women’s Development, Dowira – Women leadership development for Ukrainian Higher Education Sector, Academic Transformation, and Organisational Resilience Programmes.
She promotes women’s leadership through networks and stakeholder groups at the United Nations.
Following a career in Europe, where Barbara managed business consultancy for IT organisations, working globally and across diverse sectors, she moved to the UK in 2007 and started working in the Higher Education sector.
She has worked for Sheffield Hallam University and The University of Sheffield, and then across the HE sector in the UK and Europe as an independent consultant. She has led change and transformation programmes in areas supporting both students (access, widening participation, student recruitment, and mental health) and staff (HR, organisation, and leadership development). She has directed and delivered university-wide leadership development programmes for senior leaders and executive teams.
Barbara is passionate about women’s leadership, transformation, and culture change. Inspired by the work of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Presencing Institute, she encourages leaders to prepare for the future that wants to emerge and lead transformation combining logical, emotional, and intuitive intelligences.
She deeply cares about holistic development and realising human potential. She believes that systemic and societal change has to start with individual courage and honesty to look within and expand consciousness from separation and polarisation to unity and love. Her work is driven by the values of honesty, transparency, creativity, integrity, and collaboration.
Barbara is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an accredited Fierce Conversations and 360 Feedback facilitator. She holds a master’s degree in business from the University of Gdansk (Poland), an MSc in Organisational Development (Coaching and Mentoring) from Sheffield Business School, and postgraduate diplomas in Social Communication and Human Resource Management.Barbara works at Advance HE as a Senior Consultant for Women’s Leadership, Programme Director, and Executive Coach.
She heads up national and international leadership programmes, including: Aurora, Senior Women’s Leadership Development in the UK and Ireland, She Leads - International Women’s Development, Dowira – Women leadership development for Ukrainian Higher Education Sector, Academic Transformation, and Organisational Resilience Programmes.
She promotes women’s leadership through networks and stakeholder groups at the United Nations.
Following a career in Europe, where Barbara managed business consultancy for IT organisations, working globally and across diverse sectors, she moved to the UK in 2007 and started working in the Higher Education sector.
She has worked for Sheffield Hallam University and The University of Sheffield, and then across the HE sector in the UK and Europe as an independent consultant. She has led change and transformation programmes in areas supporting both students (access, widening participation, student recruitment, and mental health) and staff (HR, organisation, and leadership development). She has directed and delivered university-wide leadership development programmes for senior leaders and executive teams.
Barbara is passionate about women’s leadership, transformation, and culture change. Inspired by the work of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Presencing Institute, she encourages leaders to prepare for the future that wants to emerge and lead transformation combining logical, emotional, and intuitive intelligences.
She deeply cares about holistic development and realising human potential. She believes that systemic and societal change has to start with individual courage and honesty to look within and expand consciousness from separation and polarisation to unity and love. Her work is driven by the values of honesty, transparency, creativity, integrity, and collaboration.
Barbara is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an accredited Fierce Conversations and 360 Feedback facilitator. She holds a master’s degree in business from the University of Gdansk (Poland), an MSc in Organisational Development (Coaching and Mentoring) from Sheffield Business School, and postgraduate diplomas in Social Communication and Human Resource Management.
