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We start with the person, not the problem
We speak to everyone separately first. Not just about the company — about their life, their goals, what they actually want from all of this. A structure that ignores who you are as a person won't hold. We're not here to save the company at the expense of the people running it.
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We diagnose what others miss
We use clinical psychological tools that most advisors don't have access to. And we don't focus on your strengths — you already know those. We focus on your blind spots, because that's where the real friction lives.
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We build scenarios, not just agreements
We speak to everyone separately first. Not just about the company — about their life, their goals, what they actually want from all of this. A structure that ignores who you are as a person won't hold. We're not here to save the company at the expense of the people running it.
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We stay until it actually works
We monitor, we fine-tune, we adjust as reality sets in. We stop when you tell us you're done — not when we think you should be. We don't want you to survive this. We want you to thrive.
We don't want you to survive this. We want you to thrive
The team
Joanna Andryszczak
She started her career in investment management, spent years on boards and in senior leadership at investment funds and financial institutions, then pivoted to coaching and leadership development. That combination is rare — she understands the pressure of high-stakes financial decisions from the inside, and knows how to help leaders perform under that weight. Over 10 years of coaching, mentoring and training, with a background that gives her instant credibility in rooms where the numbers matter.
Joanna Gawlik-Dziadoń
13 years of business and team coaching, with a background that spans banking leadership, organisational development, and conflict mediation. She works at the intersection of individual and team — helping managers stop functioning as a collection of individuals and start operating as a unit. For founders, that means one less thing to carry alone.
Katarzyna Cicha
A decade building communication functions for global companies like Wienerberger and Lafarge, combined with a deep background in neuropsychology and cognitive science. At Mangrove she leads our diagnostics — using psychometric and neurobiological tools to map founder dynamics and team health. She turns complex organizational data into something founders can actually act on.
Magda Olczak-Nowicka
Former Managing Partner with a decade in VC — building and managing funds backed by PFR Ventures and mBank, leading investments from pre-seed to Series A, sitting on supervisory boards. At Mangrove she works with founders who are preparing to raise — pressure-testing business models, sharpening fundraising narratives, and building the operational structures investors actually want to see.
Małgorzata Kubisiak
She has trained 150+ managers and supported founders through more than threefold growth in headcount. She specialises in leaders stepping into management for the first time — helping them build authority, find their style, and stop losing their best people in the process. Her background spans HR, organisational development, and business coaching across both corporates and scaling startups.
Marta Borkowska
Over the last five years she has worked with 200+ founders across Europe — through scaling, conflict, succession, and everything in between. She built HR functions from scratch in startups scaling past 100 people, and holds a PhD in the psychology of exceptional achievement. She founded Mangrove because she believes founders deserve significantly better than what the ecosystem currently offers them.
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