Date added: 2021-07-14
New Director at International MBA Gdańsk Tech programme
After fifteen years, the PhD Barbara Geniusz-Stepnowska, the first International MBA Gdańsk Tech Director, decided to concentrate on her scientific career and leave the director position of the programme. The final speech as MBA director was delivered at the Graduation Ceremony on 21 May 2021.
“Thank you very much for the time I had here. I could grow with this programme for all these years, and I would like also to thank the first dean [prof. Piotr Dominiak]. We put all our forces to gain accreditation, the international recognition, we met a lot of wonderful people who supported us. We met a lot of students who trusted us. That was really great moment for me, thank you again for trusting me that anything is possible far and beyond.”- PhD Barbara Geniusz-Stepnowska
New goals and mission
The new International MBA programme at Gdańsk Tech is PhD Beata Krawczyk-Bryłka – an expert and business advisor collaborating with many companies and non-profit organizations. In the years 2008-2012 she was the Dean for Education at Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdańsk Tech.
Beata Krawczyk-Bryłka is awarded academic teacher and business trainer (business negotiations, interpersonal communication, personal development, entrepreneurial competencies).
“Since I have been working at the University, my mission is to support students by developing their interpersonal skills, arousing their curiosity and responsibility for themselves and the social environment they operate in. I share my faith in the value of collaboration based on trust. I appreciate sensitivity in building relationships and reliability in achieving the goals we undertake. I am convinced that each of us has different talents, you only need the determination to develop them and the courage to use them.” – says PhD Beata Krawczyk Bryłka, MBA Director.
Most of MBA community knows about her commitment to work as MBA Quality Lead for People Management & Self Development Pillar (2018-2021), Lecturer for Business Negotiations & Conflict Resolution module and Managerial Talent Diagnosis module. She is the author of MBA Competence model and coordinator of Capstone Projects process.
“As the director of the MBA program, I will continue my mission based on my values, talents and openness to collaboration. I will take care of the development of our program. Most of all, as a servant leader, I want to listen to the needs of our MBA students and the business ecosystems where they are expected to be conscious, creative leaders of the future.” – underlines Beata Krawczyk-Bryłka, PhD.
Experience and Passion
Beata Krawczyk-Bryłka is a business psychologist with PhD in management at Jagiellonian University Cracow. She has worked in the position of Assistant Professor in Department of Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Management and Economics at Gdańsk University of Technology. She is experienced as HPC Business Expert in European Project: National Competence Centers in the framework of EuroHPC, Centre of Informatics – Tricity Academic Supercomputer & Network.
Moreover, Beata Krawczyk-Bryłka is a scientist with more than 80 publications in area of managing virtual teams, effectual entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial teams, team trust and human resources management (ORCID: 0000-0001-7677-9549). She was the leader of the project: “Effectuation model of entrepreneurial teams. How do effective entrepreneurial teams operate?” founded by National Science Centre Poland (2018-2021).
She is an active Erasmus+ participant (Great Britain, Latvia, Spain, Finland, Portugal). Also licensed Extended DISC expert, certificated in PRINCE2.
We wish Beata Krawczyk-Bryłka a lot of success, achieving goals and developing the International MBA Gdańsk Tech program.
