Participants of the tournament will compete in teams and individually.
Their task will be to conduct negotiations or mediation based on the received scenario, prepared by negotiation and mediation experts.
The participants of the Tournament will be assessed by a selected jury. It consists only of outstanding experts in the field of Business Negotiations and Commercial Mediation. We invite you to get to know them better.
Jurors of the Negotiation Panel
Mateusz Rak
Global Purchasing Director, Varroc Lightning Systems
Experience: over 16 years of experience in global purchasing organizations in roles managing purchasing categories and purchasing teams. Creating and managing shared services centers, multi-context negotiations, building competency models.
Interested: theory and practice of negotiations, history, astronomy
What would you take to a deserted island?
A ton of books and a telescope
Agnieszka Kiełbasa-Szajkiewicz
Global Purchasing Director Flow Control, Vesuvius
Graduate of MBA studies at the University of Hull and production management at the University of Kettering.
She has over 20 years of practice in managing purchasing categories at the regional and global level. Recognized leader in creating and developing purchasing teams.
Most of her professional career related to the automotive industry. Agnieszka has exceptional experience that allows her to achieve her goals both during negotiations within the organization and with suppliers.
Privately, she loves to spend time actively with her family, most often skiing or sailing.
Henryk Filak
Global Director for Competence Development of Sales Managers, Bossard AG
Henryk Filak - Expert in business negotiations. He has a master's degree in engineering and holds a diploma from the Jagiellonian University in the field of mediation and alternative dispute resolution. He is also a certified business coach with over 2,500 coaching hours. Currently, he works as the Global Director for Competence Development of Sales Managers at Bossard AG. In this position, he is responsible for training and coaching individuals and sales teams, creating training and analyzing the development of competences in the organization. He conducts training in negotiations, building added value for the client, total cost of ownership, strategic management of the client portfolio and building sales strategies. He specializes in managing global and key clients, creating sales strategies for these clients, building positive models of sales behavior and deepening relations with clients by searching for unique added values. He often uses tools such as "Design Thinking", "Sprint methodology" or "Blue Ocean Competitive Map". An expert in business negotiations. Privately, a fly fisherman and a trekking enthusiast.
Przemysław Roth
Center Director General, Dyson Business Services
For over 20 years he has been working in an international environment in key management positions, of which he spent several years in France, Spain and Italy. He has extensive experience in the areas of finance, purchasing and operational management in the automotive, food, marine, aviation and consulting industries. Currently, as the General Director of the Center, he is developing Dyson's operations in Poland. Privately, he likes to spend time walking with his family in the mountains and flying gliders.
Aneta Michalska
Head of Direct Procurement at Polska Grupa Lotnicza
Supply Chain and Purchasing Manager with over 16 years of experience in the aviation industry. Currently, she manages the purchasing team responsible for the S2C process in the following categories: LOT fleet service, aircraft engines, handling services; technical purchases for PGL Group companies. I work with passion, commitment and full professionalism - so as to effectively provide the best solutions for business. I appreciate working in diverse teams where the exchange of experiences and constant inspiration for action are taken care of. Mentor in the Top Young 100 Program of the Polish PSML Association.
Piotr Dziurzyński
Sales Director of Comarch SA in the Services sector
For 18 years he has been working on the development of foreign markets and global clients in over 30 countries: Europe, Australia, Mexico, South Africa, India. He negotiates contracts and supervises international projects, working with the largest Fortune 500 companies. He is actively involved in key projects in the fuel, retail, airline and automotive industries. He pays particular attention to the development of the team of employees, and his actions helped most of them to take up important functions in the sales, consulting and management structures of Comach SA's foreign branches. Graduate of the Cracow University of Economics - Management and Marketing and MBA at the Polish Open University / Oxford Brookes University, Certified Loyalty Marketing Professional (CLMP). Privately, a father of two daughters, passionate about team sports: beach volleyball and basketball, and a lover of jazz.
Jurors of the Mediation Panel
Małgorzata Roszkowska
legal counsel, mediator
Lecturer of postgraduate studies in mediation and other ADR methods at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University. Lecturer at trainings for legal advisers and trainee legal advisers conducted by the Bar Association in Krakow in the field of negotiations, mediation and conflict management. Lecturer at trainings for mediators conducted by the Arbitration and Mediation Center at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Krakow in Krakow. Mediation and negotiation trainer. Member of the Arbitration and Mediation Center at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Krakow, the Mediation Center at the District Chamber of Legal Advisers in Krakow, the Dispute Resolution Section of the Allerhand Institute and the Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University. Co-author of comments to draft amendments to legal regulations concerning mediation. Author of publications in the field of mediation. Scholarship holder of the Erasmus program at the University of Barcelona.
Tomasz Cyrol
MCIArb - lawyer, negotiator, mediator, doctor of law
Member of the International Bar Association (chairman of the State Mediation Subcommittee and representative of the Mediation Committee for Europe and Poland) and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Member of the Academic Society and the Dispute Resolution Section of the Allerhand Institute. He completed post-graduate studies and a number of trainings in the field of negotiation and mediation, including as part of the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation (Cambridge, MA) - or the Psychological Mediation and Mediation Advocacy Course (Regent's University London). Academic lecturer (adjunct at the Cracow University of Life Sciences) and trainer in the field of negotiations and mediation.
Magdalena Romanowska
legal adviser, doctor of humanities, mediator
Legal advisor entered on the list of legal advisors of the OIRP in Krakow; Doctor of Humanities - Jagiellonian University; doctoral dissertation: "Conflicts of business entities and the use of modern dispute resolution tools in the community aspect"; specialization: commercial law, civil law, administrative law.
MEDIATOR entered on the list:
permanent mediators conducted by the President of the District Court in Krakow
permanent mediators run by the Bar Association in Krakow; mediators of the Mediation Center at the Bar Association in Krakow; mediators of the Małopolska Arbitration and Mediation Center at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Krakow.
National Leader of the Administrative Mediation Section within the National Network of Mediation Centers of Attorneys-at-Law.
Leader of the Administrative Mediation Section at the Mediation Center at the District Chamber of Legal Advisers in Krakow.
Magdalena Makieła
lawyer, mediator, arbitrator, doctor of law
Lecturer, trainer in the field of economic mediation conducted by the Arbitration and Mediation Center at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Krakow and the Staropolska Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Kielce. A member of the Arbitration and Mediation Center at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Kraków, the Mediation Center at the Supreme Bar Council in Warsaw, the Arbitration and Mediation Center at the Staropolska Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Kielce and entered on the list of Court Mediators of the District Court in Kraków. Arbitrator at the Permanent Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Krakow. Author of publications in the field of mediation. As a practitioner, she conducted dozens of mediations, most of which ended in the signing of settlements. She specializes in economic mediation.
Karol Zawiślak
lawyer, arbitrator, mediator, doctor of law
Member of the Management Board of the Polish Arbitration Association, national correspondent at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) as part of the Case Law on UNCITRAL Texts (CLOUT) project, specializing in arbitration and mediation, assistant
at the Department of Canonical Procedural Law at the Faculty of Canon Law of the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, juror of the Lewiatan Arbitration Competition, lecturer in the field of mediation and arbitration for trainee advocates (Bar Association
in Warsaw and the Bar Association in Krakow) and notarial services (the Notary Chamber in Krakow).