About us

Iwona Murphy

Executive Coach & Mentor

Iwona is an experienced Executive Coach and Mentor. She is accredited at Senior Practitioner level by the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC).

With a strong Public Affairs and Communications background, she has over 20 years of experience in corporate management and leading successful teams.

Iwona has an MA in Political Science and Journalism from Warsaw University and has completed many renowned PR courses in the UK.

For the first 6 years of her career, she worked for the Polish Government as Deputy Director of the Government Press Office. From there she moved into corporate life, working for Philip Morris Poland, McCann-Erickson Worldgroup and Citigroup Poland. She has been responsible for successful crisis management, building strong brands, unifying different corporate cultures, and introducing new approaches to the organisations including CSR, multimedia and social media. She has successfully led diverse teams and effectively managed multi-million USD budgets.

She has been accredited with various prestigious awards including the Silver Cross of Merit, from the President of Poland, for displaying outstanding services towards the community. She is a founder member of LiderShe, a non-profit organization of ambitious and entrepreneurial women in Poland as well as the Board Member of EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council) in Poland.

Iwona currently coaches, mentors and trains, face to face and online, Polish and European executives to support their personal development and strengthen their leadership’ competence.

Sectors include FMSG, Banking, Pharma, Advertising, Engineering, IoT, Wine &Spirits, Academia, Real Estate and Paper.

Stephen Murphy

Executive Master Coach, Mentor and Supervisor

Stephen is a professional Individual Coach/ Mentor and Team Coach, accredited at Master Practitioner level by the EMCC and MCC by ICF. He has delivered over 6000 hours of coaching and mentoring with over 350 clients in a multitude of sectors, across Europe, North and Central America, Africa and Asia. Informed by his own corporate leadership roles, he focuses on building individual awareness to enable greater choices. His clients describe his coaching as challenging and thought provoking, within a safe, supportive environment. He is also an ESIA Coach/Mentor Supervisor.

He has British and Polish citizenship, living in Poland with a 40+ year corporate and coaching career spanning P&G, Reckitt Benckiser, Coca-Cola Bottlers and PZ Cussons. He’s worked and lived in the UK, Greece, Morocco, Tunisia, Yemen, Russia and Poland with assignments in Sales, Marketing & Country/Regional General Management. He has personally led and been responsible for international start-up operations, in developed and hardship locations; significant organisational change projects; business turnaround assignments and re-shaping leadership teams into effective operating units.

He currently coaches and mentors senior business leaders, individually and in teams, towards greater self-awareness and operational impact. Sectors include AI, banking, chemicals, consulting, FMCG, insurance, IIoT, legal, logistics, media, pharma, retail, software technology, telecoms & wines & spirits.

Stephen’s business experience is supported by significant Executive Coaching and Supervision study. He is also a Tutor with the Academy of Executive Coaching, a Certified Trainer on the International Positive Power & Influence Programme (PPIP), licensed to use the Mental Toughness Questionnaire, and, after 10 years on the EMCC Global Executive Board, is now Chair of the EMCC Global Council Onboarding & Governance Committee.