Poland
Engineering leadership mentor for Poland
Poland runs the largest engineering scene in the region, and it shares one problem with the rest of it. The leadership advice on offer was written for a market with different money, different hiring and a different kind of board.
I mentor 1:1 in English from Prague. Same timezone, same market logic. Since 2019 that has come to 3,400+ sessions with engineering leaders in more than 17 countries.
- 3,400+ sessions
- 300+ engineering leaders
- 3,200+ ELC community
- 9.17/10 across 300+ reviews
Why a CEE-native mentor beats a US playbook
US playbooks assume budgets and hiring pools Polish scale-ups don't have. CEE leaders deal with flatter salary bands, conservative boards, and teams split between a local hub and a Western HQ. I've mentored through those exact constraints since 2019, in this region.
Sessions run in English, remote-first, CET. No 6pm-vs-9am call windows, no advice that has to be translated from a different market before it works.
A leadership peer network next door
ELC, which I founded, holds 3,100+ engineering leaders from across the region. Twelve meetups a year in person and one annual conference that ran to 500+ people, with Netflix and Stripe on the stage.
Warsaw and Kraków between them hold most of the senior engineering roles in the country, and the shape is the same in both: a large local hub reporting into a Western headquarters, with everything that arrangement does to a leader in the middle of it. That's the ground most of my Polish sessions cover.
What mentees say
“I was pleased to work, learn, and discuss essential development matters such as SDLC, OKRs, and team management tactics with Marian at our 15+ sessions. I recommend Marian with complete trust.”
“Marian was part of helping scale up our technical teams from 35 to 100 people. One of his key successes was around creating visibility on engineering output and ensuring we were able to more effectively reach our goals.”
Frequently asked
Do you speak Polish?+
No. Sessions run in English. Czech and Slovak get me through the coffee chat at CEE conferences, but we work in English.
Remote or in person?+
Remote by default, CET timezone. In person at ELC events across CEE, or in Prague.
Can my company pay for it?+
Four in five of my mentees have it paid for them. Where the budget sits at a Western HQ rather than locally, that's usually easier rather than harder, and the invoice carries the VAT detail their finance team will ask for.
Why a mentor from Prague and not a local coach?+
Same constraint set: CEE budgets, Western HQs, US playbooks that do not quite fit. Pick whoever has the most reps with your exact problem. Mine: 3,400+ sessions with 300+ leaders since 2019.
How much does engineering leadership mentoring cost?+
Rates are public: 430 EUR per hour-long session, 2,580 EUR for a six-session first quarter, or a 790 EUR monthly retainer. No corporate markup when the company pays. Full pricing.
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Ready to start?
Free 30-min intro. No pricing conversation on the first call. We figure out if we can move your specific problem forward. That is it.