Monika Kawka

Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach | Creative Leadership Coach

Leading today is not simple, and that’s not because you’re doing it wrong. You’re operating in a world that is increasingly complex, nonlinear, and demanding. Growth and development are hard work. And you don’t have to do them alone.

I work with leaders who want to grow with intention, leaders who sense that their habitual ways of thinking are no longer sufficient for the realities they face. As an experienced executive coach, I partner with you to navigate change, complexity, and moments of disorientation with greater clarity, confidence, and trust in yourself.

My coaching is strengths-based, human-centered, and deeply contextual. Many leaders discover that their own beliefs — once useful — have quietly become handcuffs. A skilled coaching partnership can open space for new sensemaking, fresh perspectives, and meaningful transformation.

1:1 Leadership Coaching

This is a focused, confidential partnership designed around you, your context, your challenges, your aspirations. Together, we work to:

use your natural strengths as stable anchors in uncertain conditions

move through mental “stuckness” and fixed patterns of thinking

expand your capacity for sensemaking amid conflicting perspectives

make courageous, grounded decisions without burning out

lead change while staying aligned with who you are

Today we operate in what many describe as a BANI world, brittle, anxious, nonlinear, and often incomprehensible. I help you develop the inner capacities needed to thrive here: psychological flexibility, internal compass, clarity under pressure, and confidence rooted in your strengths.

Team Development & Leadership Retreats

I also design strengths-based team labs and leadership retreats that help groups navigate tension constructively, build trust, and move from fragmentation to coherence. This work turns diversity of thought into an asset, not an obstacle.

With 20+ years of leadership experience across countries, cultures, and both nonprofit and private sectors, I understand the real demands leaders carry, and the courage it takes to lead differently.

If you’re ready for leadership development that is relevant, grounded, and as deep or as focused as you need it to be, I invite you to connect for a complimentary conversation.

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