Emilia Sędziak

Business negotiator, trainer, consultant and academic lecturer of business subjects in English and Business Psychology at MERITO University and ANS Konin

She has been active in international, corporate business since 2008, including as an employee of an international corporation, where she managed a team for over 3 years, co-created the Shared Services Center and managed the transition of business processes. As a Master of Arts in English (American group), she speaks English fluently.

During her long corporate career, starting in 2008, Emilia was associated with the Purchasing Department. She played a key role in coordinating international deliveries, purchasing processes and building relationships with suppliers. She has in-depth knowledge of the purchasing process, purchasing documentation and experience in managing a 20-person purchasing administration team. As a manager, she focused not only on supervising purchasing processes, but also on effective team coordination, problem solving, budgeting, and ensuring effective internal communication. Her management skills were crucial for the effective functioning of the department.

Since 2019, she has been supporting Polish entrepreneurs and their employees in business activities in Poland and internationally, developing negotiation and communication skills that take into account cultural differences. As a Negotiator for Hire, she negotiates contracts, agreements and commercial terms on behalf of her clients. She has negotiated with partners from Poland and abroad (from countries such as: USA, Canada Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, UK, Czech Republic, Finland, Norway, France, Belgium, Spain, Greece, Italy, Turkey, Tunisia, China, India).

During consulting sessions, she helps entrepreneurs achieve their business goals and shows negotiation schemes, tricks and techniques that are used in negotiations with contractors as well as within the company with other co-workers. She regularly conducts closed and open trainings on business issues. According to the Talent Dynamics test, she is a Deal Maker, i.e. a born negotiator. The first two Gallup talents are: Achievement and Direction, which allow her to fully focus on each task in order to succeed. Emilia’s next talent is Closeness, which is why she easily builds relationships and takes care of them. She believes that it is people who build businesses.

In 2021, she received the award in the “Leader among Business Trainers” category during the 14th edition of the Polish Businesswomen Awards competition.

She has collaborated on negotiation training courses with, among others:

  • Business Mine, Knowledge Mine
  • Medical and pharmaceutical industries, medical supplies wholesalers (including Astra Zeneca, Mega Pharm, Lines, KaVo Eastern Europe)
  • Luxury Boat Manufacturing Industry (Wiszniewski Boat Centre)
  • Spare parts for agricultural machinery (Kramp)
  • Advocacy and legal industry
  • CNC production (RICHO Polska) NETIA – training combined with management of distributed teams
  • FIPP – Foundation Institute Project Entrepreneurship and projects commissioned by the Foundation
  • Kramp SAS (SSC)
  • LUKARDI (IT sector)
  • OpenGift
  • Poznań Ławica Airport

In total, over 1000 hours of training.


 

As a personal negotiation support she participated in meetings in Poland and other countries in the field of:

1. Purchase - price savings as part of price list negotiations or contract renegotiations, the highest negotiated savings reach PLN 600,000 on a single contract.

2. Sales (real estate, products and services in both the wholesale and retail sectors).

3. Negotiation of cooperation agreements between two entities.

4. Negotiating company takeover agreements and preparing for mergers.

5. Sales of companies and business processes.