Working with Michał felt closer to the better TEDx talks than to a standard line-management script. He thinks in systems, and he is willing to take the unconventional path when the conventional one is only comforting.

He sees potential in people and then actually grows it

. That is not a slogan in a review cycle. It shows up as time, as a career path that is specific, and as trust that you can feel in the room.

He can sit between design, technology, marketing, and sales without becoming a translator who drops the meaning. The work stays one piece.

He practices servant leadership: the team’s development is not a side quest. He will stay with a hard conversation until it is useful.

He understands enough of engineering and enough of the product vision to keep those two rooms honest with each other.

It was a privilege to report to him. He is a model of the kind of leader I would want to become.