New HR Director of Crowe Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia

Joanna Szymańska-Świć has over 15 years of experience in the HR area. For many years she was associated with PWN Publishing Group, where she held the position of Administration Director, then subsequently HR Director and Member of the Board responsible for human resources and legal. For the last 3 years she worked as Director of the HR & Administration Department at PFR Nieruchomości (real estate/asset management company).

In Crowe Joanna is responsible for the broadly defined area of Employee Experience – personnel processes, employee recruitment, training and development, performance management, team motivation and engagement. She will also play a key role in the creation of HR solutions supporting the development of particular business lines.

The team of 500+ people is a key pillar of our Group, and many of our employees have been working with us for more than 20 years. For this reason, HR carries great strategic importance for us and we are therefore delighted to welcome into our leadership team a manager with such extensive experience and a wide range of competences – says Christian Fielding, Managing Partner at Crowe in Poland, Czechia and Slovakia.

Joanna Szymańska-Świć is passionate about organisational culture, company values and talent development. She has been involved in creating development programmes, implementation of competence systems, Management by Objectives and building incentive systems.

I am delighted that I will have the opportunity to use my competences and professional experience in a group of companies operating in the fast-growing sector of professional business services. During the last two years there has been a significant shift in employers’ attitude towards creating unique Employee Experience. It is one of the key challenges, as well as opportunities, when building a strategic competitive advantage in a knowledge-based enterprise – says Joanna Szymańska – Świć, HR Director of Crowe in Poland, Czechia and Slovakia.