Straight-forward approach, seamless delivery, strategic perspective

Waterwalk Partners is dedicated to delivering strategy, business development, and digital solutions, solutions which provide a competitive advantage.

We translate decades of experience into tangible results: whether it’s giving sound strategic advice, becoming more recognized, winning and retaining business, or turning digital to your benefit, we’ll make it work for you.

We have a solid track record of delivering what promised. And beyond.

How we work

Driven by efficiency

Firstly, we listen carefully, then discuss creatively, then deliver efficiently. We transform ideas into practical solutions.

Being responsive

Not only do we reply swiftly, but we also aim at finding solutions which will make your life easier.

Assuming responsibility

We’re with you, we’ll support you, we’ll guide you. We don’t beat about the bush, and we get it done.

Delivering expertise

We focus only on the areas in which we have expertise where we can give you real value.

Being adaptive and flexible

We adapt to how you work, not the other way around. You deserve state-of-the art support, on time and within an agreed budget.

We’re with you,
from day-to-day support to strategic guidance

Where we add value

Strategy

In cooperation with Hedley Consulting

Market and competitor analysis

Strategy review and development

Strategy implementation and change management

Partners and leadership retreats and strategy workshops

Management best practice implementation

Merger advisory

Succession planning

Rebranding, developing and launching new brands

International development strategies.

Business development

Winning business

Practice development planning and implementation, pitching strategies and support, effective pricing, business development retreats and workshops

Retaining clients

Business development strategies, key client programmes and client dialogue initiatives, often involving numerous countries, regions and cultures

Helping you deliver outcomes

Project management, including cross-border projects, cross-selling programmes, “Marketing as a Service”: regular support and coaching

Getting recognized

Reputation management, ghost writing, awards and directories submissions support: from strategic considerations to efficient execution, media relations.

Digital

Digital business development and marketing

Building online visibility (e.g., search engine marketing, content marketing, website development, social media marketing), enhancing your user and customer experience, growing your business through digital channels

Digital business transformation

Finding optimum ways to benefit from new digital technologies, increasing performance of your business and gaining competitive advantage

Turning client and market analytics into insights helping you become more competitive

Helping you embrace organizational change connected with digital business transformation

Assistance in assessing, selecting and implementing digital solutions and systems.

Cooperating partners

We work closely with like-minded professionals and consulting firms, forming an ecosystem of trusted advisors. We cooperate with, among others:

  • Hedley Consulting: Hedley Consulting is a boutique focused on providing strategic advice to professional service organisations. They help leadership teams to create and implement strategies that deliver immediate and sustainable improvements in performance.
  • Magnusson Minds: Founded by Per Magnusson, Magnusson Minds is a portal for professional advice. It’s about sorting things out: at the end of the day it is about structuring, prioritising and assessing. And then providing actual advice on how to do it. Magnusson Minds is your natural sounding board sorting things out. We are committed to put things together and to be proactive.
  • Małgorzata Chruściak – Mentoring for Lawyers: Małgorzata Chruściak combines more than 25 years of experience in practising law in leading international law firms with her practice of a mentor, coach and business trainer. She has worked with the most renowned financial institutions and law firms, including some 10 years as a partner responsible for developing the banking practice at Cameron McKenna (CMS) Warsaw. Forbes Women listed her in 2021 among top 25 female lawyers supporting business in Poland. Currently, she serves as an independent member of the Supervisory Board of BNP Paribas Bank Poland and runs an individual mentoring practice Mentoring for Lawyers.
  • Professor Dariusz Jemielniak: Dariusz Jemielniak is a Wikipedian, Full Professor of Management at Kozminski University, associate faculty at Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and an entrepreneur. Developed and sold 3 websites, including one with traffic exceeding 15 million monthly views, and is currently developing InstaLing, an innovative blended learning platform supporting language teaching. Author of several books, including one on Collaborative Society (2020, MIT Press), as well as on the use of Thick Big Data (2020, Oxford University Press). Dariusz currently serves on Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.

Efficient, flexible, sustainable

Profile

Mariusz Kowalski, CEO
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mariusz.kowalski@waterwalk.partners

Manager and trusted advisor with decades of experience in business development, management, strategy, marketing, and digital projects. His past positions include, among others, global business development director and an executive management member roles.

Mariusz combines strategic thinking and an ability to ensure careful implementation and execution, including complex cross-border projects.

A business development expert with experience in developing business in a host of countries across Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia.

Member of a management team which has won: The Managing Partners Forum Awards for Management Excellence for ‘Best managed international firm’ and ‘Best collaboration across international frontiers’, The British Legal Awards for the first time ever, in any category, for three consecutive years (‘European Law Firm of the Year’), and has been recognized by FT Innovative Lawyers as a Top 5 game changing firm of the past decade.

Graduate of the University of Sorbonne (Université Paris IV) and Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities at The University of Warsaw. An Executive MBA degree from the Institute of Economics, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Member of the Professional Marketing Forum and International Association of Privacy Professional (Certified Information Privacy Professional / Europe). Deputy Chair, MBA Alumni Association, The Institute of Economics, Polish Academy of Sciences.

An avid sailor.

Contact

Waterwalk Partners Sp. z o.o.

ul. Śniadeckich 17, 00-654 Warsaw, Poland

+48661929486