Wojtek Materka is Adjunct Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD, where he teaches leadership, organisational behaviour and ethics on the MBA, GEMBA and MIM programmes and has twice received the award for outstanding teaching of an elective. He directs company-specific leadership programmes for global organisations across Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East, and teaches on INSEAD's open-enrolment executive education.

His work is on trust, transitions and uncertainty, and draws on the group relations tradition. Across leadership development, innovation and consulting he has worked with organisations including UBS, Santander, BP, Virgin Money, Google and the World Economic Forum.

Before academia he spent two decades in business. He was part of the founding team of mBank, launched in 2000 as the first fully online bank in Central Europe and at the time one of the region's original internet startups, where he rose to Deputy General Manager for international expansion and led the launch of the region's first online credit card. He then became a principal at Second Road, a pioneering strategic design consultancy in Sydney and Singapore that applied systems thinking and design thinking to the wicked problems of large organisations, later acquired by Accenture Strategy. There he advised organisations across Asia-Pacific and Europe on strategy, innovation and digital transformation, working at the level of the whole system rather than the single product or service. He holds a PhD on the development of trust in technology-mediated relationships and an MBA from INSEAD. He is Polish and Australian, and works between Australia, Singapore and Europe.

You can also find him on LinkedIn.