Hanna Walter is a career and business coach who specialises in working with Ireland’s Polish community to encourage more people from Poland to set up and run businesses in Ireland.
What’s your role?
I am a business and career coach at Inspiring Coaching. I also organise networking events for Polish people who want to set up businesses in Ireland or already have a business. For these events, we get great help from Bank of Ireland Workbenches and the Trade & Investment promotion section of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dublin.
I also run smaller meetings for women where we talk about our passions and interests and encourage each other in terms of our careers and businesses.
What are you most interested in?
I am interested in people, what drives them, their mindset and their achievements. I am also interested in positive psychology and personal branding. My degree in marketing and my coaching qualifications made my perfect role and career. I love cooking, dancing and walking (even in the rain).
“We are the largest minority group in Ireland, but most of us aren’t involved in any networking events in Ireland. I want to change this.”
What are your ambitions?
I want to help Poles to integrate more with Irish businesses and encourage more people to set up businesses in Galway. Last year I was one of the finalists for Business Women of the Year as part of Network Galway, and I didn’t meet any other Polish women there. I started to organise events and networking for Poles because I am Polish and I know what we need it. I also want to do these types of events in other cities across Ireland. We are the largest minority group in Ireland, but most of us aren’t involved in any networking events in Ireland. I want to change
