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She came to delve deeper into strategy. She is already the ninth visiting professor or doctoral researcher from abroad whom I have supervised.
In educating future local government leaders, it is important to provide them with reliable knowledge, show what and how it can be achieved using it, and then practice its application together. However, it is equally important to get to know them with contemporary leaders, show their commitment, strategic thinking and their ambitions in developing cities and villages. This is necessary for them to believe that it is possible and worth living all this.
20 August 2026 -
Haste Makes Waste. General Plans and Strategies. Strategic Training for the Municipality of Juchnowiec Kościelny.
For the past few months, work on general plans in many Polish municipalities, including cities, has resembled a heroic race against time – with the deadline now just over two weeks away.
14 August 2026 -
Strategic Training in the Youngest Municipality: How to Strategically Put It All Together from Scratch?
It is not often that I have the opportunity to deliver training for the leaders of such a young local government. The Municipality of Grabówka has existed only since 1 January 2025.
22 July 2026 -
The Mikołów County Development Strategy: Essential and effective because it is participatory and based on inter-municipal cooperation!
The Poland’s Acts on Commune Self-Government and Voivodeship Self-Government regulate the procedure for preparing development strategies for these tiers of government and specify their required content. The Act on County Self-Government, however, remains silent on county development strategies… This does not mean that a county strategy is unnecessary.
17 July 2026 -
From municipal development strategies to the Integrated Railway Network: How can we make it happen?
I am pleased that, thanks to my experience in developing strategies for many cities and municipalities, I participated in the work on this breakthrough plan as a member of the ZSK Scientific Council, representing Wroclaw University of Economics and Business.
1 July 2026 -
A good municipal development strategy. The Daily Legal Gazette is sounding the alarm, and in Wasilków they already know how it is done.
Simply adopting a commune development strategy in compliance with legal requirements is not enough in Poland. The strategy must be substantively sound, and it must be preceded by a good diagnosis. Otherwise, there will be many problems…
27 February 2026 -
On municipalities’ development strategies with professionals. Training for the Silesian Association of Municipalities and Counties
Training for the Silesian Association of Municipalities and Counties. Its participants were directors, heads of departments, and managers from a dozen or so offices of Silesian city administrations responsible for preparing these strategies and for spatial planning.
14 February 2026 -
Non-Self-Governing Municipalities, a King, Parliaments, and Hereditary Rulers: Lectures at Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
This time I lectured in Malaysia, at Universiti Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. My open lecture on local government and state authorities in Poland was supposed to last an hour and a half, but it ran for three hours, because there were so many questions and so much discussion with the students.
22 December 2025
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A strategy that will bring the rural commune of Dobrzyniewo Duze to a new, higher level of development
The Development Strategy of the Dobrzyniewo Duże Commune for 2023-2033, prepared by me, was adopted unanimously. I also prepared the previous one, and within its framework the authorities and employees of the commune managed to achieve a lot.
4 October 2023 -
On decentralization at SP Jain School of Global Management, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Local development management is also paid much attention in the United Arab Emirates. I gave another of my lectures abroad.
15 November 2021 -
Jelenia Góra Development Strategy for 2024-2034. I supervised the quality of its construction process.
When in February 2023 I was finishing a two-day training on strategic governance of city development for the authorities and management of Miasto Jelenia Góra, the Mayor Jerzy Łużniak asked me: “Will you support us in building a new Strategy?”
1 July 2024 -
“Time for a new strategy for Racibórz City. The authorities started with a good lesson”
“Time for a new strategy for Racibórz City. The authorities started with a good lesson”
27 February 2020 -
My clients are high in the National Ranking of Municipalities and Counties.
My clients are high in the National Ranking of Municipalities and Counties.
25 January 2019 -
New Development Strategy of the Głowno City. You have to move forward quickly so as not to fall back.
“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” said the Red Queen in “Alice in Wonderland” by L. Carroll, a lecturer of the Oxford University. And she was very right.
8 July 2024 -
2 days of training on strategic governance for the authorities and the top management of City of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski
2 days of training on strategic governance for the authorities and the top management of City of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski
18 February 2020 -
Author’s meeting dedicated to my book “Supra-local perspective of local development strategic governance based on the case of small towns”.
Author’s meeting dedicated to my book “Supra-local perspective of local development strategic governance based on the case of small towns”.
20 June 2017
