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Position: Engineer, NNE Pharmaplan, an engineer-
ing and consulting company in the life science
industry in Brussels, Belgium
Learning Before Doing: As a 21-year-old university
student in Canada, Mr. Mroz initiated and led Quo
Vadis, a conference to empower young leaders in
the Polish-Canadian community. “It was project
management at a student level,” Mr. Mroz says. “If
you’re organizing an event, even as a student, you
have to choose a revenue model and ;gure out how
you’re going to generate pro;t or break even. And if
you don’t break even, what are you going to do? Are
you going to share the risk with another organiza-
tion? Are you going to mitigate it in XYZ fashion?”
;ese are classic project management concerns,
he says, but in a more friendly learning environ-
ment than working for a client, where big mistakes
could cost you your job. “It was through extracur-
ricular activities like Quo Vadis that I learned I’m
pretty good at—and really enjoy—planning, orga-
nizing events and leading teams,” he says. “And
Kamil Mroz, 27 years old
My mentor taught me that
I need to delegate tasks and
empower my team in order to
take some of the pressure off
myself.”
—Kamil Mroz
