Petr Szotkowski

Petr Szotkowski

Business development and project management

+420 606 748 428
petr.sz@rpic-vip.cz

 

How may I assist you

In RPIC-ViP s.r.o. I have been working since its establishment in 1999 focusing on finance, marketing, start-up consultancy and training in those fields. From 2000 until 2008 I have been responsible for coordination as well as providing training within the tailored-made investment and development program for start-ups called START implemented by Regional Consultancy and Information Centre for Entrepreneurs. More than a hundred new entrepreneurs started their own business thanks to this programme.

What makes me satisfied in my work

From the very beginning of the cohesion policy implementation in the Czech Republic, I assist my business partners as well as municipalities in searching investment opportunities, designing development plans, their implementation and project management. I apply my analytical skills while preparing financial and economic analyses which are the core of all investment projects to increase the competitiveness of the companies or to support employability.

What I am proud of

I prefer providing project management consultancy in full complexity and for the whole project lifecycle in close cooperation with the sponsor. I am very proud of my work while looking back and see advanced technology being used in the companies, revitalized business infrastructure or renovated public buildings, schools or public places.

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Michaela Patkanová

Michaela Patkanová

Business development and project management

+420 602 147 312
patkanova@rpic-vip.cz

 

How may I assist you

My specialization is business development consultancy, especially while starting up the new business. I am ready to assist you in the process of designing, submission and monitoring of development projects co-financed by the European Structural Funds. I have developed number of projects focused on investment or educational activities and would share my experience in those fields consulting your development plans. I am also pleased to provide training to develop soft and managerial skills to various target groups.

What makes me satisfied in my work

While developing project concepts, what makes me really satisfied is cooperation with clients to overcome all the obstacles on the way to meet the project objectives efficiently and within the project time schedule.

What I am proud of

I am proud of the majority of my clients are those I cooperate with for a long time and who appreciate my approach to work.

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Ondřej Ledvoň

Ondřej Ledvoň

Business development and project management

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ledvon@rpic-vip.cz

 

How may I assist you  

I am mainly engaged in designing, monitoring and management of grant projects co-financed by European Union. I am ready to cooperate in the process of development and implementation your investment and non-investment development projects focused on HR and training, improving quality in education and social services as well as business development, including social entrepreneurship.

What makes me satisfied in my work

During my professional career as a consultant, administrator and project manager, I have been involved in dozens of development projects for the external as well as internal clients, including strategic and development projects at city or regional level. What makes me satisfied in my work is especially the diversity of these projects that empowers self-development and continuous training.

What I am proud of

I’m proud of every project that leads to defined gains and to the full satisfaction of the client.

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Marek Gavenda

Marek Gavenda

Strategic planning
Business development and project management

+420 724 280 395
gavenda@rpic-vip.cz

 

How may I assist you  

In my professional career since the early 1990s, I have been focusing on regional development projects.  I have been involved in designing of the development strategies for cities, municipalities and regions, including the preparation of analytical documents, strategic solutions and project proposals. Besides the area of strategic regional planning, I also focus on services for businesses and industry associations in the area of grant and subsidy counselling for investment projects.

What makes me satisfied in my work

I enjoy working with data, analysing it in context, looking for context and finding solutions where they are not obvious at first glance. I like to collaborate on the realization of technological projects.

What I am proud of

At present, I am particularly interested in analytical and research activities in the area of the regional labour market and its prediction. I am a senior expert of the Regional Platform of the Moravian-Silesian Region for the nation-wide Kompas project, which builds a sustainable system of labour market forecasting and future skills needs.

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Zdeněk Karásek

Zdeněk Karásek

HR consulting and training
Strategic planning

+420 602 718 026
karasek@rpic-vip.cz

 

MY EXPERTISE

I am founder and leader of RPIC – ViP Ltd. since 1998. In this role I am committed to develop free and creative culture to engage talents of all my colleagues. High quality of our services and commitment to success of our clients and partners has been our goal. As a result we enjoy repeated and long-term cooperation with them. “People make the difference“ is our slogan which I believe in. International certificate and know-how of MBTI coach (awarded by OPP Ltd. In London) help me to understand better various types of individuals and teams.

I can offer the following expertise to our clients: strategic consulting for private and public organisations, leadership, management of strategic change, business development, people development. In these areas I have managed dozens of successful projects in the Czech Republic and many EU Members States. Thanks to my network of international contacts I can offer strategic view in a broader context and inspiration for solutions not obvious to everybody.

 

MY MOTIVATION AT WORK

“Changing of the world“ together with talented and engaged people in a free culture.  An opportunity to identify, develop and implement conceptual solutions for various challenges important for society around me – in the firm, region, country and Europe.

 

MY KEY REFERENCES

2001 – 2005: development and management of the outplacement program to support restructuring of the Czech steel industry; services to more than 10,000 people

2003 – 2004:  strategic consulting to prepare the Czech Republic for absorption of EU structural funds within the international team of consultants implementing the „AbCap – Finalizing of Structures and Measures to Increase and Absorption Capacity on the National and Regional Levels” project.

2002 – 2017 cont.: R&D and application of programs to measure and develop transversal soft skills in the initial education and lifelong learning. Our programs have been transferred and adapted to a majority of EU Member States and more than 50,000 people from child to senior age enjoyed our trainings.

2009 – 2011: strategic consulting and management of the “Transferability of skills across economic sectors in Europe” study for DG Employment of the European Commission.

2012 – 2017 cont.: development and application of the „Powerful Workplace“ program to measure and develop organization culture in which people can, want and know-how to perform their best.

2011 – 2017 cont.: initiation of the Territorial Employment Pacts in the Czech Republic as a good practice transfer from Austria and inspiration from OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and local development.

2013 – 2015: strategic consulting and facilitation of the process to develop National and Regional RIS3 strategies in the Czech Republic.

2005 – 2016: strategic consulting and facilitation of the process to develop and upgrade Vision and Strategy of Ostrava City (3rd largest city in the Czech Republic) in 3 consecutive phases (2005, 2008, 2016).

2016 – 2017 cont.: strategic consulting in the Czech Government’s program of Economic transformation of the 3 regions mostly influenced by the industrial restructuring.

 

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Dalila Rakošanová

Dalila Rakošanová

HR consulting and training
Strategic planning

+420 604 687 275
rakosanova@rpic-vip.cz

 

How may I assist you

As an HR specialist I analyse the educational and development needs of clients and I organize their educational activities. I maintain the connection with experts, lecturers and opinion leaders cooperating with RPIC-VIP, and I can establish contact between you and the best experts to help developing your company. Event management is another field of my expertise. I can organize professional events of various format and size – seminars, conferences, networking meetings – for your firm.

What makes me satisfied in my work

Our company’s motto “People makes the difference“ is something I apply every time I cooperate with client. I really like to perceive the differences, to communicate, to connect, and deliver the client’s visions.

What I am proud of

Participating on managing the successful international academic conference Career+ had become a valuable experience for me. I use the experience while preparing annual RPIC-ViP conference for HR professionals and managers – latest topic was the development of corporate culture and talent development. Very exceptional experience was a participation on defining the Strategic development plan of Ostrava City for the time period of 2017 – 2023. The process was quite unique with its variety of communication activities and opportunity to involve a large amount of citizens, which we have interviewed about their visions of the city in 2030. Ostrava has obtained a “City of good practice of international URBACT net” title for the process of Strategic development plan preparation.

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Marcela Vondráková

Marcela Vondráková

HR consulting and training

+420 602 810 514
vondrakova@rpic-vip.cz

 

How may I assist you

I can help you with anything that is related to business processes. I will be happy to assist you in their identification, setup, detailed description and subsequent optimization. You can also turn to me with a problem in defining competency profiles, setting up an evaluation and employee development system, organizational structures, organizational rules, etc. I will also be pleased to assist you in the field of quality management systems (ISO 9001). I am committed to their introduction, updating and auditing. Since 2000, I have been a certified quality manager and since 2005 a certified quality auditor.

What makes me satisfied in my work

I have successfully implemented management systems in more than 35 companies. I have been returning to many clients for many years not only as an internal auditor, but also as a consultant or lecturer in follow-up services. During that time, I have really built up exceptional relationships with these companies, and in many cases I feel to be almost part of them. It is a pleasure for me to have contributed to their development.

What I am proud of

I was delighted, for example, by the words of Ivan Jakeš, Managing Director of MT spol. s r.o .: “We have been cooperating with RPIC-ViP since 2000, when this company helped us with the preparation and implementation of quality management system according to standard ISO 9001 and subsequent internal audits in our company. Collaboration has been and still is highly professional. It has enabled us to improve ongoing processes in our company and make it available to demanding consumer markets. I would also like to thank in this way for the wonderful cooperation we had so far and I am looking forward to cooperate in the future.”

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Marek Prorok

Marek Prorok

HR consulting and training

+420 724 272 000
prorok@rpic-vip.cz

 

How may I assist you

I am here and now – more than ten years in RPIC-ViP company! You will get in touch with me if you want to develop company culture in your organisation. As part of a colourful team along with my colleagues we create educational and development programmes (POWERFUL WORKPLACE) and we join strategic partnerships (BusinessCon), because we believe that “alone we are smart but together we are brilliant”. Changing a company culture is similar to buying a new suit. Firstly I will help you define the good result (SOFTSKILLERS, POWERFUL WORKPLACE Assessment), then we will sew: that is to coach, educate or define the processes, and in the end we will re-measure again, to check the quality of the result.

What makes me satisfied in my work

First months after I joined RPIC-ViP I felt that I was rather visiting a spa, not a workplace, despite the culture of high productivity! The company culture was so inspiring and motivating, that we were achieving difficult goals without even realising that we work so hard. I have read lot of professional literature and went through thousands hours of interactive trainings, workshops and coaching since then. Now I am happy I can pass the experience to other companies.

What I am proud of

We have delivered more than one hundred of POWERFUL WORKPLACE Assessments in cooperation with our partners (TREXIMA). I myself was managing about 30 of the projects alone. I am very happy that those 15 easy question can start very deep discussion and change in teams and organisations. Furthermore, all those positive changes are measurable, not only with our survey, but also with hard index of effectiveness, productivity or financial results.

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Hana Kučová

Hana Kučová

HR consulting and training

+420 775 933 774
kucova@rpic-vip.cz

 

How may I assist you

Do you want to work with people who want, can and know how to perform at their best? I can help you with that!  I can cooperate with you with optimising your company culture or setting the business processes, especially in the HR field. I am a coach, mentor, HR consultant and lecturer of management skills.

What makes me satisfied in my work

I am happy when I feel my work gives sense to me and my clients as well. I trust common sense, and I can adjust to your current needs. Thanks to this I can motivate you and your employees to change, if necessary. I can help you to see your position from many angles. I can pass you information what works and what doesn’t work in other organisations. My expertise is built on my own managerial experience, as well as of my clients – in last three years I was couching for more than 400 hours, and training more than 500 trainees.

What I am proud of

One feedback for all, from Monika Vokřínková: “Individual coaching was very beneficial for me. I would like to stress professional attitude, systematic approach throughout all the meetings. I appreciated the ability of my coach to handle new issues with appropriate theory and practical information. She was always very sensitive towards the present moment. Most importantly, I appreciated her personal approach and the honest will to help.”

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Kateřina Ledvoňová

Kateřina Ledvoňová

HR consulting and training

+420 725 404 661
ledvonova@rpic-vip.cz

 

How may I assist you

Since 2002, I have been working as a consultant, lecturer, contract manager and project administrator and for more than a decade I have been involved in the preparation, implementation and administration of EU-funded projects (e.g. Competences for the Labour Market, People make the difference, Start a career with employers in the MS Region). I have a wealth of experience in organizational, administrative and operational provision of the company.

What makes me satisfied in my work

I appreciate the variety of activities I can do – from preparing the training room to organizing an international conference for 150 participants, the possibility of professional and personal development, I enjoy working and communicating with clients / partners and dealing with countless complicated situations and tasks.

What I am proud of

In the past I was providing consultancy to the unemployed people within the Regional Employee Agency and I was leading motivational courses and effective job search techniques courses. Thanks to this, I have gained valuable lecturing experiences in the field of the soft skills such as problem solving, stress resistance, planning and organization, communication skills for specific groups of people (long-term unemployed people, school graduates, and mothers on maternity leave or returning from ML).

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