The Purpose of the Foundation
We explore and develop leadership for the common good. Our aim is to rebuild trust and solidarity in the increasingly polarised world.
The objectives of Two Wings Institute are:
to conduct educational, development and research programmes that seek the common good and act to rebuild trust and solidarity in the polarised world
conducting educational, developmental and scientific programmes on integral human development, culture, science, education, leadership and politics
conducting educational, developmental and scientific research in the social sciences, humanities and economics, including philosophy, theology, political science, sociology, history, psychology, management and economics
conducting educational, developmental and scientific programmes that combine the two wings of cognition – reason and faith
to study and promote the values arising from the heritage of ancient Greece, Rome, the Judeo-Christian tradition and the heritage of Central and Eastern Europe, and to conduct research on their significance for contemporary individuals and societies
promotion of Polish culture, science and history in Poland and abroad
Founders
Practitioner and researcher of business and public leadership. Manager. Entrepreneur. Coach and mentor. Co-founder and board member of Two Wings Institute
Piotr Czekierda is a graduate of the University of Wroclaw, IESE Business School, the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Leadership Academy for Poland (in cooperation with Harvard University). He co-founded and has served as president of Collegium Wratislaviense for many years. He has served on the Board of Curators of the Ossoline National Institute and on the Participatory Council to the Mayor of Wroclaw. He supported technology startups in the KGHM Group. He acted as a mentor in the international network MIT EF Poland. He was nominated in the plebiscite of Gazeta Wrocławska Polska The Times for the Effective Manager of 2015.
The book “Tutoring. Theory, practice, case studies” (Warsaw 2015), which he co-authored, is the first comprehensive publication in Poland on the tutoring method. Another important publication in which he participated is the manual “Solidarity Step by Step” (Warsaw 2015).
Practitioner and researcher of academic and public leadership. Sociologist and psychologist. Lecturer and author of scientific books. Cultural manager. Co-founder and board member of Two Wings Institute
Michal Luczewski is a PhD in sociology and a psychologist with a specialization in supporting personality development. He works at the University of Warsaw. He collaborates with numerous prestigious academic centers and institutions around the world (Fulbright Fellow at Columbia University, Joseph Tischner Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna).
He pursued the mission of public leadership as long-time program director of the Center for Thought of John Paul II and member of the National Development Council (2015 – 2020). He currently sits on the board of the Poland Great Project Foundation. He works as a cultural manager and author of documentaries.
His publication “Odwieczny naród. A Pole and a Catholic in Żmiąca” (Torun 2012) was awarded the Stanisław Ossowski Prize for the best sociological book and the Father Józef Tischner Prize for the best Polish book in the humanities. Key other book publications: “The Value of Landscape” (Warsaw 2011), ‘Solidarity Step by Step’ (Warsaw 2015), ”Moral Capital. Historical Politics in Late Modernity” (Krakow 2017).
