Testimonials
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“Polina is a wonderful creative thinker, and throughout her time at Unruly she has been a trusted coach to the US team, approaching everything with an extremely professional, commercial and measured way.
Polina is fantastic at delivering projects, she consistently drives the results needed by approaching every challenge as something that just needs to be worked through until completed. Polina’s strengths are in the big picture projects and relationship building - she has built trust and strong relationships with all of the US team, and even working remotely has not been a barrier to this. Her sunny disposition, positive attitude and sense of humour make her a joy to work with no matter what the job is that needs to be done! Polina can work well autonomously and within a team; we were never based in the same office or even the same country, however I have always felt like we worked as closely as if we sat next to each other because she is such a skilled communicator, giving regular updates on progress and delivering to deadlines. She has a wonderful ability of making a global team feel like a close-knit family.”
-Olivia Goodman, Head of People Team at Zava.
“Polina played a key role in the evolution and growth of Unruly's North America business from 2016 onwards.
Her high levels of focus and execution, incisive thinking and personable, empathetic nature meant that she was capable of working alongside senior leadership to sensitively lead a major overhaul of people and processes. Polina's work made a material contribution to the tripling of our business in that time, helping us to hire the right talent at pace with high impact, all as the sole Talent and HR lead in the region.
When I moved to NY from London in 2016, Polina was critical in helping me understand and appreciate the variety of talent and hiring related challenges and opportunities across the US. Even more, Polina has been an invaluable coach and constructive-critic for me in identifying, hiring and nurturing talent.
While we expected to miss her infectious energy and positivity when she moved from our US HQ in NY to San Diego, Polina managed to maintain working remotely with it always seeming as though she was in the room with us! Testament to her dedication to her work and flexibility.
As well as being a very strong HR all-rounder, Polina is exactly who you want alongside you through periods of rapid growth or change”.
- Craig Andrew Hughes, Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships, Outbrain.
“Polina knows what you need to do - she has years of experience in working with leaders to grow companies and powering people’s professional growth”.
-Etsuko Yoshimura, Associate Media Director at VaynerMedia.
“Polina was an amazing HR partner. She is exactly what you want and need from an HR team.
Her door was always open and she was always willing to take time out of her day to check on how things were going. She is always the calm voice during difficult situations. Even though we no longer work with each other, I still often find myself reaching out to Polina for advice about work”.
-Jennifer Cojohn-Belfatto, Director, Business Development at The NPD Group.
“I cannot state strongly enough how highly I regard Polina. She would be a strong asset to any Company.
Polina’s strengths lie in her recruiting, organizational development and people skills. She has an exceptional ability to communicate and build relationships. Additionally she is able to work very effectively with organizational behaviors and can quickly and effectively identify problems and strategically develop solutions which she then quickly executes. She works very well with employees at all levels.
Polina is extremely dedicated and has shown time and time again that she will do what it takes to not only get the job done well, but to focus on areas of the business where her expertise is needed.
I continue to be impressed by Polina over and over again. She is a very talented professional who never loses sight of the "human" aspect. I thoroughly enjoyed working with Polina and would welcome the opportunity to work with her again”.
-Patricia Newman, Director Human Resources NA.
“Polina has the ability to make everyone feel comfortable instantly. She is extremely warm, understanding, patient, and caring, which really makes her an asset when talking with employees about any issues”.
-Lyn Bressler, Vice President, Guardian Service Industries.
“I worked with Polina for a year and a half at Essence. She constantly blew me away with how plugged in she was to every part of the business.
As a member of the HR team, she made it a point to take interest in career development and took on a lot of responsibility managing our recent graduate rotational program. She was also always willing and excited to jump on one off projects to help the wider business. I feel very lucky to have worked with Polina and consider her an amazing mentor.”
-Brooke Nayden, HR Lead in North America, Adyen.
“Polina is an exceptional talent with people whether that's delivering a difficult message, coaching and on-boarding new starters, recruiting start talent (she helped grow our NY team from 12 to 60+), building partnerships across regions or advising on HR strategy.
She is also one of those people that you want to be around - hugely positive, proactive, smart and committed. It has been a pleasure to work with her and I would do so again if given the opportunity”.
-Gemma Lockhart, Global Head of Recruitment, Essence.
“She has a wonderful ability of making a global team feel like a close-knit family.”
-Olivia Goodman, Head of People Team at Zava.
“Polina is one of the strongest HR professionals I've ever had the pleasure of working alongside. She possesses that rare ability to truly balance employee needs with business demands and does so with confidence, tact, and warmth.
Polina and I worked extremely closely in building the Singapore and Tokyo offices from a team of 15 to 45+ in less than 12 months and she was my go to partner in all things people, culture and change. Previous to her time in Singapore with Essence, she was also instrumental in supporting the growth in our NYC, Seattle and San Francisco offices.
I would jump at the chance to work with Polina again which I believe is true of every single person in our Singapore office, she is truly missed!”.
-Adeline Beek, Senior Recruiter, Essence.
“Polina is one of those people that you want on your team - she is passionate, yet diplomatic. She is driven, yet calm. She is warm and friendly, yet professional and above all else she is a loyal and trustworthy co-worker.
It was my privilege to work with Polina and to see her develop and grow over the 3 years we worked together. In that time, Polina took hold of a number of Talent and Culture projects. Through these projects she collaborated across multiple timezones, with people from a range of backgrounds and levels.
If i had the chance to work with Polina again, I would jump at it. More so, if ever there was an opportunity for her to come and work on my team, I would be campaigning pretty hard for her to take that opportunity.
Simply put, if you've got talent or culture work to do, Polina is your woman!”
-Dan Dobson-Smith, Chief Learning & Culture Officer, Essence.
“She possesses that rare ability to truly balance employee needs with business demands and does so with confidence, tact, and warmth”.
-Adeline Beek, Senior Recruiter, Essence.
“I had the opportunity to work with Polina for two years at Essence. Not only was it a mystery how she was able to wear a million hats at once, she always had a smile on her face while doing it.
Polina has the ability to make everyone feel comfortable instantly. She is extremely warm, understanding, patient, and caring, which really makes her an asset when talking with employees about any issues.
She is an extremely hardworking person and an amazing manager. No matter how busy she was, or how silly a question I had, she'd stop what she was doing to help me. Polina is one of a kind, and I learned so much from her. I would work with her again in a second”.
-Lyn Bressler, Vice President, Guardian Service Industries.