1 Executive Retreat® is managed single handedly by its founder, Jan Tkaczow – former top executive, manager, entrepreneur, leader of large organizations and teams, currently consultant and psychoanalyst.

Here’s how he introduces himself: ‘I used to be a top level executive occupying positions of CEO, Boards, and investor. At present I have left business in favor of psychoanalysis. My unique experience expressed itself in a creation of 1 Executive Retreat® as an effective solution for dealing with personal life problems. I know what pressure, tension, stress and challenges which inevitably are connected to everyday routine of top executive with major responsibilities – like those occupied by my customers – mean. It is worth saying that I have achieved not only great successes, but also suffered painful defeats – also in my personal life. Understanding what consists in mechanism of defeat, which is rooted in our self – is the key to success. Still during my business career I lived under such pressure that I needed to find somebody to talk to about it. There was no 1 Executive Retreat® back then, so by chance I ended up in psychoanalytic consulting room. Few years later it turned out that my medical education and bringing help to those who need it ethos, which was cherished in my family through generations of doctors is calling me and the thought of becoming psychoanalyst begun to grow. After few years of going to Paris for my analysis (Warsaw’s offer was insufficient for further study) I have dropped my business career, opened up a consulting room of my own and became full-fledged Lacanian psychoanalyst.

For years, I have contemplated how to connect analysis – which is unmatched in pursuing the experience of truth acquired in difficult, lengthy and tiring process, which very few can or are able to undertake – with business. It is not a piece of cake. There is an established opinion prevailing within analytical circles that it cannot be done. Well, it seems that it was not for nothing that I have stubbornly lead and developed – being a medical doctor by education – my business career in fields completely disconnected from medicine, following always the same rule: ‘Those who think something can’t be done should not disturb those who are actually doing it’. I have found a solution once again: 1 Executive Retreat®

It is a unique solution, which renders it possible for the analytical approach, with its intangible knowledge, to solve problems in business. It uses psychoanalytical technique to grasp what position the subject holds with regard to business problems and what the outcome of that shall be.

When I realized what is the true matter of our lives business has become obsolete and boring, it became predictable, it doesn’t hold any secrets for me.

It is equally clear to me that not everybody has such a profound and irresistible desire to deal with ‘incomprehensible’ in one’s life to undergo analysis. 1 Executive Retreat® answers this. Businessman, businesswoman, leader, entrepreneur his/her family or his/her marriage needs something different than common psychotherapy; I know, because I understand the requirement of efficiency stipulated as a goal in business. Understanding the goal of efficiency is key element in understanding subject’s position in personal and professional life. 1 Executive Retreat® sets base for this. In business there’s but one requirement: effectiveness and delivering expected – or better – results. The same requirement is transferred to the personal life of entrepreneur, leader or businesswoman/ businessman. And here things aren’t so simple any more. In 1 Executive Retreat® Home we set ourselves to call things by their names, identify problems. 1 Executive Retreat® is not supposed to be learning, developing, funny, pleasant, leading, providing new knowledge, working out new position, giving different angle of view. If any of those happen along the way – you’re welcome. However our project must be first and foremost effective in accessing the truth and operating in terms which are important, meaningful and significant for you. We don’t replace them with some more or less modern and trendy buzz words, created over and over again by different gurus of psychotherapy. In the end we’re not there to create a new theory or implement an old one. No. We meet to effectively solve the problem. Your problem. 1 Executive Retreat® project brings to the light of day things you know, but cannot grasp them because they are hidden in inaccessible area, which we call unconscious.