Voytek is the Managing Partner at Seamind Blue Ocean, an IMD executive coach, a Professional Certified Coach (ICF PCC), and a systems-psychodynamic team coach (Tavistock and Group-in-Self informed). Voytek supports senior leaders and leadership teams on development, change, and complex decision-making.
A former ocean navigator, Voytek brings over 25 years of international entrepreneurial and advisory experience, and a decade in executive coaching and change consulting. He has built and led ventures across Silicon Valley, Singapore, and Switzerland, primarily in the maritime sector, and has advised leaders on capital investments, cross-border partnerships, and complex commercial negotiations.
His coaching is relational and question-led, with close attention to pace, language, and what is happening in the room. He supports leaders and teams to slow down enough to think clearly, test assumptions, and work through difficult trade-offs when the stakes are high and certainty is limited. In team settings, he creates clear structure and space for honest conversation and shared responsibility—so teams can address hard topics, make decisions they can stand behind, and leave with clear ownership of what follows.
Alongside coaching, he convenes practitioner conversations in the maritime sector, including conference and executive roundtable formats.
Voytek holds an Executive Master’s in Consulting and Coaching for Change from INSEAD, an MSc in International Transport Management from the State University of New York, and an MSc in Ocean Navigation.
Voytek
Chelkowski
Managing Partner
Switzerland
Executive Coaching
Team Coaching
Strategic Consulting
Anna is an internal medicine physician and a certified lifestyle medicine physician, with a clinical and research background in gastroenterology.
At SeaMind, she works with leaders on the conditions under which decisions are made rather than on the decisions themselves — how sleep, nutrition, physical activity, recovery and sustained stress influence attention, cognitive function and judgment.
With Voytek, she designs and delivers LeadState™, SeaMind’s workshop on how physiological state affects judgment under pressure and what can be done about it in the moment. She also speaks on health as an input to leadership capacity rather than as a separate wellbeing question.
Anna holds an MD and PhD in Medicine from Pomeranian Medical University and is certified by the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine. She has undertaken further training through Harvard Medical School and the Longevity Education Hub.
Anna
Chelkowska
Partner
Switzerland
Health & Leadership
Larry Hirschhorn is an Affiliated Partner of SeaMind Blue Ocean, a Principal and co-founder of CFAR, and Program Director of CFAR’s Dynamics of Consulting programme.
Trained as an economist and later as a psychoanalytically informed organizational consultant, Larry’s work connects the realities of business and organizational life with the dynamics of individual and group decision-making. He works with leaders and teams when the apparent problem does not fully explain what is happening; when decisions get stuck, familiar patterns recur, or questions of authority and relationships complicate the work. His approach is practical: understanding what is going on here, what that understanding suggests, and what the next step might be.
Larry has also helped develop the organizational working note, a method for communicating an organizational diagnosis in a way that can itself become an intervention. He has consulted to organizations including Penn Medicine, Georgetown University, Bristol Myers Squibb and KPMG.
Larry is a founding member and former President of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO). He holds a PhD in Economics from MIT and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton and Fielding Graduate University. His books include The Workplace Within: Psychodynamics of Organizational Life Cambridge: MIT Press: 1988 and Reworking Authority: Leading and Following in a Post-Modern Age. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997.
Larry
Hirschhorn
Affiliated Partner
USA
Organizational Consulting
