DOZENTEN
Der Veranstalter behält sich Änderungen an der Dozenten-Liste – auch kurzfristig – vor.
Dr. Peter Kreutter
Seminarleitung Inland
WHU
Dr. Peter Kreutter is Director of the Foundation of the WHU School of Management in Vallendar and Managing Director of the “WHU Center for Non-Profit Management and Digital Social Impact” at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Düsseldorf. He is also an honorary member of the board of trustees of various non-profit foundations. Dr. Kreutter is a lecturer at the DSA-Deutsche StiftungsAkademie.
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Weigand
Dozent “Strategic Development”
WHU
Jürgen Weigand is Chair Professor of Microeconomics and Industrial Organization at the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, Germany. Professor Weigand earned masters, doctoral and post-doctoral degrees in Economics from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. Before joining the WHU in 2000, he held post-doctoral scholar positions at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, and at the Institute for Development Strategies in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University, Bloomington. Professor Weigand also worked as a fulltime senior advisor for the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, the Dutch government’s economic think tank in The Hague.
Prof. Dr. Dries Faems
Dozent “Strategic innovation / serious lego play”
WHU
Prof. Dr. Dries Faems holds the Chair of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technological Transformation at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. He also is a Visiting Professor at the LUISS Business School in Rome. His current research focuses on collaboration for innovation. In particular, he studies how alliance activities influence firms´ innovation and financial performance and how firms can effectively manage different types of open innovation strategies. His research has been published in top journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal and Journal of Management and has received several awards at international conferences.
Prof. Dr. Miriam Müthel
Dozentin “Dealing with failure”
WHU
Miriam Müthel (BSc in Business Informatics, MSc in Business Administration, PhD in Management) holds the Chair for Organizational Behavior at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. Furthermore, she has been a Visiting Scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at the Harvard University in 2016/2017. From 2014 – 2016, she has also been a Network Fellow at the Safra Center for Ethics at the Harvard University. Professor Muethel’s research interests lie at the intersection of business ethics, leadership and international management. She has written about corporate failure and trust restoration, revealing the different tactics that firms apply in reaction to corporate failure.
James Healy
Dozent “A lesson from Shakespeare in inspirational leadership”
Olivier Mythodrama
James Healy joined Oliver Mythodrama as an experienced program leader delivering courses to a wide variety of global businesses as well as the not-for profit and public sectors. His specific areas of expertise are communication and presence. Trained at The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, James began his career as a Communications Skills coach and Facilitator, with 15 years’ experience working in the Corporate and Public Sector. Covering Mind, Body and Voice, his passion is for translating the skills learned as a professional Actor into an empowering set of communication techniques that can be employed by individuals, teams and organizations in a corporate context.
Ulrich Bäumer, LL.M.
Dozent “Legal pitfalls in International IT-Contracts”
OsborneClarke
Ulrich advises clients on drafting and negotiating of complex international IT project contracts (especially outsourcing) and assists technology clients on M&A transactions. He also advises on all other aspects of technology and licensing law, and has many years of experience in drafting and negotiating all types of IT contracts, including contracts for licensing, software development, maintenance, distribution, and projects, as well as IT-related general terms and conditions of business.
Ulrich is also a co-head of Osborne Clarke’s India group. His clients include international technology companies and diverse industrial companies (with a focus on mechanical engineering). He also provides legal guidance to many German companies in relation to their involvement in India and is a legal representative of the German Mechanical and Plant Engineering Federation (VDMA). According to “Wirtschaftswoche” (3/2012)
Ulrich is one of the best lawyers for IT law in Germany. Chambers & Partners calls him one of the leading corporate M&A lawyers related to India.
Professor Dr. Yuval Kalish
Dozent “Leadership, Networks, and Organization”
WHU
YUVAL KALISH was appointed the Chairholder of the Chair of Leadership, Networks, and Organizations at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in August 2022. Previously he was Associate Professor of Leadership at Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University, where he also served as Academic Director for Kellogg-Recanati and for the Executive MBA program. He completed his PhD (psychology, cum laude) at the University of Melbourne, carrying out his Post-doc at the Hebrew University. He also serves as adjunct professor for the Mandel Institute for Leadership in Jerusalem, and as head of the Leadership module for the Bloomberg-Harvard-Sagol initiative for city mayors.
A scholar and consultant, Prof. Kalish enjoys over 20 years of experience in consulting to organizations and executives in both the private and public sectors. Developing new forms of leadership training more suitable for a rapidly changing world, he successfully translates state- of-the art academic knowledge into award-winning, high-impact leadership training programs, which are helping organizations around the world transform their workforces and develop talent.
In addition to leadership courses and seminars, Prof. Kalish has also taught at (E)MBA level on related topics such as organizational behavior, conflict management and negotiations, group facilitation and consensus building. His research has received multiple international awards and is published in leading journals, such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Social Psychological and Personality Science, and The Leadership Quarterly.
Yuval Kalish is also the co-founder and chief-scientist at StepAhead, an HR-tech start-up company that supports organizational growth and employee development by enhancing understanding and mastery of organizational networks since 2015.
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