Who are the people behind the Leadership-Project?

We are confident that our project opens up creative ways of thinking about leadership and how we can implement and evaluate leadership for mutual value creation under real conditions. We intend to set up various initiatives to activate the knowledge and experience of networks for engaged leadership, which complement the potential of our own institutes and actors.[i] As our target groups we not only see researchers, but also thoughtful practitioners as pioneers in finding ways out of the old paradigm of doing business. This not only includes dissemination of insights but also pooling of knowledge and experiences to create and adopt new ways of leadership in mutual value creation also within our own project.

We understand ourselves as initiators for a collaborative setting of a learning community.[ii] We are a group of researchers that have extended experiences to engage firms and stakeholder groups in their research.[iii] We invite practitioners from different firms and organizations, as well as scholars and students from diverse fields to participate in building and developing a vision for a new narrative of leadership.

The research team behind this project consists of the Institute for Strategic Management: Stakeholder View with Prof. Sybille Sachs, Prof. Edwin Rühli and their research team, the Center for Corporate Social Responsibility with Dr. Christoph Weber and the Center for Human Resource Management & Leadership of the University of Applied Sciences Zurich (HWZ) with Matthias Mölleney. In the sense of the network mentality as a central aspect of a future narrative of leadership, we also intend to build our research project on a broad network. In addition to our competence centers we therefore seek exchange with further important stakeholder groups, including pioneers, storytellers and funding partners.

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