SGMI - Key Persons
Alexander Haldemann is an internationally renowned expert on strategic branding and communication. His research and projects focus on the following disciplines:
Alexander Haldemann was born in Berlin and studied Economics at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). He earned his Ph.D rer. pol. at Prof. Dr. H. P. Wehrli's Institute of Business Administration at the Zurich University. Besides working as a director of the Center for Brand Management at the SGMI Institute of Management St. Gallen, Alexander Haldemann heads one of the leading agencies for Branding and Corporate Identity with branches in Zurich, Berlin, and San Francisco.
Job Titles:
- Co - Director of the Center for New Work
Andreas Seitz is a literature, linguistics and marketing graduate from Munich University. As a member of the executive board, he was involved in the successful development of the media company RTL Disney. For more than 20 years, he has accompanied development processes on an organizational level as a consultant, advising more than 50 CEOs in change projects, working for more than half of the DAX corporations while implementing projects in Europe, North America and Asia. One focus of his work is cultural change and the development of cultures of trust and agility with a view to the future challenges in organizations. He is a trained consultant for organizational and team development and is certified as a consultant for the Richard Barrett Cultural Transformation Tools (CTT) and for the Ego Development Profiles of Jane Loevinger. In his view, the future of work and the digital transformation in particular make it necessary to launch evolutionary development processes and to involve people in shaping the future instead of following the old unfreeze-change-freeze paradigm. As a book author, he has published "Agility of Tomorrow - Leading in the Future", "Leading through Crisis - the Transformative Power of a Pandemic" as well as guest commentaries and essays. He shares his knowledge and experience primarily in these areas:
New Work: Transforming organizational cultures
Value-based culture development
Leadership development within cultural change
Leading Change: Bringing people along and involving them
New forms of organization and collaboration
Development of agile leadership mindsets
Staged development models for organizations and their leadership
The future of work in the context of digital transformation
Chris Stern is an entrepreneurial pragmatist with a highly practial approach to business adiminstration. As an expert consultant for international business strategies he advises companies in the US and Europe achieving sustainable market positions on the background of his extensive management and board experience. Chris Stern holds a Master of Business Administration of the Graduate School of Business Administration Zurich as well as a Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) of Trinity College & University. He is a senior lecturer and project director at the SGMI Institute of Management St. Gallen and for over two decades has successfully directed a wide range of open seminars, company-specific courses, and consulting projects on:
Christoph Keller holds a degree in Economics from the University of Zurich with integrated postgraduate studies as business teacher in economic and legal subjects. As a long-standing member of the executive board and head of management education at Management Programm St. Gallen he has a deep knowledge in the education sector. At the SGMI Institute of Management St. Gallen his focus is on finance and controlling.
He can rely on a long experience as line manager, management consultant and coach which allows him to train participants of all levels in open and company-specific seminars gaining highest customer satisfaction. As a consultant, Christoph Keller advises renowned domestic and foreign companies. Thanks to his numerous counseling and training projects, he is vastly experienced in the areas of:
Financial Management
Controlling
Profit Management
Strategic Management & Controlling
Daniel Schmidlin studied business administration at the University of St. Gallen (degree lic.oec. HSG) with specialization in organizational development. He has a proven track-record in the field of management development. As Director Corporate Programs he is responsible for the worldwide project business of the SGMI Institute of Management St. Gallen including conceptual design and implementation of integrated management development projects based on the St. Gallen model of management. He analyses strategic development needs and creates focused development programs for our customers together with the SGMI expert-team.
Being a recognized leadership expert he offers a year-long experience as lecturer, coach and consultant. His focus is on leadership behaviour and leadership tools for small and medium-sized businesses as well as multinational companies:
Leadership-style analysis
Personality analysis
Employee engagement and -motivation
Value-based leadership
Personal strength-/weaknesses analysis
Leadership concepts of the future (generation Y)
Paradigm shift
Communication, negotiation and conflict management
He is training international managers in German- and English-language seminars for years and with highest customer satisfaction. As an executive coach he directly supports decision-makers of all levels.
Job Titles:
- Co - Director of the Center for Resilient Marketing
Dennis Wedderkop studied Media Management at the Technical University of Ilmenau. In parallel to his studies, he founded a digital agency and built it up to over 100 employees. For more than 15 years, Dennis Wedderkop has worked as an interim CMO and strategy consultant with large advertising companies such as Vodafone, Nestlé, and BMW, as well as for start-ups. He has been awarded the German Media Prize and the German Prize for Online Communication for his work. As a seminar leader, keynote speaker, and workshop facilitator, he has shared his many years of knowledge and practical experience with numerous organisations and companies, including the World Economic Forum, Horasis, and MicroStrategy, on topics such as:
Resilient Marketing
Building Marketing Organisations
Digital Marketing
Marketing Strategy
Content Strategy
Future of Marketing
Job Titles:
- Manager at HCM International
Dr. Hanna Hummel is a manager at HCM International and has eight years' experience in compensation, governance and compliance advisory with a special focus on financial companies. Her experience covers reviewing and revising remuneration systems at different levels regarding strategic alignment and incentive effects as well as regulatory compliance. Hanna Hummel graduated from University of St. Gallen as Master of Arts in Banking & Finance. She completed her doctoral study as Dr. rer. oek. at University of Wuppertal on the question of how compensation structures and bank risk are related in the regulatory context. Through her consulting projects, she gained relevant experiences in the following areas:
Erhard Büchi has extensive experience in the training of executives with particular specialization in the fields of finance and accounting, controlling and financial management. After graduating as mag.oec. HSG from the University of St. Gallen, he worked as a seminar and training manager for renowned companies before applying his vast knowledge at the St. Gallen Management Centre as a consultant and lecturer on the topics of Controlling, Financial Management, Personal-Computing and Management Techniques. Besides working at the SGMI Institute of Management St. Gallen, he held office of Supervisory Bord Chairman of the Swiss Union of Raiffeisen banks for 16 years and has been finance director and mayor of the municipality Embrach for many years.
Frank Przybylski holds a degree in business informatics and a doctorate in mechanical engineering on human-machine interactions. In his professional career, he has gained a great deal of experience in the following roles: