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When: 11, 12, 13 February 2021

What: Change Management

Frédéric Godart

Frédéric Godart is an Associate Professor (with tenure) of Management & Human Resources at HEC Paris. He is also the Academic Director of the HEC Paris luxury certificate, sponsored by Kering (owner of Gucci, Balenciaga, Saint Laurent…) Before that, he was an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD. He teaches in various programmes, notably at Lugano and SciencesPo in Paris.
At HEC Paris he teaches Leadership and Strategic Talent Management in the EMBA program and Leading Organizations in the Grande Ecole Master in Management. He received his PhD from Columbia University in the City of New York. He also holds an MPhil in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College) in the United Kingdom, an MSc in Management from Sciences Po Paris, and was a fellow of the École Normale Supérieure in France. His research explores the dynamics of creative industries, and he focuses on fashion and luxury (e.g., design, modeling, watchmaking, footwear). He is the author of Unveiling Fashion (2012, Palgrave-MacMillan).

Limited places, book your place now:  https://www.emba.usi.ch/apply-now/

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When: 21, 22, 23 January 2021

What: Leadership Course

Andreas Bernhardt

Andreas Bernhardt is executive development advisor and lead coach at ESMT Berlin in Germany, founding member of ESMT’s Center for Leadership Development Research, and manages ESMT’s pool of executive coaches. He has over 20 years of practical leadership development experience with executives from more than 50 countries and has designed and delivered executive programs for several international companies. He is also an executive coach with the Global Leadership Centre at INSEAD, one of the world’s leading business schools.

He is co-designer and convener of ESMT’s yearly Coaching Colloquium, was co-organizer of the International Coaching Research Forum in collaboration with the Institute of Coaching at McLean/Harvard Medical School, and regularly contributes to top academic and practitioner conferences. His current consulting and research interests focus on leadership development, executive coaching, HR management, and leading and coaching teams in tough times. He is co-editor of the new book “Tricky Coaching: Difficult Cases in Leadership Coaching” together with Konstantin Korotov, Manfred Kets de Vries and Elizabeth Florent-Treacy.

He teaches and coaches in the areas of Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Coaching, Negotiations and Change in MBA, Executive MBA, open enrollment, and company specific executive programs. His executive education portfolio includes, programs for, among others, Allianz, Deutsche Bank, Postbank, Hogan Lovells, Deutsche Telekom, E.ON, RWE, BSH Bosch and Siemens, Hitachi, Kaspersky, B. Braun, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi-Aventis, West Pharmaceutical Services, Johnson & Johnson, Axel Springer, McDonald’s, and the European Union.

Andreas consults globally operating companies on issues of executive coaching, leadership development, and leading people and teams in challenging times. He also regularly coaches executives on leadership and career issues.

He studied Clinical and Organizational Psychology, Management and Organizational Behavior, holds a Master’s degree in Psychology, and is an alumnus of INSEAD’s long-term executive program „Consulting and Coaching for Change” directed by Professor Manfred Kets de Vries.

Additionally, Andreas has held the position of Head of Leadership and Human Resource Management Programs for USW Schloss Gracht and prior to this worked for several years in the Banking Industry as well as for the German State Police Forces.

Limited places. Book your place: https://www.emba.usi.ch/apply-now/

EMBA Scholarship

Boldbrain Startup Challenge is a new accelerator program in Ticino organized jointly by Fondazione Agire and Centro Promozione Start-Up USI. December 3 at 19:00, the fourth edition was concluded with an award ceremony on streaming.

The winner of 52.000 CHF and of the full EMBA Scholarship is voltWall, energy solar systems.

voltWALL stores 10 years worth of data internally and updates the cloud infrastructure in real-time whenever connectivity is available. This means that they are able to detect most issues before they happen and send a technician to ensure optimized performance.

Lean Six Sigma is a must for businesses of every size as it makes quality a quantifiable statistic. It enables businesses to observe and study processes in a scientific way with the end goal of eliminating waste.

Get your Lean Six Sigma belt now: emba@usi.ch

When: 3, 4, 5 December 2020

Thursday 3 December:

01:00 pm – 09:00 pm

Friday 4 December:

01:00 pm – 09:00 pm

Saturday 5 December:

01:00 pm – 09:00 pm

Write us to get the Zoom link: emba@usi.ch

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN :

Lean, Six Sigma Design (DFSS), and Six Sigma Innovation (DMAIC) methods provide complementary approaches. When strategically linked, these yield customer-driven, highly resource efficient processes and products with almost perfect performance. Integrated DFSS, Innovation, and Lean approaches provide a highly structured strategy for acquiring, assessing, and activating customer, competitor, and enterprise intelligence that lead to superior product, system or enterprise innovations and designs that provide the organization with a sustainable competitive advantage.  Useful background for this course includes exposure to introductory statistical methods and quality management principles.

Professor Rick Edgeman

Rick Edgeman, PhD, Professor & Chair, Management Department

Rick L. Edgeman (born 1954) is an American statistician and quality professional, and Professor of Sustainability & Performance at AU Herning and in the Interdisciplinary Center for Organizational Architecture, at Aarhus University, School of Business and Social Sciences. He primarily known for his work on Quality Management, Performance Management, and within the recent years Sustainable Enterprise Excellence (SEE)

Robbins College of Business & Entrepreneurship – Fort Hays State University

Business Development & Technology Department
School of Business & Social Sciences    Aarhus University (Denmark)

University of Southern Denmark (Odense, Denmark)

Academician of the International Academy of Quality (IAQ)

EDUCATION

• 2004 – Villanova University (USA) – Six Sigma Black Belt
• 1983 – University of Wyoming (USA) – Ph.D. Statistics
• 1979 – University of Northern Colorado (USA) – M.S. Research & Statistical Methods
• 1977 – Colorado State University-Pueblo (USA) – B.S. Experimental Psychology

PRICE

2.700 CHF

Melina, what is your current position?

I am currently working as a Sales Trader with the rank of Assistant Vice President in a bank in Lugano.

How the EMBA helped you creating your startup and contributed to your passions?

The EMBA helped me to understand how to create a Start-Up, and to recognize whether or not this Start-Up will have a chance on the market. In the meantime, it has helped me to continue believing in my dreams and passions, infusing courage and determination.

Why you decided to start an EMBA?

I decided to start the Executive MBA because I wanted to get to know how to create a Start-up and because I understood that having a valuable degree in my pocket is an investment for the future.

I was thinking of postponing the EMBA program at a certain point, but at the end I was convinced by the fact that I could have stopped at any moment if I was unable for any reason to follow the program, so I decided at the last moment to try it, and I will never regret it!

How you balanced personal life, sport and study?

I was always very interested in different kind of sports and activities. During the EMBA time, I was principally active in the Triathlon Team Ticino, and this gave me a good balance to cope with all the tasks I was facing.
It is not always easy to manage a full time job, study for an EMBA, perform in sport and manage a private life, but I was surprised how good I could cope with all this, having  my agenda well organized and inspired by the excitement I felt.

I also want to mention, that I did not know where the energy came from, but I was also able to pass an exam for my work during the same time I did the EMBA. This was amazing and it turned out to be much easier than expected.

Describe yourself before and after EMBA in three words

Before EMBA: ambitious, naïve, dreamer.

After EMBA: self-confident, aware, and successful.

How the program changed your mindset and your vision?

After EMBA, I realized better, what really matters in my life and what maybe is not so important to achieve. For several years, I have always chased after something without really understanding why it was so important for me, now I try to spend my energy only in that what I really want and love.

The EMBA also confirmed to me that you do not have to be afraid of something very challenging, if you really care, try it first and then you will see the result.

Would you suggest an EMBA to women? Why?

I highly recommend EMBA for women. EMBA is not only a degree; it is a school of life.
Nowadays for women it is very important to have a good education: you gain a better future and independence, more freedom on deciding what is good or not for yourself.
I am also an active member of “100 Women in Finance” since 2017, an additional way to be supported and to support other women in professional life and not only.