Jochen Menges

Background

About Jochen Menges

Professor of Leadership and Human Resource Management at University of Zurich, Switzerland, and Professor of Leadership at University of Cambridge, UK • Director of the University of Zurich's Center for Leadership in the Future of Work • Partners with businesses to do research and to educate executives about leadership and the future of work • Provides evidence-based advice rooted in rigorous experimental, archival, survey-based and field research that is actionable in the corporate world Experience • Has worked on leadership and HR projects with Google, Microsoft, L’Oreal, Rolls Royce, Trivago, and other companies • Is a founding partner of the HR Valley, a project with The Adecco Group Foundation that is part of the Reskilling Revolution of the World Economic Forum • Holds keynotes at international conferences with attendees (e.g, Talent Summit, Dublin; Leadership Summit, London; Happiness at Work conference, Prague; Emotional Intelligence Congress, Buenos Aires) • Gives presentations and runs workshops (e.g, at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Plug & Play Silicon Valley, World Bank, London Business School, Yale University, Wharton) • Moderates and contributes to panel discussions (e.g, Future Workforce Planning Summit, Frankfurt; Zukunft Personal, Cologne; Risk Management Forum, Monaco) • Teaches top-scoring courses on UZH EMBA, Cambridge MBA, as well as UZH PhD, Master, and Bachelor programs • Provides thought-leadership through regular publications in top-tier academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal and Organization Science, and in leading managerial journals such as Harvard Business Review Recognition • Received numerous awards for research, among them the Annals of the Academy of Management Best Article Award and the Annual Prize for the Best Leadership-related Article • Repeatedly named Best Teacher in Executive Education programs, received several teaching prizes, for example, at Cambridge Judge Business School and at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management • Is frequently featured in global media, for example, by the BBC, CNN, The Economist, The Financial Times, Le Monde, The New York Times, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Die Zeit, and many others.