People-centric management: Ultimate art or illusion?

Dr. Angelica Kohlmann, Chair Global Peter Drucker Forum Advisory Board, CEO Kohlmann & Co AG, niece of Peter Drucker. Angelica Kohlmann is Chairman Board of Directors Kohlmann & Co AG, which invests in technology start-ups and holds equity in companies in Europe and America, Chairman Board of Directors Flowerkid AG and Chairman Advisory Board Peter Drucker Society Europe. Angelica serves on a number of additional boards. She is a German-Brazilian citizen, holds an MD and doctorate in medicine from Hamburg University and is fluent in six languages.

Andrew Hill, Management Editor Financial Times. Andrew Hill is an Associate Editor and Management Editor of the "Financial Times". He writes a weekly column on business, strategy and management. His book "Leadership in the Headlines" was published in 2016. Since joining the FT in 1988, Andrew has worked in various roles, including editor of the daily Lombard column on British business and finance, Financial Editor, Comment & Analysis Editor, New York Bureau Chief, Foreign News Editor, and correspondent in Brussels and Milan. He was named Business Commentator of the Year 2016 in the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards and Best Commentator at the 2009 Business Journalist of the Year Awards, where he also received the Decade of Excellence Award for sustained achievement in business and financial journalism.

Gerhard Fehr, Behavioral Economist, CEO of FehrAdvice & Partners. Gerhard is an applied Behavioral Economist and Executive Behavioral Designer. His personal mission is to motivate companies with inspiration to transform themselves to adopt an experimental culture. His passion: #Experimentability #BehavioralEconomics and #IrrationalLeadership – among these hashtags you will also find him in the most important (social)media. As a Behavioral Designer, he is a personal advisor to many politicians, boards of directors, CEOs and top corporate management. And last but not least: Gerhard seeks with FehrAdvice to become the European market leader in digitization and experimentation. Why? Because successful digitization seems to be very unlikely without experiments. 

Prof. Bill Fischer, Professor of Innovation Management at IMD. Bill Fischer co-founded and co-directs the IMD program on Driving Strategic Innovation, in cooperation with the Sloan School of Management at MIT and authors a regular column for Forbes.com entitled "The Ideas Business". An engineer by training, New Yorker by birth, Bill has lived much of his life in Asia and Europe. He has worked in innovation as a development engineer in industry, oversaw aerospace research projects, consulted for 17 years to the World Health Organization, was co-founder of a startup sold to Deloitte (and is presently on the Advisory Boards of two other startups), held an endowed chair at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1976 - 1998) and was the Executive President and Dean of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) 1997 - 1999. Bill first moved to China in 1980. He has been at IMD for over 20 years. 

Dr. Zeno Staub, CEO Vontobel. Dr. Zeno Staub is Chief Executive Officer at Vontobel Group since May 2011. Having joined Vontobel in 2001 he went on to serve as its Chief Financial Officer until 2006. Prior to his current position he was Head of Asset Management and Head of Investment Banking. He started his career as a founding shareholder and managing partner of Almafin AG, working in consulting and software development with a focus on risk management, asset & liability management and legal reporting. He then moved to BZ Informatik AG (now avaloq) in 2000 as a member of the Executive Board. Zeno Staub studied economics at the University of St. Gallen, receiving his PH.D. in 1997.