PROF. DR. GISELA SCHMALZ
studied Philosophy, Comparative Literature and Economics at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Freie Universität Berlin and Columbia University, New York.
She has worked in film and television before turning her attention to researching the impact of new technologies on society and on public and private companies. She has more than 20 years of experience as a strategy consultant and as a Professor of Strategic Management, Leadership and Business Ethics for international Master´s and MBA-students.
Gisela Schmalz co-founded Respublica e.V., is a member of the research group Ethisch Ökologisches Rating, designed and supervised the implementation of the Database for International Media and Tech Companies. She used to be part of the Google Collaboratory/Global Internet Governance and leads the Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence. at the German Philosophical Society/Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie.
FOCUS OF RESEARCH
- New Technologies and Society
- The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Individuals, Society and Businesses
- Long-Term Strategies in an Unpredictable Business Environment
- Ethical Leadership
SPEAKER TOPICS
- Leading in a Complex Environment (in a BANI-World)
- Embrace Tech: Corporate Culture Reinvention
- Courageous Tech and AI Leadership
- Purpose-Driven Leadership
- Ethics for Leaders and Managers
- The Power to Empower
- A Philosophical Take on Leadership
AFFILIATIONS
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie (DGPhil), Leipzig.
- Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationspolitik (IFM), Köln.
- Projektgruppe Ethisch Ökologisches Rating (EÖR), Goethe University, Frankfurt/M.
- Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft der Freunde, Förderer und Ehemaligen (ERG), Freie Universität Berlin.
- Mentoring-Programm, Freie Universität Berlin.
BOOKS
Mein fremder Wille – Wie wir uns freiwillig unterwerfen und die Tech-Elite kassiert („My Alienating Will“). Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag. 2020.
Das kleine Buch der großen Fragen („The Little Book of Big Questions“). München: Goldmann Verlag. 2018.
Cliquenwirtschaft – Die Macht der Netzwerke: Goldman Sachs, Kirche, Google, Mafia & Co. („Clique Economy”) München: Kösel Verlag, 2014.
No Economy – Warum der Gratiswahn das Internet zerstört („No Economy – Why the freebie culture destroys the World Wide Web“). Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn Verlag, 2009.
Der Richtungsstreit in der frühen amerikanischen Wirtschaftslehre und der Einfluss der Deutschen Historischen Schule (“Opposing Factions in Early American Economic Theory and the Influence of the German Historical School”). Marburg: Metropolis Verlag, 1998.