The Great Transformation

 Prof. Dr. oec. habil. Fredmund Malik

Chairman Malik Institute for Complexity Management, Governance and Effective Organization

Advisor, consultant and educator, scientist and author

Prof. Dr. Fredmund Malik is an internationally acclaimed management expert, as well as chairman and member of governance and advisory boards in business enterprises and other organizations. Malik is acknowledged as a pioneer of Holistic System-Cybernetic Manage-ment. He and his organization have shaped generations of executives and organizations of all types. His management systems and methods are being applied where conventional management reaches its limits.

After six years of practical industry experience in management positions he finished his university studies at the renowned University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. In the course of two research projects of the Swiss National Re-search Fund for fundamental research, he received his doctorate and habilitation with his work on the Strategy of Managing Complex Systems. He taught at the universities of St. Gallen, Innsbruck and Vienna. From 1979 – _1984 he was a member of the Directorate of the Institute for Business Administration at the University of St. Gallen and, since 1977, in parallel also of the Management Center St. Gallen. He is special and honorary professor at the Capi-tal University of Economics and Business (CUEB) in Beijing, at IMAU and at the Jilin University in Changchun.

In 1984, he founded the Malik Institute in St. Gallen. With its international subsidiaries and global partnerships, it is one of the leading knowledge organizations in management, governance and leadership especially for mastering complexity.

Malik is author of more than 15 books, among them several award-winning bestsellers, and of more than 300 fur-ther publications. His classic Managing Performing Living was selected amongst the best 100 business books of all time.