Prof. Dr. Ronnie Lessem
Ronnie Lessem, Co-Founder of TRANS4M, an Afro-European and a graduate of Harvard Business School and the London School of Economics, is the Dean of G-Salt Global School for African Leadership and Transformation at CIDA City Campus, Johannesburg, and a Director of the Trans-cultural Centre at the University of Buckingham in the UK. For many years he has run the doctoral and masters programme in Social and Economic Transformation both in the UK, and also in the Middle East and South Africa. He has co-ordinated projects on African, European and Islamic Management, and has written some twenty books on self, organisational and societal transformation. He has also been a consultant to international companies on organisational learning and knowledge creation, and on managing across cultures, and has been an Adjunct Professor at IMD in Switzerland, Wits Business School and CIDA University in South Africa.
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Dr. Alexander Schieffer
Alexander Schieffer, Co-Founder of TRANS4M, is also Managing Partner of CELL Center of Excellence for Leadership and Learning (our consulting unit). The company is focusing on the innovative leadership and design of organisations, including organisational transformation, based on a systemic approach. CELL assists organisations internationally to strengthen their capacity to co-creatively develop solutions for internal and external problems and challenges. Prior to CELL, he had founded and built up one of the leading special interest publishing houses in Singapore. Schieffer studied economics, business administration, social sciences and law at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and did a doctorate on leadership. He lectures at St. Gallen University as well as at the CIDA City Campus in Johannesburg, South Africa. Schieffer is member of the Society for Organizational Learning and the World Business Academy. In the past 10 years he has published a large variety of articles on Leadership and Organizational Transformation and has developed an organisational transformation tool called ‘Semantic Mapping’ as well as a future oriented approach towards leadership called ‘Co-Creative Leadership’.
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