DBA en el Futuro del Trabajo

PRESIDENT AND COFOUNDER OF GFWF
(Director of the GFWF-BSI,  DBA Program)

Professor and former director of the ESADE Future of Work Chair. Ph.D in People Management and Work Psychology from the University of Minnesota. Creator of the concept, methodology and tools of the “Managing, Leading and Coaching by Values” and the “STRESS MAP”.  Co-Creator of DOVA (a digital tool to undertake ethical audit in an organization). Founder of Gestion M.D.S. management consulting (Canada). Former Full professor at ESADE, the University of Montreal, McGill University, Boston University and others. Published over 86 books (in different languages), and over 180 articles in journals designed for business and academia. He has supervised over 30 doctoral theses. Paradigm breaker and highly solicited speaker on issues of work in Tomorrowland, culture reengineering, innovative executive coaching, stress management and health enhancement and new leadership.

Language proficiency: English, Spanish French, Hebrew. (Limited Polish, German, Catalan and Portuguese)

Full bio: www.simondolan.com

FACULTY ACADEMIC ADVISOR

Dr. Dave Ulrich has been the Rensis Likert Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and a partner at the RBL Group (http://www.rbl.net ).  He has published over 200 articles and book chapters and over 30 books. He edited Human Resource Management for ten years, served on editorial board of four other journals and on the Board of Directors for Herman Miller (16 years), has spoken to large audiences in 90 countries; performed workshops for over half of the Fortune 200; coached successful business leaders, and is a Distinguished Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources.  He posts weekly and comments daily on LinkedIn (over 350,000 followers and 3,300,000 page views in 2024) and has a free weekly newsletter with over 220,000 subscribers (https://lnkd.in/gbRqJHkW).  His work creates ideas with impact about how to deliver stakeholder value through human capability (talent + organization + leadership + HR).

Language proficiency: English (limited: French, Spanish)

EXTERNAL ACADEMIC PROGRAM ADVISER

Chad has obtained his PhD from Ramon Llull University (ESADE Business School).

Dr. Chad Albrecht is Head of the Marketing & Strategy Department,  and a Professor of Strategy in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University. Throughout his career, Dr. Albrecht has produced more than fifty publications, including several books and many research articles. Dr. Albrecht’s research has been used by the AICPA and the Institute of Fraud Prevention (ACFE) in training, research and other educational initiatives. In addition, his research has been quoted more than 3,000 times and has appeared in various news agencies, including The Times of London and In-Flight Magazine. Before becoming a professor, Dr. Albrecht worked as a licensed stockbroker for The Harris, a subsidiary of the Bank of Montreal.

Dr Albrecht is also the co founder of the MyEducator interactive textbook platform.

Language proficiency: English, Spanish

SECRETARY AND RESEARCH PROJECTS COORDINATOR-GFWF

Dr. Diez professional career has been motivated by her interest in people and organizations at their broadest perspective. She earned a PhD in Psychology, specializing in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources. For several years, she has served as a research coordinator for the Institute for Labor Studies in ESADE Business School and as such, has published numerous articles in scientific journals. She was involved with different organizations, academic entities (universities) and worldwide enterprises. For over decades, she has accumulated experience in training, coaching and managerial development. As an organizational consultant, she worked in companies in different economic sectors (ranging from health, education, retail, tourism, and more). She has written (and coauthored) books and articles related to the management of human resources, as well as the well-being of people in the workplace. In parallel, she has been a member of the Work Psychology section of the College of Psychologists of Catalonia (2002-2004) and a guest lecturer at several international business schools. Since 2014, she has also been involved as an entrepreneur in her own retail business projects.

Language proficiency: English, Spanish

CO-FOUNDER AND MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD of GFWF and PRESIDENT OF THE E-MERIT ACADEMY

Dr. Raich is a Swiss expert in innovation and future thinker. He has 40 years of experience in executive education among others at Xerox, as VP at Citicorp and member of the management at Zurich Financial Services. Leader of large ten years project for development of entrepreneurs in Poland with over 15’000 participants.  Follow up project to develop Innovation leaders in Poland. Development of own innovation framework.

Visiting professor at many leading European Business Schools such as HEC (Paris) and ESADE (Barcelona). Entrepreneur and author of several futuristic books and articles in the fields of Business and Management. Co-Founder & Chairman of e-Merit Academy.  Creator of innovative methodology to foster creativity in groups and organizations, and an expert in helping executives develop their organizations to transform. In the last five years, he has developed a framework on how to shape own future and the future of society at large.

Language proficiency: English, Spanish French, German and Polish.

LEADER, EDUCATOR, AUTHOR AND CONSULTANT

Dr. Lingham has a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University.   He is an experienced leader, educator, collaborator, consultant, and researcher who has worked extensively with teams in organzations and higher educational institutions across the globe.  He has published two books, 1 books in press, over 45 articles and 50 papers presented in global conferences. He is currently finalizing his next book “Leading with interactional Intelligence: Engaging Effectively and Meaningfully”.  He has 24 years of international experience teaching at the undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and professional doctorates levels as well as executives and senior executives.  He has chaired 12 dissertations and over 10 dissertations as a committee member. He has also advised numerous doctoral students nationally and internationally. He delivered two podcasts for the Wiley Network’s, cited in www.forbes.com in 2018 for his work using the TLI for executive board teams, and published as an Honored Listee in Marquis Who’s Who in 2024 for the work he has done across  the globe.

Language proficiency: English, Chinese.

PROFESSOR OF HR AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT & CEO OF “LE GROUPE CANADIEEN MDS 

Dr Belout has a PhD from The University of Montreal.  A long experience of teaching at academic institutions on Canada (Univ. of Montreal, UQAM) and Morrocco. Has supervised multiple master thesis and assisted in many doctoral tribunals.  He has worked for many years as consultant in the private and public sectors in Canada, in Belgium, in Motto and in many African countries.

Ayant exécuté plus de 355 missions de formation internationales dans 16 pays en gestion de projets, suivi-évaluation de programmes, j’ai développé des plans de formation de courtes durées pour les pays émergents et les PVD. En tant qu’expert et formateur senior au Québec, j’ai mis en place depuis 2013 avec mes collaborateurs des cycles de formation intensifs en planification et contrôle de projets, management par tableaux de bord RH, et gestion des équipes de projets (équipes Agiles, multiculturelles, à distance, virtuelles, etc.).

Language proficiency: French, English, Arabic (Moroccan)

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, MANAGEMENT VPRI EARLY CAREER RESEARCH CHAIR IN BUSINESS

Dr Kyle Brykman is an associate professor at Odette School of Business, University of Windsor. Kyle’s research interests include employee voice, resilience, and conflict, with a specific emphasis in leading high-performance teams. Kyle’s mission is to advance the performance and health of individuals, leaders, teams, and organizations, such as by clarifying how to speak up more often and effectively, build and sustain personal and team resilience, and successfully manage conflict at work. Kyle’s research has been published in several prestigious academic journals, including Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organizational Behavior, and Small Group Research. Kyle holds a PhD in Management from Queen’s University’s Smith School of Business, an MSc in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management from Wilfrid Laurier University, and an HBA from Ivey School of Business. He has published numerous articles in prestigious scientific journals and presented his research in multiple global conferences.  Currently he is completing his first book of the building of Trust.

Language proficiency: English

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR – UNE BUSINESS SCHOOL

 Peter holds a PhD from UNE.  He is currently coordinating postgraduate units in Advanced Organizational Behavior, Organizational Research Methods, and Leadership and undergraduate units in Human Resource Planning and Organizational Development and Organizational Research Methods.

Peter has successfully supervised 4 completed PhDs since 2015 and has 9 Masters and Doctoral students under his co-supervision from 2019 onwards.

He has been a Visiting Academic – International Business at the ESADE Business School Barcelona Spain and has been a regular Visiting Professor at the University of Tartu Estonia School of Economics and Business since 2015.

Peter facilitates a range of leadership development programs. He is a certified Master Coach for the Leading, Managing, and Coaching by Values (ICF; CCE) program with Dr Simon Dolan – Barcelona Spain, and is a certified facilitator in the Crucial Conversations program and DISC and Emotional Intelligence personality assessment methods.

Language proficiency: English

SENIOR CONSULTANT AND PART TIME LECTURER

Ben Capell has obtained his PhD from Ramon Llull University (ESADE Business School).

He is the founder and Managing Director of BECAP Management Consulting. He is a seasoned consultant and executive coach with extensive global experience supporting leaders and teams across industries and geographies. His passion lies in helping clients overcome challenges, grow, and achieve exceptional results.

Dr Capell 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲s 𝗶𝗻:

• International Collaboration;
• Executive Coaching;
• Team Performance;
• Inclusion.

Language proficiency: Spanish, English, Hebrew, Catalan.

SENIOR PROFESSOR AND RESEARCHER

Dr Gabel has obtained his PhD from Ramon Llull University (ESADE Business School).  She is a Full Professor, Department of Management, Universidad del Pacífico (Lima-Peru).

Currently her research topics focus on aspects of local and international organizational behavior at the individual and organizational level such as leadership styles, global leadership, cultural and emotional intelligence, work stress, work engagement and performance, climate and culture and values between others. She is the author and co-author of several indexed academic articles, as executive and in book chapters. She has been a visiting Professor at several global universities.  She has won several international awards including Literati Awards. She has served and consulted for more than 15 years national and international companies in the service and high technology sectors.

She has supervised several master and doctoral theses and participated in doctoral committees of many others.

Language proficiency: Spanish, English, Hebrew

Dr Zhang has obtained his PhD from Ramon Llull University (ESADE Business School).   She is interested in the interaction between people and strategy in an international business context, particularly in the highly dynamic emerging markets and disruptive innovation environments. That drives her to investigate the first dynamic international strategic human resources, which was developed into strategic people management recently.  She is also working on the people centric innovation ecosystem, culture effects on innovation, and innovation in emerging markets.

Language proficiency: English, Spanish, Chinese, Catalan

PROFESSOR RENMIN UNIVERSITY

Dr Bao has obtained his PhD from Ramon Llull University (ESADE Business School).

He is an Assistant Professor of HRM/OB and cross-cultural management with emphasis on China. He has been teaching at Renmin University of China, school of public administration, for more than 10 years. He specialises in topics related to public administration and public policy with a focus on motivation, leadership, state-owned enterprises, and digital governance. He has published more than thirty papers in both English and Chinese academic journals including American Review of Public Administration, Public Management Review, Public Performance & Management Review, Management Decision, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Journal of Managerial Psychology and others

Language proficiency: English, Chinese

President and Director of International and Institutional Relations of the ICEB.

Doctor in Human Resources and Organizations from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia; Program Management Development (PMD) by ESADE Business School; master’s in human resources from EAE, Higher Digital Business Program from The Valley Business School and bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Havana (Cuba). He has served as director of HR in organizations in the educational sector for more than twenty years and as director of the Department of Innovation, Business and New Technologies of the Universidad Internacional Iberoamericana (UNINI), of Puerto Rico (USA) and Campeche (Mexico). .

Has supervised more than two hundred master’s and specialization theses in the field of business management, human resources, corporate social responsibility and Business Administration. He has been part of tribunals in a wide number of projects.

Language proficiency: Spanish

PROFESSOR, ADMINISTRATOR AND RESEARCHER

Doctora de Organización de Empresas de la Universidad de Huelva. Doctora en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales por la Universidad de Huelva, desde 2002.

Más de 25 años de experiencia docente siempre vinculada a materias relacionadas con la Organización de Empresas y la Dirección de Recursos Humanos.

Ha realizado estancias internacionales en: Reino Unido (Universidad de Greenwich), Portugal (Universidad del Algarve de Faro), Sudáfrica (Durban University of Technology) y Guatemala (Universidad Rafael Landívar).

Directora del Máster Oficial Interuniversitario (UNIA-UHUA) en Dirección y Gestión de Personas.

Directora durante 14 años (2008-2022) de la Cátedra Caja Rural de Empresa Familiar de la Universidad de Huelva.

Vicedecana de la Facultad de Ciencias del Trabajo (2015-2019) y Decana 2022 a 2024 .

Premio a la Excelencia y Calidad de los Equipos Docentes (curso 2006/2007) y Premio a la Innovación Docente de Excelencia (curso 2020/2021).

Language proficiency: Spanish (limited: English)

PROFESORA TITULAR DE UNIVERSIDAD

Licenciada y doctora en Ciencias Empresariales por la Universidad de Sevilla, Diploma en Alta Dirección de Universidades por las Universidades Antonio de Nebrija y Politécnica de Cataluña, miembro del Grupo de Investigación de la Universidad de Huelva “Economía Agraria”, y ha participado en el Grupo de Investigación «Estrategias de Innovación y Desarrollo en la Empresa Turística» (GEIDETUR) del Plan Andaluz de Investigación.

Evaluadora de varias revistas y publicaciones científicas nacionales e internacionales, 7 años vicedecana de Extensión y Prácticas de la Facultad de Ciencias del Trabajo y vicerrectora de Estudiantes y Participación Social de la Universidad de Huelva. Fue Vicerrectora de la UHU. Secretaria general del Campus Iberoamericano. De 2010 a 2013 directora de la Sede Iberoamericana Santa María de la Rábida de la Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, y actualmente Vicerrectora del Campus de La Rábida.

Language proficiency: Spanish (limited: English)

CHIEF PSYCHOLOGIST AT THE ISRAEL VALUES CENTER AND PART TIME INSTRUCTOR AT VARIOUS UNIVERSITIES

Psychologist, certified family and couple therapist, senior coach (MCIL), organizational consultant, groups instructor and a lecturer in various academic institutes. Holds a B.Sc. in psychology & computer science and master’s in psychology from the Bar-Ilan University and Ph. D from Haifa University.

A psychotherapist and supervisor with wide experience working with adults, adolescents and children in individuals, couples and family context and setting. Specializes in value assimilation in families, educational institutions and business organizations. Certified Management by Value Master (ICF, M.D.S). Creator of “The Parent as a Value Anchor” model. Consultant to couples and organizations on the topic of “work-family interface” and the dynamic relationship between the couple and their managers regarding the work-family interface.

Language proficiency: English and Hebrew

FULL PROFESSOR ESSEC Business School

Jean-Luc Cerdin est Professeur de Gestion Internationale des Ressources Humaines à l’ESSEC Business School, en France. Il est titulaire d’un Doctorat en gestion et d’une Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) de l’Université de Toulouse et d’un Master of Science de la London School of Economics.

Prof. Cerdin has been affiliated with BSI for several years.

His bio can be found at the BSI web site 

Language proficiency: French, English, Limited Spanish