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Gudrun Sander

Gudrun Sander

Gudrun Sander

Prof. Dr.

Professor, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration with a special emphasis on Diversity Management

Competence Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI-FIM)
Dufourstrasse 40a

9000 St. Gallen
Main Focuses

Gender and Diversity Management (as a leadership task)

Diversity Benchmarking and Wage Analyses

Unconscious Bias Trainings

Diversity & Inclusion Surveys

Strategic Management and Leadership in Non-Profit-Organizations

Fields of research

Gender and Diversity Management

Diversity Benchmarking

Inclusive Leadership

Further fields of research

Diversity and Gender Management as a leadership task

Strategic Management and Leadership in Non-Profit-Organizations

Power and Equality

Impacts of Unconscious Biases

Education
  • 1997 PhD (Dr. oec. HSG), University of St. Gallen, Switzerland  
  • 2001 Diploma in Financial and Management Accounting, St. Galler Management and Business School SBS 
  • 2005-2007 Continuing education in university-level teaching at HDZ-HSG 
  • 2012-2013 Advanced Management Program (AMP-HSG), Executive School of Management, Technology and Law (ES-HSG), St. Gallen 
Professional Career

Since 2021 Director of the Research Institute for International Management FIM-HSG 

Since 2014 Professor of Business Administration with special emphasis on Diversity Management at the University of St.Gallen, Senior Lecturer

Since 2012 Director Competence Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI) at the Research Institute for International Management at the University of St. Gallen (FIM-HSG): Academia-industry partnership projects to track and improve diversity management throughout organisations; St.Gallen Diversity Benchmarking: benchmarking of diversity-related indicators; surveys on inclusive corporate culture; etc. (www.ccdi-unisg.ch)

2007-2021 Director for Diversity and Management Programs at the Executive School of Management, Technology and Law of the University of St Gallen (ES-HSG): academic director ‘Women Back to Business’, an executive education program for female re-entrants with academic qualifications (www.es.unisg.ch/wbb

Since 2001 Director of the Swiss national project “Diversity-Controlling”, until 2010 financed by the Federal Office for Gender Equality (FOGE), Bern, Switzerland, since 2010 functioning as a non-profit-organization (www.diversity-controlling.org

2010-2013 Head of Knowledge Transfer of the National Research Program NRP 60 “Gender Equality” of the Swiss National Science Foundation (www.nfp60.ch

1996-1999 Executive board of TATEN STATT WORTE Switzerland 

Teaching Activities
  • Professor of Business Administration with a special emphasis on Diversity Management, Senior Lecturer at the University of St. Gallen (since 2021)
  • Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and Gender and Diversity management at the University of St.Gallen (since 2001, all levels including Executive Education )
  • Lectures, Workshops, Executive Education, Project Management and In-House-Training in the areas of  Gender and Diversity Management, Diversity-Competence as a Leadership Task, Unconscious Biases, Diversity Benchmarking
  • Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management, Organization, Leadership and Accounting as well as Diversity Management at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (2001-2015) 
Projects

Gender Intelligence Report www.advance-hsg-report.ch 

St. Gallen Diversity Benchmarking www.diversitybenchmarking.ch 

Wage analyses www.we-pay-fair.ch  

Aiming Higher für Assistenzärztinnen https://es.unisg.ch/de/weiterbildung/aiming-higher-karriereentwicklung-fuer-assistenzaerztinnen/ 

www.ccdi-unisg.ch 

Affiliations
  • Member of HSG Alumni
  • Member of SMG Schweizerische Management Gesellschaft
  • Member of EWMD European Women's Management Development Network
  • Member of Women's Empowerment Principles Leadership Group (WEPs LG) of UN Women and UN Global Compact
  • Member of Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Working Group on Gender Equality
  • Member of FemWiss Schweiz
  • Member of LLL League of Leading Ladies 
  • Member of Female Board Pool 
Awards

Since 2014 Professor of Business Administration with special emphasis on Diversity Management, Senior Lecturer

1998 - Prize of Recognition from the Swiss Society of Organization and Management (SGO)

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