Roland Deiser

Summary

I am passionate about understanding transformational challenges and political dynamics of large organizations and business ecosystems, and I pursue this interest by publishing, teaching, speaking, advising, orchestrating executive peer networks and producing custom think tanks. I love to explore boundaries and play at the edge, as these are the places of discourse, innovation, and life. After 10 years as a Senior Fellow with USC Annenberg's Center for the Digital Future I founded in 2015 my own sandbox - the Center for the Future of Organization at the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Garduate University, where we focus on the challenges of organizing in the 21st century. Our latest project explores the organizational capabilities required for business ecosystem leadership. I served as founding Dean of Daimler's Corporate University and created the Executive Corporate Learning Forum (ECLF), a consortium of global corporations to jointly explore how to develop strategic and organizational capabilities in fast-changing environments - a rewarding experience that kept me learning for the last 20 years. I also work as an adviser to Fortune 500 companies, government organizations, and emerging companies, both in Europe and the United States. As a Professor of Organizational Politics I have been researching and teaching at multiple universities in the US and Europe, among them the University of Southern California (USC), the Technical University Munich (TUM), and Vienna University. I have authored/edited four books, among them "Shaping the Future of Transformational Learning" (2020), "Transformers" (2014), and "Designing the Smart Organization"​ (2009, with Wiley). My 2013 piece “Six Social Media Skills Every Leader Needs” was with 120,000+ downloads one of the most downloaded articles in the history of McKinsey Quarterly. Earlier in my life, I was instrumental in creating FastTrack (a globally integrated digital music copyright management system), worked with the Austrian Government on developing the local Film, TV, and Multimedia industry, and advised the German Federal Government on the impact of the Internet on the future of universities. Specialties: Building Global Think Tanks, Business Ecosystems, Venture Development, Strategy Development and Implementation, Strategic Alliances, Organizational Politics, Systems Thinking, Organizational Design, Corporate Transformation, Corporate Learning, Leadership Development, Executive Education, Media and Entertainment, Communication