Autor: Daniela Eberhardt

Dr. Daniela Eberhardt is an academic and professional with a background in psychology, administrative sciences and management. Since September 2015 she has worked as the Director of Human Resources of the City of Zurich with approximately 28 000 employees in the whole of the city. She is responsible for the management of the HRM division with approximately 140 employees and for the implementation of the city wide HR strategy. From 2008-August 2015 she was Director of the Institute of Applied Psychology IAP at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW. In addition to this role she was in charge for further education programs and consulting/counseling in a wide variety of applied psychology topics for leaders and experts (i.e. leadership, coaching, career counseling) as well as for approximately 90 employees. Before 2008 she was involved with diverse leadership initiatives and expert functions; personal background in training and education, applied research and consulting; management and people development, organizational development and change management.  She has experience in building, leading and internationalization of the management development unit in a globally active company IT-Organization as well as a subject matter expert in leadership, change management and human resource management. Her latest applied research topics are age-related leadership and future of leadership. Dr. Anna-Lena Majkovic studied Psychology and Politics at the Free University Berlin, Germany and at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She holds a Ph D in Social and Organisational Psychology from the University of Kent, UK. Anna-Lena Majkovic worked as an Associate Lecturer in statistics, research methods, social/organisational psychology and career development at the University of Kent and at Christ Church University, UK. After her Ph D, she was awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Durham Business School, Durham University, UK. She obtained a Postgraduate Degree in Higher Education from the University of Kent and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. She currently works as a lecturer at IAP, Institute of Applied Psychology at Zurich University of Applied Sciences. Her current research and work interests are scientifically based competency modelling and intercultural leadership.