NOV 5, 2025

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NOV 6 – 7, 2025

Global Peter
Drucker Forum

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NOV 5 – 7, 2025

People Leader
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Speakers and Chairs 2025 include

Iyinoluwa ‘E’

Aboyeji

Founding Partner of Future Africa, Africa’s leading seed stage investor

Alex

Adamopoulos

CEO and founder, Emergn

Asheesh

Advani

President and CEO of JA (Junior Achievement) Worldwide

Feryal

Ahmadi

Deputy CEO and Chief Operating Officer, DMCC

Alberto

Alemanno

Professor of EU Law at HEC Paris, and social entrepreneur

Alexander

Alonso

Chief Data & Analytics Officer at SHRM

Teresa

Amabile

Professor of Business Administration, Emerita at HBS.

Carla

Arellano

Partner, Greyhound Capital

Eva

Asselmann

Professor of Differential and Personality Psychology at HMU Health and Medical University in Potsdam

Thomas Alexander

Baader

Senior Vice President Marketing and Business Strategy - Partnering Strategy, Robert Bosch Powertools GmbH

Stephan

Balzer

CEO Red Onion GmbH, Strategic Advisor, Curator, Futurist

Helen

Bevan

Expert on large scale change in health care

Eduardo P.

Braun

Leadership expert, consultant and author

Richard

Brem

Journalist

Curtis R.

Carlson

Professor of Practice, Northeastern University; Former CEO, SRI International; Former Chairman, Sarnoff Corporation

Sapthagiri

Chapalapalli

Head of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Europe

Niren

Chaudhary

Former CEO of Pandera Brands. Non-profit & Philanthropy Leader

Laurent

Choain

Chief Culture & Partnership Officer of Forvis Mazars Group

Esther

Clark

Contributor to Forbes, America Economia, WEF. Global Head of Communications at Inspired Education Group

Martin

Curley

Professor of Innovation, Maynooth University

Veit

Dengler

Member of the Austrian Parliament

Steve

Denning

Senior Contributor at Forbes.com, author and educator

Yves

Doz

Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management

Amy

Edmondson

Professor of Leadership & Management, Harvard Business School

Claudio

Fernández-Aráoz

Executive Fellow for Executive Education, Harvard Business School

Isabelle

Grosmaitre

Founder & CEO of Goodness & Co

Jyoti

Guptara

Bestselling Author, Storytelling Expert, MD momenta Europe

Gary

Hamel

Director, Management Lab; Visiting professor, London Business School;

Kate

Handy

Osteopath

Lisa

Hehenberger

Associate Professor at ESADE Bus. School; Founding Director of ESADE Center for Social Impact

Zabeen

Hirji

Executive Advisor; Former Chief Human Resources Officer, RBC; Corporate and Not-for-Profit Director

Werner H.

Hoffmann

Head of Institute of Strategic Management, WU Vienna

Rasmus

Hougaard

Founder, CEO Potential Project

Xavier

Huillard

Chairman of the Board of Directors of VINCI

Edward

Huizenga

Professor of Strategy and Change, Maastricht University Managing Partner Benthurst Consulting

Michael

Kaschke

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), President of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft

John

Kay

Founding Dean of Oxford University‘s Said Business School

Shiv Vikram

Khemka

Vice-Chairman, SUN Group

Julia

Kirby

Senior Editor, Harvard University Press

Thomas

Kirste

Director at Bosch Management Consulting Innovation for Business & Digital Strategy

SPEAKERS LIST 2025

Next Era Leadership: All Hands on Deck

What is next-era leadership? It’s a fundamental rethink of what it means to lead in a world that has moved far, far beyond the conditions and institutions of the postwar era. Across two days of spirited interaction in Vienna, we’ll confront the shortcomings of leadership today – as it is practiced, researched, and taught – and move together toward better ways of building the capacities needed for the future.

Our subtitle for the 2025 Forum – All Hands on Deck – betrays one belief we already hold on the subject. What has been seen as a powerful role for individuals, and rare ones at that, must be reframed as a creative energy distributed across many. We all know that to lead is a verb, not a noun, and what matters is the positive change that leaders bring about through others. (Drucker himself stressed decades ago that the mark of effective leadership is outcomes, not attributes.) We should also know that when leadership is making great things happen, it isn’t because legions of followers have mindlessly shown up to take orders from some mogul, it’s because people eager to make life better have been inspired by a vision and purpose, have ideas for how to make progress, and know their efforts must be aligned to accomplish anything big.

Notice that, while the Drucker Forum has always focused on the management of organizations and workplaces, none of the above is expressed in such terms. This year, we engage with a crisis afflicting the world on every level. With Drucker, we see the health of whole societies in the strength of their pillar institutions – and understand that next-era leadership must be cultivated in every corner.

Join us November 6 – 7 to share ideas and experience in the splendid setting of the Hofburg Palace. And be part of leadership’s next-era vanguard.

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What can we know about the future, and what must we learn from the past? What is possible, and what must we be able to do? And what are the values, the goals, the commitment to responsible action in society and business?

Peter F. Drucker, Thoughts for the Future

Masterclasses

Global Peter Drucker Forum

People Leader Track

Next Era Leadership: All Hands on Deck

Global Peter
Drucker Forum

People Leader
Track