Gudrun Sander
Gudrun Sander
Director FIM-HSG and Director Competence Centre for Diversity and Inclusion CCDI
Dufourstrasse 40a
9000 St. Gallen
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
Gender and Diversity Management
Diversity Benchmarking
Inclusive Leadership
Diversity and Gender Management as a leadership task
Strategic Management and Leadership in Non-Profit-Organizations
Power and Equality
Impacts of Unconscious Biases
- 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
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
- 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)
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
- 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
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)