Fredmund Malik
Prof. Dr. Fredmund Malik, acclaimed international management expert, entrepreneur and professor for corporate management and governance, is founder and chairman of Malik Management, St. Gallen, Switzerland, the world’s leading organization for wholistic management, advanced leadership and governance solutions. The extreme alpinist and many-times awarded author of a dozen bestselling books, including the classic "Managing, Performing, Living" is a regular columnist in opinion-forming media and one of the leading and most innovative management thinkers of our time.
Being a member of the board of directors and advisory boards of world market leading corporations he is an intimate connoisseur of corporate governance. In this capacity he was one of the first to be an outspoken critic of neoliberalism and the shareholder value approach since the early 1990s. Due to his cybernetic methods and instruments he was among the very first to predict and write about the current crisis, the Great Transformation and its complex challenges for which he has developed cutting edge solutions.
The Doyen of management, Peter F. Drucker, about Malik:
"Fredmund Malik has become the leading analyst of, and expert on, Manage- ment in Europe as it has emerged in the last thirty years - and a powerful force in shaping it as a consultant. He is a commanding figure - in theory as well as in the practice of Management."
Malik's Wholistic Managmement Systems® are the most effective instruments for the reliable functioning of organizations under the complex conditions and dynamic changes of today’s globalized world. They are based on more than 30 years of research and application in the field of General Management of complex systems and the reliable functioning of organizations.
With his cybernetic-based management approach, Malik has been setting the standard for professional management for decades. The centerpiece of the Malik Systems is the Malik SuperSyntegration Method®, the revolutionary innovation for solving an organization’s toughest challenges and amplifying manifold the leadership capacity of top management.