Kurt Meyer

I love to coach, motivate, challenge or short to work with inspiring people. This resulted in consistently adding significant value to organisations, motivating and positioning them for success. Empowering teams and leveraging my expertise as well as skills acquired from my executive and non executive roles in a range of industries and geographies were key to these successes.

I enjoy challenges and uncertainty. I am a regular industry speaker, lecturing at Universities and chairing ETH Zurich Risk Center's Advisory Board.

Having implemented a state of the art risk foresight, prevention and management system, Harvard Business School selected this as lead case for their Risk-Management Executive Education Program.

Experience

Meyer Advisory Principal Partner Jan 2013 – Zürich, Schweiz

AXA Head opRisk & Internal Control May 2019 – Winterthur Area, Switzerland

RiskTalk Ltd. Strategic Advisor Jan 2019 – Brighton, Großbritannien „Risk Management in a digital age“.

RiskTalk builds on research on man-made disasters (Harvard Business School and the University of Lausanne) which shows that most so called man-made disasters are preventable, and are caused by organizational factors, and that many organizations are prone to incubate such risks. RiskTalk is specifically designed to prevent risk incubation by empowering employees to speak up about anomalies and issues that affect their priorities, safety and self-efficacy at work. Preventing risks increases organizational value.

Additionally, RiskTalk helps companies to develop their culture and enables them to establish a “crowd innovation” process.

The big picture that emerges from RiskTalk provides a unique view into the workings of the organization and can inform top management and the board whether or not the firm lives by the core values, commitments and priorities they espouse.

RiskTalk has been featured in various academic & business media, industry presentations and business school curricula in the United States, Asia and Europe.

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich Chairman of the Advisory Board (ETH Risk Center) 2015 – Zürich Area, Switzerland The Center strives to overcome fragmentation in risk research and risk management, to design systems for cost-effective resilience and to integrate multiple risk dimensions.

The ETH Risk Center’s activities are based upon an interdisciplinary approach where a cluster of specialists from contrasting research areas pool their knowledge and experience to develop innovative solutions. The Risk Center fosters both top-down initiatives and bottom-up collaborative research projects linked with R&D. It also serves as an interface between academia, industry and civil (or governmental) authorities. Its research output helps society and industry to better manage risk portfolios and to design novel solutions for collaborative risk reduction, and resilience-enhancing schemes. Overcoming fragmented research as a guiding principle allows to better cope with the systemic nature of risk and to shape the evolving concepts of "Integrated Risk Management" and „Resilience”.

The Risk Center pools the expertise of 17 professors from seven different departments of ETH Zurich. The Risk Center’s activities are based upon an interdisciplinary approach where a cluster of specialists from contrasting research areas pool their knowledge and experience to develop innovative solutions.

The Advisory Board consists of senior external advisors who provide strategic advice to the ETH Risk Center's Steering Committee and connections to key external organizations.

ETH Risk Center University of Fribourg Lecturer Executive MBA Jan 2010 – Fribourg Enterprise Risk Management, Internal Controls

Education

University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Executive MBA in Business Engineering 1999 – 2000

University of California Berkeley, USA EMBA Haas School of Business 1999 – 2000

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Business in China / International Business 2007 – 2007

Stanford Research Institute (SRI) and IDEO, Palo Alto, USA Innovation Management 2006

"Five Disciplines of Innovation": An intense on site program including a stringent methodology to grow innovation and foster cultural change. Hosted and run by Stanford Research Institute's (SRI International) professionals and guest lecturers from silicon valley (Palo Alto, California, USA).

University of Zurich MSc/MA Information Technology / Business Administration 1985 – 1990