Michael Heuser

Michael Heuser brings to MCE twenty years of senior executive experience in the Airline industry and the ICT sector. He is recognised a leading expert in HR Business Partner Concepts, Corporate Academies / Universities as well as in the design and implementation of career systems for management, project managers and experts. He does extensive consulting, coaching and teaching work with major European companies and NGOs in the areas of Strategy, Leadership, Change and Performance Management.

Professional background

TMichael Heuser is partner and managing director of a network of executives, consultants and academics. In addition, Michael is professor for international management and project management at the Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft in Germany. For the last two decades, Michael has been an auditor of the accreditation systems EQUIS (business schools) and CLIP (strategic learning systems of companies) for the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), Brussels, Belgium. Throughout his corporate career, Michael held various executive positions always linked to education and people development: – Senior Vice President Human Resources Development, T-Systems International (Deutsche Telekom). Michael was in charge of people development for some 50,000 employees worldwide. His main focuses were: people and expert development; talent and management development; strategic change management; strategic learning and education; education policies. – Vice President and Head Lufthansa School of Business, Deutsche Lufthansa. Michael was co-founder and long-time leader of this first corporate university in Germany. He carried group-wide responsibility for the design and the implementation of education strategies and education policies, for management and organisational development and for recruitment strategy and policies. – Director International Programs, European School of Management and Technology (ESMT), Berlin and Cologne, Germany. Michael designed and conducted management and executive programs for major corporations, many of them in cooperation with leading business schools. Additionally, he was invited to Duke University, North Carolina / USA and to the Asian Institute of Management, Manila / Philippines as visiting professor.

Education and qualifications

After an apprenticeship in banking, Michael studied economics and journalism at the universities of Cologne and Mainz, Germany. He did his doctorate in business administration at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Michael is alumnus of the Advanced Human Resources Executive Program, University of Michigan / USA (Dave Ulrich).