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Meet Professor Menges
How can people thrive at work and in life—today and tomorrow?
That question has guided Professor Dr. Jochen Menges throughout his career. He holds the Chair of Human Resource Management and Leadership at the Department of Business Administration and serves as the Director of the Center for Leadership in the Future of Work at the University of Zurich. He is also a Professor of Leadership at Cambridge Judge Business School and a member of King’s College at the University of Cambridge. His research explores how leaders inspire and influence others, how emotions shape behavior, and how individuals and organizations can prepare for the future of work. As a co-founder of the Global HR Valley®, a future-of-work ecosystem that is part of the Reskilling Revolution of the World Economic Forum, he helps people, leaders, and organizations flourish in an increasingly complex world.
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Jochen’s research has been published in top-tier academic outlets such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He received several awards for his research, among them the Annual Prize for the Best Leadership-related Article (Institute for Leadership, Ivey Business School) and the Annals of the Academy of Management Best Article Award for his work on group emotions.
He has given two TEDx talks, regularly writes for Harvard Business Review, and his discoveries have been featured in the media around the world, for example, by the BBC, CNN, The Economist, The Financial Times, The New York Times, NPR, NZZ, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, and Die Zeit.
Jochen has lectured at all academic levels and received multiple awards for his teaching, including the MBA teaching prize at the University of Cambridge and a recognition for Evidence-Based Leadership Development by the Academy of Management’s Education and Development Division. Jochen has taught leadership across sectors, at places like the World Economic Forum, at vibrant start-up incubators such as Plug & Play in Silicon Valley and The Venture Café Foundation in Boston, at prestigious military academies such as The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the UK and The Center for Leadership in Germany, and at influential banks such as the European Central Bank and the World Bank. Together with his students, Jochen launched the “Future Leaders Fundraising Challenge,” a one-week intense leadership course that has meanwhile raised more than 600,000 euro in support of the work of Save the Children, a leading independent children’s rights organization.
In his research, teaching and consulting, Jochen has worked with a diverse set of companies and organizations including The Adecco Group, BNP Paribas, The Boston Consulting Group, British Telecom, Daimler, easyJet, the European Commission, Google, Grey, Jaguar Land Rover, L'Oreal, Lindt Sprüngli, Media Arts Lab, Merck, Microsoft, Nordea, Rolls-Royce, and SAP.
Jochen serves organiztions with a global reach, for example, as a Subject Matter Expert of the Academy of Management and as an executive board member of The International Society for Emotional Intelligence.
Jochen received his doctoral degree in management from the University of St. Gallen, spent a year at the Graduate School of Arts and Science at Yale University, and completed undergraduate and graduate degrees in psychology at the University of Heidelberg, supported by a scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation. Jochen loves spending time with his wife and three children. No pets yet, although that’s a discussion in the Menges family where he already sees himself on the losing side...
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Jochen’s research has been published in top-tier academic outlets such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He received several awards for his research, among them the Annual Prize for the Best Leadership-related Article (Institute for Leadership, Ivey Business School) and the Annals of the Academy of Management Best Article Award for his work on group emotions.
He has given two TEDx talks, regularly writes for Harvard Business Review, and his discoveries have been featured in the media around the world, for example, by the BBC, CNN, The Economist, The Financial Times, The New York Times, NPR, NZZ, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, and Die Zeit.
Jochen has lectured at all academic levels and received multiple awards for his teaching, including the MBA teaching prize at the University of Cambridge and a recognition for Evidence-Based Leadership Development by the Academy of Management’s Education and Development Division. Jochen has taught leadership across sectors, at places like the World Economic Forum, at vibrant start-up incubators such as Plug & Play in Silicon Valley and The Venture Café Foundation in Boston, at prestigious military academies such as The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the UK and The Center for Leadership in Germany, and at influential banks such as the European Central Bank and the World Bank. Together with his students, Jochen launched the “Future Leaders Fundraising Challenge,” a one-week intense leadership course that has meanwhile raised more than 600,000 Euro in support of the work of Save the Children, a leading independent children’s rights organization.
In his research, teaching and consulting, Jochen has worked with a diverse set of companies and organizations including The Adecco Group, BNP Paribas, The Boston Consulting Group, British Telecom, Daimler, easyJet, the European Commission, Google, Grey, Jaguar Land Rover, L'Oreal, Lindt Sprüngli, Media Arts Lab, Merck, Microsoft, Nordea, Rolls-Royce, and SAP.
Jochen serves organisztions with a global reach, for example, as a Subject Matter Expert of the Academy of Management and as an executive board member of The International Society for Emotional Intelligence.
Jochen received his doctoral degree in management from the University of St. Gallen, spent a year at the Graduate School of Arts and Science at Yale University, and completed undergraduate and graduate degrees in psychology at the University of Heidelberg, supported by a scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation. Jochen loves spending time with his wife and three children. No pets yet, although that’s a discussion in the Menges family where he already sees himself on the losing side...
The Academic Homes of Jochen Menges
University of Zurich
Jochen is a Professor of HRM and Leadership at the University of Zurich (UZH), which is Switzerland's largest university with more than 28,000 students. Founded in the year 1833 and made up of seven faculties covering some 100 different subject areas, the University of Zurich is among the leading research universities of the world and offers a wide variety of Bachelor's, Master's, PhD, and executive education programs.
Cambridge Judge Business School
Jochen is a Professor of Leadership at Cambridge Judge Business School, a top-ranked business school situated within one of the world’s most prestigious research universities. As a center of rigorous thinking and high-impact transformative education, Cambridge Judge pursues innovation through interdisciplinary insight, entrepreneurial spirit, and collaboration.
Center for Leadership in the Future of Work
Jochen is the Director of the Center for Leadership in the Future of Work, which conducts cutting-edge research on how people can thrive at work—today and tomorrow, offers transformative learning journeys for leaders, and partners with businesses around the world. Grounded in science and experimentation, the Center explores topics around leadership, emotional intelligence, mindsets, social dynamics, gender, and artificial intelligence (AI).
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