What does social collaboration have to do with leadership? Between these areas, change is needed at various levels. Management and leadership as role models have to prove that the organization is not following a passing trend but striving for a serious transformation. The people in the organization must be able to develop the trust it takes to want to take responsibility for collaborative design. And the system must be aligned in such a way that employees do not wear themselves out with their contributions.

Network before hierarchies 

The Swiss Social Collaboration Summit on 12 November 19 aims to be a platform where exemplary cases for new approaches are shown. It wants to be a learning space where exciting, lateral thinking impulses are conveyed and jointly reflected upon and further developed. It is meant to be a community for all people who want to network in order to share their knowledge and experiences. People who want to co-creatively develop new things and grow together.

The program of the Summit on November 12, 2019

The topics, speakers and inspirers

Key note speakers

Unlearning: Unlearning as a necessity on the way to the new

Morrison has been marketing and commercial director at Diesel for the past few years. He was responsible for campaigns such as "Only The Brave" or "The Diesel Island" and was listed several times among "UK's Top 50 Most Influential Black People". Prior to Diesel, Morrison was Marketing Director at Activison, Head of Marketing at Levi's Strauss and managed the Nike account at Wieden & Kennedy. At Saatchi & Saatchi, he was responsible for Procter & Gamble or Toyota. In 2014, he founded BOOM and has since advised decision-makers at companies such as Red Bull, Starbucks, Absolut or Virgin. He is co-author of the book "Creative Superpowers", in which he advocates the importance of unlearning things so that new things can emerge.

How we can be smarter, more creative and more competent together. than any of us could be on our own

The Ural 650, a motorcycle from Soviet times is known worldwide - especially for its unreliability. That's exactly why the 5 members of the artist collective "Leavinghomefunktion" rode this motorcycle overland from Germany eastwards to New York in 2.5 years. All five have studied fine arts at different international universities. So they understood their journey mainly as an art project. They were confronted with foreign territories, foreign disciplines and came up against countless limits, but as a team they achieved their goal. They often doubted it - but never at the same time. They have had to reinvent themselves umpteen times and have often outgrown themselves. To the podcast (#MoTcast) of Ingo Stoll and Leavinghomefunktion

Rethinking Leadership: Network beats hierarchy

Christiane Brandes-Visbeck, M.A., was a TV producer, NYC correspondent, online editor-in-chief and head of Human Resources and Communications before she set out to rethink leadership and work organization. Her goal is for everyone to understand how he/she can navigate Digital Transformation for the good of our democratic society. To increase her reach, Christiane has published two reference books. In "Network Beats Hierarchy. Neue Führung mit Digital Leadership" (2017), she and co-author Ines Gensinger encourage decision-makers to rethink leadership. In "Fit for New Work" (2018), she and co-author Susanne Thielecke present hero journeys of New Work role models such as Svenja Hofert (Mindset), Tobias Kremlau (Coworking), Stephan Grabmeier (Leadership) or Workgenius co-founder Daniel Barke (Gig Economy). The authors explain important terms from the world of new work and use journaling questions to encourage readers to embark on their own personal hero's journeys.

Everyone talks about the courage to change and to take a stand. Many are afraid to take the first steps because they do not know how or because they fear losing control over their lives. This is especially fatal for people in leadership. To motivate people to start their hero's journey (according to J. Campbell) from the known boss world to the unknown leader world, Christiane has developed a tool that helps like a navigator not to lose sight of your own goal. With her Digital Leadership Canvas you can find out what you understand by contemporary and meaningful (self-)leadership, where your strengths for the digital age lie and who from your network can accompany you on your journey for part of the way. You actively face your challenges, find solutions together with others and define your personal barometer of success. Watch the video from minute 6:00

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Self-organisation needs a new, a horizontal attitude to authority

Frank H. Baumann-Habersack, M.A. Mediation and Conflict Management, researches authority and conflicts in the context of leadership (empirical basic research Mixed-Method, D. Mertens, freelance doctoral student at the University of Bremen). He is a banker, business economist, labour scientist and trained in systemic family therapy and supervision. Baumann-Habersack has more than 25 years of experience as an employee and entrepreneur, including as a manager, in various industries. He currently works as a mediator and consultant for organizations of all kinds on leadership issues and as a publicist. Co-speaker of the DGSF specialist group "Systemic Management". His new book for managers on systemic conflict management and horizontal authority will be published in early 2020. Watch the video

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Leadership in highly complex times: How you create the process pattern change

Günther Wagner was an officer in the German Air Force for many years and later a sales manager for international insurance companies. Out of personal concern he took a look beyond his own nose, and in 2004 became effective in the tsunami relief as a board member of "Human helps Human". Günther Wagner is currently active as a management consultant, lecturer and lateral thinker. His life was and is characterized by transformation processes. His expertise is based on a very multi-layered work and life experience. Starting with leadership training, through change management, conflict management, systemic organizational development and consulting, evolution management, to longer study stays in Asia. There he deepened his mindfulness practice and expanded his knowledge of Aikido. It is said about him that he dares to look beyond the mainstream and brings processes to bear in a different way. He deliberately takes detours to inspire just such an edge to success. His core topics are: Leadership in highly complex times, Working World 4.0, the related education that needs to be realigned and closely linked to these topics, the discrete confrontation with the comprehensive, often difficult to access resistance to change. To his article

Hermann Arnold; Co-founder of Haufe-umantis AG, St. Gallen

FLEAT - From the enterprise to the agile fleet

Muriel Bouakaz; researcher and designer in the Office Academy; Witzig The Office Company AG

Circumstances drive behavior: How space empowers as an enabler

Ulrike Clasen, eye level companion, entrepreneur, network management training

Eye level begins with listening - Those who listen to themselves can meet others at eye level.

Pascal Dulex, Creative Director/Cultural Coach, FREITAG Taschen, Zurich

Trust and collaboration: the basis for the success of social collaboration

Cindy Eggs; Director of Studies, Distance Learning University of Applied Sciences Switzerland (FFHS)

Product Owner Collaboration and Social Learning at Swisscom

When organizations and people reinvent themselves

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Martin Geisenhainer; Learning Architect, Swisscom, Bern

Networked learning and (more) self caring for future and innovation capability

Manuela Burgemeister, Dr Eva Riedi Collen, Linus Riedi; Founders of Coeco

Work together playfully and achieve success

Daniel Stoller-Schai, Change Companion at Collaboration Design

"Off to your own country" - analysing and shaping entrepreneurial fields of action

Location: Kulturhaus Helferei Zurich

Summit '19 will take place on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 in the unique "Kulturhaus Helferei" in the middle of Zurich's old town - in the very house where Ulrich Zwingli lived.

Address:
Kulturhaus Helferei - Kirchgasse 13 - 8001 Zurich
Phone: 044 250 66 00 - www.kulturhaus-helferei.ch