Programm of the LTA
The Leadership Talent Academy programme includes various workshops and seminars on a wide range of personal development topics as well as a coaching and alumni programme. The programme is organised and conducted exclusively in German.
Module overview
Summer semester 2025, Badge #8
Subject to change without notice.
Self-leadership and leadership (28/29 April 2025)
Reading leadership situations, reacting appropriately and staying in my power are basic requirements for a good leader. In this two-day workshop, we will look at the topics of leadership and self-leadership. The focus is on ‘leadership at eye level’, which is fundamental to success in a rapidly changing (business) world. The first module concludes with the development of the personal leadership compass needle.Contents Day 1 ‘Leadership at eye level’:- Reading leadership situations
- Leadership roles and recommendations for action
- Methods for leadership at eye levelContents of day 2 ‘Leadership and self-leadership’:- Self-leadership and performance
- Individual values and strengths
- Personal leadership compass needleGoals:- Inner stability and clarity in a leadership context
- Application of specific tools for leadership and self-leadership
- Orientation for career and leadership entrySpeaker:Simone Ramelsberger M.A., M.Sc., expert in leadership development, systemic coach and trainer in the innovation environment for over 7 yearsDate / Time:
Mon, 21.10.2024 / 09 a.m. - 5 p.m.Tue, 22.10.2024 / 09 - 17 p.m.
- Leadership roles and recommendations for action
- Methods for leadership at eye levelContents of day 2 ‘Leadership and self-leadership’:- Self-leadership and performance
- Individual values and strengths
- Personal leadership compass needleGoals:- Inner stability and clarity in a leadership context
- Application of specific tools for leadership and self-leadership
- Orientation for career and leadership entrySpeaker:Simone Ramelsberger M.A., M.Sc., expert in leadership development, systemic coach and trainer in the innovation environment for over 7 yearsDate / Time:
Mon, 21.10.2024 / 09 a.m. - 5 p.m.Tue, 22.10.2024 / 09 - 17 p.m.
Leadership DNA: Combining personal values with scientific leadership expertise (19/05/2025)
In this module, you will develop your individual understanding of leadership based on the latest findings of modern leadership in the 21st century. After an impulse on different leadership styles, you will reflect on your own values and strengths in order to find your personal leadership style. You will use a vision board to set specific goals and anchor them in your everyday life.Content: - Leadership styles of the 21st century - scientifically based with concrete examples from practice
- Developing your own leadership DNA
- Anchoring your own leadership DNA in everyday (leadership) behaviourObjectives:- Understanding the diversity of leadership styles and their effectiveness in different contexts
- Developing your own leadership DNA in line with your values, strengths and goalsSpeaker:Dr Victoria Berg, Leadership and Innovation Consulting & Coaching, LecturerDate / Time:
Mon, 19.05.2025 / 9 am - 5 pm
- Developing your own leadership DNA
- Anchoring your own leadership DNA in everyday (leadership) behaviourObjectives:- Understanding the diversity of leadership styles and their effectiveness in different contexts
- Developing your own leadership DNA in line with your values, strengths and goalsSpeaker:Dr Victoria Berg, Leadership and Innovation Consulting & Coaching, LecturerDate / Time:
Mon, 19.05.2025 / 9 am - 5 pm
Authentic & Embodied Leadership: Living leadership with presence and integrity (20/05/2025)
Part 1: ‘Authentic Leadership’ - Leading yourself and others authentically (9am - 1pm), Part 2: ‘Embodied Leadership: Leading in motion’ - Seeing and being seen (2pm - 5pm)Part 1:
Authentic Leadership builds on the experience that people are particularly productive, creative and positively motivated when they consider what they are doing to be coherent, meaningful and right for them. The ‘Authentic Leadership’ module offers a sound introduction to what it means to be authentic. Two basic skills are central to this: Self-reflection and self-awareness.Contents:- The importance of authenticity for your own life, especially your leadership role
- Self-reflection: scrutinising your own motives, values and goals
- Self-awareness: Reflection and dealing with emotionsObjectives:- Exploring the idea of authentic self-leadership
- Training in self-awareness and self-reflectionSpeaker:Johannes Lober M.A., MBA, Managing Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Leadership (LETHOS)Date / Time:
Tue, 20 May 2025 / 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.Part 2:
We transfer the cognitive learning experience into the body. In the afternoon of the module day, we experience what it means to get in touch with yourself and others through movement.Contents:- Movement experience and awareness-raising
- Contact experience
- Circle of LifeSpeaker:Johannes Härtl, Managing Director Iwanson International School of Contemporary DanceDate / Time:
Tue, 20.05.2025 / 2-5 p.m.
Authentic Leadership builds on the experience that people are particularly productive, creative and positively motivated when they consider what they are doing to be coherent, meaningful and right for them. The ‘Authentic Leadership’ module offers a sound introduction to what it means to be authentic. Two basic skills are central to this: Self-reflection and self-awareness.Contents:- The importance of authenticity for your own life, especially your leadership role
- Self-reflection: scrutinising your own motives, values and goals
- Self-awareness: Reflection and dealing with emotionsObjectives:- Exploring the idea of authentic self-leadership
- Training in self-awareness and self-reflectionSpeaker:Johannes Lober M.A., MBA, Managing Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Leadership (LETHOS)Date / Time:
Tue, 20 May 2025 / 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.Part 2:
We transfer the cognitive learning experience into the body. In the afternoon of the module day, we experience what it means to get in touch with yourself and others through movement.Contents:- Movement experience and awareness-raising
- Contact experience
- Circle of LifeSpeaker:Johannes Härtl, Managing Director Iwanson International School of Contemporary DanceDate / Time:
Tue, 20.05.2025 / 2-5 p.m.
Effective communication and conflict resolution (23/06/2025)
Effective communication and conflict resolution are key success factors in the leadership role. The ability to communicate clearly and purposefully and to manage conflicts constructively is crucial for productive and harmonious collaboration. In view of the complexity of modern working environments, the development of these skills is becoming increasingly important. In this module, participants gain a basic understanding of communication strategies and conflict resolution approaches and learn how to apply these specifically to everyday working life and derive appropriate measures for specific situations.Contents and objectives:Communication basics: understanding and applying communication models, behaviour and styles
Effective communication and feedback: the key to successful collaboration.
Conflict resolution: Understanding the mediation process, reflecting on your own leadership role and resolving conflicts constructively.Speaker: Susanna Feldmeyer, trainer, systemic & agile coach and mediatorDate / Time:
Mon, 23/06/2025 / 09:30-16:30 p.m.
Effective communication and feedback: the key to successful collaboration.
Conflict resolution: Understanding the mediation process, reflecting on your own leadership role and resolving conflicts constructively.Speaker: Susanna Feldmeyer, trainer, systemic & agile coach and mediatorDate / Time:
Mon, 23/06/2025 / 09:30-16:30 p.m.
Intercultural leadership (24/06/2025)
Intercultural leadership is a key success factor for international companies. However, the design of leadership concepts varies considerably from culture to culture. In view of the increasing global networking and internationalisation of companies, the identification and understanding of cultural differences and their influence in an economic and entrepreneurial context is becoming increasingly important. In this course, participants gain a basic understanding of relevant cultural theories and learn how to apply them specifically to the management context and derive appropriate measures for each situation.Contents:- Introduction to intercultural leadership: Definition and meaning of intercultural leadership
- Culture and cultural differences: the concept of culture and cultural dimensions as well as intercultural sensitivity
- Intercultural communication: communication styles and patterns in different cultures as well as challenges and practices for communication in international teams
- Leadership in different cultures: cultural influences on leadership concepts and culturally adapted leadership strategies
- Conflict management in intercultural teams: recognising and managing conflicts in multicultural teams and developing conflict resolution strategiesSpeaker:
Prof Dr Jörg Büechl, ESB Business School Reutlingen Date / Time:
Tue, 24.06.2025 / 09 - 17 p.m.
- Culture and cultural differences: the concept of culture and cultural dimensions as well as intercultural sensitivity
- Intercultural communication: communication styles and patterns in different cultures as well as challenges and practices for communication in international teams
- Leadership in different cultures: cultural influences on leadership concepts and culturally adapted leadership strategies
- Conflict management in intercultural teams: recognising and managing conflicts in multicultural teams and developing conflict resolution strategiesSpeaker:
Prof Dr Jörg Büechl, ESB Business School Reutlingen Date / Time:
Tue, 24.06.2025 / 09 - 17 p.m.
Leadership responsibility in the context of entrepreneurial action (14/07/2025)
Management responsibility means weighing up competing demands, reflecting on ethical obligations and making and justifying decisions within a framework characterised by the market and competition. Economic efficiency, ecological sustainability and social responsibility can be in conflict with each other.This course teaches the basics of philosophical ethics in order to be able to reflect on one's own management responsibility. Using case studies and discussions, participants learn how to methodically deal with moral issues in a corporate context.Contents:- Fundamentals of ethical reasoning: Is it possible to argue about morality and what are the consequences?
- Models of ethical reasoning: Are there ‘instruction manuals’ for moral behaviour and decision-making?
- Responsibility: Individuals and roles - does the market have its own morality?Speaker:Dr Simon Derpmann, Academy for Responsible Research, Teaching, and Innovation AARTIDate / Time:
Mon, 14.07.2025 / 09 - 17 p.m.
- Models of ethical reasoning: Are there ‘instruction manuals’ for moral behaviour and decision-making?
- Responsibility: Individuals and roles - does the market have its own morality?Speaker:Dr Simon Derpmann, Academy for Responsible Research, Teaching, and Innovation AARTIDate / Time:
Mon, 14.07.2025 / 09 - 17 p.m.
Integration, Transfer & Academy Celebrate (15/07/2025)
The closing event will provide a prestigious setting for the presentation of the participants' certificates with words of welcome from representatives of the KIT and the Karl Schlecht Foundation.We are also looking forward to an impulse from practical experience as a leader followed by a discussion.Contents:- Review of the Leadership Talent Academy and outlook on own perspectives
- Exchange on the guiding principles and the message behind the Leadership Talent Academy
- ‘Hot seat’: Impulse and open exchange with a leadership personalitySpeaker:
Lena Held, Project Manager LTADate / Time
Tue. 15.07.2025 / 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.
- Exchange on the guiding principles and the message behind the Leadership Talent Academy
- ‘Hot seat’: Impulse and open exchange with a leadership personalitySpeaker:
Lena Held, Project Manager LTADate / Time
Tue. 15.07.2025 / 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Speakers
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Johannes Lober M.A., MBA
Geschäftsführer des Instituts für Philosophie und Leadership (LETHOS)
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Dr. Victoria Berg Dr. Victoria Berg arbeitet an der Schnittstelle zwischen Forschung und Praxis. In ihrer Forschung untersucht sie Führungspersönlichkeiten, Führungsstile und Unternehmenskulturen. Ihre Publikationen erscheinen in Zeitschriften wie dem Harvard Business Manager, der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung und international renommierten Fachzeitschriften. In der Praxis begleitet sie Führungskräfte wissenschaftlich fundiert auf ihrem Weg zu authentischen Leadern und berät sie bei der bewussten Gestaltung einer nachhaltigen und psychologisch sicheren Unternehmenskultur. |
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Susanna Feldmeyer
Trainerin, Systemische & Agile Coach und Mediatorin. Fokus: Leadership, Organisationsentwicklung, Changemanagement, Executive Coaching Referentin im Modul "Effektive Kommunikation und Konfliktlösung"
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Dr. Lisa Schmalzried Vertretung der Professur für Praktische Philosophie am Philosophischen Seminar der Universität HamburgMitglied des Stiftungsvorstands des Wittenberg-Zentrums für Globale Ethik Referentin im Modul "Philosophie der Führung"
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Prof. Dr. Jörg Büechl Geschäftsführer (Shift Perspectives Gmbh) |
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Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Klaus Leisinger Präsident Stiftung Globale Werte Allianz https://www.globalewerteallianz.ch/ Stellvertretender Vorsitzender Kuratorium der Karl Schlecht Stiftung
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Lena Held |
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Simone Ramelsberger M.A., M.Sc. Referentin im Modul "Führung und Selbstführung" |
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Dr. phil. Simon Derpmann Academy for Responsible Research, Teaching, and Innovation AARTI |
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Johannes Härtl Geschäftsführer Iwanson International School of Contemporary Dance |
Coaches
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Franziska Dittrich
Freie Beraterin mit den Schwerpunkten Personalentwicklung und Karriereberatung
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Astrid Weidner
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Daniela Geraets
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Isabell Dittmar
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Adrian Bittner
Freiberuflicher Trainer und Coach für junge Führungskräfte
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Victoria Berg
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