SRH University
Professor

Prof. Dr. Brigitte Biehl

Professor for Medien- & Kommunikationsmanagement, Head of B.A. Creative Industries Management (CIM) and M.A. International Management - Creative Leadership, Director of Institut für Weiterbildung in der Kreativindustrie (IWK)

About me

2023 - Present

Researcher at FernUniversität in Hagen, Faculty of Business Administration & Economics, Project co-lead: "Gender and digital leadership"

Member of the International Board Management Learning

Editorial Board Member Leadership (Sage)  

Associate Editor Organizational Aesthetics (Tavistock Institute of Human Relations) 

2021 - 2022

Guest Professor for Gender and Queer Studies in Leadership | FernUniversity in Hagen

2016 - Present

Professor of Media and Communication, Head of B.A. Creative Industries Management and M.A. International Management - Creative Leadership, Director of the Institute for Professional Development in the Creative Industries (IWK)

Head of study programme

Head of institute

2016

Visiting Professor, Dauphine Recherches en Management (DRM), Université Paris Dauphine, Paris

2013 - 2015

Lecturer in the Management, Marketing and Organization Group | University of Essex, Essex Business School

2013 - Present

Freelance communication consultant and speaker

2012 - 2016

Professor for Public Relations, Journalism and Business | BSP Business School Berlin

2010

Postgraduate Certificate for Teaching in Higher Education PCGTHE | Aberystwyth University, UK

2007 - 2011

Lecturer in Marketing, Visiting Lecturer | Aberystwyth University (University of Wales)

2006

Public Relations Consultant | Pleon (Ketchum Pleon)

2006

PhD Goethe University Frankfurt (Theater, film and media studies) on „Business is show business. The presentation of top managers on annual shareholder meetings, press conferences and analyst conferences” (supervised by Prof. Dr. Hans-Thies Lehmann)

2004

M.A. Theatre, Film and Media Studies, Business Studies | Goethe University Frankfurt | Université Paris X Nanterre, France | University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

Keynote speeches

2022
Conference: Biehl, B. & Weibler, J. & Referat Chancengerechtigkeit & Gleichstellungsstelle (2022) Jenseits von Wonder Woman und Superman - Zukunftsweisende Führung in Film und Serien, Online-Tagung anlässlich des Weltfrauentags, FernUniversität in Hagen (10-18:00) 8.3. www.fernuni-hagen.de/gleichstellung/veranstaltungen/zukunftsweisende-fuehrung.shtml

2019
Biehl, B.: Dance in New Areas: Integrating dance methods into businesses and management for personal and leadership development. G-ACE International Conference, “Organization and Management for Dance” Sangmyung University, Art Center, Seoul, S. Korea

Biehl, Brigitte: Gesprächskonzert „Jazz-Improvisation als Metapher für ein neues Zusammenspiel in Unternehmen“, mit Claus-Dieter Bandorf (piano), Andreas Henze (bass), Rainer Winch (drums). Jazzclub Kunstfabrik Schlot, Berlin.

2018
Biehl, B.: „Im Zwischenraum: Künstlerisch-kreative Erfahrungen als Kompetenz in digitalen Welten.“ BarCamp: Kulturelle Bildung im Digitalen Zeitalter #kub20xx (MUTIK), Zeche Zollverein, Essen.

Biehl, B.: „Wirtschaftsästhetik. Ästhetik und Kunst als Inspirationsquelle.“ 10. KulturInvest-Kongress: 100 Impulse zwischen Ästhetik und Effizienz, Causales, Radialsystem, Berlin.

Biehl, B.: “Dance and Leadership: How leaders and followers relate and influence each other”. Leading and Facilitating within Practice Development in Healthcare, Enhancing Practice Conference 2018, Basel, Schweiz, CH.

2017
Biehl-Missal, B.: “Aesthetic Capitalism Research in an Era of Cultural Creativity”. International Seminar on Contemporary Art and Anthropology: Exploring the state of the art in Fashion Studies Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

Biehl-Missal, B.: „Leadership as an Art, Aspekte der Führungskommunikation. Welche Rolle spielt die Wahrnehmung?“ Abschiedssymposium Esther Sackmann Rageth: Führung in komplexen Gesundheitsorganisationen, Universitätsspital Basel, CH.

Lectures

  • Media Studies
  • Cultural Theory & Popular Culture
  • Marketing & Society
  • Luxury, Consumption & Sustainability
  • Research & Academic Career
  • Public Relations

Research Areas

  • Art of management
  • Aesthetic approaches to management and organisation
  • Creative approaches to leadership
  • Learning for leadership from TV series, performance studies, dance and DJ studies
  • Women in management
  • Critical management studies
  • Marketing, visual studies, luxury
  • Organisational space, marketing and consumption spaces, architectures
  • Public Relations (CEO communications, events, rhetoric)

Memberships and further commitment

Since 2023: Gender Work & Organization, Associate Editor

Since 2014: Organisational Aesthetics Journal (Worcester Polytechnic, USA): Editor

Since 2007: Membership in professional bodies:

  • Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (UK)
  • International Network for Visual Studies in Organizations
  • Vida Scholars Critical Management Studies Women's Association
  • AACORN - the Arts, Aesthetics, Creativity and Organisations Research Network
  • ELIA Art Schools
  • BAM British Academy of Management (2007-2010)
  • EGOS European Group of Organizational Studies
  • Macromarketing Society (2006-2010), EWMD European Women’s Management Development (Gruppe Rhein-Main 2002-2006; Berlin Brandenburg ab 2021)

 

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