What can you expect from the workshop?

At the SEF.Academy, we analyse how entrepreneurial leadership and co-entrepreneurship can be specifically promoted to sustainably strengthen companies.

Entrepreneurial thinking and behaviour are key success factors for both entrepreneurs and managers. This workshop provides practical strategies to promote entrepreneurial leadership and co-entrepreneurship and to strengthen organisations in the long term. Through keynote speeches, interactive group work and discussions, you will learn specific tools to prepare your team for the future and lead them in an entrepreneurial way. The workshop is run by the Swiss Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Gallen.

Details

5 June 2025: SEF.Academy workshop (full day) & SEF.Networking evening
6 June 2025: Participation in the regular SEF.25 programme including SEF.Soiree
Where: Grand Hotel Beau Rivage, Höhenweg 211, 3800 Interlaken
Language: German (no translation will be provided)

Programme

8:30 a.m.: Welcome and start of the workshop and keynote speech ‘Entrepreneurial Thinking and Action’ by Prof. Dr. Thomas Zellweger, Managing Director of the SME Institute and the Centre for Family Business at the University of St. Gallen
10:00 a.m.: Coffee break
10:30 a.m.: St. Gallen Management Model and SME Leadership Competence Model: The ‘magic’ triangle of corporate management
12:00 p.m.: Lunch
1:15 p.m.: Co-entrepreneurship & empowerment: Entrepreneurial leadership – in concrete terms, transformational & transactional leadership – leadership in times of change
3:00 p.m.: Coffee break
3:30 p.m.: My role as a manager, my next steps, wrap-up & lessons learned
6:00 p.m.: Networking evening on the SEF premises

SEF.Academy

the development lab

Workshop Leaders

Lisa Marie Benz

Head of Executive Education, Member of the extended board KMU-HSG, Swiss Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, University of St. Gallen

Albana Dibrani

Programme manager «Intensivstudium KMU», KMU-HSG, Institut für KMU und Unternehmertum, Universität St. Gallen

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