ABOUT ROLAND
Roland Deiser is a globally recognized thought leader in the field of creating strategic and organizational capabilities for complex organizations. He pursues his passion by publishing, teaching, speaking, advising, orchestrating executive networks and producing customized think tanks.
As a Drucker Senior Fellow, Roland leads the Center for the Future of Organization at the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, which he founded in 2015. He is also the Founder and Chairman of the Executive Corporate Learning Forum (ECLF), an international consortium of more than 50 global corporations which focuses on key issues of learning and of transformation in large organizations.
His current work focuses on the impact of digital transformation on leadership and organization, and on organizational capabilities that are required to shape and leverage business ecosystems.
Roland Deiser
Founder and Executive Chairman, ECLF
Chairman, Center for the Future of Organization
Drucker School of Management, Claremont Graduate University
Roland Deiser is an internationally recognized thought leader in the field of strategy, innovation, and organizational design, with a focus on building strategic capabilities into large-scale systems. His professional life is driven by emphatically combining academia and practice.
Roland is a Drucker Senior Fellow and leads the Center for the Future of Organization at the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, which he founded in 2015. His current research focuses on the impact of digital transformation on leadership and organization, and on the capabilities required to shape and leverage a company’s role in a business ecosystem.
Prior to this appointment, he served for 10 years as a Senior Fellow with the Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California (USC). He has held senior teaching and research positions at numerous universities in Europe and the United States. He is the author of Designing the Smart Organization: How Breakthrough Corporate Initiatives Drive Strategic Change and Innovation (2009) and Transformers (2014), and he co-authored the widely recognized McKinsey Quarterly Article Six Social Media Skills Every Leader Needs (together with Sylvain Newton, 2013). He also serves on the Editorial Board of the Academy of Management Learning and Education Journal (AMLE).
Roland was the founding Dean of DaimlerChrysler’s Corporate University and is founding Chairman of the Executive Corporate Learning Forum (ECLF), a consortium of more than 50 multinational corporations from 13 countries who have teamed up to share practices and explore how to develop strategic and organizational capabilities in fast-changing environments.
As a consultant, Roland is an advisor to Fortune 100 companies and emerging start-ups alike. He has been working with major global players such as BASF, Siemens, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Telekom, SAP, E.ON, or Xerox, as well as with emerging growth companies, primarily in the digital media convergence space.
He was instrumental in creating FastTrack (a globally integrated digital music copyright management system), worked with the Austrian Government on developing the local film, TV, and multimedia industry, and he advised the German Federal Government on the impact of the Internet on the future of universities.
Roland lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles, California.
Email: rd@rolanddeiser.com
Twitter: @rolanddeiser
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/rolanddeiser
PUBLICATIONS
Roland Deiser is the author of three books, and he has published more than 40 articles in professional journals, magazines, and books. A comprehensive list of publications can be found in the archive.
Based on 30+ in-depth interviews with topexecutives from 6 global corporations
With 10 casestudies fromleading globalcorporations
… with heartfelt enthusiasm, this book should be read immediately by every leader in every institution.. — Warren Bennis, author of “On Becoming a Leader”
…creatively uses learning theory and practice to recast the practice of strategic management…– Larry Greiner, Co-Author of Dynamic Strategy Making
…I highly recommend this book for any corporate leader wanting to succeed in a rapidly changing world. — John Seely Brown, Co-Author of The Social Life of Information and The Only Sustainable Edge
A fascinating journey through contemporary issues ofleadership and organization…
With 120,000+ downloads one ofthe most popular articles in thehistory of McKinsey Quarterly…
Talent Management in the Creative Age
The article analyzes the drivers that make creative competence a critical success factor for competing in the 21st century and discusses the managerial challenges that come with it.
Business Models Galore: TheColorful and Diverse World ofCorporate Universities
The paper provides a functional analysis of various business models of Corporate Universities and highlights their potential contribution in the areas of Education, Cultural Integration, and Strategic Transformation.
Creative Leadership
Strategy, innovation, organizational design, talent management, and the ability to lead in networked ecosystems are all increasingly dominated by the creative paradigm.
The article provides a concise summary why creative competence has become a critical success factor for leaders and organizations alike
Structuring Learning andDevelopment in GlobalOrganizations
This White Paper provides a general assessment of the way global corporations organize their learning and development function, with special emphasis on activity portfolios and the way they are managed.
It discusses various models of structuring L&D and the pros and cons of functional integration and differentiation.
SPEAKING
Roland enjoys talking to audiences large and small about perspectives he feels worth sharing, and working with teams and organizations on key challenges they want to address. This work has led him to many countries, across four continents . Below are some samples from recent speaking engagements; a more comprehensive list of keynotes, panel contributions, and executive workshops can be found in the archive.
13 C's to Futureproof Organizations
Keynote
BTG Horizons Bootcamp
Chicago, IL
Digital Transformation Challenges in Large and Complex Organizations
Keynote and Executive Workshop
ECLF/IRC4HR
Frankfurt, Germany
Reinventing the Organization in the Digital Age
Virtua Keynote
Global Talent Innovation Network
Los Angeles, CA
Designing Corporate Learning as an Engine for Transformation and Innovation
Keynote
Corporate Learning Forum 2018
Munich, Germany
The Impact of Social Technology on Leadership and Organization
Keynote
American Marketing Association
Atlanta, GA
Building Strategic Competence
Executive Workshop
SAP Leadership Retreat
Silicon Valley, CA
CONFERENCES
Since more than 15 years, Roland produces and leads global conferences, summits, and symposia on key issues related to strategic and organizational transformation. Most of them are invitation only events, hosted by global corporations, and usually limited to senior executives and global thought leaders.
The careful curation of both content and participants, together with a highly interactive and collaborative format results in a unique culture of trust, enabling socially and intellectually inspiring dialogues that have lasting impact. Here is a sample of recent events; more of them can be found in the archive.
ORGANIZATIONS
Roland Deiser founded and leads
Founded in 2005, the Executive Corporate Learning Forum (ECLF) unites top executives from about 60 major global corporations from more than a dozen countries in an intellectually and socially inspiring environment that enables in-depth discourse on key issues that large and complex organizations face. ECLF is a vendor-free and invitation only community.
www.eclf.org
Founded in 2015, the Center for the Future of Organization (CFFO) at the Drucker School of Management focuses on applied research and practical discourse on new paradigms of Leadership and Organization. In the tradition of Peter Drucker, its work transcends disciplines and combines conceptual depth with practical applicability and ethical responsibility.
www.futureorg.org