Economist and Psychotherapist

After many years in banking in Switzerland and in the United States, Betty Zucker was for 10 years a Director of the Board of Management of the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute in Rüschlikon Switzerland. In 1999 she founded Betty ZuckerCo. in Zurich. With her professional expertise in Change & Knowledge Management as well as in the management of family businesses she has advised management in change processes for the past 20 years.

Her ability to read both faces and balance sheets, coupled with her future oriented perspectives allows her to reduce complex issues to the essentials. Fresh solutions are reviewed. Specific methods and strategic paths, together with a careful assessment of their consequences for Management and the Organisation can then be implemented.

Her publications include the internationally well received books “Wissen gewinnt, Knowledge Flow Management” (1996), and “Mittendrin und voll daneben, Manager in turblenten Zeiten” (3rd Edition, 2000) and “Denn Sie wissen , was sie nicht tun, Manager in turbulenten Zetien (2nd Edition, 2000). She is a Co-Author of the new Duden dictionary on the “New Economy” (2001) and Author of "Ganz blass vor Spass, Manager in turbulenten Zeiten" (2003) as well as "Top Dreams: Wenn Manager wirklich träumen" (2009). These titles are available in German only.

Activities

• 1999
  Founded Betty ZuckerCo in Zurich. Key themes: The Company of the Future, Advice and Research in Knowledge and Change Management, and Member of the GDI Faculty.
  
  
• 1989 - 1999
  Director of the Board of Management of the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute in Rüschlikon Switzerland.
  Consultancy, Research Projects and Publications about questions concerning future oriented management and organisation development
  Key issues are: how should structures, culture and strategies look in the future in order to operate successfully in continuously changing markets.
  special expertise: Change Management, Knowledge Management, Family Business.
  
  
• 1983 - 1988
  CS New York, Management of Reorganisation Project.
  SKA Zurich, Management of “Management Development and Organisational Development”, Head of HR and “International Training”.
  
  
• 1980 - 1982
  Research Assistant at the Institute of Financial Studies of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Areas: Budget, taxation and financial politics.