Roland Deiser is a Drucker Senior Fellow and leads the Center for the Future of Organization (CFFO) at the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, an independent Think Tank whose mission is to deepen our understanding of capabilities that are critical to succeed in an increasingly disruptive, digitally connected world.
He also serves as the co-publisher of Developing Leaders Quarterly, a periodical that provides a platform for global thought and practice leaders on key issues of 21st century leadership and organization.
Roland is an Associate Professor of Organizational Politics and Transformational Leadership. He has held teaching and senior research positions at numerous universities in Europe and the United States, among them the University of Southern California (USC), the Technical University Munich (TUM), and Vienna University. He is the author of four books and more than 40 articles in scientific and professional journals and books. His latest research investigates the organizational capability requirements for shaping and leveraging business ecosystems.
Throughout his career, Roland strived to link thought leadership with practice. He was the founding Dean of Daimler’s Corporate University, where he orchestrated leadership development and strategy dialogues of the then 480,000 people company. He also led for more than 20 years a dialogue platform of 50+ multinational corporations focused on how to develop and sustain strategic capabilities in fast changing environments.
He is a sought-after speaker who has been addressing audiences in the US, Europe, Asia, and Australia, and he has been working as an advisor to governments, industry bodies, and corporations such as BASF, Bertelsmann, BMW, Cadence Design Systems, Credit Suisse, Cisco Systems, Daimler, Deutsche Telekom, E.ON, Xerox, SAP, or Siemens.
He lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles, California.
How to Succeed in Business Ecosystems. A Capability Framework for Business Ecosystem Leadership. (CFFO Press 2021)
Organizing for Business Ecosystem Leadership. Insights from Expert Conversations and a Global Survey (CFFO Press 2020)
Shaping the Future of Transformational Learning. ECLF Conversations and Cases form the Last Five Years. (ECLF Press 2020)
Digital Transformation Challenges in Large and Complex Organizations (CFFO Press 2018)
Transformers: Executive Conversations About Creating Agile Organizations (ECLF Press, 2014)
Six Social Media Skills Every Leader Needs (with Sylvain Newton, McKinsey Quarterly, 1/2013)
Talent Management in the Creative Age. In Borensztejn, H (ed.): Growing Talent – a Corporate Duty (Marshall Cavendish 2010)
Designing the Smart Organization: How Breakthrough Corporate Learning Initiatives Drive Strategic Change and Innovation (Jossey Bass/Wiley, 2009)
Postconventional Strategic Management. Criteria for the Postmodern Organization.
In: Thomas, H. (Hg): Building the Strategically Responsive Organization. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester 1994, S. 171-188
Post Acquisition Management: A Process of Strategic and Organizational Learning.
In: Von Krogh, G., Sinatra, A, & Singh, H. (Hg.): The Management of Corporate Acquisitions. The MacMillan Press, London 1994, S. 359-390