Brooke Gazdag

Prof. Dr. Brooke A. Gazdag is an Associate Professor of Management and Academic Director of Executive Education at the KLU. Originally from Western New York, after completing her PhD in Organizational Behavior and Management at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Dr. Gazdag took a position as Post Doc at the Technical University of Munich as part of a project on the “Selection and Evaluation of Leaders in Academia and Industry.” Afterwards, she worked at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in the Munich School of Business until 2020. Until 2023, Dr. Gazdag worked as an Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam Business School of the University of Amsterdam. Dr. Gazdag has also been a visiting professor and lecturer at various universities from Israel to Australia. Dr. Gazdag's research and teaching interests center around topics that reflect the various challenges and opportunities in the world of work: leadership, negotiations, and diversity and inclusion. In her research, Dr. Gazdag considers how these three topics work together to explore various topics such as the link between networking and leadership, how to build negotiation resilience, women's representation in leadership positions, and how inclusion can help to build resilience into relationships between diverse communities. Dr. Gazdag currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies and as an adhoc reviewer for various other journals. As a curator of knowledge and advocate for better ways of working, Dr. Gazdag seeks to integrate various insights and perspectives in her teaching, training, and speaking engagements to co-create dynamic, engaging learning experiences. She embraces innovative approaches to teaching and training with online learning seminars (“Diversity & Inclusion: Die Kraft der Vielfalt” and "Konflikte lösen" with Zeit Akademie) and blended learning, using a mix of own videos/podcasts, interactive exercises, and small group training on topics such as values-based leadership, resilience, diversity and inclusion, networking, and intercultural communication. Dr. Gazdag has fully embraced the rapid digitization of the working world and adapted not only her own leadership and training to the context, but also seeks to help others do the same.

Challenging the status quo about worklife

Inclusion is a dynamic, cocreation process - and everyone is invited to participate!

listening intently and devouring books fast ;)