Heike Bruch

Heike Bruch is professor and director at the Institute for Leadership and Human Resources Management at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). She is also research director of the Organizational Energy Consortium and academic director of the university’s International Study Program.

Between 1999 and 2001, she was visiting scholar and senior research fellow at London Business School. During 1996 to 1999, she was research director and assistant professor of the Institute for Leadership and Human Resources Management at the University of St. Gallen and, from 1991 to 1996, lecturer at the University of Hanover (Germany). She earned her Ph.D. in business administration at the University of Hanover (1996) and her master’s (1991) and bachelor’s (1989) degrees in business administration at the Free University of Berlin.

Bruch’s research is strongly focused on leadership. She works in close cooperation with international universities both in research and teaching. The focal points of her more recent research work are managers’ emotions, volition, action, and leadership in change processes and organizational energy. She has written four books, edited six, and published more than 40 articles in journals and books.