Escaping the Acceleration Trap
How leaders recognise organisational overload, restore focus and protect the energy required for sustained performance.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Heike Bruch
Professor of Leadership at the University of St. Gallen · Director, IFPM-HSG
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WHY HEIKE
What Heike brings to the room.
Helps leadership teams escape the acceleration trap and restore focused organisational energy.
KEYNOTE TOPICS
Ideas built for the stage.
Organisational Energy
How productive, comfortable, resigned and corrosive energy shape execution, culture and business results.
Leadership in Transformation
How leaders create speed and adaptability without turning exceptional effort into a permanent operating condition.
Heike Bruch is Professor of Leadership at the University of St. Gallen and Director of its Institute for Leadership and Human Resource Management (IFPM-HSG). Her research examines organisational energy, leadership, healthy high performance, new ways of working and the conditions that make companies fast without making constant overload their operating model.
With Jochen Menges, Bruch developed the influential idea of the acceleration trap: organisations can overextend themselves through too much activity, too many simultaneous priorities and a permanent expectation of exceptional effort. Her work gives leadership teams a practical language for distinguishing productive energy from corrosive pressure.
On stage, she connects rigorous organisational research with the lived reality of transformation. Her perspective is particularly relevant for executive audiences facing change saturation, cultural renewal, hybrid work or the need to restore focus without lowering ambition.
ON STAGE
Watch Heike in action.
Digital Leadership & Transformation: Between Speed and the Acceleration Trap
Organizational Energy and Leadership Culture
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