Prof. Ronnie Lessem, Co-Founder, Trans4m Center for Integral Development, Geneva, Switzerland

Ronnie Lessem, born in Zimbabwe of central European parentage, and a graduate of Harvard Business School and the London School of Economics, while a Reader in International Management at City University in the UK, co-founded New Work Ventures, which focused enterprise development, through action learning,  within inner cities, and on women finding their niche. At the same time he launched projects on European Management, with IMD in Switzerland, European-ness and Innovation, with Roland Berger Foundation in Germany, African management, with Wits Graduate Business School in South Africa, and Arab as well as Islamic Management, with TEAM International in Cairo and Jordan, before co-founding Trans4m in Geneva.

    
Lessem studied economics at the University of Zimbabwe, the economics of industry at the London School of Economics, Corporate Planning at Harvard Business School, and he completed his doctorate in Action Learning for Enterprise Development at Cass Business School in London.

Ronnie Lessem has written some 30 books, the last six together with Dr Schieffer, on self, organizational and societal development from a transcultural, transformational perspective. He has also been an international management consultant in Europe and America, India and Africa for some three decades.

Email: lessem@trans-4-m.com